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Charles Bremner and Richard Beeston, The Times UK: "The official version of the US-led campaign in Afghanistan received a blow today with a leaked report that the British Ambassador in Kabul believes that US strategy is wrong and the war is as good as lost. The potentially explosive views were published by Le Canard Enchaîné, a respected French weekly, which said that they were direct quotations from a diplomatic cable written by François Fitou, the French Deputy Ambassador in Kabul."

http://www.truthout.org/100108R

US losing war in Afghanistan, Pak tribal region: former army chief

Former Pakistani Army chief General `Retd` Mirza Aslam Beg on Tuesday said that US has almost lost its war in Afghanistan and Pakistani tribal region and soon will leave with empty hands.

http://www.mathaba.net/rss/?x=607675



British envoy says mission in Afghanistan says the war is lost

The US-led campaign in Afghanistan received a blow today with a leaked report that the British Ambassador in Kabul believes that US strategy is wrong and the war is as good as lost.

http://tinyurl.com/4aef77


From Information Clearing House



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=tribal+region

US intelligence analysts are putting the final touches on a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan that reportedly describes the situation as "grim", but there are "no plans to declassify" any of it before the election, according to one US official familiar with the process.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5867448&page=1


From Information Clearing House

U.S. commanders in Afghanistan say they expect the Taliban to launch a winter offensive, a move that could bring bloodshed during a time of year that historically has been relatively peaceful.

http://tinyurl.com/52y9yn



US has no more troops for Afghan war until spring

The United States will not have enough forces available to meet a request for more troops from NATO's top commander in Afghanistan until next spring at the earliest, the U.S. defense chief said on Tuesday.

http://africa.reuters.com/energyandoil/news/usnN23376448.html


From Information Clearing House

http://www.nrhz.de/flyer/beitrag.php?id=12914



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Bundeswehr

In der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion wächst offenbar der Widerstand gegen eine Aufstockung des Bundeswehr-Kontingents in Afghanistan um 1000 auf 4500 Soldaten. Der Bundestag stimmt im Oktober über die Verlängerung des Afghanistan-Mandats ab. "Es gibt eine deutliche Zahl von Skeptikern in der Fraktion. Bei den pazifistisch eingestellten Abgeordneten wird es schwer sein, sie von mehr Soldaten für Afghanistan zu überzeugen", sagte der außenpolitische Sprecher der SPD-Bundestagsfraktion, Gert Weisskirchen, der Tageszeitung "Die Welt". Laut dem SPD-Verteidigungsexperten Hans-Peter Bartels haben viele Abgeordnete seiner Fraktion auch genug vom US-geführten Anti-Terror-Kampf "Enduring Freedom" (OEF) in Afghanistan.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18646



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Bundeswehr

„Gegen die geplante Mandatsverlängerung für die Bundeswehr in Afghanistan haben Tausende Menschen in Berlin und Stuttgart protestiert. Die Angaben über die Zahl der Teilnehmer gingen weit auseinander: Die Veranstalter in Berlin zählten rund 7000 Demonstranten, es dürften wohl maximal 5000 gewesen sein. In Stuttgart nahmen laut Polizei 3000 Menschen an der Kundgebung und Demonstration teil…“ Bericht von Werner Weiland vom 21.09.2008 in Linkezeitung http://www.linkezeitung.de/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5384&Itemid=58


6000 in Stuttgart gegen Verlängerung des Bundeswehreinsatzes in Afghanistan

Bericht von Thomas Trueten vom 20. September 2008 http://www.trueten.de/archives/4519-6000-in-Stuttgart-gegen-Verlaengerung-des-Bundeswehreinsatzes-in-Afghanistan.html

Siehe zu Stuttgart auch

die dazu gehörende Bildergalerie http://www.trueten.de/gallery2/v/PolitikundGesellschaft/Friedenskampf/afghanistandemo2008/

Noch mehr Bilder und Links http://revolutionaereaktionstuttgart.fasthoster.de/20080920_demo_bericht.htm


Aus: LabourNet, 22. September 2008



http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Bundeswehr

Miami Herald

09/17/08

U.S. and NATO air bombings in Afghanistan have killed more than 500 civilians since 2006, fueling a public backlash against the coalition’s war effort, a prominent human rights group said Monday. Human Rights Watch, an international organization based in New York, blamed some of the civilian deaths on Taliban and al Qaida insurgents who create ”human shields” by blending into populated areas...

http://tinyurl.com/4f8jmd


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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

Experten malen düsteres Bild von der Situation in Afghanistan.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28720/1.html

Ein Friedensbündnis aus rund 250 Initiativen hat für Samstag (20. September) in Berlin und Stuttgart zum Protest gegen eine Verlängerung des Bundeswehrmandats in Afghanistan aufgerufen. Damit soll an die Abgeordneten des Bundestags appelliert werden, bei der im Oktober anstehenden Abstimmung gegen eine Fortsetzung des Einsatzes zu votieren, sagte ein Sprecher des Bündnisses am Montag (15. September) in Berlin. Nach Ansicht des Friedensbündnisses wird Deutschland immer tiefer in den Afghanistan-Konflikt verstrickt. "Afghanistan droht zum deutschen Vietnam zu werden", sagte der Sprecher. Vor wenigen Tagen hatte das Kabinett beschlossen, dieses Kontingent von derzeit 3500 Soldaten ab Herbst um 1000 Mann zu erhöhen. Dem muss das Parlament noch zustimmen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=18597

One of the most experienced Western envoys in Afghanistan said Sunday that conditions there had become the worst since 2001. He urged a concerted American and foreign response, even before a new American administration took office, to avoid "a very hot winter for all of us."

http://tinyurl.com/5pwrpv


From Information Clearing House

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), as this force is properly known, is responsible for thousands of civilian deaths in Afghanistan. August 22, the US troops in ISAF killed 95 civilians, including 60 children and 19 women, adding to the ever increasing number of civilian deaths.

http://tinyurl.com/6j96tc


From Information Clearing House



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

Toronto Star [Canada]
by Haroon Siddiqui

09/14/08

Have Canadian soldiers been dying in vain in disproportionate numbers in Afghanistan? It’s a reasonable question, given that NATO is panicking over the rise of the Taliban and also over the deteriorating relationship with Pakistan, the West’s main post-9/11 partner in the war on terrorism. Yet the leaders of our national political parties are, for the most part, silent on the subject in the election campaign...

http://www.thestar.com/comment/columnists/article/498602


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp