NATO Airstrike Kills Six Afghan Children, Parents Afghan Govt. Announces Probe After Family Slain in Attack by Jason Ditz, May 27, 2012 Print This | Share This A Saturday evening NATO air strike against a village in Paktia Province, Afghanistan, has killed a family of eight, including six children. The strike is the latest [...]
Karzai Flips Out on Rep. Rohrabacher Jason Ditz, May 22, 2012 Print This | Share This | Comment In an interview today on CNN, Afghan President Hamid Karzai was asked about reports that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R – CA) is banned from entering Afghanistan. Karzai confirmed the ban, and went on to say that: “A [...]
Afghanistan: exit with no strategy The least one can expect of a president who prolonged Afghan suffering by ordering a surge of troops to finish the job, is that he has something that could be dignified with the name of an exit strategy It is disingenuous to claim, as Barack Obama did [...]
War and cheeseburgers By Pepe Escobar A specter haunts Europe. No, it’s not communism; it’s US rating agencies. Greece is bankrupt; the eurozone is about to crack; JP Morgan makes billion-dollar “mistakes”; there’s no (jobs) future for the new generations. And yet the weaponized arm of the Western 0.1% elites occupies [...]
Supporters of the Catholic Workers social justice and peace movement march on Randolph Street after a protest Monday outside President Barack Obama’s national campaign headquarters at Prudential Plaza, where eight demonstrators were arrested. (José M. Osorio, Chicago Tribune / May 14, 2012) From Afghanistan to Chicago, NATO‘s Hard Sell by Roxane Assaf & Michael Lynn [...]
Ties between the United States and Pakistan have been severely strained over the past year [Reuters] Pakistan has confirmed its president will attend a summit of NATO leaders this weekend in Chicago as negotiations with US to reopen supply lines into Afghanistan continues. Nadeem Hotiana, a Pakistani embassy spokesman in Washington, said on Tuesday that Asif Ali Zardari [...]
Afghanistan: Obama’s ‘dumb’ war Mon May 7, 2012 1:9PM GMT Hamid Javadi U.S. President Barack Obama addressing the American public from Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan on May 1 Since taking office as president of the United States, Barack Obama made the war inAfghanistan his own war. He called the occupation of Iraq ”a dumb war”, but in Afghanistan he approved [...]
US-Afghan Pact Won’t End War or Night Raids by Gareth Porter, May 03, 2012 Print This | Share This The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration’s “Enduring Strategic Partnership” [.pdf] agreement with Afghanistan and the memorandums of understanding (MOU) accompanying it emphasize transition to Afghan responsibility and an end to U.S. war. [...]
Obama in Afghanistan to Sign Deal to Continue War Through 2024 President Sneaks Into Country to Sign Document, Bypasses Congress by Jason Ditz, May 01, 2012 Print This | Share This Months of “not quite public” Obama Administration efforts to negotiate a still-secret pact to ensure that US troops will [...]
Aimal Faizi. “This means the text is closed….”What is the opinion of the agreement among regular Afghan citizens? (Photo: Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers) Why “lock” or “close” the future of Afghanistan to 30 million ordinary Afghan citizens? While the world may accept that the U.S. and Afghan governments have some “state” or “noble” considerations [...]
Text of AP Story on Afghanistan Agreement Translated into Human By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/text-ap-story-afghanistan-agreement-translated-human Here’s an Associated Press story on an agreement for another decade of U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, an agreement between two governments that do not represent their peoples, a story that was clearly translated from the [...]
America’s Lost War by Stephen Lendman America’s Afghan war is lost and illegal. The Bush administration got no Security Council authorization or congressional declaration of war. International law expert Francis Boyle said Congress passed a War Powers Resolution Authorization. Doing so gave Bush “blank check” power “to use [...]
US Quietly Plans to Betray Afghan Pact on Night Raids Obama, JSOC, and the CIA probably plan to continue to carry out night raids with no oversight by John Glaser, April 10, 2012 Print This | Share This Washington has relinquished control and final say over special operations night raids in Afghanistan to the Kabul government, but U.S. [...]
NATO: The Military Enforcement Wing Of The West 1% http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/nato-the-military-enforcement-wing-of-the-west-1/ NATO: The Military Enforcement Wing Of The West 1% Rick Rozoff With hyperlinks at URL above On April 7 Fox News Chicago reported on Occupy Chicago’s march through the city’s downtown, the Loop, recording that hundreds of protesters chanted “End [...]
A woman walks past campaign posters of candidates in the Afghan parliamentary elections. The vote in 2010 was marred by accusations of widespread fraud. Photograph: Rahmat Gul/AP Leading Afghans cast doubt on election schedule Talk in Kabul that presidential vote due in 2014 could be delayed or brought forward by a year, threatening constitutional crisis [...]
The Massacre of the Afghan 17 and the Obama Cover-Up By James Petras March 27, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — The March 11 Massacre of the 17 Afghan citizens, including at least nine children and four women, raises many fundamental issues about the nature of a colonial war, the practices of a [...]
US soldiers from Comanche Troop, 3rd Squadron 4th Cavalry wait for a helicopter to ferry them to another base at Forward Operating Base Connolly in Nangarhar province, eastern Afghanistan March 10, 2012. (Reuters/Erik De Castro) Afghan killing spree suspected to occur in two stages Published today (updated) 25/03/2012 09:35 WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The US [...]
Afghanistan and the Roman Empire by Renee Parsons As Defense Secretary Leon Panetta stepped off the plane in Afghanistan recently, he accurately summed up the evils of war. Arriving to calm Afghani reaction to the massacre of sixteen civilians in their homes by a U.S. soldier, Panetta said that “war is hell.” The [...]
Afghan Villagers Say Shootings Were Revenge By Deb Riechmann and Mirwais Khan The Associated Press March 21, 2012 “CSM” — Several Afghans near the villages where an American soldier is alleged to have killed 16 civilians say U.S. troops lined them up against a wall after a roadside bombing and told [...]
Ret. Gen.: Massacre Could Force US From Afghanistan in Weeks Karzai Demands to Confine Troops to Base Could Mean Pullout by Jason Ditz, March 19, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Speaking to CNN on Sunday, Retired Major General James A. Marks, the senior intelligence officer [...]
They Had Names by Abby Zimet In the wake of the massacre in Afghanistan, there has been much media coverage of the shooter, and almost none of the victims. Al-Jazeera‘s Qais Azimy rescues them from anonymity, giving them, at least, their names: “In the days following the rogue US soldier’s shooting spree in Kandahar, most of the media, [...]
“I Justy Want the Punishment of the Americans” By davidswanson - Posted on 19 March 2012 From a family member of Afghans we liberated last week: I want no compensation, from no one. I don’t want Hajj [pilgrimage to Mecca], I don’t want money, I don’t want a villa in Aino Mina [a posh neighbourhood in Kandahar city], I [...]
An Afghan woman is interviewed next to the body of a child killed by coalition forces in Kandahar province on March 11, 2012 (Reuters / Ahmad Nadeem) Kandahar slaughter preplanned, executed by squad – Afghan top brass TAGS: Children, Crime, Military, NATO, Scandal,Vehicles, Afghanistan, USA article at http://rt.com/news/kandahar-massacre-counterinsurgency-operation-805/ The Afghan Army Chief of Staff says the slaughter of 16 civilians, including nine children, [...]
Up to 20 US Troops Behind Kandahar Bloodbath – Afghan ProbeBy RT March 18, 2012 “RT” — An Afghan parliamentary investigation team has implicated up to 20 US troops in the massacre of 16 civilians in Kandahar early on Sunday morning. It contradicts NATO’s account that insists one rogue soldier [...]
dapd A German soldier watches a helicopter land in Afghanistan in Oct. 2011. It has to be a tragic and sad moment when a corrupt leader starts talking some sense about the effect of imposing democracy on an invaded country. There seems little doubt that Karzai and his family are very closely associated with the [...]
Image via Wikipedia American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar identified as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. s named the American soldier who is accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar province earlier this week as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales. Officials had previously said the suspect was a 38-year-old staff sergeant and [...]
. Afghans burn an effigy depicting U.S. President Barack Obama after the killing of civilians in Panjwai. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) ‘Sick-Minded American Savages’ at War by John LaForge The U.S. Army Staff Sgt. who walked through two villages in Afghanistan around 3 a.m. March 11 is reported to have methodically killed, using single shots to the [...]
Afghanistan‘s President Karzai prays during a meeting with relatives of victims of the Kandahar massacre. Photograph: Photo Corbis President Karzai casts doubts on US version of Afghan village massacre President says US has not co-operated with his investigations and he questions whether there was only one attacker The President of Afghanistan warned he was frustrated over [...]
A US soldier‘s massacre of 16 civilians is Afghanistan’s My Lai moment, says Escobar [EPA] “We must kill them. We must incinerate them. Pig after pig… cow after cow… village after village… army after army…” – Colonel Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse NowHong Kong - It started way before a lone killer, a US Army [...]
Hamid Karzai told visiting Leon Panetta that all foreign soldiers should be pulled out of Afghanistan‘s villages. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA The Taliban have suspended talks with the US, saying in a statement that they were presented with unacceptable demands. The move leaves the west’s political strategy for Afghanistan in tatters days after a US soldier’s massacre of 16 civilians [...]
Afghan Massacre: Peace Groups Call for U.S. Withdrawal After Army Sergeant Kills 16 Afghan Civilians Categories:Afghanistan AMY GOODMAN: A U.S. Army sergeant is in custody after he went on a shooting spree in southern Afghanistan, killing 16 Afghan civilians, nine of them children. The massacre took place Saturday night in [...]
‘It is long past time for the United States’ and NATO to withdraw from Afghanistan, writes Falk [Reuters] While it may sound good just when do you decide that a war has become pathological? War is a crime from start to finish there is no cross over point to distinguish what a war means at [...]
Afghan villagers on Monday prepare to remove the victims of the shooting Photograph: Jangir/AFP/Getty Images Taliban militants opened fire on senior officials from the Afghan government and military at a memorial service for 16 civilians thought to have been shot dead in their homes by a US soldier. The service, held in one of the villages where [...]
This is What Liberation Looks Like: U.S. Massacre in Afghanistan By War Criminals Watch - Posted on 12 March 2012 11 March 2012 - Reporting on its website tonight, The New York Times stated: “Stalking from home to home, a United States Army sergeant methodically killed at least 16 civilians, 9 of them children, in [...]
I Don’t Want To See Their Faces; I Don’t Want To Hear Them Scream by Christopher Cooper An interesting article. This page has long been saying that so called collateral damage is not collateral at all, it is an integral part of war to kill civilians and the unarmed. Even if only to teach them a [...]
Some of the bodies of the victims were badly burned, but it remains unclear whether the fire in this Kandahar home was set deliberately or caused by the shooting itself [AFP] In Australia after a few words of condolence and the very insincere sounding efforts of Gillard the unelected PM it is full speed ahead to complete [...]
Afghan police and residents gather around a van containing the bodies of civilians killed in the shooting. Photograph: I Sameem/EPA A US soldier has killed more than a dozen Afghan civilians, many of them women and children, in a night-time shooting spree in southernAfghanistan. The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, condemned the shootings as “intentional murders” [...]
Afghan President Hamid Karzai looks on during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 6, 2012. (Credit: AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus) Building a “Mature” Democracy in Afghanistan by Tom Engelhardt How primitive the Afghans are! A New York Times account of faltering negotiations over a possible “strategic partnership” agreement to leave U.S. troops on bases in that country for years [...]
US General John Allen, left, called the prison handover ’a step forward in our strategic partnership negotiations’ [AFP] Afghanistan and US sign prison transfer deal US military to hand over Parwan prison, its main detention facility in the country, to Afghan control within six months. The US military has signed a last-minute agreement to transfer its [...]
In Afghanistan, the Quran is a more potent symbol of national unity than the flag or constitution [GALLO/GETTY] Santa Barbara, CA - On February 20, 2012 several US soldiers – five of whom have so far been identified – took some Islamic writings, including several copies of the Quran, to a landfill on Bagram Air Base [...]
Ann Jones, Playing the Game in Afghanistan Posted by Ann Jones at 9:34am, March 8, 2012. How primitive the Afghans are! A New York Times account of faltering negotiations over a possible “strategic partnership” agreement to leave U.S. troops on bases in that country for years to come highlights just how far the Afghans have to go [...]
AFP photo Five years ago, deep in the south west of Germany, I was taken to see American troops prepare for Afghanistan. Based in a massive training area which stretched for miles, a long way from the nearest towns, makeshift villages were built, native speakers of Afghanistan’s two main languages [Dari and Pashto] were imported [...]
The divide between occupier and occupied After a week of bloodshed in Afghanistan, we ask if the fragile relationship between Washington and Kabul is unraveling. A week of protests and a week of bloodshed. There appears to be no end to the anger being expressed in Afghanistan over the burning of the [...]
From the very first time news of this got out in the form that it did, it was extremely obvious that this would be an extremely major issue. The so called apology from the US military commander apart from nearly [...]
REUTERS A German Bundeswehr soldier in Iman Sahib: The military is closing a base in Afghanistan early in response to deadly protests. The German military said Friday it would move up the planned closure of a base in northern Afghanistan in response to deadly protests over the inadvertent burning of copies of [...]
Obama ‘Consulted’ Team Before Apologizing Over Quran Burnings Newt Says Afghans Don’t Deserve Apology by Jason Ditz, February 24, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Politics means never having to say you’re sorry. Or sometimes, it means seeing someone else saying he’s sorry and expressing outrage. [...]
Protesters burn an effigy of President Barack Obama during an anti-US rally in Peshawar, Afghanistan. Photograph: Fayaz Aziz/REUTERS Twelve people were killed on Friday in the bloodiest day yet in protests that have raged across Afghanistan over the desecration of copies of the Muslim holy book at a Nato military base with riot police and soldiers [...]
Rebecca Solnit, Why the Media Loves the Violence of Protesters and Not of Banks Posted by Rebecca Solnit at 9:40am, February 21, 2012. In December 2001, 110 of 112 revelers at a wedding died, thanks to a B-52 and two B-1B bombers using precision-guided weapons to essentially wipe out a village in Eastern Afghanistan (and then, [...]
. Sarkozy to Speed French Pullout, Urges NATO to Step Up End of Afghan War Sarkozy, Karzai Agree to Push 2013 ‘Handover,’ But for Very Different Reasons by Jason Ditz, January 27, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In a move that was probably inevitable after they [...]
Hekmatyar’s whereabouts remain uknown after he was expelled from Iran in 2002 [AP] The year was 1985. In the heat of the CIA-backed Afghan jihad against the Soviet Union, a delegation of Afghan resistance leaders met with US President Ronald Reagan in the White House, where they were declared the “moral equivalent” to the founding fathers of the United [...]
