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Bush's Third Term? You're Living It
Afghanistan for Dummies By Ray McGovern I'm going to ask for my money back. I've seen this Afghanistan movie before. The first time, Vietnam was in the title. http://www.informa tionclearinghouse.info/art icle23410.htm   Bush's.. . ...
Rendition of Terror Suspects Will Continue Under Obama
The Obama administration will continue the Bush administration's practice of sending terror suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation, but will monitor their treatment to insure they... ...
Blackwater (Xe) Accused in Afghan Murders
David Zucchino, The Los Angeles Times: "Mirza Mohammed Dost stood at the foot of his son's grave, near a headstone that read, 'Raheb Dost, martyred by Americans.' His son was no insurgent, Dost said. He... ...
Special Operations' Oversight of Contractors Is Faulted
Walter Pincus, The Washington Post: "The U.S. Special Operations Command, which has Army Special Forces units worldwide, has been criticized by the Pentagon inspector general for not providing adequate... ...
Blackwater accused of wrongly arming workers
MSNBC 05/21/09 The security firm formerly known as Blackwater armed some of its workers in Afghanistan despite U.S. military documents that prohibited them from carrying guns, said two former contractors... ...
The private contracting surge into Afghanistan
AntiWar.Com by Kelley B. Vlahos 05/14/09 Convenie ntly short on real details — perhaps deliberately so — the Obama administration’s new war strategy for Afghanistan has yet to acknowledge the huge footprint... ...
Ten terrible truths about the CIA torture memos
The fatal thread CounterPunch by Chris Floyd 04/22/09 This is one reason why Barack Obama is so obviously reluctant to tug on the torture thread too hard. If you tear it out, with full-scale prosecutions... ...
Injured War Zone Contractors Fight to Get Care
T. Christian Miller and Doug Smith, The Los Angeles Times: "Civilian workers who suffered devastating injuries while supporting the U.S. war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan have come home to a grinding... ...
Terminator Planet: Launching the Drone Wars
By Tom Engelhardt The most intense of our various drone wars, the one on the other side of the Afghan border in Pakistan, is also the most mysterious. We know that some or all of the drones engaged in... ...
Obama Unveils Afghan Plan to Add Troops and Set Goals
From his office in clouded cuckoo land: Obama aims to shut down al-Qaeda in Pakistan, Afghanistan We have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan,... ...