3rd October, 2010
Pakistan says it will not reopen a key supply route for foreign troops in Afghanistan until public anger over recent attacks by the US-led forces subsides.
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Pakistan refuses to open Afghan route
Posted by seumasach on October 4, 2010
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US chopper attack kills 50 in Pakistan
Posted by seumasach on September 27, 2010
27th September, 2010
Two helicopters operated by the US-led NATO forces in Afghanistan have crossed into Pakistan’s volatile tribal areas, killing at least 50 people.
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Guerrilla of Arabia: How one of Britain’s most brilliant military tacticians created the Taliban’s battle strategy
Posted by seumasach on September 18, 2010
Neil Faulkner
17th September, 2010
The aim of Operation Moshtarak in February was to capture the city of Marjah in Afghanistan’s war-torn Helmand province. Fifteen thousand troops, mainly American, British and Afghan, were to take on between 400 and 1,000 Taliban insurgents holed up in a city of 80,000 people.
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Bombshell from London
Posted by seumasach on September 16, 2010
This looks like an outbreak of realism amongst the British elite but for the continued demonization of Iran who would be central to any resolution of the situation in Afghanistan. This could be interpreted as follows: they know the game is up in Afghanistan but they can’t do without an enemy, namely Iran and the “Islamic threat” in general. This ties in with the deployment of the imbecile Blair to hype the Iranian threat. So the message is that we have to withdraw from Afghanistan because we’re losing but the war against terror, i.e. Iran goes on. It remains to be seen whether they are mad enough to attack Iran: in all probability their bark is worse than their bite.
Eric Margolis
17th September, 2010
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British troops in Afghanistan face heroin smuggling probe
Posted by seumasach on September 13, 2010
13th September, 2010
LONDON: British military police are investigating claims that the country’s servicemen may have trafficked heroin out of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence in London said Sunday.
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The West has made even more mistakes in Afghanistan than us, says Russian envoy to Kabul
Posted by seumasach on September 13, 2010
11th Septmebr, 2010
Andrey Avetisyan, a veteran Kabul diplomat, said talk of a handover to the Afghans was currently unrealistic because the coalition had failed to build the nation’s forces or economy.
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Gerald Celente – ‘Stop the wars – Save America’
Posted by seumasach on September 2, 2010
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Medvedev’s wishful thinking
Posted by seumasach on August 22, 2010
M.K.Bhadrakumar
21st August, 2010
There was an element of hyperbole when a Moscow news service airily speculated this week that Catherine the Great’s historic dream of gaining access to the warm waters of the Arabian Sea was nearing realization even as Russia was getting ready to propose to Pakistan an “extensive road and rail system being largely bankrolled by Moscow” to connect Central Asia with Pakistan’s sea ports.
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Something stinks about Wikileaks release of “secret” documents
Posted by seumasach on August 14, 2010
F.William Engdahl
12th August, 2010
Coinciding with Voltaire Network’s interpretation of the Wikileaks uproar, F. William Engdhal also detects the signs of a gross diversion maneuver. Conspicuously, no mention is made of the juicy Afghan drug business while retired Pakistani General Hamid Gul is conveniently framed for the breakdown of U.S. policies in Afghanistan. After Osama bin Laden, this is the second time that the mightiest world power would be ridiculing itself if indeed it had been outwitted at the hands of a sigle man. Remarkably, one of the few who still believes in the official tale of OBL happens to be leakmaster Julian Assange himself.
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Legal Authority: Hold US leaders accountable for war crimes
Posted by smeddum on July 28, 2010
Legal Authority: Hold US leaders Accountable for War Crimes
by Sherwood Ross
| July 27, 2010
Unless Americans hold their leaders accountable for their criminal conduct, even if it means the death penalty, future leaders will commit crimes as well, a prominent law school dean warns. “Unless and until this starts being done, and I stress the need for the gallows when the crime warrants it, we will never be without major crooks, without causers of major disasters, in big business, in government, in economics and in war,” writes Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover and an award-winning essayist. Read the rest of this entry » |
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Afghanistan war logs: Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation
Posted by seumasach on July 26, 2010
There have to be suspicions that this leak is a piece of anti-Iranian propaganda
25th July, 2010
A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and Nato commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency.
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