Omega News Share: 20 February 2009

US-Präsident Obama erhöht, vorerst ohne neue Strategie, die Truppen, während sich die Situation verschlechtert.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/29/29769/1.html

rudkla - 20. Feb, 11:29

U.S. needs 60,000 occupation troops in Afghanistan for at Least Three to Four Years

"This is not a temporary force uplift," McKiernan said at a Pentagon news conference. - The bulk of the initial influx of U.S. troops will go to Taliban strongholds in the ethnic Pashtun heartland of southern Afghanistan, where foreign and Afghan troops are, "at best, stalemated,"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/18/AR2009021803373_pf.html

From Information Clearing House

rudkla - 20. Feb, 11:06

Afghan boy among a dozen killed by US strike

US forces killed at least one child, video footage obtained by Reuters on Wednesday showed, in an air strike in western Afghanistan that police say killed 12 civilians and US forces said killed 16 militants.

http://tinyurl.com/acu2ou

From Information Clearing House

http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=US+strike
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths

rudkla - 20. Feb, 11:03

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