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"Most people in the United States haven't given a moment's thought to the war in Afghanistan in a very long time. That war is over, we are told, and we won," writes William Rivers Pitt. "The Taliban was routed, and al Qaeda lost a safe haven. The war in Afghanistan, as it turns out, is far from over."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090806J.shtml



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By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth

The measure of a human rights organisation is to be found not just in the strides it takes to seek justice for the oppressed and victimised but also in the compromises it makes to keep itself out of trouble. Because of the business that human rights defenders are in, they must be held to a standard higher than we demand of others.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14882.htm

Knesset members suggested using some of the $1.75 billion that Israel receives annually from the United States. But defense officials said that for the next few years, most of this aid is already committed to buying Apache helicopters, F-16 planes, air force ammunition and fuel.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/759710.html


From Information Clearing House

Tony Blair was booed and faced chants of "out, out, out" by pupils at the school at which he made a statement about his future.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/5324608.stm


From Information Clearing House

Tony Blair has faced a wave of resignations by junior members of his government over his refusal to name a date for resignation as Labour leader.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5319328.stm

Six junior members of Prime Minister Tony Blair's government have resigned in protest Wednesday over Blair's refusal to name a date for his resignation as Labour leader.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090606D.shtml

Five Years On, the US-led International Community has Failed Afghanistan.

http://www.senliscouncil.net/modules/publications/014_publication


From Information Clearing House

The longest-serving Western journalist in the region, Gannon overturns simplistic understanding of the country's politics in this eye-opening talk.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14841.htm

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In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3267.htm

Israel destroyed or damaged in south Lebanon 1489 buildings, 21 of 29 bridges over the Litani river, 535 sections of road and 545 cultivated fields during its 34-day military offensive, according to an EU assessment released today.

http://tinyurl.com/zvbwv


From Information Clearing House

Tony Blair's position has been further undermined by the drafting of a private letter from a majority of the 2001 intake of Labor MPs urging him to resign.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090506F.shtml

Die englische Regierung will möglichst früh gegen potenzielle Gefahren für die Gesellschaft vorgehen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23479/1.html

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0609a.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

To understand the failure -- and fraud -- of reconstruction in Afghanistan, you have to take a look at the peculiar system of U.S. aid for international development.

http://tinyurl.com/ll7nj


From Information Clearing House

By Daniel Sturm

When I was in the Occupied Territories, you could have said that I was an American soldier. After all, I owned an M-16 that wasn't produced in Israel. I shot grenades that weren't produced with Israeli money, but by American money. Everyone, and especially Americans, have a responsibility to know what's going on in the world. And since I am from here, I am talking about here.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14826.htm

Das von der US-Regierung einst als Modell für ihre Befreiuungspolitik angepriesene Afghanistan versinkt weiter im Chaos, während eine Opium-Rekordernete eingefahren wurde; deutsche Soldaten sind für anstehende Kämpfe schlecht gerüstet.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23480/1.html

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/5070/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

'Self-indulgent' PM urged to 'end the pantomime' as senior ministers meet to hasten his departure.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1325433.ece


From Information Clearing House

Opium production in Afghanistan has reached a new high of 6,100 tons this year, witnessing a rise of nearly 50 percent year-on-year, said a senior UN anti-drug official on Saturday, who asked the Afghan government to exercise iron control over the illegal business.

http://tinyurl.com/gkr8k


From Information Clearing House

Tomorrow's potential troublemakers can be identified even before they are born, Tony Blair has suggested. He said teenage mums and problem families could be forced to take help to head off difficulties. - There could be sanctions for parents who refused to take advice, he said.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14786.htm

The party conference is the prime minister's last chance to do the right thing and announce his timetable for departure.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1861708,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Evidence is thin against some of the 25 Muslims British police detained in the alleged plot to bomb U.S. aircraft, the Chicago Tribune reports.

http://tinyurl.com/qy9gn


From Information Clearing House

In an unusually candid assessment, the official conceded that the former Defence Secretary had "insufficiently communicated" the risks soldiers would face in the lawless Helmand Province.

http://tinyurl.com/q8j7f


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