Afghanistan's Sham Army
By Chris Hedges
American military advisers who work with the Afghan National Army, or ANA, speak of poorly trained and unmotivated Afghan soldiers who have little stomach for military discipline and even less for fighting. They describe many ANA units as being filled with brigands who terrorize local populations, exacting payments and engaging in intimidation, rape and theft.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23929.htm
'These People Just Want To Be Left Alone'
By Real News
Sean Smith spent a month embedded with the US Army's 501st Parachute Regiment in June this year. With inadequate vehicles, relations with Afghan security forces at a standstill and the constant threat of IEDs, the soldiers are losing heart for a fight they feel their presence is only prolonging.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23925.htm
Afghanistan: Karzai Rival 'Withdrew Under US Pressure'
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
The United States put pressure on Afghan president Hamid Karzai's rival, Abdullah Abdullah, to withdraw from the country's presidential race and hand victory to Karzai, sources have told Adnkronos International (AKI).
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23928.htm
Admiral Mullen Announces Afghanistan Strategy
Prepare to Nonviolently Resist
By Jeff Leys
Instead, it's a matter of the Obama Administration now leading us down the path of the most expensive year in war funding since President Bush began the so-called "Global War on Terror" (now morphed into the "Overseas Contingency Operations" under President Obama).
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23930.htm
Karzai Claims Mystery Helicopters Ferrying Taliban to North Afghanistan
While the Western press has been occupied recently with accounts of fraudulent elections in Afghanistan and the alleged role of President Hamid Karzai's brother as a paid CIA agent, a stranger but perhaps more instructive story was playing out in Afghanistan that reveals the rather shallow penetration NATO and Coalition efforts have made in building trust and confidence in that country.
http://tinyurl.com/yhmukdd
How the US Funds the Taliban
By Aram Roston
"The American soldier in me is repulsed by it," he said in an interview in his office at FOB Shank in Logar Province. "But I know that it is what it is: essentially paying the enemy, saying, 'Hey, don't hassle me.' I don't like it, but it is what it is."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23955.htm
From Information Clearing House
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Where Will They Get the Troops? Preparing Undeployables for the Afghan Front
Dahr Jamail and Sarah Lazare, TomDispatch.com: "Hidden behind the gates of military bases across the U.S., troops facing AWOL and desertion charges regularly find themselves in the hands of a military that metes out informal, open-ended punishments by forcing them to wait months -- sometimes more than a year -- to face military justice. In the meantime, some of these soldiers are offered a free pass out of this legal limbo as long as they agree to deploy to Afghanistan or Iraq -- even if they have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)."
http://www.truthout.org/1109096
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Veterans to Obama: Do Not Escalate
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/11/12-0
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American military advisers who work with the Afghan National Army, or ANA, speak of poorly trained and unmotivated Afghan soldiers who have little stomach for military discipline and even less for fighting. They describe many ANA units as being filled with brigands who terrorize local populations, exacting payments and engaging in intimidation, rape and theft.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23929.htm
'These People Just Want To Be Left Alone'
By Real News
Sean Smith spent a month embedded with the US Army's 501st Parachute Regiment in June this year. With inadequate vehicles, relations with Afghan security forces at a standstill and the constant threat of IEDs, the soldiers are losing heart for a fight they feel their presence is only prolonging.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23925.htm
Afghanistan: Karzai Rival 'Withdrew Under US Pressure'
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
The United States put pressure on Afghan president Hamid Karzai's rival, Abdullah Abdullah, to withdraw from the country's presidential race and hand victory to Karzai, sources have told Adnkronos International (AKI).
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23928.htm
Admiral Mullen Announces Afghanistan Strategy
Prepare to Nonviolently Resist
By Jeff Leys
Instead, it's a matter of the Obama Administration now leading us down the path of the most expensive year in war funding since President Bush began the so-called "Global War on Terror" (now morphed into the "Overseas Contingency Operations" under President Obama).
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23930.htm
Karzai Claims Mystery Helicopters Ferrying Taliban to North Afghanistan
While the Western press has been occupied recently with accounts of fraudulent elections in Afghanistan and the alleged role of President Hamid Karzai's brother as a paid CIA agent, a stranger but perhaps more instructive story was playing out in Afghanistan that reveals the rather shallow penetration NATO and Coalition efforts have made in building trust and confidence in that country.
http://tinyurl.com/yhmukdd
How the US Funds the Taliban
By Aram Roston
"The American soldier in me is repulsed by it," he said in an interview in his office at FOB Shank in Logar Province. "But I know that it is what it is: essentially paying the enemy, saying, 'Hey, don't hassle me.' I don't like it, but it is what it is."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23955.htm
From Information Clearing House
--------
Where Will They Get the Troops? Preparing Undeployables for the Afghan Front
Dahr Jamail and Sarah Lazare, TomDispatch.com: "Hidden behind the gates of military bases across the U.S., troops facing AWOL and desertion charges regularly find themselves in the hands of a military that metes out informal, open-ended punishments by forcing them to wait months -- sometimes more than a year -- to face military justice. In the meantime, some of these soldiers are offered a free pass out of this legal limbo as long as they agree to deploy to Afghanistan or Iraq -- even if they have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)."
http://www.truthout.org/1109096
--------
Veterans to Obama: Do Not Escalate
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/11/12-0
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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rudkla - 10. Nov, 05:15
