April 23, 2012
link http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/Rupert-watch–signaling-t-by-Michael-Collins-120422-72.html Michael Collins is a writer in the DC area who researches and comments on the corruptions of the new millennium. His articles focus on the financial manipulations of The Money Party, the abuse of power by government, and features on elections and election fraud. His articles can be found athere. His [...]
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March 26, 2012
This is the latest in a string of attacks on western soldiers by armed fighters in Afghan uniform [EPA] In two separate instances, three NATOsoldiers have been killed by local security forces in Afghanistan.In the south, a gunman in an Afghan army uniform killed two British soldiers in a military base in Helmand province, NATO’s International [...]
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January 18, 2012
Two British soldiers have been arrested on allegations of child abuse, news that will harm the counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan. Photograph: Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images Military police have launched an investigation into claims that British soldiers abused two children during their tour of duty in Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defence confirmed an inquiry had begun into two [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, British Army, Helmand, Helmand Province, Ministry of Defence, Sun, Taliban, United States Marine Corps
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December 23, 2011
Christmas Day, 1914 Printed in Australia’s School Magazine, Apr. 2001 My dear sister Janet, It is 2:00 in the morning and most of our men are asleep in their dugouts—yet I could not sleep myself before writing to you of the wonderful events of Christmas Eve. In truth, what happened seems almost like a fairy tale, [...]
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December 8, 2011
Soldiers at the Task Force Helmand base in Lashkar Gah. Up to 4,000 British troops could leave Afghanistan during 2013. Photograph: Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images Up to 4,000 British troops could leave Afghanistan before the end of 2013 under proposals being put before David Cameron at a meeting of the National Security Council next week. The Guardian [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, British Army, David Cameron, Helmand Province, International Security Assistance Force, Kabul, NATO, United States, White House
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December 2, 2011
A series of prosecutions have been mounted against British military personnel accused of causing civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Photograph: Ahmad Jamshid/AP British soldier fired for stabbing Afghan boy Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook jailed and dismissed from the army after bayoneting boy, 10, in kidneys for no reason reddit this Nooruddin Bakhshi, Rob Evans, Richard Norton-Taylor and Jon [...]
Tags: Afghanistan, British Army, Ghulam Nabi, Guardian, Lashkar Gah, NATO, Royal Welsh Regiment, Taliban
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November 23, 2011
British troops round up suspected Ba’ath party activists in Basra, south-eastern Iraq in 2003. Photograph: MoD/AP Iraqi prisoners move closer to inquiry into mistreatment claims UK military faces judge-led inquiry into detentions and interrogations after appeal court rules in favour of 140 Iraqis reddit this Ian Cobain and Richard Norton-Taylor guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 22 November 2011 15.38 GMT [...]
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September 9, 2011
Kicked and punched to death by cowards PA Baha Mousa, 26, a widower and father of two young children, died after enduring 93 separate injuries After an eight-year campaign for justice led by this paper, a public inquiry into the killing of Iraqi civilian Baha Mousa while in British Army custody delivers its damning verdict [...]
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August 17, 2011
Defence chiefs must be called to account Cameron stifles much-needed debate on UK military as generals accused of failed operations and ‘Yes Minister’ attitude WikiLeaks cables: David Cameron is greeted by troops at Patrol Base 2 between Lashkar Gah and Gereshk in Afghanistan. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images “There are moments when I wake up and [...]
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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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July 29, 2011
The parliamentary committee said it was ‘disappointed’ by the MoD‘s inability to provide information it asked for about some £12bn worth of write-offs as a result of scrapped equipment. The cost of British military operations in Afghanistan is now officially estimated at more than £18bn, figures released on Thursday show. The cost of imposing a no-fly zone [...]
Tags: British Army, Defence Select Committee, Improvised explosive device, James Arbuthnot, Libya, Ministry of Defence, Non-commissioned officer, War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
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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 [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Al Jazeera, Bamyan Afghanistan, British Army, Helmand Province, Lashkar Gah, NATO
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July 20, 2011
Outgoing Metropolitan police commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson gives evidence to the home affairs select committee yesterday. Photograph: PA General Hakim Angar is the overall head of police in Helmand province. I haven’t met him, but I hope he has a sense of humour, or at least a sense of irony. It was barely three [...]
Tags: British Army, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, Helmand Province, John Yates, Lashkar Gah, Scotland Yard, Sir Paul Stephenson, Taliban
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July 16, 2011
A British patrol returns to camp in Nad-e Ali district of Helmand province last year. Photograph: Sean Smith for the Guardian The five-year British military campaign in southern Afghanistan has been woefully under-resourced and hampered by inadequate equipment, according to a damning report by MPs. The Commons defence select committee, which has been analysing UK operations [...]
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July 8, 2011
European Court Issues Historic Judgment on British Army in Iraq The highest court in Europe – the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights – has this morning handed down one of its most important judgments ever, involving the alleged ill-treatment and unlawful killing of Iraqi citizens by UK Armed Forces. See the European [...]
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June 20, 2011
By SOLOMON MOORE, Associated Press – Sat Jun 18, 4:32 pm ET NAWZAD, Afghanistan – There isn’t much left of this once-violent town center that the U.S. Marines recently pacified — a couple of dusty roads, closed shops with bare mud brick stalls, small boys herding goats through a jigsaw puzzle of ruined houses and dry irrigation canals. Just outside [...]
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May 16, 2011
The present regime in Afghanistan could hardly be representative of the Afghan people. That is probably why there seems to be a move to have some sort of elite force trained overseas. This has been a standard imperialist ploy for decades with South Americans feeling the full force of US trained and indoctrinated local forces being used to instil [...]
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May 10, 2011
Morale plunges among troops in Afghanistan This is an article on the stresses of the US troops in maintaining the hegemons unquenchable thirst for domination. It is always the citizen who is called on to pay whatever price is necessary for his country to engage in profit making exercises for the very very few. Note [...]
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May 8, 2011
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
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Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
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