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"Soldiers are trained to kill others, or at least to threaten people in a way that they consider it plausible that they will be killed if they don't do what is expected of them," Ischinger said in an interview with the German Press Agency dpa.

http://snipurl.com/tz43h


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http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/cia-killings-spell-defeat.html

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CIA Agents in Afghanistan Are 'Menace to Themselves,' Former Operatives Claim
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/05-9

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CIA bomber's wife: 'War against U.S. must go on'

The Turkish wife of a Jordanian doctor who killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan says her husband was outraged over the treatment of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison and the U.S.-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-01-08-cia-bomber-wife_N.htm


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Attack on CIA was 'revenge operation' against US 'drone teams'
http://www.ufppc.org/component/content/article/1-latest/9317/



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Deadly Explosion Arouses New Afghan Anger at U.S.

American forces inspecting an engineering project in eastern Afghanistan paused to toss candies to a clutch of curious Afghan children on Wednesday when a large explosion tore through the crowd.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/world/asia/07afghan.html



Afghan govt. demands arrest of US "death squad"

Kai Eide, UN Representative to Afghanistan confirmed the Afghan government's investigative conclusions that US troops handcuffed and then executed eight students enrolled in grades 6 through 10 in a night raid on December 27, 2009. The US military and NATO responded the troops involved were non-official. The most likely source of para-military "non-official" troops in Afghanistan is Blackwater/Xe.

http://snipurl.com/tzyn1



Three children killed daily in Afghanistan

At least three children are killed in Afghanistan every day in attacks, bombings and armed clashes between insurgents and US/NATO occupying forces, Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM),a non-governmental organization said on Wednesday.

http://www.dailynews.lk/2010/01/08/wld02.asp



US forces in Afghanistan 'should expect up to 500 casualties a month'

The anticipated increase would produce around 3,000 American casualties this year, and a total for Western forces in Afghanistan of around 5,000 killed and wounded - the equivalent of seven infantry battalions.

http://snipurl.com/tzyn9



Taliban groups continue to grow

Local offshoots of the Taliban are cropping up across Afghanistan, where the fight against US-led Nato forces is ongoing.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/01/20101715516132789.html


From Information Clearing House

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US-Led Forces Accused of Executing Schoolchildren
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/06-4

Two Ex-Blackwater Staff Charged With Afghan Murders
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/07-9

Blackwater's Murky Role in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/01/08

Afghan Children Are Neglected Casualties of War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/01/08-2



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http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9301/

Flynn report critiquing US intelligence agencies' work in Afghanistan
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9304/



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Nach der offiziellen Doktrin müssten Deutschland und die USA nicht nur in Afghanistan und Pakistan, sondern etwa auch im Jemen oder in Somalia verteidigt werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31801/1.html

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19. Januar 2010

DIE LINKE unterstützt Protest der Friedensbewegung gegen Truppenaufstockung

Christine Buchholz, Mitglied im Geschäftsführenden Vorstand der Partei DIE LINKE, erklärt:

Obama ist in seinem ersten Amtsjahr von der Friedenstaube zum Kriegstreiber geworden. Er schickt dreimal so viele US-Soldaten an den Hindukusch wie Bush. Merkels und Guttenbergs Politik, erst die deutschen Kampftruppen zu erhöhen und den Abzug für 2011 zu versprechen, ist nichts als Augenwischerei. DIE LINKE begrüßt, dass die SPD die Truppenaufstockung ablehnt, denn mehr Kampftruppen bedeuten tatsächlich keine Verbesserung. Das gilt nach Meinung der LINKEN aber auch für die bereits anwesenden deutschen Kampftruppen und die Ausbildung von afghanischen Soldaten. SPD-Chef Sigmar Gabriel kettet sich zudem beim Abzug der Bundeswehr an die Entscheidung der USA. Damit unterstützt er den Krieg weiter und verschiebt den Abzug auf den Sankt Nimmerleinstag. Nur ein sofortiger, bedingungsloser Abzug kann den Krieg beenden und Frieden schaffen. Um so wichtiger ist es, den Protest gegen den Krieg öffentlich sichtbar zu machen und den Druck auf Regierung und SPD zu erhöhen. 71 Prozent der Bevölkerung sind für den schnellstmöglichen Abzug der Truppen, sogar mehr als 80 Prozent lehnen die Aufstockung der Truppen ab. Gemeinsam mit der Friedensbewegung wird DIE LINKE gegen die Truppenaufstockung und für den sofortigen Abzug der Bundeswehr aus Afghanistan am 20. Februar in Berlin demonstrieren. Wir hoffen, dass sich viele Christen, Sozialdemokraten, Grüne und viele andere an den Protesten beteiligen.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/die-linke-unterstuetzt-protest-der-friedensbewegung-gegen-truppenaufstockung/



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More than twice as many U.S. troops died in Afghanistan in 2009 than in Iraq, U.S. casualty records show, and Afghanistan is likely to become an even deadlier place for American forces as reinforcements are rushed there to battle insurgents.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2009-12-30-troop-deaths_N.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Success of Afghanistan Troop Surge Doubted Widely

Sherwood Ross, The Public Record: "'There isn’t the slightest possibility that the course laid out by Barack Obama in his Dec. 1 speech (at West Point) will halt or even slow the downward spiral toward defeat in Afghanistan,' writes Thomas Johnson in a report published Dec. 10 in Foreign Policy magazine. And for emphasis, he adds the word 'None.' 'The US president and his advisors labored for three months and brought forth old wine in bigger bottles,' Johnson wrote, noting, 'The speech contained not one single new idea or approach, nor offered any hint of new thinking about a conflict that everyone now agrees the United States is losing.'"

http://www.truthout.org/01021002

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Fighting the wrong wars

The American Conservative
by Patrick J. Buchanan

Obama just ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. Yet, even if Gens. David Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal pull it off and pacify Kandahar, how does that protect the American homeland from suicide bombers hell-bent on blowing up airliners? How does turning the tide in Afghanistan stop radical Muslim youth in Africa or Arabia from being trained to board planes with bombs and blow them up over the Atlantic? How do 130,000 U.S. soldiers in Iraq make us more safe from an al-Qaida that has moved into Waziristan, Baluchistan, Yemen, Somalia and North Africa? The Sept. 11 massacre may have been decided upon in Afghanistan. But the perpetrators were Saudis and Egyptians who plotted, planned and trained in Germany, Boston, Delray Beach and Northern Virginia...

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/01/01/fighting-the-wrong-wars/



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CIA Vows "Revenge" in Afghan Bombing

The CIA vowed on Thursday to avenge the deaths of seven officers in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan and to investigate security breaches that allowed the second deadliest attack in agency history.

http://newsmax.com/Newsfront/CIA-Vows-Revenge-Afghan/2010/01/01/id/345155



CIA caught in dirty and secretive war against al-Qaeda on Afghan border

The deaths of seven CIA agents in Khost province have brought into the limelight the secretive and dirty war being fought by America's intelligence agencies - and the Taleban and al-Qaeda - in the border regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6972940.ece



CIA Agents assassinated in Afghanistan worked for "contractor" active in Venezuela, Cuba

Since June 2002, USAID has maintained an Office for Transition Initiatives (OTI) in Venezuela, through which it has channeled more than $50 million USD to groups and individuals opposed to President Hugo Chávez.

http://www.chavezcode.com/2009/12/cia-agents-assassinated-in-afghanistan.html


From Information Clearing House



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Afghan government and foreign military officials sparred Tuesday over reports that 10 civilians died during a military operation - claims that further inflamed public sentiment against the international military presence.

http://www.kentucky.com/524/story/1075936.html



Afghans condemn US for 10 'civilian deaths'

"Obama! Obama! Take your soldiers out of Afghanistan!" the protesters chanted, wearing blue headbands with the words: "Stop killing us!"

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/12/200912281348623886.html



Afghans turn to Taleban justice as insurgents set up shadow government

Corruption and incompetence in President Karzai's Government - particularly at local level - have forced a growing number of people to seek the services of the Taleban.

http://snipurl.com/tx6hh



Western troops accused of executing 10 Afghan civilians, including children

By Jerome Starkey in Kabul

American-led troops were accused yesterday of dragging innocent children from their beds and shooting them during a night raid that left ten people dead.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24290.htm



NATO airstrikes kill eight Afghan civilians

At least eight civilians have been killed in the latest airstrikes by NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, witnesses say. The attacks took place in Nadali district of Helmand province on Wednesday, Afghan witnesses told Press TV on Thursday.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115037&sectionid=351020403



Another 7 civilians killed in S. Afghanistan

"NATO-led troops carried out air strike outside Helmand's provincial capital Lashkargah on Wednesday, killing seven civilians and wounding two others," spokesman for provincial administration Daud Ahmadi told Xinhua.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/31/content_12736619.htm



Afghan civilian death prompts anti-US rallies

The protestors chanted "death to Obama" and "death to foreign forces." The demonstrators also torched a US flag and an effigy of US President Barack Obama.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115051&sectionid=351020403



Yankee go home: Hundreds of Afghans rally against NATO occupation forces

Hundreds of people, mostly students rallied in central Kabul and eastern Nangarhar provinces against the killing of civilians in foreign forces operations.

http://pakobserver.net/201001/04/news/topstories17.asp


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Afghan Panel Says U.S. Strike Killed 8 Schoolboys
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/30-5

Afghan Attacks Highlights Role of CIA, Covert Forces
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/01-5



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