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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July 25, 2011
Even Birds Have Withdrawn From Afghanistan By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58598 Comparing the brain sizes of migratory birds and U.S. presidents may not help explain this one. Birds have been avoiding Afghanistan for some years now. Afghans with higher educations have been leaving for decades. War profiteers, and occupation profiteers, and “reconstruction” profiteers seem to know [...]
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July 25, 2011
For too long, Western governments have believed they could earn a cheap victory by using air power alone. But experience shows this is not enough EPA Nato planes bomb a Gaddafi compound in Tripoli last month. Air strikes by allied forces have become increasingly ineffective ENLARGE Air strikes are becoming the main Western means of [...]
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July 25, 2011
U.S. trucking funds reach Taliban, military-led investigation concludes View Photo Gallery — Images from Afghanistan: July 2011: Continued photo coverage of life and war in Afghanistan. Text Size Print E-mail Reprints By Karen DeYoung, Monday, July 25, 11:38 AM A year-long military-led investigation has concluded that U.S. taxpayer money has been indirectly funneled to the Taliban under a $2.16 billion transportation [...]
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July 23, 2011
Scott Horton Interviews Kelley B. Vlahos Scott Horton, July 21, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Comment | Antiwar Forum Kelley B. Vlahos, featured Antiwar.com columnist and contributing editor for The American Conservative magazine, discusses her article “What Really Goes on in Afghanistan?” at Antiwar.com; how the US military plays down the severity and effectiveness of [...]
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July 22, 2011
On Wednesday, NATO troops in the Afghan city of Lashkar Gah handed over control to local Afghan forces. The province of Bamiyan and the eastern town of Mehter Lam had already been handed over. Many see the handover of Lashkar Gah as a critical step in a transition of power before foreign troops end their [...]
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July 21, 2011
How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East Washington’s Singular Accomplishment By Tom Engelhardt In the method, there is madness; in the comedy, nightmare; in the tragedy, farce. And despite everything, there’s still good news when it comes to what Americans can accomplish in the face of the impossible! No, not a debt-ceiling deal [...]
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July 20, 2011
International Activists Join Afghan Youth in Solidarity Delegation CHICAGO, IL- From July 20th to August 15th, a group of seven U.S. peace activists will visit Afghanistan for the purpose of better understanding the consequences of U.S. warfare as experienced by Afghan civilians. In Kabul, they will meet with the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers, a group [...]
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July 19, 2011
Hamid Karzai‘s authority under threat after the assassinations of two close allies. Photograph: EPA The assassination of a close ally and mentor of Hamid Karzai a week after the killing of the president’s powerful half-brother has raised new questions over whether Afghanistan‘s precarious power structure could collapse even before the departure of western combat troops in 2014. [...]
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July 17, 2011
Jan Mohammad Khan, far left, was a former governor of Uruzgan province [EPA] A group of armed men have killed a senior adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and a member of the parliament in a daring attack in the capital, Kabul. Initial reports about the fate of Jan Mohammad Khan, the Karzai aide, and [...]
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July 13, 2011
The Pentagon wants the White House to “hold off on ending the Afghanistan troop surge until the fall of 2012″ [GALLO/GETTY] Among multiple layers of deception and newspeak, the official Washington spin on the strategic quagmire in Afghanistan simply does not hold. No more than “50-75 ‘al-Qaeda types’ in Afghanistan”, according to the CIA, have [...]
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July 13, 2011
In the coming weeks, Barack Obama, the US president, is set to decide on the size, scale and timing of an American withdrawal from Afghanistan. Last week the president’s military advisors reportedly argued against the prospect of a substantial withdrawal, saying that leaving too early would threaten hard-won gains. The president’s final decision will depend on judgements [...]
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July 12, 2011
Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of Hamid Karzai, has been shot dead in Afghanistan. Photograph: Humayoun Shiab/EPA Ahmad Wali Karzai, the powerful half-brother of the Afghan president, Hamid Kazai, has been killed by one of his security guards inside his own house in Kandahar, according to the local chief of border police. “Ahmed Wali Karzai was [...]
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