AOL News: For girls in Afganistan, getting an education has always been difficult, if not impossible. But their struggle appears worse than ever recently as a series of poison gas attacks on girls’ schools has sent at least 88 girls, some as young as 7, to the hospital. The attacks in Kunduz province,...
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Archive for January, 2011
What’s Behind the Poisoning of Afghan Girls
Brain injuries emerging as concern due to roadside bombings in Afghanistan
The Gazette: The roadside bombs of Afganistan are brutal and destructive, though the injuries they cause, both in brain and body, can be subtle. Since 2003, the Taliban’s consistent use of such explosives has killed 84 of Canada’s 142 fallen soldiers, and has made amputees of many others. Often, the bombs tear apart soldiers...
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Afghanistan no just war
Toronto Star: After all that has happened in Afganistan, all the innocents that have been murdered, villages destroyed, women kidnapped and sold into the sex trade, little boys and girls getting kidnapped and also sold into the sex trade, people like Allan Woods are still trying to convince us that we Canadians are fighting...
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MI5 ‘knew about prisoner torture’
Morning Star: Britain has long known that Afganistan is accused of using torture but is still handing over prisoners, new evidence in a legal action against the British government claims. Peace campaigner Maya Evans is bringing a judicial review against the Defence Secretary over allegations that British troops were complicit in the torture of...
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MI5 ‘knew about prisoner torture’
Morning Star: Britain has long known that Afganistan is accused of using torture but is still handing over prisoners, new evidence in a legal action against the British government claims. Peace campaigner Maya Evans is bringing a judicial review against the Defence Secretary over allegations that British troops were complicit in the torture of...
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What’s Behind the Poisoning of Afghan Girls
AOL News: For girls in Afganistan, getting an education has always been difficult, if not impossible. But their struggle appears worse than ever recently as a series of poison gas attacks on girls’ schools has sent at least 88 girls, some as young as 7, to the hospital. The attacks in Kunduz province,...
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What’s Behind the Poisoning of Afghan Girls
AOL News: For girls in Afganistan, getting an education has always been difficult, if not impossible. But their struggle appears worse than ever recently as a series of poison gas attacks on girls’ schools has sent at least 88 girls, some as young as 7, to the hospital. The attacks in Kunduz province,...
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Protestors burn 16 NATO tankers in Logar to protest killing of civilains
PAN: Around 1,000 people Sunday poured onto the streets against the killing of three members of a family in a coalition operation in the central province of Logar, the second demonstration against US troops in two days. The angry residents, chanting slogans against the United States and the provincial administration, blocked the Logar-Gardez highway...
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No friendly waves only hatred for British troops in Afghan town
The Guardian: As with so many of the Helmand towns where the British are present the bazaar in Sangin is officially “thriving”. Indeed, recent visitors have to admit that there are signs of commerce in the long thin strip of shops. But the rest, says David Gill, a photographer who visited Sangin three times...
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Afghanistan War ‘A Waste of Blood and Treasure’
OpedNews.com: As all wars are not morally objectionable, not all wars are permissible. However, even in the situation where use of force becomes permissible, there are certain essential and universally accepted principles that need to be abided… Judging from the above principles, the eight-year-old US war against Afganistan trampled every accepted norms and standard...
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