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An Afghan investigative commission accused the American military Saturday of abuse at its main prison in the country, repeating President Hamid Karzai s demand that the U.S. turn over all detainees to Afghan custody and saying anyone held without evidence should be freed.

http://on.wsj.com/ADb7n3



Afghanistan: 'Slave-like' conditions at Swedish army base revealed

Kitchen staff at Sweden s military base in Afghanistan have been working in ''slave-like conditions,'' a Swedish newspaper has revealed.

http://www.thelocal.se/38380/20120107/


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An Afghan fact-finding team appointed by President Hamid Karzai on Saturday blamed NATO-led troops for what it said was the unnecessary killing of dozens of civilians.

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Afghan media centre: US cuts support after criticism of troops

The US embassy in Kabul this week cut off aid and called back its staff working at the Afghan Government Media and Information Center after a center press conference that criticized foreign troops over civilian casualties, center officials said Wednesday.

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By Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers

There is very little doubt that the U.S. government intends to maintain effective military control over Afghanistan by one means or another, either through a client state with military bases, and support for what they ll call Afghan troops.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30018.htm



NATO occupation force troops kill woman in raid on Afghan official s house

Coalition force raided the house of a Dr Hafizullah (no first name provided), director of the counternarcotics department of Paktia province Saturday morning, detaining him along with his two sons, a statement of the provincial governor office said.

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Pregnant woman killed by US forces in eastern Afghanistan

'A national security council meeting held in the presidential palace on Sunday condemned the international forces night raid on the house of the Paktia counternarcotics chief, in which a woman was killed and four others wounded,' read a statement released by Afghan President Hamid Karzai s office.

http://www.abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=284945



Afghans negotiating long-term US presence: Karzai

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday that his government is negotiating the terms of a long-term US presence in his country that could involve US troops.

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Assessing the Afghan war: Guess what? We are not winning

So, America, remember the Vietnam War? Because the war in Afghanistan just gave me a bad case of deja vu.

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'We are not leaving,' say US officials in Afghanistan

USA Today

12/18/11

Top American officials in Afghanistan say the U.S. military intends to maintain a troop presence here beyond a 2014 deadline for Afghan troops to take over. Marine Gen. John Allen, the top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, said the Taliban and other forces in the region need to know the U.S. military will make sure the Afghans can handle the job...

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Afghanistan as the Hotel California

Campaign For Liberty
by Doug Bandow

12/21/11

Apparently the Obama administration views Afghanistan as a bit like the Eagles' famed Hotel California. We can check out but never leave. ... The U.S. has no interests at stake which warrant a permanent presence in Central Asia. At a time of fiscal crisis, Washington should be shedding, not adding, permanent commitments...

http://tinyurl.com/7fm45mt



Down the Afghan drain

CounterPunch
by Brian Cloughley

12/21/11

According to US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta on December14, 'we are winning this very tough conflict here in Afghanistan.' Well, he and his followers might imagine they are winning their war, but in addition to Washington s sacrifice of 1856 American soldiers (so far) in a futile conflict, what the geniuses of the Pentagon and the aid industry have also lost in their ten years of war is a very great deal of US taxpayers? money. And they intend to waste much more in years to come...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/21/down-the-afghan-drain/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Stop the War on Christmas: Cease Fire in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/20-9

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Afghanistan Chronicles, Part 3: Children of Terror

Jim Burroughs and Mary Ann Skweres, Truthout: 'The long-term effect on Afghanistan was that, by the time the Soviets finally left the country in 1989, these children had grown up into young adults whose only knowledge of the world was of war, and whose mandate was to set up an extremist Islamic state friendly to Pakistan. They returned to a country still strewn with land mines, where the rural infrastructure had been destroyed and the only jobs to be had were fighting a civil war for one power-hungry commander or another. These motherless boys, taught fundamentalist Islam and trained in the art of war, became the Taliban - warriors with extreme religious convictions, lead by the young, uneducated, but charismatic Mullah Omar, who had earned a reputation for bringing raping and murdering commanders to harsh justice.'

http://www.truth-out.org/afghan-chronicles-part-3-children-terror/1323898797



Stop the War on Christmas: Cease Fire in Afghanistan

Robert Naiman, Truthout: 'The Christmas truce has a rich history ? In December 1914, as war raged in Europe, Pope Benedict XV called for a Christmas cease-fire ? In one of the most compelling acts of mass civil disobedience in the 20th century, rank-and-file troops carried out the action that the Pope had called for, negotiating local Christmas cease-fires on the Western Front?. Maybe, if we get busy, by Christmas 2014, the guns in Afghanistan will be silenced for good.'

http://www.truth-out.org/stop-war-christmas-cease-fire-afghanistan/1324745394



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NATO has decided to keep around 15,000 troops in Afghanistan beyond the end of 2014, the organization s chief of staff in Europe, General Manfred Lange said.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/215593.html



10 Facts About US Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Fact 1: It is not the case that all US troops will be removed from Afghanistan by 2015.

http://warisacrime.org/content/10-facts-about-us-withdrawal-afghanistan


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The International Afghanistan Conference in Bonn 5 December 2011 - CONFERENCE CONCLUSIONS

Die Abschlusserklärung der Regierungskonferenz dokumentiert beim Friedensratschlag am 06. Dezember 2011 (pdf) http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/regionen/Afghanistan/bonn-ergebnis-engl.pdf


Petersberg-Konferenz: Kein Plan außer Dauerkrieg und Besatzung

'Fast genau zehn Jahre nach der ersten Konferenz auf dem Bonner Petersberg, auf der wesentliche Entscheidungen getroffen wurden, die sich fatal für die Situation in Afghanistan erweisen sollten, versammelte sich die 'internationale Gemeinschaft' am 5. Dezember 2011 erneut an gleicher Stelle, um über die weitere Zukunft des Landes zu entscheiden. Allerdings sagte kurz zuvor mit Pakistan aufgrund der 24 infolge eines US-Angriffes getöteten pakistanischen Soldaten ein Land seine Teilnahme ab, das für eine wie auch immer geartete Lösung des Konfliktes von zentraler Bedeutung ist. Auch aus den Reihen der afghanischen Widerstandsgruppen, deren Beteiligung zwischenzeitlich zumindest verbal erwogen wurde, und ohne die eine Beendigung der Kampfhandlungen ebenfalls vollkommen unrealistisch ist, war niemand vor Ort?' IMI-Analyse 2011/039 von Jürgen Wagner vom 5.12.2011 http://www.imi-online.de/2011.php?id=2381


'Wir wollen, dass die Afghanen über ihr Schicksal selbst bestimmen können'/'Krieg und Besatzung unter der NATO-Flagge sind gescheitert'

Zwei Reden auf der Kundgebung der Friedensbewegung in Bonn: Wolfgang Uellenberg (ver.di) und Dr. Angelika Claußen (IPPNW), dokumentiert beim Friedensratschlag am 05. Dezember 2011 http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/regionen/Afghanistan/bonn-afgh5.html


Mit den Soldaten geht das Geld. Die »Petersberg-II-Konferenz« ist nur das letzte Aufflackern westlicher Aufmerksamkeit für Afghanistan

'Die internationale Gemeinschaft redet sich die Lage in Afghanistan schön. Damit soll der beschlossene Abzug 2014 als gerechtfertigt erscheinen. Inzwischen sinkt das Interesse an der Entwicklung in dem Land merklich. Wirkliche Hilfe für das Land ist von »Petersberg-II« nicht zu erwarten. Insbesondere Vertreter der internationalen Friedensbewegung und der afghanischen Zivilgesellschaft sehen in den Gesprächen eine Scheindebatte?' Artikel von Thomas Ruttig im ND vom 05.12.2011 http://www.neues-deutschland.de/artikel/212576.mit-den-soldaten-geht-das-geld.html


'Das Massaker von Kundus hat alles verändert'

Afghanistan-Konferenz ignoriert Interessen des Volkes. Pakt mit Taliban und Kriegsherren für NATO-Basen geplant. Deutsche wurden zum Feind. Ein Gespräch mit Said Mahmoud Pahiz, Sprecher der afghanischen Solidaritätspartei. Interview von Mirko Knoche aus junge Welt vom 3. Dezember 2011, dokumentiert beim Friedensratschlag http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/regionen/Afghanistan/bonn-afgh4.html


Ärzte ohne Grenzen: Humanitäre Hilfe in Afghanistan darf nicht länger für militärische Ziele missbraucht werden

'Anlässlich der Petersberg-Konferenz in Bonn ruft die medizinische Nothilfeorganisation Ärzte ohne Grenzen alle Konfliktparteien in Afghanistan auf, humanitäre Hilfe nicht als Teil einer militärisch-politischen Strategie zu missbrauchen. Unabhängige und unparteiische Hilfe für die vom Krieg betroffene Bevölkerung darf nicht untergraben werden?' Pressemitteilung vom 4. Dezember 2011 http://www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/2011/pm-2011-12-04/index.html


Dossier über eine Initiative der Friedensbewegung: 'Dem Frieden eine Chance, Truppen raus aus Afghanistan!' Artikel, Stellungnahmen, Aufrufe, Interviews und andere Dokumente ? Dossier beim Friedensratschlag http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/bewegung/afgh/Welcome.html


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Two more Pakistan nationals shot dead by NATO forces in Afghanistan

NDTV [India]

12/01/11

Two Pakistani nationals from Balochistan were allegedly shot dead by NATO forces in Afghanistan on Thursday .... The two Pakistani men from Chagai district of Balochistan were visiting their relatives in Bibijan area of Afghanistan, their relatives told the media. The relatives alleged NATO forces opened fire at the men and killed them instantly...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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14 killed in Nato bombing, firing by Afghan forces

Fourteen people, including three children and two women, were reportedly killed and 13 others were injured in Nato bombing and subsequent firing by the Afghan security forces on the villagers, who had gathered to protest the killing of civilians in night bombing at Tagab in Kapisa province of Afghanistan on Sunday.

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By Peter Hart

Back in March, we wondered when U.S. corporate news outlets would find U.S./NATO killing of Afghan kids newsworthy. Back then, it was nine children killed in a March 1 airstrike. This resulted in two network news stories on the evening or morning newscasts, and two brief references on the PBS NewsHour.

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NATO Kills 3 Afghan Women

Three rockets were fired into civilian homes in Zhari district of Kandahar province on Monday, the dpa news agency cited provincial governor spokesman Zalmai Ayoubi as saying.

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US general orders troops retrained after 7 Afghan civilians killed

The top commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan has ordered retraining of coalition forces after seven civilians were killed in a military operation last week in the southern part of the country, coalition officials said Tuesday.

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Karzai says NATO strike killed seven Afghan civilians

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday accused NATO-led international forces of killing up to seven civilians, most of them children, in an air strike in the south.

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Friedensratschlag zu Afghanistan / Malalai Joya in Kassel

'Aus der militärischen Sackgasse gibt es nur ein politisches Entrinnen: Sofortiger und bedingungsloser Abzug der Bundeswehr aus Afghanistan. Bürgerrechtlerin Malalai Joya spricht bei Friedenskongress in Kassel?' Pressemitteilung des Bundesausschusses Friedensratschlag vom 22. November
2011 http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/regionen/Afghanistan/baf-11-01.html


Militarisierung und die Bundeswehr: Standortkonzept für die Bundeswehr

Die neue Konzeption der Reserve - die strategische Militarisierung der Gesellschaft

IMI-Standpunkt 2011/055 vom 18.11.2011 von Christoph Marischka http://www.imi-online.de/2011.php?id=2378


Aus: LabourNet, 24. November 2011



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Boston Herald

11/20/11

More than 1,000 university students are blocking a main highway in eastern Afghanistan in protest against a proposed agreement to keep thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan past 2014. An Associated Press photographer at the scene saw protesters in Jalalabad city block the road to Kabul on Sunday. They shouted 'Death to America! Death to Karzai!' They said they would not accept any partnership with the United States...

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