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« Previous EntriesBush promises more troops for Afghanistan
Friday, April 4th, 2008Suzanne Goldenberg | guardian.co.uk, George Bush today promised to send more troops to Afghanistan after his departure from the White House next year, whatever the status of troop withdrawals from Iraq. The pledge, delivered at a Nato summit in Bucharest, would add a "significant" number of troops in Afghanistan in 2009, the Pentagon chief, Robert Gates, told reporters. Gates said he expected the next president ...
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Detainee claims torture at U.S. base
Monday, March 31st, 2008Says he received electric shocks in Afghanistan after being seized over alleged links to 9/11. WASHINGTON – A resident of Germany who was imprisoned for two months at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan has told an interviewer his interrogators hung him from a ceiling for five days and that several doctors periodically checked him before authorizing the torture to continue. Murat Kurnaz said that shortly after his capture ...
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The Secret American-Iranian Security Deal In Iraq
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Arab online newspaper published in London, is the only newspaper to report this a week ago but I waited few days to see if there is any development provides evidence to the newspaper claims, and the military campaign in Basra was what i am waiting for.Arab online says that there are secret Iranian – American negotiations at Ahmadinejad’s visit to ...
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Clifford claims tour was ‘publicity stunt’
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008By Nicholas Christian PRINCE Harry's tour of duty in Afghanistan was a "PR stunt" that has not fooled the British public, publicist Max Clifford has claimed. The Royal's 10-week deployment at the front was "virtual reality" because Army chiefs would have kept him away from any actual danger of being hurt, the PR guru added. He said the plan could backfire as the public would soon turn ...
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Vets Break Silence on War Crimes
Friday, February 29th, 2008U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those countries. By Aaron Glantz "The war in Iraq is not covered to its potential because of how dangerous it is for reporters to cover it," said Liam Madden, a former Marine and member of the group Iraq Veterans ...
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Germany rejects US demand to increase troops
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008By Tony Paterson in Berlin A bitter diplomatic row between Germany and the United States deepened yesterday after Berlin flatly rejected demands from Washington that it deploy troops in war-torn southern Afghanistan and angrily dismissed the request as "impertinent" and a "fantastic cheek". Germany currently has some 3,200 soldiers stationed in comparatively tranquil northern Afghanistan and the capital Kabul as part of the current Nato peacekeeping mission. It has been ...
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Gates recommends additional troops for Afghanistan
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008By David Morgan U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has recommended sending additional troops to Afghanistan to reinforce NATO forces but there is no final decision yet, defense officials said on Monday. The Pentagon chief will consult with President George W. Bush soon on a proposal to send 3,200 Marines to the South Asian nation, where stability is threatened by a surge in violence over the past two years, officials said. One senior official ...
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Korean troops out of Afghanistan
Friday, December 14th, 2007South Korean troops have returned home from Afghanistan, ending the country's five-year contribution to US-led forces there. The pullout of 195 troops – mostly medics and engineers - was part of a pledge South Korea gave to the Taliban to ensure the freedom of 23 hostages taken captive earlier this year. ...
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Afghanistan: The Dollar Line
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Chimes of Freedom The Battle of Musa Kala is supposedly over and the city is once more in the hands of NATO forces. There has been a virtual news blackout about the manner in which the city was taken but, listening to the BBC World Service yesterday, I picked up snippets about a heavy aerial bombardment by the US Air Force, using B1 and Stealth ...
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The Taliban rise again?
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007The Taliban now control most of Afghanistan - and may soon share power, says robert fox
President Karzai of Afghanistan has announced that six years after the Taliban were driven out of power in Kabul, representatives of the hardline Muslim movement are 'increasingly' approaching him for talks.
It has been pretty clear that Karzai ...
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Japan opposition stands ground on Afghan mission
Saturday, November 24th, 2007TOKYO (AFP) — Japan's opposition stood firm Thursday against resuming a naval mission supporting the US-led "war on terror" in Afghanistan as a ship returned home from the Indian Ocean. Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda made a new pitch to the opposition hours after returning from a two-nation trip which included a trip to Washington where he promised US President George W. Bush he would work to restart the deployment. "He called for ...
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MoD accused over spy plane deaths
Sunday, November 11th, 2007Internal report into explosion above Afghanistan supports claims that safety fears were ignored Mark Townsend The Observer A dozen major deficiencies in the repair and maintenance of the RAF's Nimrod spy planes were identified shortly before one of the aircraft exploded above Afghanistan, causing the biggest loss of life suffered by Britain's armed forces since the Falklands war.An internal defence report, seen by The Observer, highlights a ...
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Canada Asks: Why are we fighting in Afghanistan?
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007by Edward C. Corrigan
U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in his government's recent Throne Speech announced that he wants to extend Canada's participation in the Afghan War for another two years. Many people are asking why are we ...
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The War on Afghanistan Was Wrong, Too
Sunday, October 21st, 2007By Jacob G. Hornberger While most Americans have turned against the Iraq War, many of them still think that the war on Afghanistan was morally and legally justified. Their rationale is that the United States was simply defending itself by attacking Afghanistan and retaliating against those who had conspired to commit the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Of course, the last thing on people’s mind was that the 9/11 perpetrators themselves ...
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CIA techniques cause serious mental damage
Saturday, August 4th, 2007Granma International flamesong Interrogation techniques used by the CIA on alleged terrorists can cause serious mental damage and are illegal in the United States, according to a report released Thursday by two non-governmental organizations, Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights First. The report, titled "Leave No Marks, ‘Enhanced’ Interrogation Techniques and the Risk of Criminality," was drafted by medical and legal investigators from both groups and based its conclusions on ...
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