The State Department’s Aug. 23 travel warning on Afghanistan said that the threat to US citizens in the country remains critical, no province is immune to violence, and “remnants” of the Taliban regime and the al Qaeda network, as well as other hostile groups, remain active. Patrick Campbell, of Freetown, Sierra Leone, was charged for trying to sell yellowcake uranium to Iran, following his arrest at JFK airport on Aug. 21, where authorities found samples of the toxic ore hidden in shoes in his luggage. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar province, Afghanistan in March 2012.
