World-News

ABC News

12/28/09

Afghanistan’s neighbors are helping destabilize the country as ‘time is running out’ on the U.S. effort here, according to a senior intelligence official with the international military force in Kabul. The official accused Iran and Pakistan of maintaining links with the Afghan Taliban and singled out Pakistan for providing ‘insufficient pressure’ on Afghan insurgent leaders who enjoy safe havens inside Pakistan — despite U.S. pressure to expel or fight them...

http://tinyurl.com/yzr2koe


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/28-4



Civilians again killed in NATO airstrike in Afghanistan

At least eight villagers were killed and two injured in an airstrike by NATO forces in Helmand province in Afghanistan, local officials reported Thursday. On the weekend, 10 civilians including eight children were killed in NATO military action in the eastern province of Kunar.

http://tinyurl.com/ylsong9



UN slams US over killing of Afghan civilians

The victims, including eight school children, were dragged out of their homes in the Kunar province and shot to death.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115090&sectionid=351020403



Kabul demands foreign 'killers' handed over

The Afghan government demanded Thursday to take into its custody foreigners wanted over the alleged killing of 10 civilians, sharply escalating a war of words with its powerful Western military backers.

http://tinyurl.com/yfwuran


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j47Ta3NGhJuksMoW7SkG4-uVqpTQ


From Information Clearing House

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Escalated Afghan War Brings Escalated Civilian Death
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/29-3

Surge in Casualties Predicted in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/04-0



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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sardar+Ahmad
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gina+Cavallaro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF3eq-8G4UQ&feature=sdig&et=1261740120.41

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The Audacity of Hype
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/09-8



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Richard+W.+Behan

So passen die Dynamik der Aufständischen und die besten Gegenmaßnahmen auf einen Bierdeckel.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/146812



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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig10/rozoff3.1.1.html

There'll be Nowhere to Run From the New World Government
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl/the-push-for-world-govt.html



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MSNBC

12/23/09

Thousands of Pakistani Taliban fighters have been sent to neighboring Afghanistan to rebuff incoming U.S. troops, a top Pakistani Taliban commander said. The claim comes as a Pakistani army offensive is believed to have pushed many of his men to flee their main redoubt. Waliur Rehman told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Monday night that the Pakistani Taliban remain committed to battling the army in South Waziristan tribal region, but that they are essentially waging a guerrilla war...

http://tinyurl.com/yg8kplf


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
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By Jeremy Scahill

The Army's arrangement with Burhan and other companies like it across Afghanistan demonstrates the extent to which the most powerful military on earth depends on protection from local Afghans. This phenomenon will only expand as the number of contractors in Afghanistan grows.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24240.htm

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Listening to Afghanistan

The American Prospect
by Ann Friedman

12/22/09

In the spring of 2008 I wrote a column, ‘Listening to Iraq,’ in which I lamented the lack of access that most Americans had to the voices and opinions of the people most affected by the ongoing war. This made it difficult, I wrote, ‘for even the best-intentioned anti-war American to see Iraqis as partners, rather than as a political project.’ I was reminded of that column after Obama’s speech announcing his Afghanistan strategy…. As the American left debates, I’m struck by a desire to know what Afghan women, who have been living under the U.S. occupation for roughly eight years now, think would be best for their country…. To me, the answer is tragically apparent: It doesn’t matter whether U.S. military intervention can be a force for humanitarianism because, in Afghanistan, it never has been and won’t become one...

http://tinyurl.com/yk24lqx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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By Jeremy Scahill

Contrary to popular belief, the US actually has 189,000 personnel on the ground in Afghanistan right now-and that number is quickly rising.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24220.htm



Up to 56,000 more contractors likely for Afghanistan, congressional agency says

CRS, which provides background information to members of Congress on a bipartisan basis, said it expects an additional 26,000 to 56,000 contractors to be sent to Afghanistan. That would bring the number of contractors in the country to anywhere from 130,000 to 160,000.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/15/AR2009121504850_pf.html



U.S. spends $23 billion on Afghan contracts so far

Currently there is a great deal we do not know about contracting in Afghanistan. We do know, however, that the president's new strategy in Afghanistan will bring a massive increase in the number and value of contracts and contractors in Afghanistan," the Democratic senator said.

http://snipurl.com/tqohr



Ten Afghan civilians killed: Karzai

"President Karzai strongly condemns the operation which caused civilian deaths and has appointed a delegation to investigate the incident," it said.

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/VVOS-7Z6L3H?OpenDocument


From Information Clearing House

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'I dont's see any just wars anywhere these days'
http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9227/

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Afghanistan: $57,077.60, Surging by the Minute
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/17-5

But Afghanistan Is More Complicated Than Vietnam
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/12/23-2

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They Are Afghan; They Decry NATO's War

Pierre Barbancey reports from Kabul for L'Humanite: "The Taliban surf on the population's rejection of a corrupt government sustained by foreign armies that kill civilians. Women make the point that violence against them increases incessantly."

http://www.truthout.org/1218095



A Holiday Season of War

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "Excuse the gloom in the holiday season, but I feel like we're all locked inside a malign version of the movie Groundhog Day. You remember, the one in which the characters are forced to relive the same 24 hours endlessly. Put more personally, TomDispatch started in November 2001 as an email to friends in response to the first moments of our latest Afghan War. More than eight years later ... well, you know the story."

http://www.truthout.org/topstories/122209vh4

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Obama’s troop surge

Hawaii Reporter
by Tom Cole

12/18/09

Earlier this month President Obama announced his plans for a new way forward in Afghanistan. He laid out clear objectives for a troop level increase, underscored the importance of strengthening Afghan security forces and outlined the strategic necessity of success in the region. I believe the President made a very compelling case for why it is absolutely critical that America defeat al Qaeda and prevent its capacity to threaten America and our allies...

http://tinyurl.com/ylk6qx8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
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http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31732/1.html

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Weihnachtsanzeige: Frieden - auch für Afghanistan
http://tinyurl.com/ye2j554

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Legal, illegal ... Deutsche Kriegspolitik in Afghanistan

IMI-Analyse 2009/046 von Claudia Haydt vom 16.12.2009. Dieser Text wird in der Graswurzelrevolution, Ausgabe Januar 2010 erscheinen. http://www.imi-online.de/2009.php?id=2058


Afghanistan-Krieg im neunten Jahr: Welche Chancen auf Frieden gibt es am Hindukusch?

Referat von Lühr Henken beim 16. Kasseler Friedensratschlag an der Universität Kassel am 5./6. Dezember 2009 (unkorr. Manuskript) http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/rat/2009/henken.html


Aus: LabourNet, 23. Dezember 2009



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