Posts Tagged ‘War Crimes’
Planning for the Next War
TomDispatch | By Tom Engelhardt | 2 March 2010 Iraq remains a mess from which the U.S. military seems increasingly uninterested in withdrawing fully and Afghanistan a disaster area, but it’s never too soon to think about the next war. The subject is already on the minds of Pentagon planners. The question is: Are they focusing on how to [...]
America’s MetaBank Involved in Financing Terrorism and Murder
Islâmi Davet | 2 March 2010 Dubai asks FBI to investigate terror ties to US Amid ongoing investigation of the terrorist murder of a Hamas commander in Dubai, the UAE police have asked the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to look into alleged ties of the suspects to Americans. Dubai police asked the FBI to investigate US-issued [...]
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 [...]
Can McChrystal Govern Marjah?
Christian Science Monitor | By Dion Nissenbaum (McClatchy Newspapers) | 2 March 2010 After the Taliban, what do Marjah residents want? Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal and President Hamid Karzai's deputy walked the streets of Marjah Monday. With US-led forces now in control of the former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan, US and Afghan [...]
Newsnight poll: Most think Afghan war ‘unwinnable’
BBC | 23 February 2010 Sixty-four per cent of British people think the war in Afghanistan is unwinnable, a BBC poll suggests. More than two-thirds (69%) also think the government has not done all it can to support British forces fighting in the country. Only 27% agree that the government has given sufficient support to UK forces. The [...]
Marjah: Washington Post Endorses the Taleban Narrative
Antiwar | by Gareth Porter | 24 February 2010 Marjah Offensive Aimed to Shape US Opinion on War Senior military officials decided to launch the current U.S.-British military campaign to seize Marjah in large part to influence domestic U.S. opinion on the war in Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported Monday. The Post report, [...]
Occupied Iraq: The Silence is Deafening
Pravda.ru | By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | 24 February 2010 The Truth About Iraq: The Country is Out of Control Has anyone noticed how suddenly there is little or no news coming out of Iraq? Have the “insurgents” simply melted away, have they all been paid off? With the British and US troops cowering in massive military bases outside the [...]
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 [...]
U.S. Senate Looking into Blackwater/Xe and Other Mercenaries’ Wrongdoings
Christian Science Monitor | By Gordon Lubold| 24 February 2010 Blackwater fallout: Senate moves to rein in military contractors The Senate holds a hearing Wednesday on ways to improve oversight of private military contractors, after a series of incidents involving Blackwater. On Tuesday, Rep. Jan Schakowsky and Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a [...]
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 [...]
