World-News

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their supporters into the Afghan government.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15194.htm

Survey

A clear majority of Canadians consider the mission in Afghanistan a lost cause, according to an extensive survey that hints at deep public skepticism about the war on terror.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15189.htm

Mercury News

09/29/06

Amid signs that the Taliban insurgency is regaining strength, President Bush on Friday defended his efforts to stabilize war-savaged Afghanistan and blasted critics who charge that his policies there are failing. Afghanistan is reeling from its worst bloodshed since the 2001 U.S.-led intervention as the Taliban and allied warlords tie down 42,000 American and NATO-led troops and President Hamid Karzai struggles with colossal corruption, record opium production and nose-diving popularity.In his most extensive remarks on Afghanistan recently, Bush sought to accentuate the positive...

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/15642585.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The US Plan to Pacify Afghanistan and Control It As A Neocolonial State.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15146.htm

Independent [UK]

09/27/06

Pupils should be encouraged to challenge authority in new-style citizenship lessons, school inspectors will say today. A report by Ofsted, the education standards watchdog, rejects the notion that the lessons -- made a compulsory part of the secondary school curriculum four years ago -- should be about teaching 'compliance, good behaviour and the acceptance of values.' It says that much of the best practice it has seen in schools has focused instead onchallenging and promoting a 'critical democracy'...

http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article1768847.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Afghanistan is a case study in what went wrong in the war on terror. This report paints a troubling picture of abuse by US Special Forces units deployed to the country. Apparently unknown to Army officials, two detainees had died in the team's custody in separate incidents during the unit's final month in eastern Afghanistan. Several other detainees allege that they were badly beaten or tortured while held by US forces.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092506O.shtml

Up to 20,000 demonstrators have marched through the northern English city of Manchester to protest the presence of British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://snipurl.com/x1jz


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Time To Go

"In Britain, thanks to Blair, a sea-change in public attitudes has taken place. No less than 80 per cent regard him as a liar; 82 per cent believe his warmongering was a principal cause of the London bombings; 72 per cent believe he has made this country a target." John Pilger

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15078.htm

A senior officer in the British army has said that casualty figures from Afghanistan are being systematically under-reported for political reasons.

http://snipurl.com/nr1t


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The Nato occupation of Afghanistan is facing growing resistance after almost five years. Jonathan Neale looks at the crisis facing US and British troops in the region.

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9708


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More than 100 senior doctors today accused the government of colluding in war crimes by refusing to give medical aid to British residents detained at Guantánamo Bay.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1875367,00.html


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