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Times Online [UK]

03/04/07

Children aged 11 to 16 are to have their fingerprints taken and stored on a secret database, internal Whitehall documents reveal. The leaked Home Office plans show that the mass fingerprinting will start in 2010, with a batch of 295,000 youngsters who apply for passports. The Home Office expects 545,000 children aged 11 and over to have their prints taken in 2011, with the figure settling at an annual 495,000 from 2014. Their fingerprints will be held on a database also used by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate to store the fingerprints of hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers. The plans are outlined in a series of ‘restricted’ documents circulating among officials in the Identity and Passport Service. They form part of the programme for the introduction of new biometric passports and ID cards...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1466943.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

A NATO air strike hit a house during a firefight between Western troops and militants, killing nine Afghans who lived there: five women, three boys and a man, said Sayad Mohammad Dawood Hashimmi, Kapisa deputy governor.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030507R.shtml

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Nine Killed As US Drops Two 2,000lb Bombs On Afghan Civilians

Nine Afghan civilians were killed when US occupation forces dropped two 2,000 lb bombs during a bombing raid in Kapisa province, Afghan officials said.

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CNN

03/04/07

Afghan journalists covering the aftermath of a suicide bomb attack and shooting in eastern Afghanistan Sunday said U.S. troops deleted their photos and video and warned them not to publish or air any images of U.S. troops or a car where three Afghans were shot to death. Afghan witnesses and gunshot victims said U.S. forces fired on civilians in cars and on foot along at least a six-mile stretch of road in Nangarhar province following a suicide attack against the Marine convoy...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Independent Reporting Drew Army Coverup, Secrecy, Delays

Officials in the US military from the Pentagon on down tried to thwart reporters for the LA Times who uncovered deaths and possible torture of detainees in Afghanistan.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030507B.shtml

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US 'erased Afghan attack footage'

Journalists working for AP said US occupation troops erased images of a vehicle in which three people had been shot dead.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6419235.stm


From Information Clearing House

Can an Afghan woman, armed with only a strong voice and a fierce loyalty to her homeland, overcome entrenched views and death threats to help bring democracy to Afghanistan? On March 2 at 8:30 p.m., David Brancaccio talks with Danish filmmaker Eva Mulvad about her upcoming documentary, "Enemies of Happiness."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030107U.shtml

Steeling for a spring offensive, the Taleban said today they had sent 1,000 suicide bombers to relatively quiet northern Afghanistan, a day after a suicide blast targeted Vice President Dick Cheney.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=340&objectid=10426425


From Information Clearing House

http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_1_oh_to_be.html


Informant: Lew Rockwell

By Robert Fisk

Those sending British troops to Afghanistan should learn the lessons of the Battle of Maiwand.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17174.htm