Archive for February 25th, 2010
Newsnight poll: Most think Afghan war ‘unwinnable’
BBC | 23 February 2010 Sixty-four per cent of British people think the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable, a BBC poll suggests. More than two-thirds (69%) also think the government has not done all it can to support British forces fighting in the country. Only 27% agree that the government has given sufficient support to UK forces. The [...]
Marjah: Washington Post Endorses the Taleban Narrative
Antiwar | by Gareth Porter | 24 February 2010 Marjah Offensive Aimed to Shape US Opinion on War Senior military officials decided to launch the current U.S.-British military campaign to seize Marjah in large part to influence domestic U.S. opinion on the war in Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported Monday. The Post report, [...]
Occupied Iraq: The Silence is Deafening
Pravda.ru | By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | 24 February 2010 The Truth About Iraq: The Country is Out of Control Has anyone noticed how suddenly there is little or no news coming out of Iraq? Have the “insurgents” simply melted away, have they all been paid off? With the British and US troops cowering in massive military bases outside the [...]
Le Parisien Exposes French Nuclear Tests in Algeria in the 1960s
Pravda.ru | 25 February 2010 French Army Performed Nuclear Explosions in Africa to Test Radiation Effects on Humans Read the original in Russian France is in the midst of the discussion of a publication in Le Parisien newspaper. The newspaper published a secret document that throws light on the French nuclear tests in the Sahara Desert [...]
Russia and Afghanistan: Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Russia BTH | By Vladimir Snegiryov | 24 February 2010 No way to Afghanistan In December 2009, the world was close to seeing a political sensation. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary general of Nato, came to Russia to ask for an increased contribution to the Afghan problem. He was welcomed by the president and the prime minister. They listened and [...]
China Shifting from U.S. Treasuries to Gold
Pravda.ru | 25 February 2010 China To Purchase Half of IMF's Gold China has confirmed the intention to purchase 191.3 tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund at an open auction, Finmarket news agency said. World central banks started to increase their gold reserves after prices on gold began to climb in 2001. The IMF sells gold [...]
On Afghanistan — From the Green Beret Who Trained Mulla Omar
Times | From Anthony Lloyd, Rawalpindi | 23 February 2010 Colonel Imam: ‘I have the Green Beret but the Taleban beret is better’ Perhaps no man alive knows Mullah Omar, his Taleban insurgents and the American military quite so well as “Colonel Imam”, a battle-creased Pakistani officer who wears a faded British paratrooper’s [...]
More Children Killed as Afghans Endure Freedom
Times | 25 February 2010 Nato admits that deaths of 8 boys were a mistake A night-time raid in eastern Afghanistan in which eight schoolboys from one family were killed was carried out on the basis of faulty intelligence and should never have been authorised, a Times investigation has found. Ten children and teenagers died when troops [...]
American Bribes Flowing from Kabul to Dubai
Washington Post | By Andrew Higgins | 25 February 2010 Officials puzzle over millions of dollars leaving Afghanistan by plane for Dubai KABUL -- A blizzard of bank notes is flying out of Afghanistan -- often in full view of customs officers at the Kabul airport -- as part of a cash exodus that is confounding U.S. officials and raising [...]
U.S. Senate Looking into Blackwater/Xe and Other Mercenaries’ Wrongdoings
Christian Science Monitor | By Gordon Lubold| 24 February 2010 Blackwater fallout: Senate moves to rein in military contractors The Senate holds a hearing Wednesday on ways to improve oversight of private military contractors, after a series of incidents involving Blackwater. On Tuesday, Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a [...]
