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		<title>Three Days in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Wendle / Kabul War is strange. It can give everything and it can take it all away. Life can do this too, but war has speed and ferocity to it – a speed that life only rarely mimics. Just two months ago in Kunar – one of the most dangerous provinces in the country [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnwendle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9194675&amp;post=196&amp;subd=johnwendle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rush</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suddenly the air is glowing with energy. Guys start huffing adrenaline out of their gaping mouths in neon bubbles. The shooting keeps going and these young soldiers start bursting from nowhere. Like electrons released from the pull of a nucleus. Flashing out of their rooms, into the command center in all kinds of battle-rattle – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnwendle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9194675&amp;post=187&amp;subd=johnwendle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Afghan Army Faces Attrition Crisis &#8211; By John Wendle/Kabul</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 07:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, Mar. 02, 2011 Fighting The Taliban: Afghan Army Faces Attrition Crisis By John Wendle / Kabul The expansion of Afghanistan&#8217;s government forces, both military and police, has been a much-touted goal of both Washington and Kabul. It is the key program in the run-up to the gradual U.S. handover of security responsibilites to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnwendle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9194675&amp;post=180&amp;subd=johnwendle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide bombing photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My photos from the February 14 suicide bombing can be found posted with my photo agency at: http://www.atlaspressphoto.com/_ATLASPRESS_/ga_multi_list.asp?adSearch=&#38;searchtype=0&#38;searchtext=john+wendle&#38;ssSearchtype=2&#38;ga_category=&#38;within=0&#38;ga_country=&#38;x=0&#38;y=0&#38;cType=1&#38;fDate=1900-01-01&#38;tDate=2009-05-28&#38;orient=0&#38;color=0&#38;photographer= Some of the pictures are graphic, so please be aware.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnwendle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9194675&amp;post=178&amp;subd=johnwendle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine&#8217;s Day bombing in Kabul &#8211; the backstory</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard a boom through my window. Loud enough to be big and without the echo that usually accompanies a training exercise or the military blowing up arms caches. I ran down stairs to my housemate Joel&#8217;s room, and we almost ran smack into each other as he was running out, pulling on his jeans [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnwendle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9194675&amp;post=162&amp;subd=johnwendle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shauket</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“I left Afghanistan when I was 13, in 2000. I went to Pakistan. It was too difficult for me. I couldn’t find a job,” Shauket said. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnwendle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9194675&amp;post=152&amp;subd=johnwendle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kandahar 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evening call to prayer in Kandahar, Afghanistan &#8211; This is a link to a video I shot from the roof of our compound in Kandahar. Its the evening call to prayer, the azan, from the Red Mosque. The mosque is the biggest in the city. The city itself is the town from which the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnwendle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9194675&amp;post=147&amp;subd=johnwendle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>rain</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its raining today. It started around 4 a.m. when the sound of the fat drops dripping off the security grill over my window woke me up. Its fitting that its raining today since I&#8217;m driving down to Spin Boldak &#8211; leaving in 7 minutes. Spin Boldak is the border crossing between Kandahar and Quetta the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnwendle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9194675&amp;post=144&amp;subd=johnwendle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legitimacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legitimacy &#8211; what does that mean? If you read David Sanger&#8217;s &#8220;With Karzai, U.S. Faces Weak Partner in Time of War&#8221; you would think it has something to do with the US getting out of Afghanistan &#8211; not about the people trusting in Hamid Karzai or Abdullah Abdullah &#8211; who pulled out of a run [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnwendle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9194675&amp;post=137&amp;subd=johnwendle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photo and video</title>
		<link>http://johnwendle.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/photo-and-video/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Man is Not a Photojournalist &#8211; Interesting profile of this photographer, but not a lot (ie no info) on HOW he shoots. Which makes the piece interesting, but crap for detail. I&#8217;d love to be able to do this kind of stuff, but I need to learn more. Still, worth a read. I&#8217;ll be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=johnwendle.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9194675&amp;post=133&amp;subd=johnwendle&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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