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Change? What Change? US expands prison in Afghanistan
The US military is about to complete a $60m expansion to its prison at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan, where it holds more than 600 so-called enemy combatants. http://englis h.aljazeera.net/news/asia/ 2009/02/200922041829271189 .html From... ...
The Military's Expanding Waistline: What Will Obama Do With KBR?
Pratap Chatterjee, TomDispatch.com: "President Obama will almost certainly touch down in Baghdad and Kabul in Air Force One sometime in the coming year to meet his counterparts in Iraq and Afghanistan,... ...
Kyrgyz Parliament OKs Closing US Air Base
Tom Lasseter, McClatchy Newspapers: "The Kyrgyz parliament voted Thursday to force the US military to abandon its air base here - part of what many say is a Kremlin-backed initiative - posing a severe... ...
CIA runs secret bases in Pakistan
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was covertly using the Shamsi airfield in Pakistan's restive south-western province of Balochistan, The Times Online reported. http://www.pres stv.com/detail.aspx?id=860 29&sectionid=351020401 Officials... ...
Prisoners Tortured to Death - Terrorist threat “exploited to curb civil liberties”
By Stephen C. Webster The American Civil Liberties Union has released previously classified excerpts of a government report on harsh interrogation techniques used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo... ...
US - Russia Tensions Escalate Over Closure of Afghan Supply Base
By Bill Van Auken Kyrgyz President Bakiyev's announcement of his intention to shut down the US base followed a meeting in Moscow Tuesday with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in which Moscow promised... ...
Obama Is Wrong on Afghanistan
On another awful war. http://www.lewrockwel l.com/orig9/mcgovern-g1.ht ml -------- Calling a Time Out George McGovern, The Washington Post: "As you settle into the Oval Office, Mr. President, may I offer... ...
Another Gitmo grows in Afghanistan
Yahoo! News 01/06/09 The incoming Obama Administration says it wants to shut down the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. But even if Guantanamo closes, the controversial U.S. practice of jailing... ...
Pentagon keeps DNA files on 80K detainees, terror suspects
USA Today 12/11/08 The Pentagon has catalogued 80,000 DNA profiles in an obscure database that holds genetic information on foreign terrorism suspects and detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, according... ...
Afghanistan, another untold story
Common Dreams by Michael Parenti 12/02/08 Barack Obama is on record as advocating a military escalation in Afghanistan. Before sinking any deeper into that quagmire, we might do well to learn something... ...