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SPIEGEL Interview with Former Army Doctor in Afghanistan : I didn't want to go on seeing young men die senselessly. Lots of other doctors felt the same way and left as well. Modern warfare like this has made doctors like us superfluous.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,647751,00.html#ref=rss

 

Karzai slams deadly NATO airstrike

'What an error of judgment. More than 90 deaths for a simple lorry, which was moreover immobilized in a riverbed. Why didn't they send ground troops to recover the fuel tank?' Karzai said.

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UK: Gordon Brown faces Labour motion to pull out troops from Afghanistan

Conference activists say war in Afghanistan 'is unwinnable'.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/sep/06/gordon-brown-afghanistan-pullout-motion


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Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "Here may be the single strangest fact of our American world: that at least three administrations - Ronald Reagan's, George W. Bush's, and now Barack Obama's - drew the US 'defense' perimeter at the Hindu Kush; that is, in the rugged, mountainous lands of Afghanistan. Put another way, while Americans argue feverishly and angrily over what kind of money, if any, to put into health care, or decaying infrastructure, or other key places of need, until recently just about no one in the mainstream raised a peep about the fact that, for nearly eight years (not to say much of the last three decades), we've been pouring billions of dollars, American military know-how, and American lives into a black hole in Afghanistan that is, at least in significant part, of our own creation."

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Men With Guns in Kabul and Washington

Norman Solomon, Truthout: "For those who believe in making war, Kabul is a notable work product. After 30 years, the results are in: a devastated city. A stale witticism calls Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai 'the mayor of Kabul.' Now, not even. On block after block in the Afghan capital, AK-47s are conspicuous in the hands of men on guard against a near future. Widely seen as corrupt, inept and - with massive election fraud - now illegitimate, Karzai's government is losing its grip along with its credibility."

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Am Hindukusch steuert die NATO auf die größte militärische Pleite seit ihrer Gründung zu.

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„Bei einem von der Bundeswehr angeordneten Luftangriff der NATO-Truppe ISAF auf von Taliban entführte Tanklastwagen sind am 4. Sept. in Nordafghanistan viele Menschen getötet worden. "Mehr als 150 Menschen wurden getötet oder verletzt", sagte ein Dorfbewohner namens Nadschibullah der Deutschen Presse-Agentur dpa. "In der Gegend waren auch Taliban, aber mehr Opfer gibt es unter Zivilisten." Auf die Frage in der Bundespressekonferenz, ob die Bundeswehr an ihrem Sprachgebrauch festhalten wolle, wonach in Afghanistan kein Krieg herrsche, sagte ein Ministeriumssprecher: "Es handelt sich um einen Stabilisierungseinsatz, zugegeben um einen recht robusten Stabilisierungseinsatz, der Kampfhandlungen miteinschließt." Mehr über den bisher größten Luftangriff im "deutschen" Gebiet lesen Sie in unserer tagesaktuellen Afghanistan-Chronik�“ Dossier beim Friedensratschlag http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/Afghanistan/kriegschronik/09-09.html

Siehe dazu:

Nach dem Massaker in Afghanistan: Verteidigungsminister Jung muss zurücktreten. Die Bundeswehr aus Afghanistan abziehen! Aktionstag der Friedensbewegung am Mittwoch, 9. September 2009

Pressemitteilung des Bundesausschusses Friedensratschlag vom 7. September
2009 http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/bewegung/afgh/09-09-baf.html

 

Aus: LabourNet, 8. September 2009

 

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A district governor in northern Afghanistan said Monday that more than 130 people were killed in a NATO airstrike last week that struck two Taliban-hijacked fuel trucks.

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Afghan Rights Group Says Mostly Civilians Killed in NATO Airstrike:

An independent Afghan rights group says most of those killed last week in a controversial NATO airstrike on two hijacked fuel trucks were "non-combatants." The deadly attack is now the subject of a NATO investigation.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-09-07-voa24.cfm


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By Stephen Grey

The decision to block publication of the critical academic paper in the army's in-house journal coincides with a scathing attack by a senior US military officer on the "arrogance" of UK tactics in Iraq.

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Myth v. Fact: Afghanistan

By Malou Innocent

The Taliban, the Haqqani network, and other guerilla-jihadi movements indigenous to this region have no shadowy global mission. In fact, what we are witnessing is a local and regional ethnic Pasthun population -- divided arbitrarily by a porous 1,500-mile border -- fighting against what they perceive to be a hostile occupation of their region.

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Despite a troop increase, no progress has been reported on President Obama's goal of destroying al-Qaeda's sanctuary along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

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By Joseph L. Galloway

For God's sake, don't ratchet up slowly, buying time with the bodies of dead and wounded American soldiers, while you try to sell the wrong war in the wrong place against the wrong enemy to the American people.

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