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A 'surge' of U.S. civilian officials into Afghanistan has cost about $1.7 billion since 2009, and is likely to get a lot more expensive soon, according to a new audit.

http://wapo.st/okc6q9



10 More years: On the Afghan 'frontline', U.S. soldiers see longer war ahead

U.S. soldiers deployed on the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan say the war isn t going away for another ten years, even after Washington pulls troops from a country locked in a deadly Islamist insurgency.

http://reut.rs/qKPdtz


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Mission never accomplished?
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/35/35436/1.html



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The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) announced on Saturday that a 'combined Afghan and coalition security force' had killed 'a key affiliate of the al Qaeda network during a security operation in Jalalabad district, Nangarhar province.'

http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/09/ex-gitmo_detainee_ki_1.php



We don t need evidence

An investigator whom Lal s [ Sabar Lal Melma ] American lawyers retained to follow his case said that he saw the joint U.S.-Afghan case file on Lal and that there wasn t much in the way of evidence.

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Sixty-six U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan so far this month, making August the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly decade-long war.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/08/30/501364/main20099087.shtml



Afghan Taliban victory predicted in letter

A message allegedly written by the leader of the Afghan Taliban predicts imminent victory as more foreign troops die and Taliban fighters better understand NATO tactics, acquire more weaponry, shoot down more aircraft and kill more senior officials.

http://thesent.nl/qcEyeC


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America and Afghanistan are close to signing a strategic pact which would allow thousands of United States troops to remain in the country until at least 2024, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

http://tgr.ph/p0Rg5o



Details of Secret Pact Emerge: Troops in Afghanistan Until 2024

If you thought President Obama was ending the war in Afghanistan, think again. Your children will be fighting it in 2024 if the Pentagon has its way.

http://www.guernicamag.com/blog/3019/tom_engelhardt_details_of_secr/


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American Dogs Count More Than Afghan People
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/08/24-2



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President Barack Obama won a pledge from NATO allies Saturday to send 5,000 more troops to help in Afghanistan, calling it a 'strong down payment' to securing coming national elections and the entire country.

http://arbiteronline.com/2011/08/17/nato-pledges-5000-troops-to-afghanistan/



$360M lost to insurgents, criminals in Afghanistan

After examining hundreds of combat support and reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan, the U.S military estimates $360 million in U.S. tax dollars has ended up in the hands of people the American-led coalition has spent nearly a decade battling: the Taliban, criminals and power brokers with ties to both.

http://bit.ly/nlvJLa



Afghanistan: The Worst Place to be a Mother

After 10 years of occupation by the United States, Afghanistan s maternal mortality and female life expectancy indicators are the worst in the world.

http://www.alternet.org/world/152018/afghanistan:_the_worst_place_to_be_a_mother_



Afghanistan: NATO Kills 4 Civilians Sparks Protest

Residents of southern Ghazni province protested on Saturday against the killing of four civilians during a nighttime operation by international troops.

http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2011/08/20/isaf-operation-sparks-protest-ghazni


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By Richard Falk

The American insensitivity towards civilian deaths over the years seems to be having a strong backlash.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28848.htm



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By Kathy Kelly

Imagine it. People in an Afghan village pass sleepless nights, anxious that their home might be targeted by a U.S.-led night raid.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28817.htm

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Living by the sword

Authority!
by Timothy J Taylor

'Those who live by the sword will likely die by the sword a wise old saying goes. It was proved once again in Afghanistan last week when a U.S. military Chinook helicopter went down killing 30 elite American special operations soldiers. The U.S. military, and most of the U.S. media are still dancing and dodging around the facts and real cause behind the disaster; even though the Taliban took credit immediately...

http://authoritycon.blogspot.com/2011/08/living-by-sword.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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By Julian E. Barnes

Nancy Youssef, the president of the Pentagon Press Association, said the organization was protesting the decision to ban media coverage and was seeking to have the decision reversed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28792.htm

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Those 30 American soldiers died for nothing

Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger

08/12/11

After those 30 American soldiers were recently killed in Afghanistan when their Chinook helicopter was downed by Afghan insurgents, the commander of the international mission in Afghanistan, Gen. John R. Allen, stated, 'All of those killed in this operation were true heroes who had already given so much in the defense of freedom.' Freedom? Does Allen really believe such nonsense, or is it just the standard pabulum that the general feels he must express in order to assuage the feelings of the families and friends of the victims?

http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2011-08-12.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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