World-News

By Laura King

The father's eyes reddened with tears as he hefted an English textbook that had belonged to his ninth-grade son, Habibuddin. The boy, along with eight other people, was shot dead this month when American special-operations forces swooped down on the family's remote mud-brick compound in the dead of night.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25531.htm



Grayson's Smart Calculus Makes War Cost Real for Taxpayers

By John Nichols

"What George Orwell wrote about in 1984 has come true. What Eisenhower warned us about concerning the 'military-industrial complex' has come true," the congressman argues. "War is a permanent feature of our societal landscape, so much so that no one notices it anymore."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25539.htm



Ahmed Wali Karzai - From waiter to 'King of Kandahar'

With ties to his brother's government and links to local warlords and drug kingpins, Ahmed Karzai has become patron and a powerbroker on a grand scale.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=3084999


From Information Clearing House

--------

McChrystal Strategy Shifts to Raids and Wali Karzai
http://act.commondreams.org/go/759?akid=67.124981.ZsknL3&t=7



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kandahar
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McChrystal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Karzai
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=night+raid
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=industrial+complex
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=taxpayer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Laura+King
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Nichols
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter