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January 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WSWS: The ACLU states that 25-30 of the 190 deaths that occurred under custody of the U.S. government at Guantanamo Bay were “unjustifiable homicides”. In our view, every single one of them qualify for this charge because their imprisonment and the war that brought them there was unjustified from the very beginning. - LMB Full news...
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January 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A woman lost her life when a vehicle of international forces overran her in western Herat province, an official said on Saturday. The accident happened in Guzara district at 8pm when the woman crossing the road was hit by a vehicle of NATO-led forces, police spokesman, Col. Noor Khan Nekzad, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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January 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: New documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show “unjustified homicide” of detainees and concerns about the condition of confinement in U.S.-run prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, according to the ACLU. Thousands of documents detailing the deaths of 190 U.S. detainees were released by the ACLU on Friday. Full news...
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January 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: The Obama administration’s effort to persist in carrying out a deadly war in Afghanistan outside the public’s eye has been succeeding. Three means are employed: tight control over news flowing out of Afghanistan; vastly greater reliance upon secretive night raids by U.S. Special Forces; and a stepped-up use of private contractors/mercenaries on the ground in Afghanistan. Full news...
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January 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Pro-government militias in parts of Afghanistan are believed to be recruiting underage boys and sometimes sexually abusing them in an environment of criminal impunity, local people and human rights organizations say. In a bid to counter the intensifying insurgency, the Afghan government and US/NATO forces have been setting up controversial community-based militias, such as the Afghan Local Police, in insecure provinces. Full news...
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January 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: They sit patiently in the lobby of the directorate of women’s rights at the women’s ministry, their sad, bruised faces testimony to the years of ill-treatment and beatings they have been forced to endure. One of the women, Marina, 20, told this IWPR reporter that her family married her off when she was 14 to a drug-addict twice her age. Full news...
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January 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: A roadside bomb has killed 13 civilians in eastern Afghanistan, government officials said. The interior ministry said in a statement that the vehicle, a motorised rickshaw, was hit in the morning. The dead include women and children. The attack took place in Khoshamand district in Paktika province. Full news...
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January 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: US public support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped to the lowest level since Barack Obama became president, a poll showed Tuesday. The survey by Quinnipiac University showed voters said by a 51 to 41 percent margin than the United States should not be involved in Afghanistan. Still, the respondents said by a 46 to 40 percent margin that they approved of Obama’s handling the situation in Afghanistan. Full news...
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January 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: NATO-led soldiers killed six members of a family during an airstrike in eastern Kunar province, a provincial council member alleged on Sunday. But the alliance rejected the allegation as baseless. The overnight bombardment took place in the Kodi area of Asmar district, bordering Pakistan, Haji Sultan Siddiqui told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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January 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Frontline: In a country with deep rooted religious and social norms, it is baffling to see how young boys are readily available for sexual abuse. A documentary secretly filmed by an Afghan journalist exposes the heart wrenching custom where young Afghan boys are bought as sexual slaves for the rich. Full news...
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January 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
New Euorope: Back in 2002, the Indian writer Arundhati Roy brilliantly satirised the official excuses for the invasion of Afghanistan . “It’s being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas,” she said. “We are being asked to believe that the US marines are actually on a feminist mission.” Full news...
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January 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: No education, lack of food and winter clothes. In Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, hundreds of war displaced children and their families are crying for relief assistance from the government. Currently, there are 804 families living in the slum, in west of the city, with the largest family of 15 children. “We do not have enough food and clothes. We need help,” said Wakiltawos Khan, head of the slum. Full news...
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January 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: cargo ship rescued scores of Afghan migrants in heavy seas off the Greek island of Corfu Sunday following a night of drama, but survivors said 21 more were missing after falling overboard. Rescue services were alerted during the night after the 35-metre (114-foot) Hasan Reis vessel packed with more than 200 migrants, including women and children, reported it was taking on water, said the merchant marine ministry in a statement. Full news...
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January 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: Nine wedding guests, including a child, are among the victims. Insurgents target Western troops with the homemade bombs, but usually it’s civilians who are killed or maimed. Civilians are dying in record numbers as the war in Afghanistan grinds into its 10th year, and crude but powerful homemade bombs are the greatest hazard facing them. Full news...
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January 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Spreading violence in Afghanistan is preventing aid organisations from providing help, with access to those in need at its worst level in three decades, the Red Cross said on Wednesday. “The proliferation of armed groups threatens the ability of humanitarian organisations to access those in need. Access for the ICRC has over the last 30 years never been as poor,” said Reto Stocker... Full news...
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January 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: More than 500 people have protested in Herat against Iran’s weeks-long blockage of hundreds of fuel tankers seeking to enter Afghanistan, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reports. Protesters told RFE/RL that Iran’s actions have created painful fuel shortages at a time of high demand during winter. Full news...
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January 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Aljazeera: “At night, they come out on the roads with their faces covered,” said Obaid Sediq, a resident of Central Baghlan in northeastern Afghanistan. “Many times they have stopped our car and emptied our pockets. They have guns and you can't say anything back.” The Arbakai, semi-official local militias, have committed tremendous abuses in Afghanistan’s northeastern provinces of Kunduz and Baghlan. Full news...
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January 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Hundreds of angry Afghans stoned the Iranian embassy in Kabul on Thursday in protest against the blockade of fuel tankers in the neighbouring country. Stones and addled eggs were hurled at the embassy. The protesters chanted full-throated slogans against country and torched posters of Iranian President Ahmadinejad and spiritual leader Ayatollah Syed Ali Khomeini. Full news...
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January 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Afghan and foreign forces have caused more than $100 million damage to fruit crops and homes during security operations in southern Kandahar province, a government delegation said on Tuesday. Violence is at its worst since U.S.-backed Afghan forces overthrew the Islamist government in 2001 after it refused to hand over al Qaeda militants, including Osama bin Laden, after the September 11 attacks on the United States. Full news...
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January 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Six children sustained injuries as a mine went off in eastern Kunar province 185 km east of capital Kabul on Monday, provincial police chief Khalilullah Ziae said Tuesday. “The tragic incident happened in Narang district on Monday when the innocent children were playing as a result six children were injured,” Ziae told Xinhua. Full news...
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January 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: A Nato air raid in central Afghanistan may have killed three Afghan police officers and wounded three others, the third such incident in fewer than five weeks. Foreign troops on patrol in Daykundi province yesterday called in an air strike after seeing nine people setting up what appeared to be an ambush, the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said. It was later determined the raid may have targeted Afghan police, it said. Full news...
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January 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from insurgency-hit Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, need food assistance urgently, officials told IRIN. About 900 displaced families in the provincial capital Lashkargah have little or no means to feed themselves and their children this winter, according to Ghulam Farouq Noorzai, director of Helmand’s refugees and returnee affairs department. Full news...
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January 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sydney Morning Herald: If you are going to sign a deal with the devil, make it a good one. Australia recently formally agreed that its forces in Afghanistan would transfer prisoners detained in the country to the National Directorate of Security, or NDS, an agency known for torture and horrific detention conditions. It got “diplomatic assurances” from the Afghan government: promises that the NDS won’t torture, this time. Full news...
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January 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up among men washing in a bathhouse ahead of Friday prayers, killing 17, in an attack that showed militants can still largely strike at will in southern Afghanistan despite a NATO offensive. Roadside bombs also killed three NATO service members in the south and east, while gunmen shot dead a police inspector in Kandahar’s provincial capital, bringing the day’s death toll to 21. Full news...
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January 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
World Socialist Web Site: 2010 was the bloodiest year of the now nine-year conflict in Afghanistan and the tribal border regions of Pakistan. Under the command of Gen David Petraeus, a massively expanded US and Nato force is waging a campaign of extermination against various ethnic Pashtun and Taliban-linked movements that have not accepted the foreign invasion of their country. Full news...
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January 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Though the Iranian embassy in Kabul has called a video clip showing some dead and wounded Afghan refugees lying on the ground as fake, relatives of the victims have asked the Afghan government to react seriously to the brutal action by Iranian border police. It is not clear when the footage, obtained by a private TV channel Tolo, has been recorded. Full news...
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January 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Time: Gul Bibi pulls back her light blue scarf to reveal faded tribal tattoos and sad, almond eyes. She has not seen any of her three children, or any other family members, in the five months she has languished in prison. Her “crime”: running away from a husband who viciously beat her throughout their nine-year marriage, which was arranged by her parents when she was 16 to end a land dispute. Full news...
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January 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: More than 10,000 people, about a fifth of them civilians, lost their lives in violence in Afghanistan last year, an AFP count based on official figures and an independent website tally showed Sunday. Afghanistan’s interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary revealed new figures for the number of civilians, police and militants killed in 2010 -- a total of 8,560 people. Full news...
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January 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Worsening security and enduring conservative Islamic customs prevented almost five million Afghan children from going to school in 2010, a government official said on Saturday. The strict Islamist Taliban were ousted from power by U.S.-backed Afghan forces nearly a decade ago, but many women are still not able to work outside the home and girls are prevented from attending school in remote parts of the country. Full news...
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December 30, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Canadian Press: Tiny patients go two to a bed and overworked doctors are on the verge of burnout in the children’s ward of southern Afghanistan’s largest hospital. A steady flow of sick kids is pushing Kandahar city’s already overstretched Mirwais hospital beyond the brink. But pleas for badly needed doctors, equipment and beds seem to be falling on deaf ears. Full news...
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