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By Marc W. Herold

The Politics of Counting Dead Afghan Civilians
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25260.htm



120 Afghans die in a week of carnage

On Sunday, Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said dozens of civilians were killed in another week of carnage. He also confirmed that 20 policemen and scores of militants lost their lives in the past seven days.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123717&sectionid=351020403



US occupation forces kill 4, injure dozen Afghans

US military forces have opened fire on a vehicle killing four and wounding more than a dozen civilians in occupied Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123850&sectionid=351020403



Four students die in Afghanistan crossfire: ministry

The statement coincided with a release from ISAF that said four people had died in Khost after their vehicle was fired on by international soldiers while it was accelerating towards their convoy.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100420/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestnatochildren



NATO admits it killed 4 unarmed civilians in Afghanistan

Family members and local officials had insisted that the group, which included three teenage boys, was returning home from a sporting event.

http://snipurl.com/vogqe



French occupation force troops killed 4 Afghan civilians by mistake

French troops mistakenly killed four Afghan civilians and seriously wounded one during a clash with insurgents east of Kabul, the French military said Thursday after concluding an investigation into the bloodshed.

http://www.courant.com/news/nation-world/sns-ap-eu-france-afghanistan,0,3857918.story



France admits killing Afghan kids

The French army has admitted killing four children with a missile strike in a Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/04/2010429142655623863.html



Nato 'kills Afghan MP relative' in raid

A prominent Afghan MP says Nato troops stormed her home and shot dead one of her relatives in an overnight raid.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8651465.stm



US-led troops kill 3 Afghan civilians

A raid by US-led troops has killed two women and a child in southern Afghanistan amid rising public opposition to the presence of foreign forces there.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=124960&sectionid=351020403


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Afghanistan: Occupation troops kill eight

The Nation [Pakistan]

04/21/10

NATO-led troops opened fire on a vehicle in southeastern Afghanistan, killing four unarmed men, the alliance said on Tuesday, the latest in series of incidents in recent weeks the United Nations has called disturbing. … Meanwhile, four children were killed in crossfire between foreign soldiers and insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, the education ministry said Tuesday...

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"Wir müssen diesen Einsatz fortführen"
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Eugene Robinson: "The Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan was a transit route and occasional haven for insurgents, so US commanders decided to drive out the enemy and turn the local villagers into allies. That was in 2005. By this week, after five years of intense combat that cost 42 American lives, US troops had fought their way halfway down the steep-sided, heavily forested valley - which is just six miles long."

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The Pentagon reported 107,292 U.S.-hired civilian workers in Afghanistan as of February 2010, when there were about 78,000 soldiers. This is apparently the first time that contractors have exceeded soldiers by such a large margin.

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U.S. doubles anti-Taliban special forces

The Pentagon has increased its use of the military's most elite special operations teams in Afghanistan, more than doubling the number of the highly trained teams assigned to hunt down Taliban leaders, according to senior officials.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-fg-secret-surge15-2010apr15,0,5221105.story



US military escalates its dirty war in Afghanistan

The New York Times reported Sunday that American special forces units are operating in and around the Afghan city of Kandahar, assassinating or capturing alleged leaders and militants of the Taliban resistance ahead of the major US-NATO offensive scheduled for June.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/apr2010/afgh-a27.shtml


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Senators Call For Changes to Troubled Afghan Police Training Program

Ryan Knutson, ProPublica: "State and Defense department officials took a tongue-lashing today, trying to explain to a Senate subcommittee how the government has poured $6 billion since 2002 into building an effective Afghan police force with disastrous results."

http://www.truthout.org/senators-call-changes-troubled-costly-afghan-police-training-program58628



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USA Today

04/15/10

Deaths of Afghan civilians by NATO troops have more than doubled this year, NATO statistics show, jeopardizing a U.S. campaign to win over the local population by protecting them against insurgent attacks. NATO troops accidentally killed 72 civilians in the first three months of 2010, up from 29 in the same period in 2009, according to figures the International Security Assistance Force gave USA TODAY...

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Bill Asks Obama for Afghanistan Exit Plan

Mary Susan Littlepage, Truthout: "Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) and Reps. Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts) and Walter Jones (R-North Carolina) introduced legislation Wednesday that calls on the White House to develop a 'flexible timetable' to draw down US troops from Afghanistan."

http://www.truthout.org/bill-asks-obama-afghanistan-exit-plan58585

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Feingold bill seeks end to 'counterproductive' war in Afghanistan

New legislation introduced by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) and Reps. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Walter Jones (R-NC) would require President Barack Obama to implement a flexible timetable to withdraw troops from Afghanistan and update Congress on its progress every three months.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0415/feingold-end-war-afghanistan/


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McChrystal Backtracks on Troop Veto for Kandahar Shuras
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Nato killings spark Afghan protests

Nato troops opened fire on the bus in the Zhari district of Kandahar province before dawn on Monday, killing four people and injuring 18, Afghan officials said.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/04/20104121321185774.html



Ninety-Four Percent of Kandaharis Want Peace Talks, Not War

By Gareth Porter

An opinion survey of Afghanistan's Kandahar province funded by the U.S. Army has revealed that 94 percent of respondents support negotiating with the Taliban over military confrontation with the insurgent group and 85 percent regard the Taliban as "our Afghan brothers".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25247.htm



Army Researchers: Why the Kandahar Offensive Could Backfire

The southern Afghan province of Kandahar trusts the Taliban more than the government. And that's according to a survey commissioned by the U.S. Army.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/04/army-researchers-why-the-kandahar-offensive-could-backfire/



Afghanistan: A conspiracy of silence

An IoS poll shows 77 per cent of Britons want our forces to come home and a majority believe our presence makes UK streets less safe from terrorist attack. Yet all three parties are ducking this most critical issue.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/afghanistan-a-conspiracy-of-silence-1947857.html


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US Troops Open Fire on Passenger Bus in Afghanistan, Killing Four Civilians

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Four Afghan civilians were killed and 18 others wounded Monday when US troops opened fire on a passenger bus they believed was a threat to military personnel working to remove roadside bombs from a highway near Kandahar."

http://www.truthout.org/us-troops-open-fire-passenger-bush-afghanistan-killing-four-civilians58523



Dread Surrounds "Operation Hope" in Afghanistan

Jean MacKenzie, GlobalPost: "It is being called Operation Omid. The word omid means 'hope' in Afghanistan's Dari language. But, judging by the reaction of local residents, the coming US-led military offensive against the Taliban in Kandahar could not be more inappropriately named."

http://www.truthout.org/dread-surrounds-operation-hope-afghanistan58682



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More Cause and Effect in the War Against Terrorists
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US Puppet Cuts His Strings

By Eric Margolis

Thwarted by the American government on compromise with Taliban, Karzai has begun openly defying his patrons.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25186.htm



Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, threatens to block Nato offensive

Karzai threatened to delay or even cancel the operation - one of the biggest of the nine-year war - after being confronted in Kandahar by elders who said it would bring strife, not security, to his home province.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7094217.ece



Afghan soldier fires on NATO occupation troops

An Afghan soldier opened fire on NATO troops, lightly wounding one alliance soldier, the international force in occupied Afghanistan said, the latest in a string of attacks by rogue Afghan forces.

http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/afghan-soldier-fires-nato-troops-3457020



Hamid Karzai, R.I.P.

A Prediction

By Justin Raimondo

The war in Afghanistan, which George W. Bush started and Barack Obama pledged to win, is over - and we lost. No one realizes this, quite yet, but give them time - because the fruits of our defeat are already a veritable cornucopia. And the reason can be summed up rather neatly in two words: Hamid Karzai.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25198.htm



U.S. occupation troops fire on bus in Afghanistan, 4 civilians killed

American soldiers opened fire on a bus passing through Kandahar province Monday morning, killing four civilians and potentially aggravating a population already wary about the influx of thousands of new American troops headed their way.

http://snipurl.com/vfrn2



Afghans protest killing of civilians

Hundreds of Afghan people have rallied in the southern city of Kandahar to condemn the killing of civilians by US-led troops, according to authorities.

http://presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123088&sectionid=351020403


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