The Women’s International Perspective: The revelation that the number of opium-addicted Afgan children has reached new highs is a sad unintended consequence of that war. It dramatically illustrates how adult war games can doom generations of children to a miserable life. A group of researchers hired by the US State Department found staggering levels...
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Archive for April, 2011
Opium-Addicted Children Pay Heavy Price for Afghan War
UN refugee chief: Security worse in Afghanistan
The Associated Press: Security in Afganistan has deteriorated in recent months to the extent that foreign staff of the U.N.’s refugee agency are unable to travel to half of the country, its top official said Wednesday. The agency has to rely on local staff or Afgan partner organizations to reach tens of thousands of...
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CIA allowed to kill terrorist suspects without identification
The Sydney Morning Herald: The CIA received secret permission to attack a wider range of targets, including suspected militants whose names are not known, as part of a dramatic expansion of its campaign of drone strikes in Pakistan’s border region, current and former counter-terrorism officials say. The expanded authority, approved two years ago by...
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FACTBOX-A look at costs of Afghan war to U.S. taxpayers
Reuters: President Barack Obama’s request in February for more money to pay for the war in Afganistan is still snarled in Congress as lawmakers work on other priorities and deal with scarce budget resources. Obama has asked for $33 billion more to help fund 30,000 extra U.S. soldiers being sent to Afganistan this year....
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Afghans demonstrate against Iranian ‘ill-treatment’
BBC News: Hundreds of Afghans have demonstrated against alleged ill-treatment and executions of a number Afgan refugees by the Iranian authorities. Their protest follows a recent visit by a delegation of Afgan MPs to Iran to assess the plight of one million Afghans who live in the country. Several thousand have been arrested by...
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Losing Afghan hearts and minds
Asia Times Online: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is losing hearts and minds in Afganistan, according to a report by the International Council on Security and Development (ICOS) that gives a clear signal of the dangers of the military operation against Kandahar planned for this summer. Contrary to its stated objectives of protecting...
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An Afghan Woman Beheaded in Zabul
PAN (Translated by RAWA): A woman in Qalat city of Zabul was killed in a mysterious manner. A police source who refused to name himself, told PAN on May 3rd that this incident had occurred in the Kharwarian area of Qalat. According to him the woman killed was called Zakira and her body had...
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Pakistani smugglers supplying Afghan bombmakers
Los Angeles Times: Twice a week, a caravan of trucks lumbers out of this volatile northwest Pakistan city in the dead of night and makes its way toward Afganistan, loaded with one of the most coveted substances in a Taliban bombmaker’s arsenal: ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Every time the illicit caravan makes its trip, it...
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