Probe team: Women sexually assaulted before killing in Panjwai ...
• By Absin Zaheer arthurzbygniew.blogspotBefore the gun attack, US soldiers physically manhandled the two women and later turned their weapons on the helpless residents.
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Afghanistan
Accused G.I. ‘Snapped’ Under Strain, Official Says
• http://www.nytimes.com, By ERIC SCHMITT and WILLIAThe American staff sergeant suspected of killing 16 Afghan villagers had been drinking alcohol
Afghanistan: The dead just keep piling up
• http://www.aljazeera.com, by Mark LeVineIt's a well-worn ritual - the expression of outrage and "shock", as President Obama put it. The "condolences to the families" offered by senior leaders of the occupying power to the latest victims of their supposedly benign occupation.
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US to ‘Stay the Course’ on Afghan Occupation
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzWith the war in Afghanistan seemingly blowing up in their faces, top Obama Administration officials are as determined as ever to shrug off criticism and insist that things are going just swimmingly, no changes required.
Terror, Trauma, and the Endless Afghan War
• http://www.commondreams.org, by Amy GoodmanWe may never know what drove a U.S. Army staff sergeant to head out into the Afghan night and allegedly murder at least 16 civilians in their homes, among them nine children and three women.
Panetta Orders Marines to Disarm before Afghanistan Speech
• dailypaul.com, MSNBC NewsThe current top comment pretty much sums it up...Scared of the killers you helped create, huh? Ironic....the incident is believed to be the first time they were stripped of guns during an address by their own secretary of defence.
Afghanistan wants early takeover of security: Karzai
• http://news.yahoo.comAfghanistan wants to take over control of the nation's security in 2013 not 2014 and for US troops to pull out of villages, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday, just days after a US soldier massacred 16 villagers.
America's Afghanistan Legacy
Stephen LendmanAmerica's rogue killing machine
In Afghanistan it's lies that are really killing our soldiers
• http://www.guardian.co.ukThe phoney oratory of British national security so beloved of Cameron and his generals has lost all contact with reality
Afghanistan: "Reducing the Number of Troops".
• http://www.globalresearch.caIn order to be able to claim "no more troops on the ground" in Afghanistan by 2014, the Pentagon envisaging transferring its special operations forces to the CIA, thus "making them spies" and "reducing the number of troops".
US soldier opens fire on Afghan civilians
• http://www.aljazeera.comA US soldier has killed more than a dozen civilians in a shooting spree in southern Afghanistan before being detained, officials say.
Guantanamo Taliban inmates 'agree to Qatar transfer'
• bbc.co.uk/news/world-asiaFive senior Taliban fighters held at Guantanamo Bay have agreed to be moved to custody in Qatar as part of a peace plan, Afghan government officials say.
6 British soldiers presumed dead in Afghanistan
• Associated PressSix British soldiers were believed killed after an explosion hit their armored vehicle in southwestern Afghanistan, Britain's Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.
Suicide Bomber Attacks US Base in Afghanistan
• www.voanews.comA suicide bomber has killed at least two Afghan civilians and wounded four others after detonating explosives at the gates of the U.S. military base at Bagram, just north of Kabul.
Displaced Afghans left out in cold
• Al Jazeera staffGovernment accused of "callous indifference" as number of those left homeless by violence tops 500,000.
In Afghanistan, two more U.S. troops killed over Koran burning
• By Laura King, Los Angeles TimesThe desert's nighttime chill had taken hold at a small U.S.-Afghan base in the Taliban's heartland: the home village, in fact, of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the movement's founder and supreme commander.
Two more Americans killed by Afghan gunman, officials say
• latimes.comTwo American soldiers were killed Thursday by a civilian employee of the Afghan army, according to Afghan officials.
CONNECTING THE DOTS
Why are we still in Afghanistan—just to kill our kids?
Frosty WooldridgeObama should be apologizing to the American people for his ineptness, his incompetence, his stupidity and his complete lack of common sense in not vacating Iraq and Afghanistan immediately.
Nine killed in Afghan airport bomb, NATO base attacked
• ReutersA suicide car bomber killed at least nine people in an attack on a military airport in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said, the latest incident of violence and protests since copies of the Koran were inadvertently burned at a NATO base last
Airport In Eastern Afghanistan Hit With Car Bomb
• by The Associated PressA suicide car bomber has struck at the gates of Jalalabad airport in eastern Afghanistan, officials said, killing nine people in an attack insurgents said was revenge for U.S. troops burning Qurans
NATO Air Raid Kills, Injures Seven Afghan Civilians
• by GhanizadaAt least 7 Afghan civilians were killed and injured following a NATO air raid at Tagab district of eastern Kapisa province.
U.S. shouldn't speed up Afghanistan pull out: ambassador
• ReutersThe United States should resist the urge to pull troops out of Afghanistan ahead of schedule due to the violence against Americans over the burning of the Koran at a U.S. military base, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker said. "Tensions are
US advisers shot dead 'after Koran row'
• ABC.netTwo United States advisers who were shot dead in Afghanistan's interior ministry by an Afghan colleague had been mocking anti-US protests over the burning of the Koran, a government source said.
Seven Americans wounded in attack on NATO base in Afghanistan
• ReutersSeven U.S. military trainers were wounded on Sunday when protesters in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan threw a grenade at their base, provincial police chief Samihullah Qatra told reporters.
War and neglect leaves 500,000 Afghans homeless: Amnesty
• AFPHalf a million Afghans displaced by war have been left homeless and struggling to survive because of government and international neglect, Amnesty International said Thursday. Around 400 people join makeshift shelters around the country every day,
Secret U.S. cable warned about Pakistani havens
• Washington PostThe U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan sent a top-secret cable to Washington last month warning that the persistence of enemy havens in Pakistan was placing the success of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan in jeopardy, U.S. officials said.
Taliban to Afghans: Kill foreigners over Quran burnings
• By msnbc.com staff and news servicesAt least six people have been killed amid ongoing violence over the improper disposal of Qurans at NATO's main base in Afghanistan.
Afghan laborer recalls rage as he tried to save charred Korans
• ReutersJamil said U.S. soldiers were at first willing to allow them to take away the charred remains of the Korans, explaining how some parts made their way outside the base, but said arriving Afghan interpreters immediately realized the material could inci
Angry? You're Damn Straight I'm Angry. Roger That.
• Julia Dalton, OENAfter reading Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis' first hand account of his recent time spent in Afghanistan I'm more pissed off then ever. Yet another military officer comes forward to tell the truth about yet another ill-fated war we find ourselves engaged i
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