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Robert Fisk: Civilians pay price of war from above -
Robert Fisk, Commentators - The Independent »Posted by: dissent 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Of course there will be an inquiry. And in the meantime, we shall be told that all the dead Afghan civilians were being used as ...
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US Faces Tough Choices in Afghanistan »
Posted by: orndorffter 3 months ago in News
With the nation\'s top military officer calling the situation in Afghanistan dire, President Barack Obama soon may face two equally unattractive choices: increase U ...
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Innocent - John Walker Lindh »
Posted by: tehranchik 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The first American to get Abu-Ghraibed, long before Americans knew they were capable of such an exotic verb. The first to inspire Donald Rumsfeld to ...
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Reality Is Its Own Caricature for US in Afghanistan and Pakistan »
Posted by: dissent 3 months ago in News
The problem with U.S.-sponsored elections in Asia and elsewhere in the non-Western world, as in Afghanistan Aug. 20, is that they are sponsored ...
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America’s Violent Extremism - Paul Craig Roberts »
Posted by: dissent 5 months, 3 weeks ago in News
After the euphoric attention to idealistic rhetoric dies down, Obama will be criticized for extravagant words that create unrealizable expectations. But were the extravagant words ...
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Obama orders review of alleged slayings of Taliban in Bush era - CNN.com »
Posted by: mpchekuri 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
President Obama has ordered national security officials to look into allegations that the Bush administration resisted efforts to investigate a CIA-backed Afghan warlord over the ...
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Afghans riot over air-strike atrocity -
Asia, World - The Independent »Posted by: dissent 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Shouting "Death to America" and "Death to the Government", thousands of Afghan villagers hurled stones at police yesterday as they vented their fury at American ...
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'120 die' as US bombs village -
Asia, World - The Independent »Posted by: dissent 6 months, 3 weeks ago in News
A misdirected US air strike has killed as many as 120 Afghans, including dozens of women and children. The attack is the deadliest such bombing ...
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We must get out of Afghanistan - Adrian Hamilton - The Independent »
Posted by: gamahuche 8 months ago in News
If you're in a hole stop digging. Denis Healey's admonition to politicians has been so often quoted that it's become almost a ...
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BREAKING! Pakistan on verge of collapse as Taliban surge towards Islamabad (PHOTOS) »
Posted by: pc25 7 months ago in News
The capital of Pakistan was under threat last night after Taliban fighters threatened to overrun the volatile country and came within 60 miles of Islamabad ...
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Pro-War Officials Play Up Taliban-al Qaeda Ties »
Posted by: Tumultuous 1 month, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
WASHINGTON (IPS) — U.S. national security officials, concerned that President Barack Obama might be abandoning the strategy of full-fledged counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan, are claiming ...
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U.S. Sets Fight in the Poppies to Stop Taliban »
Posted by: suzanek 7 months ago in News
American commanders are planning to cut off the Taliban’s main source of money, the country’s multimillion-dollar opium crop, by pouring thousands of troops ...
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Pakistan 'in fight for survival': BBC NEWS »
Posted by: gamahuche 9 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Pakistan's president says his country is fighting for its survival against the Taleban, whose influence, he says, has spread.
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As Pakistan finally faces the truth, will the United States stand down? »
Posted by: corl64 1 month, 1 week ago in Political News
DURING THE past 10 days, Pakistan's conflict with the Taliban movement has escalated toward full-scale war -- and the extreme Islamist movement has mostly held ...
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Washington »
Posted by: Klarissa 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
WASHINGTON - With a bloody suicide bombing near the Khyber Pass adding urgency to his words, President Obama announced on Friday that he plans to further ...
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