Insider Attack: Afghan Soldiers Attack US Base in Kapisa, Kill Contractor
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzSoldiers Were in Afghan Army Uniforms, Driving Military Vehicle
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Afghanistan
The Tragic Story Of Outpost Restrepo Sums Up The Whole Afghan War
• Business InsiderTroops nicknamed Afghanistan's Korengal Valley "Death Valley" for a reason.
Military Decides You Shouldn’t See Key Data on Afghan Insurgency
• Wired.comOne of the major metrics for the decade-long Afghanistan war is seriously flawed. Rather than fix the problem, the U.S.-NATO military command in Kabul has decided that you simply shouldn’t see the data.
NATO says troops kill two Afghan boys due to mistaken identity
• ReutersNATO forces accidentally shot dead two boys during an operation in Afghanistan's south, the alliance said, in the latest in a series of incidents involving allegations of civilian deaths at the hands of international troops.
At Least 30 Afghan Police Killed in 48 Hours
• Antiwar.comWednesday Poisonings Followed With Thursday Attacks
Radical Islamists Are Stopping Bill Gates From Eliminating Polio
• Business InsiderEfforts like the one being led by Bill Gates and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg have reduced number of children paralyzed by the polio virus from 350,000 in 1998 to fewer than 225 cases in 2012.
Afghan officials say NATO ignored complaints of abuses by U.S. Special Operations forces
• Washington PostAfghan officials said they demanded the pullout of U.S. Special Operations forces because the NATO for months has ignored residents’ allegations of severe abuses committed by American troops and armed Afghans working with them.
Afghan President: US Military Torturing, Murdering Innocent Civilians
• http://www.commondreams.org, Craig BrownPresident Hamid Karzai had ordered the Ministry of Defense to kick out the US Special Forces
Karzai orders US out of Afghan province
• BBC NewsThe Afghan president ordered US special forces to leave Wardak province within 2 weeks. The decision was taken due to allegations of disappearances and torture by Afghans considered to be part of US special forces
Despite Annual Drop, Afghan Civilian Deaths on the Rise
• Antiwar.comThe overall death toll among Afghan civilians dropped slightly in 2012, to 2,754 killed nationwide and 4.805 wounded.
Afghanistan Gets Safer for Civilians as U.N. Warns Taliban of ‘War Crimes’
• Wired.comCivilians are safer from harm in Afghanistan’s decade-long conflict than at any time since before the U.S. troop surge, according to new United Nations statistics.
Army may have to extend deployments in Afghanistan
• http://hosted.ap.org, By LOLITA C. BALDORSoldiers deployed to Afghanistan next year may see their war tours extended because budget cuts will drastically limit training for brigades to replace them, the top Army general said Friday.
Former ambassador slams U.S. ‘callousness’ on Pakistan
• AFP“If you don’t have that in common — that you’re sorry when there is nothing left of the bodies of 24 of your boys — then it’s very hard for many people, especially those who want a relationship with us… to defend us to their peers,” Munter said.
Five Afghan Children Among Ten Civilians Killed in NATO/US Drone Attack
• http://www.commondreams.org, Jon Queally'Four women and five children were killed, and five children wounded.'
NATO Airstrike Is Said to Kill Afghan Civilians
• nytimes.comA NATO airstrike killed 10 Afghan civilians, including five children, in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, local officials said, a toll that if confirmed is likely to raise tension between President Hamid Karzai's government and U.S.-led NATO forces.
34,000 U.S. Troops to Exit Afghanistan Within a Year
• Washington PostPresident Obama’s decision to remove half of the 66,000 American troops in Afghanistan by this time next year represents a careful balancing of political interests and military requirements.
This Before And After Image Of Afghanistan Is Really Hard To Believe
• Business InsiderThis image of Afghanistan might be hard to wrap your head around, but it's totally accurate.
Palm-Sized Nano-Copter Is the Afghanistan War’s Latest Spy Drone
• Wired.comBritish troops in Afghanistan are flying a drone that’s shrunk down to its essentials: a micro-machine that spies, built for a solitary user.
Afghan government responds to torture charges
• aljazeera.comAl Jazeera visits detention facilities accused of torture by UN and rights agencies.
Top US General in Afghanistan Sees ‘Uncertain Future’
• http://news.antiwar.com, by John GlaserGeneral Allen acknowledges what has become a virtual consensus, that the war in Afghanistan has failed
Not Even the Pentagon Bomb Squad Knows How Fast Insurgent IEDs Degrade
• Wired.comLike all wars, the war in Afghanistan must someday end. But the end of its signature weapon may not arrive on the same schedule.
Mali is not another Afghanistan
• blogs.spectator.co.ukWhy should we worry if jihadists control a poor, landlocked country thousands of miles away?
List of children killed by drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen
• .The ones Obama murdered.
Coming This Year to Afghanistan: Way More Artillery Strikes
• Wired.comAs the U.S. tries to hand over responsibility for the Afghan war to the new Afghan military it’s built, some very old weapons systems are poised to become crucial: the mortar and the howitzer.
US Drone Strike Kills at Least 14 in Eastern Afghanistan
• Antiwar.comDozens Also Wounded; NATO Denies Any Knowledge of Attack
UN Report Slams Afghanistan for Torture, Secret Prisons
• Antiwar.comDespite Pledges of 'Training,' Police Torture on the Rise
Burn, burn - Africa's Afghanistan
• Asia Times - Pepe EscobarOne's got to love the sound of a Frenchman's Mirage 2000 fighter jet in the morning. Smells like... a delicious neo-colonial breakfast in Hollandaise sauce. Make it quagmire sauce.
US Envoy: Much-Hyped Taliban Peace Process Stalled
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzAfghans Seeking Conclusion of Talks, But They Haven't Really Started
Afghanistan’s Forgotten Refugees
• antiwar.comIn 2008, Seyed Hasan, a father of 6, fled his home in the Wardak province of eastern Afghanistan.
Pentagon Swears It Won’t Sell Killer Drones to Afghanistan, Just Spy Ones
• Wired.comYesterday, when Afghan president Hamid Karzai boasted that the U.S. was about to give him his own fleet of drones, you may have been tempted to see the mercurial leader with his hand on the joystick of an armed Predator.
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