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The death last Sunday of six Canadian soldiers in southern Afghanistan reminds us of Santayana's famous maxim that those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it.

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"We do not use the phrase 'war on terror' because we can't win by military means alone... this isn't us against one organised enemy with a clear identity and a coherent set of objectives," said an extract from Benn's planned speech.

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This is the first time that Freeh has so openly criticised MI5, which worked closely with the FBI in operations against the IRA while Freeh was FBI director.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article2442155.ece


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The grave was found by local farmers in a desert just outside Faizabad, the capital town of the remote Badakhshan province, deputy governor Shams-ul Rahman Shams said.

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Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death

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

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Faiz Mohammed Karigar, a father of two, fled Kandahar when the Taliban held power in Afghanistan because he was against their restrictions on education. Now he wants the fundamentalists back.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2432448.ece



What the government won't tell you: we are losing Afghan hearts

Our success or failure in Helmand depends not on warlords, or the governor of the province, or even special forces soldiers, but on the ordinary Afghans. And while we are spectacularly winning the war at the tactical level against the Taliban, we are rapidly losing the fight for those ordinary hearts and minds.

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Independent [UK]

04/04/07

The Government’s anti-terror legislation was dealt a blow yesterday when a judge ruled that restrictions controlling the movements of a man suspected of terrorism had unlawfully deprived him of his liberty. Mr Justice Beatson, sitting at the High Court in London, quashed a control order imposed by the Home Secretary, John Reid, on Mahmoud Abu Rideh, a Palestinian refugee. The Government said it would appeal against the ruling. Abu Rideh is the second terror suspect this year to win a court case against the Government’s anti-terrorism restrictions...

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2422645.ece


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Die Friedensbewegung wendet sich bei ihren Ostermärschen in diesem Jahr gegen die Auslandseinsätze der Bundeswehr und warnt vor einem Krieg gegen Iran. Besondere Kritik richte sich gegen die Entsendung der deutschen "Tornado"-Aufklärungsflugzeuge, teilte das Netzwerk Friedenskooperative am Mittwoch in Bonn mit. Bei den Ostermärschen wird auch für eine Beteiligung an den Protestaktionen zum G8-Gipfel Anfang Juni in Heiligendamm geworben.

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During a training exercise, Air Vice-Marshal David Walker put it to newly qualified pilots that they should think of flying suicide missions in a "worst case scenario" when a terrorist attack was imminent.

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As in Iraq - the war-mongers insist that 'progress' is being made. The Americans do not care about civilians dying either in Iraq or in Afghanistan. From the US perspective, perhaps every civilian killed is a future 'terrorist.'

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Two Afghanistan experts painted a sobering picture of the conditions there yesterday, arguing support among Afghans for NATO forces is plummeting, the U.S.-driven policy of poppy eradication is wrongheaded, and the war might not be winnable in its present form.

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The heads of Israel's main security organizations, the Mossad and the Shin Bet, harshly criticized the results of the Second Lebanon War during a meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, calling it "a national catastrophe."

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-3383151,00.html


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