Hamid Karzai’s brother: a snitch for U.S. intelligence…
CQ’s Spytalk, here “Evidently taking a page from the Boston Irish mob – and countless crooks before him – Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s younger brother has become a snitch for U.S. intelligence,...
View ArticleMaybe General Vance needs anger management
Some people have issues with anger. For many, their anger makes them unable to carry on healthy relationships or hold a job. A few, however, find a niche in society where their issues are afforded more...
View ArticleA Taliban charm offensive?
The New York Times’ Alissa Rubin reports that some rural Afghans are seeing an improvement in the behaviour of Taliban insurgents. She also twice notes the disdain which Afghans exhibit for NATO...
View ArticleMay 29 set for Vancouver action against war
With NATO planning to launch a new offensive in Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province in June, Vancouver’s StopWar.ca Coalition is organizing a day of protest to respond. Here is the notice for the May 29...
View ArticleMcChrystal: "Marjah (the ‘predictor’ for success at Kandahar) is a ‘Blleding...
Pat Lang said the ‘clock is ticking’ and the Taliban hear it too well! McClatchy’s/ here “…….. “You’ve got to be patient,” Lt. Col. Brian Christmas told McChrystal. “We’ve only been here 90 days.” “How...
View ArticleUS soldiers ‘killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as...
The Guardian: “…Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret “kill team” that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies. Five of the soldiers...
View ArticleSecret ‘kill team’ killed civilians for sport
This past spring, revelations surfaced of war crimes committed by soldiers based out of Fort Hood in Washington State. Details have been somewhat sketchy until now. The Guardian’s Chris McGreal reports...
View ArticleAblution Pollution
A report in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times is a chilling reminder of the utter absurdity of out-of-control sectarian violence in Afghanistan. Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber blew...
View ArticleBerserk, Breivik and Barzakh
An Afghan man looks over the dead bodies of people killed by coalition forces in Kandahar province, March 11, 2012. Afghanistan’s defence ministry said coalition forces killed 15 civilians in a...
View ArticleAfghanistan Senate Chants Against US, Speaker Threatens to Evict it
The USG Open Source Center translates an article from the Afghan Islamic Press news agency in which the speaker of the Afghanistan parliament threatens to throw US out of Afghanistan they way Afghans...
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