World-News

By Kevin Sieff

Officials think they have found a way to teach Afghan history without widening the fractures between long-quarreling ethnic and political groups: leave out the past four decades.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30461.htm



U.S. intelligence officials offer grim words on Afghanistan

Senior U.S. intelligence officials offered a bleak view of the war in Afghanistan in testimony to Congresy, an assessment they acknowledged was more pessimistic than that of the military commanders in charge.

http://lat.ms/z3WzAi


From Information Clearing House

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It s never too early to finally leave Afghanistan

Reason
by Brian Doherty

02/08/12

''The original purpose of the Afghanistan war has long been fulfilled. So why are U.S. forces still over there?''

http://tinyurl.com/7bvunu8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Von einem Ende der Kampfeinsätze im nächsten Jahr ist nicht mehr die Rede. Laut Zeitungsbericht geht es um eine strategische Umorientierung.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/8/151369



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Scott Shane, The New York Times News Service: ''On his second yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis traveled 9,000 miles, patrolled with American troops in eight provinces and returned in October of last year with a fervent conviction that the war was going disastrously and that senior military leaders had not leveled with the American public.''

http://www.truth-out.org/army-officer-turned-whistleblower-how-many-more-must-die/1328552914

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Truth, Lies and Afghanistan

By Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis

I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. ... What I saw bore no resemblance to rosy official statements by U.S. military leaders about conditions on the ground.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30454.htm



US colonel: Don t believe US statements on progress in Afghanistan

I spent five years covering the Iraq war, and at the end of it I was not inclined to believe anything official spokesmen had to say about Iraq anymore.

http://bit.ly/wt2Ozt



Lt Col Daniel Davis: 'US army does not tell truth'

As Afghan fury over Koran burning by US forces continues, a serving US army officer has said publicly that the US top brass are not telling the truth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17183739



Afghan war whistleblower Daniel Davis

'I had to speak out - lives are at stake': Soldier wrote detailed report claiming US generals 'have so distorted the truth ... the truth has become unrecognisable'.

http://bit.ly/IIipH7


From Information Clearing House

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US Paints False Picture of Afghan War: US Army Officer
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/02/07

Congress: Listen to Lt. Col. Daniel Davis
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/04/03-6



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Angesichts der Abzugspläne für die Isaf-Truppen arbeitet die Zeit für die Taliban.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36353/1.html



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By Canadian Veterans Advocacy Operations

This practice invites Taliban attacks on Afghans and NGOs.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30420.htm



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Verletzte und Verlassene auf den Feldern Afghanistans.
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36228/1.html



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American and other coalition forces here are being killed in increasing numbers by the very Afghan soldiers they fight alongside and train, in attacks motivated by deep-seated animosity between the supposedly allied forces, according to American and Afghan officers and a classified coalition report.

http://bit.ly/zlVocM



Coalition limits details on troops killed by Afghans

Military commanders in Afghanistan have stopped making public the number of allied troops killed by Afghan soldiers and police, a measure of the trustworthiness of a force that is to take over security from U.S.-led forces.

http://usat.ly/wI0Ed0



US forces kill 3 Afghan civilians

The victims, among them a teacher, died in the Achin district of the province, located some 120 kilometers (74 miles) east of the country s capital Kabul, on Friday morning when American forces launched a raid in the area.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/222067.html



Cost of supplying Afghan War increases 600% since Pakistan closed border

Using a Northern route to supply the Afghan War costs the United States $104 million dollars a month, an increase of $87 million from the $17 million it cost Washington when supplies were mainly sent through Pakistani territory, the AP report said.

http://exm.nr/z1yTbm


From Information Clearing House

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War without meaning

Campaign For Liberty
by Phil Giraldi

01/21/12

In the wake of the killing of four of its soldiers and the wounding of a dozen more by an Afghan soldier being trained, France has suspended all military operations in Afghanistan and is considering withdrawing its troops. Germany and Italy have already declared that they will be out by the end of the year. As we have seen before, the US and Britain will be left holding the bag for what has been a disastrous attempt at nation building...

http://tinyurl.com/78p8yhz


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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A senior Afghan official said Wednesday that NATO forces killed five civilians, including one woman and two children, during a night raid earlier this week in northeastern Afghanistan.

http://mnstr.me/zeX1OP



Civilians Killed During Protest Over Faryab Mullah s Night Raid Death

Deadly protests erupted in Afghanistan s northern Faryab province on Thursday after a military night raid killed local Sharia law professor and tribal elder Qari Qiyamuddin, according to local officials.

http://bit.ly/HxO1hk



US troops kill Afghan civilian in Kandahar: Afghan officials

The man came under fire when he was walking with his daughter on a road in the area, Atrafi said, adding that the child escaped unharmed.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/235831.html


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Verletzte und Verlassene auf den Feldern Afghanistans.

Vorläufige Ergebnisse nach zehn Jahren Krieg - Teil 1
http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/36/36225/1.html

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Inmates at facility in Bagram tell investigating commission they were tortured and held without evidence by authorities.

http://bit.ly/wYs09k



Afghan government accuses US of torture and false imprisonment

The crisis besetting the US/NATO occupation of Afghanistan has been deepened over recent days. Its own puppet government, headed by President Hamid Karzai, has publicly accused the American military of torture and arbitrary detention at the largest US-run prison in the country.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/jan2012/afgh-j10.shtml



Marines Urinating On Corpses

Video

And Americans wonder why many in the Muslim world hate us? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30222.htm



Death, Desecration, and Afghanistan

By Hamilton Nolan

Do you know what is worse than having your dead body urinated upon? Being killed. Being shot. Being bombed.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30236.htm



This is the horror of war

How many other abuses took place off camera? How many Hadithas? How many My Lais?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30258.htm



Rick Sanchez: ''There is a huge problem with journalism in the United States''

Video

Dana Loesch, a CNN contributor, made a statement on her radio show that she would ''drop trou and do it too.'' The act she was talking about was joining US Marines to urinate on dead Afghans.

http://bit.ly/ys2gf4



Is Our Military Addicted to 'War Porn'?

By Matthis Chiroux

To myself and the majority of veterans I associate with, the barbarity of these images is synonymous with our experiences within a military at war. No crime our brothers and sisters commit really surprises us anymore.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30274.htm


From Information Clearing House

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US Marines probe video depicting urination on corpses

New Orleans Times-Picayune

01/11/12

The Marine Corps said Wednesday it is investigating a video depicting what appears to be four Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. In a statement, the Marine Corps said it has not verified the origin or authenticity of the YouTube video. But it also said the actions portrayed are not consistent with Marine values...

http://tinyurl.com/6sqrrf3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Video Brings Accusations of War Crimes: Marines Urinating on Corpses
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/12

The Dignity of Corpses
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/19-1



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