Posts Tagged ‘Mercenaries’
U.S. soldiers know they have lost, only the politicans are in denial
New Statesman | By William Dalrymple | 22 June 2010 Why the Taliban is winning in Afghanistan As Washington and London struggle to prop up a puppet government over which Hamid Karzai has no control, they risk repeating the blood-soaked 19th-century history of Britain’s imperial defeat. In 1843, shortly after his return from [...]
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 Mirror of 1776
Huffington Post | By David Bromwich | 3 July 2010 "Things are in the saddle,/ And ride mankind." The words were written by Emerson in a poem about the Mexican war--the first crisis that took America out of itself. The second such crisis was the Spanish-American war, and we are now in the middle of the third. The extent of our empire would [...]
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 [...]
U.S. Dilemma: Fighting Corruption Strengthens Mujahideen/Taliban
Danger Room | By Noah Shachtman | 13 June 2010 New U.S. Intel Push Risks Taliban ‘Propaganda Bonanza’ Even before they got to Kabul, the current crop of American military commanders worried that their biggest obstacle could turn out to be Afghanistan’s endemic corruption, not its insurgents. So, in some ways, it’s not all that [...]
Australian Mercenary Found Guilty of Murder that he Blamed on the Taleban
ABC News | 27 January 2010 Australian facing execution in Kabul The Federal Government says it will make "high level representations" as it tries to save a former Australian soldier from being executed for murder in Afghanistan. Thirty-eight-year-old South Australian Robert William Langdon has been sentenced to die for shooting an Afghan [...]
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 [...]
American Terrorists, Blackwater/Xe, Bribed Iraqis to Cover up Murder of Civilians
New York Times | By By Mark Mazzetti and James Risen | 10 November 2009 Blackwater Said to Pursue Bribes to Iraq After 17 Died WASHINGTON — Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 [...]
American Mercenaries Undermining ‘Rule of Law’ in Pakistan
The Nation | By: Kashif Abbasi Kaswar Klasra | 28 October 2009 Nabbed with illegal arms again ISLAMABAD – Once again, 4 American nationals were caught red-handed by Capital Police in the wee hours of Tuesday when they were carrying weapons publicly. However, they managed to secure release and continue their journey to a mysterious destination, [...]
American Officials Admit Blackwater is in Balochistan and NWFP
According to a story in the New York Times of 5 October 2009: "American officials have said that Blackwater employees worked at a remote base in Shamsi, in Baluchistan, where they loaded missiles and bombs onto drones used to strike Taliban and Qaeda militants. ... Several Blackwater employees also worked in the North-West Frontier Province [...]
