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Officials freeze assets of Kabul Bank shareholders, excepting Karzai’s brother

by RAINman on 07. Sep, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By Andrew Higgins
Washington Post      Sunday, September 5, 2010
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Struggling to contain an escalating crisis at Kabul Bank, Afghan authorities have barred the sale of Kabul properties held by the bank’s principal owners.
But the freeze excludes President Hamid Karzai’s brother, Kabul Bank’s third largest shareholder, who says he does not own property [...]

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Statement: Afghan Resistance – Regarding Petraeus’s Latest Remarks

by RAINman on 25. Aug, 2010 in General

By Qari Yousuf Ahmadi
Spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
August 24, 2010 “Information Clearing House“ – The commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan David Patraeus, in an interview with BBC radio said that the momentum of the Taliban has been reversed in the south of the country and capital Kabul and that if his strategy [...]

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The gangs of Kandahar – the city’s real power?

by RAINman on 19. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Stephen Grey’s investigation on Kandahar was filmed and produced by Stephen and Afghan journalist N.R., (who cannot be named in full) with additional research by Oliver Laughland.
By Channel 4 News     Updated on 16 May 2010

Author Stephen Grey writes about how “warlords” control the Afghan city of Kandahar, a population centre deemed by Nato to be [...]

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Afghanistan “Medal of Honor” video game puts players in role of Taliban, sparking war of words

by RAINman on 18. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

BY Meena Hartenstein
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS – August 16th 2010
A new video game that gives players a view through the eyes of the Taliban is sparking a war of words on the home front.
Set in modern-day Afghanistan, the latest offering from Electronic Arts’ “Medal of Honor” series simulates the conflict between insurgents and [...]

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Living with the Taliban on the Afghan Frontline

by RAINman on 18. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By Alex Thomson
Channel 4 News has obtained rare film of Taliban fighters on the Afghanistan frontline, including footage of their attacks on US forces. Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson looks at what the film tells us about the insurgents and their tactics.
Even if I did want to do it, I would not be [...]

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Afghan Women Have Already Been Abandoned

by RAINman on 18. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Ann Jones
The Nation – August 12, 2010
I know Bibi Aisha, the young Afghan woman pictured on the August 9 cover of Time, and I rejoice that her mutilated nose and ears are going to be surgically repaired. But the logic of those who use Aisha’s story to convince us that the US military must stay [...]

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The Humanitarian Invastion of Afghanistan — Occupation by NGO

by RAINman on 16. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By YVES ENGLER
Yves Engler is the co-author of Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority. His most recent book is Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid. For more information, go to his website, yvesengler.com
CounterPunch     August 13 – 15, 2010
They’re called NGOs — non-governmental organizations — but the description is misleading at best, or an [...]

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Video: Talk of War Crimes as Polish Troops Blow Up Afghan Home ‘for Fun’

by RAINman on 16. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Polish General Promises to Investigate Video
by Jason Ditz
Antiwar Forum  -  August 13, 2010
The Polish Army is promising an investigation following the release of a video showing Polish troops blowing up an Afghan home. An officer serving at the time told the Polish daily that released the report that “it was done for fun.”
Blowing up civilian homes [...]

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The Omar Khadr case makes a mockery of US justice

by RAINman on 13. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Posted by Yo Zushi -
The New Statesman    -  10 August 2010
After eight years in Guantanamo, the last western ‘enemy combatant’ faces a deeply flawed trial.
Omar Khadr was a badly wounded boy of 15 when, in 2002, US forces captured him in Afghanistan. As the dust settled on a suspected al-Qaeda compound after a firefight that [...]

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Saving Women and Preventing Genocide: The Real Reasons We’re in Afghanistan Now

by RAINman on 12. Aug, 2010 in Opinion

By Bretigne Shaffer
Information Clearing House – August 11, 2010
“LewRockwell” – So now the cheerleaders for war would have us believe that they are more concerned for the welfare of Afghan civilians than are those who wish to end the US occupation.
First we have White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs sanctimoniously imploring the editors of [...]

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Afghanistan: In Search of the True Civilian Toll

by RAINman on 11. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By Jean MacKenzie and Aziz Ahmad Shafe
GlobalPost – August 9, 2010
Rigi, Helmand -The issue of civilian casualties has once again assumed center stage in Afghanistan.
The number of civilian war deaths rose 6 percent in the first seven months of 2010 when compared to the same period last year, according to reports released over the weekend. [...]

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31% rise in Afghan civilian deaths

by RAINman on 11. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Independent AP - 10 August 2010
The number of civilians killed or wounded in the Afghan conflict rose 31% in the first six months of the year, and anti-government forces caused about three-quarters of the casualties, the United Nations said in a report today.
“The human cost of this conflict is unfortunately rising,” Staffan De Mistura, the top UN [...]

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