Global Research: An average of 18 US military veterans are taking their lives every day as the Obama administration and the Pentagon grow increasingly defensive about the epidemic of suicides driven by Washington’s wars of aggression. The stunning figure was reported last week by the Army Times, citing officials in the US Veterans Affairs...
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Archive for February, 2011
Hidden Toll of US Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: ‘Surge’ in Military Suicides
Explosion rocks Kunduz in N Afghanistan
Xinhua: A powerful blast shocked Kunduz city, the capital of Kunduz province, in north Afganistan on Sunday, police said. “A roadside bomb apparently targeted a convoy of NATO-led troops in Kunduz city this morning but fortunately caused no loss of life,” deputy to provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Haqtash told Xinhua.
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Afghanistan’s ancient treasures must be saved
The Independent: More than 30 years after I watched the Soviet army slithering in their great T-72s past their new headquarters at Bagram north of Kabul, more than nine years since the first Americans took over the same airbase, I have gazed at last upon the treasures of Bagram.
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Robert Fisk: Afghanistan’s ancient treasures must be saved
The Independent: More than 30 years after I watched the Soviet army slithering in their great T-72s past their new headquarters at Bagram north of Kabul, more than nine years since the first Americans took over the same airbase, I have gazed at last upon the treasures of Bagram.
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Roadside Bomb Kills 12 Civilians in Afghanistan
VOA: At least 12 civilians, including women and children, have been killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afganistan. Local officials said the improvised bomb struck a passenger vehicle Wednesday in the Tani district of Khost province. In southern Afganistan, NATO says one of its soldiers was killed in a roadside bombing Wednesday.
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US Military Escalates Its Dirty War In Afghanistan
WSWS.org: The Times reported that “more than a dozen military and civilian officials directly involved in the Kandahar offensive” had agreed to speak about the special forces’ activities because it would help “scare off insurgents” before the bulk of American troops move into Taliban-held areas of the city. This claim is either patent nonsense...
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Foreign forces kill 3 civilians
AFP: INTERNATIONAL troops opened fire on a car in southern Afganistan on Friday, killing two women and a girl after mistaking them for Taleban, the Afgan interior ministry said. The victims were among five civilians who were travelling on a highway in Zabul province when they came under fire, ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told...
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Pentagon Report: The Afghan Bus is in a Ditch
The Huffington Post: What to do with Afganistan? Despite President Obama’s 30,000 strong troop surge and millions of dollars being poured in, the Afgan bus has not managed to extricate itself from the ditch it has been stuck in. The Pentagon’s report to Congress yesterday underlines what most people already know: the population “sympathizes...
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