Posts Tagged ‘Corruption’
The Daniel Ellsberg Moment: Wikileaks Reveals War Crimes, Lies, and Cover-Up in the Af/Pak War
Wikileaks on Sunday published more than 90,000 documents, which cover a period from January 2004 to December 2009, containing classified information about the war in Afghanistan. Wikileaks posted the documents directly to its site, and provided them in advance to The New York Times, The Guardian, and Germany's Der Spiegel, all of which ran [...]
U.S. Special Operations Forces Operating in Civilian Garb in Pakistan
Wall Street Journal | By Julian E. Barnes | 20 July 2010 U.S. Forces Step Up Pakistan Presence WASHINGTON—U.S. Special Operations Forces have begun venturing out with Pakistani forces on aid projects, deepening the American role in the effort to defeat Islamist militants in Pakistani territory that has been off limits to U.S. ground [...]
Blowing Smoke Rings at the Kabul Charade
Spiegel | By Matthias Gebauer and Shoib Najafizada in Kabul | 20 July 2010 Setting a Date for the Pullout Kabul Conference to Herald End of NATO Mission Under tight security, the foreign ministers of NATO states are convening Tuesday in Kabul. Despite massive problems and a weak President Hamid Karzai, the military alliance wants [...]
US/NATO Psy-Op/MISO in Afghanistan
The Nation | By I. M. Mohsin | 15 July 2010 Afghanistan: the psywar prongs June ended as the deadliest month for the foreign troops, more so the US. According to ISAF’s assessment, 103 soldiers got killed while many more were badly injured. Lacking missiles and air power, which is the monopoly of the foreign troops, the Taliban have to [...]
The Caliphate of Elizabeth Regina
Afpakwar | By Arshad Zaman | 15 July 2010 A host of clichés on law and governance—religion has no place in politics, church and state must be separate, etc.—adorn the Op-Ed columns of newspapers. They are said to be based on the English example, among others. England is ruled today by “Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the [...]
Why Afghanistan is a lost cause
San Francisco Chronicle | By Joel Brinkley | 11 July 2010 As Gen. David Petraeus assumed his new command in Afghanistan earlier this month, he took up a strategy that has already failed - though not for the reasons most people assume. Certainly, as most everyone knows, the battle plan appears hopeless. Every night in Marjah, Taliban [...]
10,000 NATO Containers Go Missing in Pakistan
The News | By Ikram Hoti | 30 June 2010 Major Customs gang busted, 25 officers arrested Rs 230 bn (US$ 2.7 billion) in taxes, duties evaded as 10,000 Nato containers go missing in two-year operation... The officials cleared more than 70 containers — 36 confirmed with fake papers — carrying poppy-seed (khashkhash) for export to European [...]
Britain’s Top Afghan Diplomat Quits
Guardian | By Simon Tisdall | 21 June 2010 Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles: a casualty of Afghan policy war The British special envoy's scepticism about the US-led surge meant he had to go. Being proved right will be cold comfort. The sudden departure of Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, Britain's special envoy to Afghanistan, represents another body blow [...]
Corruption: The Hole in the Whole of Government (WOG) Approach
abc News | By Aamer Madhani | 20 June 2010 U.S. Troops, Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan Suspected of Corruption Officers Charged With Theft, Bribery in Oversees Reconstruction Projects The U.S. government, which is pressing Iraqi and Afghan leaders to get tough on internal corruption, is doing the same in its ranks. Cases of [...]
Agosta Re-Kickbacks Confirmed (Translations from the French Press)
Quick Translations | Les originaux en français Le Monde | 18 June 2010 Karachi: Judge confirms existence of illicit commission kickbacks Karachi : le juge confirme l'existence de rétro-commissions illicites MediaPart | 12 June 2010 The Karachi Affair | L'affaire Karachi Le Monde reports that Judge Marc Trévidic, in charge of the [...]
