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The Associated Press has learned it does not report insider attacks in which the Afghan wounds or misses his U.S. or allied target. It also doesn t report the wounding of troops who were attacked alongside those who were killed.

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Renewed Violence Follows Obama s Afghanistan Visit
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/05/02



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Zur Lage in Afghanistan: Die Interventionseuphorie ist vorbei.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36818/1.html



Werden Moslems in Europa diskriminiert?

Ein Amnesty Bericht dürfte die Diskussion über den Menschenrechtsbegriff wieder aufleben lassen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151867



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'I'm being sent out to stabilise a country I have no faith, interest or empathy in, to prop up a government the UN says is corrupt.

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Pulling out of expensive war will be costly, officials say

An already expensive war in Afghanistan will cost American taxpayers between $5 billion and $10 billion just to pull a decade s worth of weapons, vehicles and supplies out of the country.

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Afghan protesters accuse NATO of killing 4 children

The protesters, who were carrying the bodies of four children aged eight to 12, blocked the Kabul-Kandahar highway and chanted anti-US slogans, they said.

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Veterans Say No to NATO

While the president and the Pentagon are handing out posthumous medals, a number of veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan will be marching, in military formation, to McCormick Place in Chicago to hand their service medals back.

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From Information Clearing House



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By Conn Hallinan

For an administration touted as sophisticated and intelligent, virtually every decision the White House has made vis-à-vis Afghanistan has been a disaster.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31115.htm



Still killed and killing in the lost Afghanistan War

By Lindsey German

Has anyone told the media that the NATO forces are losing the war in Afghanistan?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31139.htm



Afghan Screams Are Not Heard

By Kathy Kelly and Hakim

Last weekend, in Kabul, Afghan Peace Volunteer friends huddled in the back room of their simple home. With a digital camera, glimpses and sounds of their experiences were captured, as warfare erupted three blocks away.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31138.htm

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Collateral insanity in Afghanistan

In These Times
by Terry J. Allen

04/18/12

The war in Afghanistan has taken a devastating toll on mental health from depression to suicide, domestic violence to murderous rampages. And financial and family strains, as well as attempts at self-medication, have exacerbated the casualty count. ... Many Afghans, blameless in ways that volunteer soldiers never can be, have been pushed past sanity by violence; by becoming refugees or internally displaced; and by losing family, culture, educational opportunities, professions, houses, rights and hope...

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America s lost war

Freedom s Phoenix
by Stephen Lendman

for publication 04/21/12

International and constitutional law be damned. Waging war on Afghanistan 'is clearly illegal. It constitutes armed aggression. It is creating a humanitarian catastrophe for the people of Afghanistan.' It s also a lost cause. Pentagon commanders know it. So does Lt. Colonel Daniel Davis. In an unclassified report and more detailed classified one, he explained ongoing disastrous conditions. From his own firsthand observations and what others told him, he concluded that America s war failed. It can t be won...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/18-0

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U.S. Troops Posed With Body Parts of Afghan Bombers

By David Zucchino

The paratroopers posed for photos next to Afghan police, grinning while some held, and others squatted beside, the corpse s severed legs.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31108.htm



Photos of US troops with body parts disgusting, says Hamid Karzai

''The president underlines that the only way to put an end to such painful experiences is through an accelerated and full transition of security responsibilities to Afghan forces,'' the statement said.

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No resolution in earlier Marine corpse abuse case

While the military grapples with another corpse abuse scandal in Afghanistan, officials still haven t offered any resolution to the case uncovered earlier this year of Marines urinating on Taliban corpses.

http://1.usa.gov/HSN5YM



Military Training Exercises : Live Goats' Legs Cut Off With Tree Trimmers

Video

Each year, more than 10,000 live animals are shot, stabbed, mutilated, and killed in horrific military training exercises that are supposed to simulate injuries on the battlefield.

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American Justice? US Marine demoted for urinating on corpses

A US Marine sergeant who was videotaped urinating on dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan has been demoted to the rank of corporal after pleading guilty, the Marine Corps has said.

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Afghanistan: More photos of US troops posing with corpses

Newsday

04/18/12

In an embarrassment to the Pentagon, newly published photographs purport to show U.S. troops posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in Afghanistan. Top U.S. military and civilian officials rushed to condemn the soldiers' actions Wednesday, calling them repugnant and a dishonor to the sacrifices of hundreds of thousands of Americans who have served in the war there...

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ISAF-Kommandeur verurteilt die Fotos und verspricht Aufklärung.
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Nearly one out of every five NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year were killed by Afghan police or army forces. Nine of the 16 victims were U.S. soldiers.

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American Culture and the Afghan War

By Younes Abdullah Muhammad

It is no longer sufficient to merely oppose wars abroad. To reestablish liberty at home Americans must right wrongs by attacking the imperialist culture.

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The Afghan Syndrome

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: ''Still, credit must be given. Increasingly poorly remembered, Vietnam is now one for the ages. After so many years, Afghanistan has finally emerged as a quagmire beholden to no other war. What an achievement! Our moment, Afghanistan included, has proven so extreme, so disastrous, that it s finally put the unquiet ghost of Vietnam in its grave. And here s the miracle: it has all happened without anyone in Washington grasping the essence of that now-ancient defeat, or understanding a thing.''

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