Posts Tagged ‘NATO’
The West’s War Crimes are Much Greater than Israel’s
YNet | By Shaul Rosenfeld | 30 July 2010 Hypocrisy’s finest hour Revelations of West’s crimes in Afghanistan highlight anti-Israel hypocrisy In an interview with PBS earlier this year, Richard Goldstone was quite amazed by a question regarding the suspicion that he and others may, heaven forbid, adopt a double standard in respect to [...]
Dutch troops to withdraw from Afghanistan in August
China Daily | 30 July 2010 THE HAGUE - The Dutch troops deployed in Afghanistan will leave as scheduled starting August 1 after concluding a four-year mission in the country, Dutch military chief General Peter van Uhm said Thursday. While being stationed in Afghanistan's southern province of Uruzgan over the past four years, Dutch [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Pakistani spy agency denounces US intel docs
China Daily | 26 July 2010 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's most powerful spy agency on Monday lashed out against a trove of leaked US intelligence reports that alleged close connections between it and Taliban militants fighting NATO troops in Afghanistan, calling the accusations malicious and unsubstantiated. The reports, which were released [...]
Haass: We’re losing this unnecessary war
Newsweek | By Richard Haass | 18 July 2010 We’re Not Winning. It’s Not Worth It. Here’s how to draw down in Afghanistan. GOP chairman Michael Steele was blasted by fellow Republicans recently for describing Afghanistan as “a war of Obama’s choosing,” and suggesting that the United States would fail there as had many [...]
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 [...]
Iran calls for democracy, not fascism, at the world level
Reuters | By Robert Evans | 19 July 2010 Iran calls for world body free of big power control (Reuters) - Senior Iranian official Ali Larijani, whose country is under strong pressure from the United Nations over its nuclear program, called on Monday for a more powerful global body free of big-power domination. Speaking to an audience [...]
