AFP: A CIA expert has called for recruiting Afgan women in a public relations bid to persuade skeptical Europeans to support the NATO-led war effort, according to a document leaked Friday. “Afgan women could serve as ideal messengers in humanizing” the mission for European audiences, particularly in France, according to the CIA analysis, posted...
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Archive for August, 2010
Recruit Afghan women to sell war to Europeans: CIA report
Criminal past of man asked to run liberated Marjah
Scotland on Sunday: THE man chosen as the fresh face of good governance in an Afgan town just seized from the Taliban has a violent criminal record in Germany. Records in Germany show Zahir served part of a prison sentence for stabbing his son in 1998, but Interpol say he is not on any...
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The Bloody Hands of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
UN Dispatch: During the first half of Afganistan’s civil war in the 1990’s, Hekmatyar’s forces committed atrocities that elsewhere in the world are met with international arrest warrants and indictments for war crimes and crimes against humanity –not hints of future inclusion in government.
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The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight
Newsweek: Mohammad Moqim watches in despair as his men struggle with their AK-47 automatic rifles, doing their best to hit man-size targets 50 meters away. A few of the police trainees lying prone in the mud are decent shots, but the rest shoot clumsily, and fumble as they try to reload their weapons. The...
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A Guantanamo Bay in Afghanistan?
Reuters: The United States is considering a proposal to hold foreign terrorism suspects at the Bagram military base in Afganistan, the Los Angeles Times reported this week, a new Guantanamo Bay just as it is trying to close down the original facility in Cuba. Given the amount of trouble that Washington has...
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AFGHANISTAN: Human rights under pressure
IRIN: Afganistan’s hard-won post-Taliban human rights achievements are being eroded due to the persistent immunity from prosecution of powerful figures, the intensifying conflict, and the adoption of laws which undermine justice and human rights, a UN official warns.
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NATO mortar shell kills a couple and injures woman and children in Khost
PAN: At least two Afgan civilians were killed and four others wounded in crossfire between NATO-led forces and Taliban militants in southeastern Afganistan, officials said. A mortar shell fired by NATO forces hit a house in the Chargoti village, killing a teenaged couple and injuring a man, his wife and two of their children,...
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Afghan amnesty for militants draws UN condemnation
Reuters: The United Nations urged Afganistan on Thursday to repeal a law that grants a blanket pardon for perpetrators of war crimes and rights abuses, saying the law could hamper efforts to make peace. Afgan and international human rights groups expressed alarm earlier this month at the law, which appeared to have been enacted...
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Taliban behead four “US spies”
The Nation: Taliban militants have beheaded four tribesmen accused of spying for US forces, police said. The bodies of four men were found near Mir Ali town in North Waziristan tribal district, which borders Afganistan. Officials said the four were kidnapped by the Taliban about ten days ago.Gul Akber Khan, who lives in the...
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