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March 11, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Time and again, throughout America’s history, individuals with a passion for truth and a commitment to justice have opted to defy the unjust laws and practices of the American government in order to speak up against slavery, segregation, discrimination, and war. Even when their personal safety and freedom were on the line, these individuals spoke up... Full news...
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March 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Global Research: On March 1, a U.S./NATO helicopter gunship killed two Afghan brothers, seven and eight years of age, as they tended cattle in Uruzgan province. According to reports from residents, the boys were listening to a radio, which the helicopter crew interpreted as “radio signals” from Afghan resistance fighters. The latest killing comes amidst a series of atrocities against civilians that has further enflamed opposition to the ongoing occupation. Full news...
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March 4, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: Two more children dead in Afghanistan, thanks to an American airstrike. The war is winding down, but try telling that to the families of the children blown to pieces by mistake. Unless you’ve been reading news accounts closely, you probably missed the story: Two boys out collecting firewood with their donkeys were killed by weapons fired from a NATO helicopter, Afghan and American military officials announced Saturday. Full news...
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March 2, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: NATO forces accidentally shot dead two boys during an operation in Afghanistan’s south, the alliance said on Saturday, in the latest in a series of incidents involving allegations of civilian deaths at the hands of international troops. The two boys were shot dead when they were mistaken for insurgents during an operation in the northwest of Uruzgan on February 28, ISAF commander, U.S. General Joseph Dunford, said in a statement. Full news...
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February 26, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: In 2010, as WikiLeaks published hundreds of thousands of classified documents relating to the conduct of the US government, government defenders dismissively claimed that they revealed nothing new. Among the many documents disproving that claim were ones relating to a US policy in Iraq set forth in “Frago 242”, which ordered coalition troops not to stop or even investigate torture and other war crimes by the Iraqi forces they were training, but simply to “note” them. Full news...
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February 22, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pak Tribune: Combined force allegedly killed four civilians in Kunduz district, capital of northern Kunduz province on Thursday, local resident said. Afghan and foreign forces raided the house of a local resident, Saifur Rahman, at approximately 1:30 a.m. (local time), killing him, his two sons, Dilarwa and 18-year-old Hayatullah... Full news...
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February 22, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pluto Press: As Obama proclaims that the US adventure in Afghanistan will draw to a close over the next couple years, we may look at the balance sheet with respect to one of the occupation’s alleged justifications: the fight against Afghan heroin. The outcome has been a total failure. Full news...
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February 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: A NATO airstrike struck two houses, killing 10 Afghan civilians and four insurgents near the Pakistani border, officials said Wednesday. President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack, the latest in a series of civilian casualty reports that have raised tensions between the Afghans and the U.S.-led foreign forces. Full news...
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February 12, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Angry residents took to the streets on Tuesday against what they called civilian killings by foreign troops in southern Ghazni province. Dozens of dwellers of Aab Band district closed the Kabul-Kandahar highway, accusing NATO-led soldiers of killing two civilians and wounding as many others. Full news...
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February 12, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: More than a dozen Taliban fighters were killed during an operation in the Tagab district of central Kapisa province, officials claimed on Tuesday. But a resident alleged six civilians were among the dead. International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers on Tuesday opened fire on civilians, killing one and injuring three others in the southern province of Kandahar, officials said. Full news...
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February 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Human Rights Watch: The United States government should promptly carry out the recommendations of a United Nations committee of experts to improve protection of children abroad from armed conflict. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child released a report and recommendations to the US government on February 5, 2013. The committee raised a number of concerns regarding US practices during armed conflict... Full news...
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February 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Prensa Latina: U.S. soldiers killed five civilians, including two women and three children, during a raid carried out on Monday in the western Afghan province of Herat, the province’s authorities reported today. The U.S. special forces’ operation was aimed at clearing the Shindandm district of alleged rebels, noted chief of the locality Abdul Hamid Noor, who noted at least two rebels were injured as well as some soldiers. Full news...
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January 25, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: When I joined the Marine Corps, I knew I would kill people. I was trained to do it in a number of ways, from pulling a trigger to ordering a bomb strike to beating someone to death with a rock. As I got closer to deploying to war in 2009, my lethal abilities were refined, but my ethical understanding of killing was not. I held two seemingly contradictory beliefs: Killing is always wrong, but in war, it is necessary. Full news...
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January 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: An explosion Sunday killed seven Afghan villagers as they tried to pull bodies of dead insurgents from the rubble of a village mosque after a night raid by NATO and Afghan troops, officials said. Four insurgents and an Afghan soldier were also reported killed in the operation. Night raids have long been a contentious issue between Afghanistan’s president... Full news...
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January 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
GlobalResearch: America came to stay. Accelerated withdrawal claims reflect subterfuge. Washington officials and media scoundrels don’t explain. Msinformation and illusion substitute for reality. Reuters headlined “Obama, Karzai accelerate end of US combat role in Afghanistan.” “Obama’s determin(ed) to wind down a long, unpopular war.” Full news...
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January 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Common Dreams: As Afghan President Hamid Karzai prepares to meet with Barack Obama on Friday and speculation swirls about the future US role as 2014 slowly approaches, one of Afghanistan’s leading peace advocates has a message that those in the US—increasingly cited for their war-weariness—rarely hear... Full news...
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January 7, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
World Socialist Web Site: As the 2014 deadline for the end of NATO operations in Afghanistan draws closer, the Obama administration is preparing for a continued US military presence into the indefinite future. The plans, reported by the New York Times, underscore the predatory, neo-colonial character of the American-led occupation. Full news...
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December 26, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Afghanpaper (Translated by RAWA): Special forces of the US army raided houses of villagers and separated the men and women of 15 families living in this village. They then raped a number of these women. According to a report in the political section of the Afghanpaper, authentic reports given by the people state that special US forces raped a number of women in a village of Afghanistan, after attacking it. Full news...
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December 24, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Center for Public Integrity: The multinational NATO force in Afghanistan has declared that it spent more than 200 million USD to buy fuel for the Afghan Army in 2010 and 2011, but cannot locate any documents to substantiate the expense or show precisely where the money went, according to a special report by a government watchdog on Dec. 20. Full news...
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December 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Trend.az: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday blamed foreign forces for “hundreds of millions of dollars” worth of corruption in the war-torn country, DPA reported. Speaking at a Kabul meeting marking the country’s anti-corruption day, Karzai said: “Part of this corruption that exists in our administration is small and (mostly) bribery. Other part of the corruption, which is huge and (worth) hundreds of millions of dollars, is not our corruption.” Full news...
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December 21, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Mail Online: The United States carried out more drone strikes in Afghanistan this year than it has done in all the years put together in Pakistan since it launched the covert air war there eight years ago, it has been revealed. The statistics, published by the U.S. Air Force and published by Wired’s Danger Room blog Full news...
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December 8, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: This is a story of an Afghan wedding gone badly wrong. Or perhaps of “an operation in search of an insurgent leader,” as the official report later said. It is hard to tell which. Probably both. Meet Abdulrashid, a man with no last name, no profession, no literacy skills and no exact date of birth. He might be in his 30s. I first encounter him as I am interviewing internally displaced people Full news...
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December 5, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: A 12-year-old boy and three teenagers are alleged to have been shot dead as they were drinking tea during a counter-insurgency operation in Afghanistan. Witnesses claim the operation was lead by British soldiers, with defence secretary Philip Hammond now being asked to launch an investigation. Lawyers for the victims’ family claim the four boys appeared to have been “deliberately targeted at close range”, according to the Guardian newspaper. Full news...
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November 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three children were injured during an airstrike by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the Watapur district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Sunday. The air raid targeting a rebel hideout was conducted in Qaro area, the governor’s spokesman, Wasifullah Wasifi, told Pajhwok Afghan News. But he had no information about militants’ casualties. Full news...
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November 5, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Examiner.com: Afghan Foreign Ministry Spokesman Janan Mosazai criticized the US for its continued “violation of the strategic pact between the two countries”, saying that Washington has violated the treaty on numerous occassions. Mosazai added that “dozens of civilians had been killed in the Eastern provinces of Kapisa and Logar, Northwestern Badghis province and the Southern Taliban stronghold of Helmand over the past three days in NATO air strikes” Full news...
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October 31, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Antiwar.com: Nobody thinks the Afghan government puts Afghanistan on a path to independence, stability, and good governance. Well, almost nobody. According to the latest polls, an astonishing 40 percent of Americans think the war in Afghanistan is going “very well” or “fairly well.” And while 60 percent say America “should not be involved” in Afghanistan, 31 percent think we’re doing the right thing. Full news...
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October 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: An Afghan army officer says a pre-dawn raid in the eastern province of Ghazni killed four Taliban and three civilian bystanders. Lt. Ghulam Sarwer Attai, who commanded the special army unit which carried out Monday’s raid along with NATO forces, said it was in Qalai-i-Qazi area of Ghazni. Full news...
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October 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday condemned two of Nato’s military operations in Logar and Zabul provinces, calling for a full investigation into both incidents following reports of civilian deaths and disappearances. The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) responded that it is also conducting investigations into claims... Full news...
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October 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Hundreds of residents on Monday staged a protest in Qalat, the capital of southern Zabul province, against nighttime raids by International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers. One of the organisers and a member of the Wolesi Jirga from the province, Abdul Qadir Qalatwal, told Pajhwok Afghan News the provincial government was involved in corruption and did not pay attention to resolving people’s problems. Full news...
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October 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
World Socialist Web Site: With the US presidential election little more than two weeks away, the Obama administration is quietly preparing to keep tens of thousands of troops in Afghanistan. These preparations, little noted in the corporate media, are unfolding even as Obama and his running mate, Vice President Joseph Biden, tell voters that the 11-year-old war is to end in 2014. Full news...
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