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October 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Morning Star: Every day in Afghanistan there are 40 raids carried out by occupying troops on homes of people suspected of “terrorism” or “insurgency.” So every day 40 families suffer the indignity, humiliation and resentment that accompanies the targeting of those classed as terrorists. Afghanistan’s population is comparable to that of the US state of Texas. Full news...
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October 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ICRC: Ten years after the start of a new chapter in Afghanistan’s 30-year war, Afghans remain caught in the midst of continued armed violence. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), security and health care are the biggest humanitarian problems facing the people of Afghanistan today. "Despite improvements in the quality of life for certain sectors of the population over the past decade... Full news...
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September 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Afghan and foreign forces killed 19 civilians, including women and children, during an operation on Sept. 20 in eastern Nuristan province, a parliamentarian said on Wednesday. Militants had fled the Want Waigal district before the operation was launched, a Wolesi Jirga member from the province, Maulvi Ahadullah Mowahid, told a press conference in Kabul. Full news...
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September 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CBC News: Human rights lawyers often refer to it as “the other Guantanamo,” “Guantanamo’s evil twin” or “Obama’s Gitmo” — an attempt to raise the profile of the U.S. detention facility in Afghanistan that few know about. It’s official name is the Bagram Theater Internment Facility. And even though it was recently rebuilt and renamed the Detention Facility in Parwan, after the province, most continue to refer to it simply as Bagram. Full news...
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September 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Women’s rights have been central to the war in Afghanistan. Remember when Cherie Blair and Laura Bush joined forces to bolster the rationale for invasion back in 2001? Suddenly, the west developed a passionate concern for the position of women in the country; there were films, books and documentaries about the high rates of maternal mortality, girls being married off young and low levels of female literacy. Full news...
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September 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Atlantic: The U.S. employs a former drug-running warlord who uses torture and intimidation as regular city policing tactics as the acting police chief of Kandahar, according to an in-depth profile by Matthieu Aikins in the November issue of The Atlantic that went online on Monday. He’s also thought to be responsible for mass murder. Abdul Raziq, now a brigadier general on a direct order from President Hamid Karzai... Full news...
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September 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: Over the past year, US and NATO forces say they have made considerable progress against the Afghan insurgency through the use of night raids. But a new study suggests that the long-controversial nighttime operations are doing more harm than good. Despite a sharp rise in the number of night raids, there have been no benefits in the form of decreased insurgent attacks... Full news...
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September 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Revolution Newspaper: “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.” — Vice President Dick Cheney, August 2002 No “weapons of mass destruction” were ever found in Iraq. An October 2004 CIA report concluded, “Iraq unilaterally destroyed its undeclared chemical weapons stockpile in 1991” Full news...
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September 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: U.S. taxpayers have spent nearly 2 billion USD since 2009 on deploying civilians to Afghanistan, according to a new report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) and the State Department Office of the Inspector General (OIG). "This joint audit marks the first time any U.S. agencies have determined the costs of this important effort," said acting Special Inspector General Steven J. Trent. Full news...
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September 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Green Left Weekly: Malalai Joya is a writer, activist and former parliamentarian in the national assembly of Afghanistan. Prior to speaking at two Overland events at the 2011 Melbourne Writers’ Festival, she discussed occupation and resistance in Afghanistan today. Full news...
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September 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ABC Online: Activist, writer and a former Afghan politician Malalai Joya is currently touring the country. She hasn’t yet had the ear of the Prime Minister or the Minister for Defence to discuss the plight of her people or the reality of the war in Afghanistan, but perhaps if Prime Minister Gillard broke bread with Joya she might gain some real insight into the consequences of Australia’s involvement in Afghanistan. Full news...
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September 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ABC News: Innocent people are being killed or forced to flee in fear as Australian special forces teams hunt Taliban commanders in southern Afghanistan, ABC TV’s Four Corners has been told. About 300 elite Australian soldiers are hunting down Taliban commanders in Uruzgan individually, targeting them one by one. Full news...
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September 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Mother Jones: After three years, the bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting completed its business this week. In its final report to Congress (PDF), it estimates that the federal government has lost between 31 and 60 billion USD to contractor fraud and waste since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq started. Full news...
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September 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: People in Pul-i-Khumri, a city in northern Baghlan province, say that the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has not rebuilt a school it destroyed in an operation against the Taliban. The school, located in the Ahmadzai village of the Dand-e-Ghori district of the city, was being used as a base for insurgents. It was destroyed almost eight months ago under heavy fire from ISAF. Full news...
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August 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: The US government has wasted 30bn USD (18bn Pounds) in contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq over the last decade, according to a bi-partisan spending commission. The commission on wartime contracting blamed an over-reliance on contractors, poor planning and fraud for the waste. It had evidence of lax accountability and inadequate competition, it said. Full news...
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August 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Gulf Today: Six Afghan civilians from the same family were killed by a coalition air strike in the insurgent-hit east of the country, local officials said on Friday. A spokesman for the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said he could not confirm civilians were killed but that several insurgents were among the dead in the operation... Full news...
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August 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: Ahmed Omed Khpulwak was among at least 22 killed, mostly civilians, during a two-pronged militant attack on government buildings in Uruzgan province last month. An independent investigation has now found he appeared to have been shot dead by American weapons after the attackers were already dead. Full news...
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August 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Green Left Weekly: On August 19, a Taliban suicide squad attacked the Kabul offices of the British Council, a government-funded institution that “promotes educational and cultural relations” between Britain and other countries. The August 20 Guardian said at least 12 people were killed, including a New Zealand SAS soldier and three “security contractors” working for multinational security outfit G4S. Full news...
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August 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of southern Ghazni province protested on Saturday against the killing of four civilians during a nighttime operation by international troops. NATO-led troops killed the civilians during the offensive in the Ghonday area of Gilan district late on Thursday night, resident Zainullah told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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August 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AllGov.com: Common sense would dictate that a country that’s spent 10 years fighting two different wars would at least keep track of the fiscal sacrifice that’s been made. But the truth is that Uncle Sam really can’t say for sure how deep it’s had to dig to finance the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns. Full news...
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August 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: After examining hundreds of combat support and reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan, the U.S military estimates 360 million USD in U.S. tax dollars has ended up in the hands of people the American-led coalition has spent nearly a decade battling: the Taliban, criminals and power brokers with ties to both. Full news...
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August 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Frontier Post: A clash between Taliban and foreign forces and a rocket attack left 16 civilians wounded last night in eastern Kunar province, officials said Tuesday. Taliban attacked a base of combined force in Ghondi village of Narang district, sparking a clash, Said Fazlullah Wahidi, governor of Kunar province, told Afghan Islamic Press (AIP). He said 12 civilians were wounded in exchange of fire. Full news...
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August 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Age: Australia’s most vital local ally in Afghanistan, controversial warlord Matiullah Khan, has become chief of police in Oruzgan province, after years of receiving money for his fighters to work alongside Australian special forces. Matiullah Khan and the local governor were targeted last month in one of the most serious Taliban attacks this year... Full news...
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August 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Foreign troops have allegedly been detaining and harassing civilians after 31 US Special Force members were killed in a Chinook helicopter crash in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province. Naimatullah, a resident of the Joyee Zarin area, told Pajhwok Afghan News US forces had besieged the Tangi Valley and have been searching people’s houses. Full news...
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August 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: A NATO helicopter crashed in Afghanistan's east on Monday but there were no apparent casualties, officials said, another stark reminder of the dangers of the war after 38 people were killed in an air incident, the largest single loss for foreign forces in 10 years. A worrying surge of military deaths is being matched by record casualties among civilians... Full news...
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August 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: In his sprawling office in Kandahar’s gubernatorial palace, Tooryali Wesa spends much of his day behind an imposing hand-carved wooden desk. Stately chairs and couches line the wood-paneled walls, topped with the type of high-vaulted ceiling found in a cathedral or classically designed mosque. Full news...
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August 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Afghan civilians may have been caught up in a NATO air strike against suspected Taliban insurgents, a foreign military spokesman said Saturday, amid claims up to eight civilians died. A local official said that an imam, his wife and their six children were killed by an air strike in Nad Ali district in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province Friday. Full news...
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August 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Baltimore Sun: I used to think of Vice President Joseph Biden as a nice guy. Good old Joe. Down-to-earth, nice sense of humor, great family man. But last year I read the Bob Woodward book on “Obama’s Wars.” His account of Mr. Biden’s meeting with Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai in January 2009, was a shocker. Mr. Biden was rude and arrogant, humiliating the Afghan leader before his own cabinet ministers. Full news...
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August 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of southeastern Paktia province protested against Afghan and foreign security forces on Thursday, a day after a civilian was killed by a mortar shell during a firefight between militants and coalition troops. Angered by the civilian death in the Zazai Aryub district, some 300 men blocked the Zazai Aryub-Gardez highway as a mark of protest. Full news...
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July 31, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: Civilians are bearing the brunt of the international forces’ onslaught against the Taliban as the coalition rushes to pacify Afghanistan before pulling out its troops, it was claimed last night. Human rights groups warned that civilians are paying an increasingly high price for “reckless” coalition attacks, particularly aerial ones. Full news...
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