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ISAF Regional Command South Split into Helmand-Nimruz and Kandahar Commands
Aviation Week | By Nicholas Fiorenza | 21 May 2010 ISAF Reshuffles NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan is reorganizing to accommodate US reinforcements. Today, the North Atlantic Council, the alliance's highest decision-making body, gave the final go-ahead for the reorganisation of ISAF’s Regional [...]
From Pakistan: 10 Questions for Barack Obama
The News | By Dr. Farrukh Saleem | 31 January 2010 Capital Talk: Open Letter to Obama Dear President Obama, Question 1: Sir, you have doubled the number of American troops in Afghanistan and, at the same time, given a withdrawal timeline beginning June 2011. The militants swiftly adapted and have now begun declining combat. Close to 80 per [...]
Iraqi Resistance Regularly Intercepts Video Feeds from U.S. Drones
On 17 December 2009, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Iraqi resistance ("insurgents") had been intercepting video feeds from U.S. drones, by using cheap software like the Russian program, SkyGrabber, "to regularly capture drone video feeds" being beamed down to field commanders. (more...)
Anti-Muslim Bigotry in American Politics
The Daily Beast | By Benjamin Sarlin | 16 Dec 2009 A Muslim-Bashing Campaign for Congress A Minnesota attorney is using virulent attacks on Islam in an attempt to unseat one of just two Muslims in Congress. Benjamin Sarlin talks to Rep. Keith Ellison and his challenger about a campaign that’s raising eyebrows. As America’s first Muslim [...]
Racist American Terrorists, Acquitted by All-White Jury, Indicted on Federal Charges
CBS | By Byron Pitts | 16 December 2009 Immigrant's Murder Sheds Light on Pa. Town Cops Tried to Cover Up for Assailants, Federal Prosecutors Say, in Town Where All Hispanics are Considered "Dirty Mexicans" (CBS) A small Pennsylvania town is at the center of a hate crimes case. It began with the beating death of a Mexican immigrant [...]
Some 56,000 mercenaries will join the additional 30,000 troops being deployed to Afghanistan
The Nation |By MSNBC | 16 December 2009 Afghanistan Escalation Ramps Up Contractor Presence As many as 56,000 military contractors will join the additional 30,000 troops being deployed to Afghanistan, meaning that by next year there could be 130,000 to 160,000 contractors deployed alongside 100,000 US soldiers. Appearing on MSNBC, Jeremy [...]
U.S. Army Funds Afghan-Taleban through the Defence Minister’s Son, Among Others
Gusrdian | Aram Roston | 13 November 2009 How the US army protects its trucks – by paying the Taliban Insurance, security or extortion? The US is spending millions of dollars in Afghanistan to ensure its supply convoys get through – and it's the Taliban who profit • This piece is the subject of a legal complaint from lawyers acting [...]
U.S. Army and its Contractors Buying Protection from Afghan-Taleban
Washington Post | By Walter Pincus | 17 December 2009 Congress investigating charges of 'protection racket' by Afghanistan contractors A House oversight subcommittee said Wednesday that it has begun a wide-ranging investigation into allegations that private security companies hired to protect Defense Department convoys in Afghanistan are [...]
Taliban can be admired for their faith and loyalty, says bishop
Tekegraph | By Jonathan Wynne-Jones and Duncan Gardham | 13 Dec 2009 The Taliban can be admired for their conviction to their faith and their sense of loyalty to one another, the new bishop for the Armed Forces has claimed. The Rt Rev Stephen Venner called for a more sympathetic approach to the Islamic fundamentalists that recognises [...]
U.S. Military Joins CIA’s Drone War in Pakistan
Danger Room | By Noah Schachtman | 10 December 2009 The headquarters for the American military’s air war in Central Asia and the Middle East is located in a converted medical warehouse on an undisclosed base in a country the U.S. Air Force would rather not name. The lights are turned down low, so the troops can clearly see the giant screen at [...]
