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    Which Way, L.A.?

    Karzai Says Taliban Killing Afghans 'in Service to America'

    Relations between the US and Afghanistan just keep getting worse and worse. Chuck Hagel, the new Secretary of Defense, was greeted by suicide bomb attacks last week when he arrived in Afghanistan.

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    KCRW placeholderBy Mike Shuster • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Relations between the US and Afghanistan just keep getting worse and worse. Chuck Hagel, the new Secretary of Defense, was greeted by suicide bomb attacks last week when he arrived in Afghanistan. He held a tense meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and as Hagel was leaving Afghanistan, there was another insider attack near Kabul, leaving two US soldiers dead. Yaroslov Trofimov is the Afghanistan editor for the Wall Street Journal.

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      Mike Shuster

      NPR

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      Evan George

      Director of Content, News

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      Christian Bordal

      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Anna Scott

      Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter

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      Yaroslav Trofimov

      chief foreign affairs correspondent for the Wall Street Journal

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