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Uranium Weapons in Afghanistan: The Silent Genocide

Posted by seumasach on December 13, 2008

With  every passing day the deep, strategic, unspoken and unspeakable agenda of the Anglo-american elite becomes clearer: that agenda is genocide.

Christopher Horstel

uruknet

11th December
A special issue in the field of war crimes committed by occupation forces in Afghanistan are so-called uranium weapons (1). Uranium is a heavy metal – and, as a consequence, has an extremely strong armour piercing effect. Since dirt-poor Afghanistan clearly cannot afford the luxury of any special armour-plating, the question has to be asked: what purpose does the use of such specialised weaponry serve when the military necessity is questionable?

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Insurgent attacks on NATO trucks highlight US military crisis in Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on December 9, 2008

By Barry Grey

WSWS
9 December 2008

A series of attacks on US and NATO military equipment depots in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Sunday and Monday have underscored the increasingly dire security situation facing American and allied forces conducting the counterinsurgency war in neighboring Afghanistan.
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India, Russia regain elan of friendship

Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2008

M K Bhadrakumar
Asia Times

8th December, 2008
The visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to New Delhi last week turned out to be an occasion for the Indian government to fundamentally reassess the strategic significance of the traditional India-Russia partnership. No doubt, the visit took place at a turning point in contemporary history and politics against the backdrop of massive shifts in the international system.
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Second Taliban raid destroys Nato supplies bound for Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on December 8, 2008

Saeed Shah in Islamabad, Richard Norton-Taylor, Simon Tisdall and agencies

guardian.co.uk,

8th December, 2008

Gunmen from the Pakistani Taliban torched supplies destined for Nato forces in Afghanistan for a second day running today, officials said.

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Afghanistan abyss awaits Obama

Posted by seumasach on November 18, 2008

M K Bhadrakumar

Asia Times

15th November, 2008

The struggle for influencing Barack Obama’s foreign policy agenda has begun in right earnest. The maneuvering by influential establishment figures – including Congressional voices, Obama advisors and even military officials – who are projecting incumbent Robert Gates as secretary of defense in the incoming administration highlights the pressures working on the president-elect.
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A mad scramble over Afghanistan

Posted by smeddum on October 15, 2008

A mad scramble over Afghanistan

Asia Times


By M K Bhadrakumar
An impression is being created that there is a “rift” between the United States and Britain regarding the reconciliation track involving the Taliban. The plain truth is that the US, Britain, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are in this murky game together. Read the rest of this entry »

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A bailout and a new world

Posted by smeddum on September 25, 2008

A bailout and a new world AsianTimes
By Pepe Escobar

WASHINGTON and SAO PAULO – The George W Bush administration’s US$700 billion no-accountability scheme, globally, informally dubbed “cash for trash”, is making all the headlines. Simultaneously, there’s the small matter of the United Nations General Assembly sanctioning the troubled birth of a new, multipolar world. As a 21st-century counterpart to the Dadaist Manifesto, this chain of events is priceless. Read the rest of this entry »

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Russian threat to NATO supply route in Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on August 26, 2008

Jeremy Page

Times

26th, 2008

Russia played a trump card in its strategic poker game with the West yesterday by threatening to suspend an agreement allowing Nato to take supplies and equipment to Afghanistan through Russia and Central Asia.

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La France doit retirer ses troupes d’Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on August 23, 2008

Les obsèques nationales, présidées par M. Sarkozy, des parachutistes français morts en Afghanistan ne sauraient valoir approbation de la mission qu’il leur a confiée. Il est nécessaire de s’interroger sur les raisons de cette guerre et sur sa légitimité. Il est nécessaire de sortir d’un engagement auquel le président de la République n’aurait pas dû souscrire, seul, au nom de la France.
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Obsèques nationales des dix soldats français en l’église Saint-Louis-des-Invalides, le 21 août 2008.

Dix soldats français sont tombés au champ d’honneur, le 18 août en Afghanistan. Cette nouvelle glace le sang, car nous, Français, sommes tous responsables de leur mort. Ils avaient accepté de prendre le risque ultime lorsque, en notre nom collectif, le président de la République les avaient envoyés en mission. Ils pensaient nous défendre face à un danger, certes lointain, mais bien réel. Ils pensaient servir notre patrie.

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Russia says NATO needs its help on Afghanistan

Posted by seumasach on August 22, 2008


 

Oleg Shchedrov

Uruknet

21st August, 2008

SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) – Russia’s foreign minister told NATO on Thursday that both sides benefited from joint cooperation and he pointedly raised the issue of Russian transit support for Alliance forces in Afghanistan.

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French troops ‘killed by Nato jets’

Posted by seumasach on August 21, 2008

Al-Jazeera

21st August, 2008

Reports that 10 French soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan after being mistakenly attacked by Nato aircraft are to be “looked into,” officials for the military alliance have said.

France’s Le Monde newspaper quoted French soldiers who had survived the ambush near Kabul on Monday saying they were hit in a “friendly fire” incident.

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