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Lacking Money and Leadership, Push for Taliban Defectors Stalls

by RAINman on 08. Sep, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By ROD NORDLAND
The New York Times         Published: September 6, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — A $250 million program to lure low-level Taliban fighters away from the insurgency has stalled, with Afghans bickering over who should run it, and international donors slow to put up the money they had promised.
Six months after Afghanistan’s foreign backers agreed to [...]

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Video: ‘Medal of Honor’ game sparks anger

by RAINman on 24. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Aljazeera Sunday, August 22, 2010
A new US video game in which the player can take on the role of a Taliban fighter and kill American and British soldiers has caused outrage in the UK.
The country’s defence minister says it is “tasteless” and “shocking” and has called for the product to be banned.
But the makers of “Medal [...]

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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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With Its Horrifying Cover Story, Time Gave the War a Boost. Did Its Reporter Profit?

by RAINman on 16. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By John Gorenfeld
Observer     August 12, 2010
The maimed face of 18-year-old Aisha, her nose and ears cut off as punishment by her Afghan husband for fleeing his home, made the cover of Time magazine last week and changed the debate over the country’s military involvement in Afghanistan. Hitting stands just as a growing chorus [...]

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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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Aid Group Doubts Taliban Role in Medical Team’s Killing

Aid Group Doubts Taliban Role in Medical Team’s Killing

by RAINman on 11. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Team’s Driver Being Held by Afghan Govt
by Jason Ditz
Antiwar Forum  -   August 09, 2010
The International Assistance Mission (IAM), a humanitarian aid group which has been operating in Afghanistan for decades, downplayed claims of responsibility by the Taliban for the killing of 10 members of a medical team.
Dirk Frans, the group’s executive director, said he doubts the [...]

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Photo of disfigured Afghan woman outrages America

by RAINman on 02. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By Patrick Cockburn
Independent   -   Saturday, 31 July 2010
A shocking picture of an 18-year-old Afghan woman whose nose was hacked off after she fled an abusive husband has stirred up the long-running controversy over whether Nato forces should negotiate with the Taliban.
The girl in the picture, which appears on the front of Time magazine this week, also [...]

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The other, powerful Karzai boss in Afghanistan

by RAINman on 15. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By Dan Murphy, Staff writer
The Christian Science Monitor  -   July 14, 2010
Kandahar, Afghanistan
Ahmed Wali Karzai, leader of the Popalzai tribe and the most powerful man in Kandahar, settles down in his chambers for another round of grievance hearing, dispute settling, and political strategizing.
Gazed down upon by a photo of his assassinated father and bathed [...]

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U.S. Rebuilds Power Plant, Taliban Reap a Windfall

by RAINman on 14. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV
Wall Street Journal    JULY 13, 2010
LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan—The U.S. has poured more than $100 million into upgrading the Kajaki hydropower plant, the biggest source of electricity in south Afghanistan. And it plans on spending much more, in an effort to woo local sympathies away from the Taliban insurgency.
Yet, one of the biggest [...]

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