Archive for July 28th, 2010
ISI: Wikileaks logs reflect soldiers’ fears, suspicions, and anxieties
Der Spiegel | 28 July 2010 By Matthias Gebauer, John Goetz, Hans Hoyng, Susanne Koelbl, Marcel Rosenbach and Gregor Peter Schmitz Logs Suggest Pakistani Intelligence Controls Course of War Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, appears frequently in the war logs obtained by WikiLeaks. They suggest that even as Pakistan served as an [...]
Wikileaks: The folly that is Afghanistan
Guardian | By Simon Jenkins | 27 July 2010 A history of folly, from the Trojan horse to Afghanistan By recording failure in meticulous detail, the leaked war logs bear devastating witness to our incompetence Is it the death of war? In Vietnam the horror of fighting was brought to TV screens in real time. Such was the reaction that American [...]
US/NATO “Hunters” Killed Hundreds of Civilians
Pravda.ru | By Lisa Karpova | 27 July 2010 Troops in Afghanistan Had Special Group to Exterminate "Terrorists" Hundreds of civilians were killed without public and official knowledge by coalition troops in Afghanistan. Secret plans to kill leaders of the extremist Taliban and Al Qaeda and the discussion of the alleged involvement of Iran and [...]
Open Letter from Prominent Afghans to Obama: Discrimination Against Pashtuns
Dawat Independent Media Centre | 1 July 2010 To: Mr. Obama, President, United States ofAmerica From: Dr. Misdaq, Dr. Zirakyar, Dr. Miraki and Dr. Burhani This letter was sent to U.S. President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Chairman of Senate Foreign Relations Committee John Kerry and Ranking Member Richard Lugar, [...]
“Afghanistan is getting more dangerous by the month”
MSNBC | By Evan Vucci, Photojournalist, AP | 22 July 2010 'We don't have enough power to fight' Three weeks into the fight in the volatile Arghandab Valley, an American platoon of the Army's 101st Airborne Division is heading to the rear, weakened by horrific war injuries and unable to continue its mission. The platoon -- 1st platoon, Alpha [...]
