April 16, 2012
We thank you for your love and your hands and feet, in organizing for the upcoming Chicago protests! Protesting NATO in Chicago will be too Late for Afghanistan by Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers Dear friends of ordinary 99 percent Afghans, In these killing days, we in Afghanistan do not expect the interests of people to triumph [...]
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October 16, 2011
US to field deadlier missile in war againt al Qaeda 14 Oct 2011 19:38 Source: Reuters // Reuters * US Army hopes to deploy new Hellfire version soon * “One missile for many missions,” manufacturer says * Combines killing capabilities of all previous models By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) – A precision-strike [...]
Tags: al-Qaeda, Anwar al-Awlaki, Central Intelligence Agency, Lockheed Martin, Saudi Arabia, United States, United States Army, Yemen
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October 8, 2011
Afghan youths speak out after a decade of war The Stream recently spoke to three young Afghans about their experiences and changed lives in the decade after the 9/11 attacks. A U.S. soldier from 127th Military Police (MP), Task Force “Cacti” and a linguist walk along a road during a patrol in Khas Konar district [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Khas Kunar District, Operation Enduring Freedom, Osama bin Laden, Taliban, United States, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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September 27, 2011
Pentagon to Increase Presence of US Trainers in Afghanistan by 800 Afghan forces, incapable and criminal, are pathetically unprepared to take over responsibility for security by John Glaser, September 26, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The United States will increase the number of American military trainers in Afghanistan by 800 in the [...]
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September 27, 2011
Much of the mainstream media is covering Rabbani’s death as the end of the peace process with the Taliban [EPA] Did the Rabbani hit really kill peace talks? Rabbani could not offer the Taliban the one condition needed for a peace agreement – the full withdrawal of US troops. Gareth Porter Last Modified: 26 Sep [...]
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September 26, 2011
My uphill battle against the Afghanistan intervention I returned to Afghanistan (after spending a short time at Harvard) in 2005. And when I heard that the British government was about to send three thousand soldiers into Helmand, I was confident that there would soon be a widespread insurgency. I also predicted that the military would [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Barnett Rubin, Hosni Mubarak, Kabul, NATO, Rory Stewart, Taliban, Zalmay Khalilzad
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September 26, 2011
New Study Says U.S. Night Raids Aimed at Afghan Civilians by Gareth Porter Posted on September 25, 2011 by dandelionsalad by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at IPS Sept. 20, 2011 WASHINGTON, Sep 21, 2011 (IPS) – U.S. Special Operations Forces have been increasingly aiming their night-time raids, which have been the primary cause of Afghan anger at [...]
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September 24, 2011
After Ten Years of the “War on Terror,” It’s Time to Scrap the Authorization for Use of Military Force by Andy Worthington, September 16, 2011 Many Americans probably think that the “War on Terror” began on September 11, 2001, when the terrible terrorist attacks took place, whose tenth anniversary has recently been marked. However, the “War [...]
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September 21, 2011
Afghanistan peace process in tatters after murder of key negotiator The assassination of Burhanuddin Rabbani looks set to tip Afghanistan into a deeper crisis. Photograph: Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images Suicide bomber with hidden explosives has killed Hamid Karzai‘s chief peace envoy in the heart of Kabul reddit this Jon Boone in Kabul guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 20 [...]
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September 20, 2011
Pakistan Officials: US Should Stop Blaming Us for Afghan Violence Urges US to Focus on Militants Operating Inside Afghanistan by Jason Ditz, September 19, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Pakistani military officials today blasted the US over its focus on the Haqqani Network and accusations of Pakistani government ties to them, saying that it [...]
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September 20, 2011
Rabbani, right, was president of the Afghan government that preceded the Taliban [EPA] Former Afghan president assassinated in Kabul Burhanuddin Rabbani, president during Mujahiddeen rule, was leading country’s peace efforts to reach out to Taliban. Last Modified: 20 Sep 2011 14:45 A former Afghan president, along with four other people, has been assassinated in a suicide attack in [...]
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September 20, 2011
Night Raids in Afghanistan Fueling Resentment, Undermining US Mission Almost 20 night raids occur every night in Afghanistan, and get the wrong person half the time by John Glaser, September 19, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Increased nighttime military raids by US forces in Afghanistan have fueled resentment and undermined the mission to quell [...]
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September 14, 2011
No big deal? US ambassador’s baffling response to Afghan assault Ryan Crocker, the US ambassador to Afghanistan, has seen plenty of violence in his career. Photograph: Rafiq Maqbool/AP Ryan Crocker was in bullish mood following the 20-hour militant assault on Kabul, but, around him, citizens are suffering reddit this Jeremy Kelly in Kabul guardian.co.uk, Wednesday [...]
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September 13, 2011
US embassy in Kabul under attack – live updates Smoke rises from buildings during an on-going attack in Kabul city centre. Photograph: Daud Yardost/AFP/Getty Images Rockets are being fired at the US embassy in Kabul, say police in Afghanistan. The Taliban has claimed responsibliity and says the attackers are armed with rocket-propelled grenades, [...]
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September 8, 2011
Afghanistan, a Decade after 9/11 THE SKEPTICS |More Malou Innocent | September 6, 2011 Nearly ten years after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, the New York Times’seditorial board attempts to explain how the United States and its allies can bring about “a minimally successful end to the Afghan war.” In reality, the piece offers up a lot [...]
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September 8, 2011
Afghan Officials Reject UN Report Exposing Torture Beatings, sexual assault, and electric shock treatment are alleged, as officials cry conspiracy by John Glaser, September 07, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum An as yet unpublished United Nations report criticizes the US-supported Afghan government for torturing detained prisoners with beatings, sexual assault, and electric shock [...]
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September 6, 2011
US Sends Billions in Equipment That Kabul Can’t Afford US is trying to push Afghan security forces toward independence, but neither country can yet afford it by John Glaser, September 05, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In an attempt to hide the Afghan government’s military dependency on the United States, the US [...]
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August 31, 2011
August: Deadliest Month for US in Afghanistan Civilian Deaths Go Uncounted as Ever by Jeremy Sapienza, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum We thought July was deadly in Afghanistan. But August was already showing its deadly side by mid-month, after the Taliban shot down a US helicopter and bombings, shootings, and [...]
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August 31, 2011
Afghan Taliban Predict Imminent Victory In Statement NATO Isn’t the Only One That Thinks They’re About to Win by Jason Ditz, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum A new formal statement released Monday and signed by former Afghan ruler Mullah Omar predicts “imminent victory” for the Taliban inside Afghanistan, insisting that [...]
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August 31, 2011
Mullah Omar Admits Taliban Are Negotiating With US Dropping a long-held precondition that troop withdrawals precede talks, Omar signals potential for political settlement by John Glaser, August 30, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has confirmed that negotiations with the U.S. are taking place, disproving the long-held [...]
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August 27, 2011
NATO Kills Six Civilians in Afghan Air Strike Overnight Air Strike Called in After Taliban Clash by Jason Ditz, August 26, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Another NATO air strike has killed a number of civilians today in the Logar Province. The attack, which took place shortly after midnight, came after [...]
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August 27, 2011
Details of Secret Pact Emerge: Troops Stuck in Afghanistan Until 2024 If you thought President Obama was ending the war in Afghanistan, think again. Your children will be fighting it in 2024 if the Pentagon has its way. August 23, 2011 | Maybe you thought we’d get out of Afghanistan this very year, the drawdown [...]
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August 25, 2011
Kabul police’s turf war with Afghan troops risked British Council rescue When the British Council compound in Kabul was attacked on Friday by insurgents city police sent away Afghan commandos. A New Zealand SAS soldier died during the rescue of two council teachers. Photograph: Jalil Rezayee/EPA Insurgent attack on British Council workers thwarted [...]
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August 25, 2011
Afghan Veterans Against the War Go on Tour The Afghanistan Veterans Against the War (AVAW) speaking tour kicked off yesterday marking the beginning of a series of events around the country from August 22 -31. The first stop was hosted by the IVAW Bay Area chapter and tonight the tour will go to Coffee [...]
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August 25, 2011
AFGHAN PEACE YOUTHS FEEL HOPELESS: SAY CONDITIONS WORSENING By JoanWile - Posted on 24 August 2011 By Joan Wile, author, “Grandmothers Against the War: Getting Off Our Fannies and Standing Up for Peace” (Citadel Press) On Sunday, Aug. 21, I had the privilege of speaking via conference call with several young people from the Afghan Youth Peace [...]
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August 24, 2011
Misunderstanding the Afghan War (After a Decade!) John Glaser, August 23, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Ahmad Majidyar blogs at the American Enterprise Institute about US-NATO negotiations with the Taliban, characterizing them as “goodwill gestures” and “appeasement.” The British Embassy in Kabul recently hosted an Iftar party on the occasion of [...]
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August 20, 2011
Deal Would Ensure US Troops Stay in Afghanistan Until 2024 by Jason Ditz, August 19, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Reports in the Daily Telegraph reveal that the Obama Administration is close to signing a deal with Afghanistan that would ensure US troops, including special forces, would remain on the ground in [...]
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August 19, 2011
Despite revived diplomatic efforts between India and Pakistan, many doubt real progress will be made unless the attitude of the military changes [Reuters] In August 1998, about 70 US missiles landed in eastern Afghanistan, targeting former mujahideen training camps that had been handed over to al-Qaeda. Osama bin Laden, in what his bodyguard later described [...]
Tags: India, Jammu and Kashmir, Kashmir, Kashmiri people, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, United States, Warfare and Conflict
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August 19, 2011
The Afghan rock band, The White Page, takes on corruption and war via their music [Travis Beard] In November 2010, four 20-something Afghans took the stage at a private party in a Kabul French restaurant. As the young men walked on stage, their long black hair, leather jackets, hoodies, electric guitars, a bass, and a [...]
Tags: Afghan Independence Day, Afghanistan, Ahmad Zahir, Asia, British Council, Kabul, Politics of Afghanistan, United States
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August 17, 2011
Peace Without Justice: A Strategy for Carnage in Afghanistan By davidswanson - Posted on 17 August 2011 By Jean Athey, Peace Action Montgomery “It seems that the U.S. and NATO cannot imagine any other options for getting out of Afghanistan other than to kill their way out or buy their way out,” Fabrizio Foschini, who is with the Afghanistan [...]
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August 16, 2011
Analysts say the current training scheme of relying on expensive contracts is not sustainable [EPA] A US-based military contractor has failed to provide nearly 60 per cent of the instructors needed to train Afghan police under a contract with the US government, according to an audit issued on Monday. The audit focused on the transfer [...]
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August 16, 2011
British army soldiers play rugby at Camp Bastion, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/PA Archive/Press Association Images The planes tend to arrive at night, and if the sky is clear, the moon bathes the airport with an ethereal, ghostly light. A film of dust and sand covers the tarmac and shimmers silver in [...]
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August 14, 2011
Afghans’ dire need for clean water Government says almost three quarters of the population do not have access to clean water. Despite the influx of large amounts of international aid into Afghanistan, getting access to water remains a daily struggle for a large part of the country. The government says almost three quarters of [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Al Jazeera, Business, Drinking water, environment, Kabul, United Nations, Water
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August 14, 2011
Suicide bombers have attacked the compound of a provincial governor in Afghanistan’s northern Parwan province, officials have said. Local television, citing hospital sources, said 14 people had been killed and 28 injured. A standoff is underway in the area, with the Taliban claiming responsibility for the attack. “Our intial reports suggest at least six explosions,” Sediq Seddiqi, spokesman for [...]
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August 14, 2011
The Invisible Dead and “The Last Word”: Lawrence O’Donnell ‘Rewrites’ the Occupation of Afghanistan “It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.” – Albert Einstein On Saturday August 6, 2011, a U.S. military Chinook transport helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan, killing 30 American soldiers, including 17 [...]
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August 13, 2011
US Raids in Afghanistan Triple Since 2009 Post-McChrystal, Night Raids Have Dramatically Increased by Jason Ditz, August 12, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum New figures released by NATO reveal a dramatic increase in the number of US commando raids across Afghanistan since the ouster of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who served as [...]
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August 11, 2011
Report: Afghan Govt Leaks Kill Secret US-Taliban Talks Talks Were ‘The Real Thing’ Before They Failed, Officials Insist by Jason Ditz, August 10, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum According to a new report by the Daily Telegraph, unnamed officials are insisting that the most recent “secret US-Taliban” talks, which one of the [...]
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August 11, 2011
More Lost By the Second Refugee Camp in Kabul. (Photo: Jacob George) By davidswanson - Posted on 11 August 2011 By Kathy Kelly | Waging Nonviolence It’s a bit odd to me that with my sense of geographical direction I’m ever regarded as a leader to guide groups in foreign travel. I’m recalling a steaming hot night in Lahore, Pakistan [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, Nad Ali, NATO, New York Times, Osama bin Laden, Taliban, United States, Wardak Province
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August 9, 2011
Pentagon Bans Coverage of Slain US Soldiers Obama breaks yet another promise by John Glaser, August 08, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Pentagon announced on Monday they will not allow any media coverage of the arrival of the remains of the 30 dead soldiers killed in this Saturday’s helicopter shootdown [...]
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August 9, 2011
Obama Vows to Continue Afghan War Panetta also backs continuing war, seeking to ‘honor troops’ by Jason Ditz, August 08, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In separate comments related to the deaths of 30 US troops in a helicopter downing over the weekend, President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta both [...]
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August 8, 2011
hile watching a movie in New York on Al Capone the ending disclosed that Big Al finally got caught for evasion and got 7 years. A voice from the back of the theatre cried out.,”You get that for smoking a joint in New York city.” Well how about 3 years for a killing spree that [...]
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August 8, 2011
Afghans remain sceptical that they will see peace in their time By Terri Judd in Lashkar Gah Sunday, 7 August 2011 “I was born into war. I sometimes curse my parents. Why did they have children in war?” asked Faiz, an earnest young man from Kabul working as an interpreter in Helmand. [...]
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August 7, 2011
Stop Sacrificing US Soldiers for Afghan Debacle By davidswanson - Posted on 06 August 2011 By Medea Benjamin The 38 deaths in Saturday’s helicopter crash in Afghanistan include 31 Americans, making this the deadliest day for U.S. forces since the war began. The tragic loss of American lives might be worth the sacrifice if it was making America [...]
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August 7, 2011
Afghanistan‘s innocent victims U.S. drone strikes continue to leave a trail of devastated families and communities in their wake Share Comments 1 By Mary Meehan12:56 p.m. EDT, August 4, 2011 I used to think of Vice President Joseph Biden as a nice guy. Good old Joe. Down-to-earth, nice sense of humor, great family man. But last year [...]
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August 3, 2011
A ‘sign of weakness’ in the propaganda of war OP-ED | H.D.S. Greenway August 02, 2011|By H.D.S. Greenway WHEN THE mayor of Kandahar, Ghulam Haider Hamidi, was assassinated last week, it was disappointing to hear US Ambassador Ryan Crocker describe the killing as a “sign of weakness’’ on the part of the Taliban. Surely, such [...]
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July 31, 2011
AFP/GETTY IMAGES Reducing ‘collateral damage‘ is seen as a ‘secondary consideration’ as the coalition prepares withdrawal By Brian Brady, Whitehall Editor Sunday, 31 July 2011 Afghan men carry the bodies of those killed in a coalition air strike on 14 July ENLARGE Civilians are bearing the brunt of the international forces’ onslaught against [...]
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July 29, 2011
Afghanistan contains a huge wealth of minerals and precious stones, such as emeralds [GALLO/GETTY] Afghanistan is not often perceived as a mineral Holy Grail. But, as it turns out, between $1-3 trillion in mineral wealth lies unexplored across the Hindu Kush. There’s enough uranium, lithium, copper and iron ore to potentially turn Afghanistan into a commodities powerhouse. The [...]
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July 29, 2011
Today, just one girl in ten has the opportunity to go to school in Afghanistan [EPA] The story of education in my family begins with my paternal grandmother, Bibi Jan, whom I did not know very well. She died when I was five, before the Taliban took control and my family left Afghanistan for Pakistan. What [...]
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July 28, 2011
High-Profile Assassinations on the Rise in Afghanistan Killings Underscore Taliban Leadership’s Opposition to ‘Reconciliation‘ by Jason Ditz, July 27, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The assassination of Mayor Hamidi of Kandahar City has dramatically weakened US influence in the nation’s turbulent south, which was already compromised by the other high profile assassinations [...]
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July 26, 2011
New US Envoy: No Rush to Leave Afghanistan Denies Plan for ‘Permanent Bases’ by Jason Ditz, July 25, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking today in his first comments after being sworn in, new US Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker insisted that the US is in “no rush” to leave the country, [...]
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