US Freezes $700 Million in Pakistan Aid Demands Pakistan Strictly Regulate Fertilizer by Jason Ditz, December 13, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In a move that reflect the further deterioration of relations between the two nations, the US today announced that [...]
File picture from September shows a pipeline delivering gas from Egypt to Israel burning following an attack. (AFP/File) CAIRO (Reuters) — Saboteurs blew up the gas pipeline between Egypt, Israel and Jordan on Thursday in Northern Sinai using remote controlled bombs, forcing it to shut down, Egyptian security sources said. The first blast, the [...]
I WOKE UP ONE MORNING AND THE WAR WAS OVER By Mike Ferner http://warisacrime.org/content/i-woke-one-morning-and-war-was-over America’s war in Iraq is over. The last U.S. troops will leave by year’s end, “with their heads held high, proud of their success and knowing that the American people stand united in our support for our troops.” So sayeth President Obama. A [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Afghanistan: ‘Deadliest six months’ for civilians The figures show that violence remains commonplace for many Afghan civilians Continue reading the main story Taliban Conflict Turbulent Kandahar Meeting Wali Karzai Taliban tactical shift Will US cut reverse gains? The first six months of 2011 were the deadliest for civilians in Afghanistan since the war began in [...]
Despite Troop Surge, Taliban Attacks and US Casualties Soared by Gareth Porter, July 05, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Data on attacks by armed opposition forces and U.S. combat casualties since the U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan was completed last summer provide clear evidence that the surge and the increase in targeted [...]
TEHRAN—Iran’s elite military unit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has transferred lethal new munitions to its allies in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent months, according to senior U.S. officials, in a bid to accelerate the U.S. withdrawals from these countries. The Revolutionary Guard has smuggled rocket-assisted exploding projectiles to its militia allies in Iraq, weapons [...]
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 [...]
