Posts Tagged ‘NATO’
The Obama Doctrine, Revisited
The American Prospect | By Spencer Ackerman | 7 April 2010 The administration's effort to transform American foreign policy has been much more successful abroad than it has been at home. Several weeks before President Barack Obama announced an escalation of the Afghanistan War at West Point, a group of journalists and think-tankers met [...]
Occupied Afghanistan: World’s Top Producer of Opium and Hashish
Pravda.ru | By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | 1 April 2010 NATO’s Afghanistan: The Champion of Drugs Production We really have to take our hats off to NATO. This clique of arms lobbyists and defender of jobs for the boys invaded Afghanistan in 2001 on the pretext that Osama bin Laden was using the country to attack western interests. Almost a [...]
Americans-Afghans Ban Coverage of Mujahideen/Taleban Attacks
International Business Times | By Sayed Salahuddin and Hamid Shalizi | 2 March 2010 Afghanistan bans coverage of Taliban attacks KABUL - Afghanistan on Monday announced a ban on news coverage showing Taliban attacks, saying such images embolden the Islamist militants, who have launched strikes around the country as NATO forces seize their [...]
Afghanistan is just a chessboard to politicians
Rossiyskaya Gazeta | By Vladimir Snegiryov | 2 March 2010 Vladimir Snegiryov believes that all Afghan troubles stem from the fact that many top politicians continue to regard Afghanistan merely as an arena of geopolitical competition. In December 2009, the world was close to seeing a political sensation. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, secretary [...]
Mujahideen/Taleban on the Resistance in Afghanistan
Voice of Jihad | Interview by Hekmat | 25 February 2010 Interview with Qari M. Yousaf Ahmadi, spokesman of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, about the general jihadic situation in Helmand and the neighboring provinces. Q: How do you see the current Jihadic situation in Helmand province and other surrounding provinces? A: Mujahideen’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Serbian View of Kosovo
Antiwar | By Nebojsa Malic | 20 February 2010 The State That’s Still A Lie: 'Independent' Kosovo Turns 2 Two years have passed since the Albanian provisional government in the occupied Serbian province of Kosovo declared independence, and was quickly recognized by the Empire and its clients. The powers that have invoked the specter of [...]
Terrorised Marjah Patients Can’t Get To Hospital
IRIN | 21 February 2010 AFGHANISTAN: Where patients fear to tread KABUL, 18 February 2010 (IRIN) - The only functioning health post in conflict-affected Marjah in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, is not being used because people fear they could get caught in crossfire if they try and get there, according to the International Committee [...]
Russian Weapons, Already Used by Taleban, may also be given to NATO
RIA Novosti | 19 February 2010 Russia may send weapons to Afghanistan, but no troops HELSINKI -- Moscow is considering a request to send weapons to Afghanistan but will not send troops, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Friday. "We have received a request to supply weapons to Afghanistan and we are currently examining it," [...]
