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By M K Bhadrakumar

On Tuesday, Karzai utilized the opening of the Afghan parliament's winter session in Kabul to criticize the United States-led coalition for its conduct of the war, its manner of bypassing his government as if it was inconsequential as a source of Afghan authority, its patronage of "warlords", the corruption and waste in its aid programs and its condoning of drug trafficking.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21825.htm



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Afghan Defense Ministry admitted Wednesday that government troops failed to maintain military presence in four districts of the insurgency-rampant country's southern region.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/14/content_10657917.htm


From Information Clearing House

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/12/24-3



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By Tom Lasseter

Seven years ago, a convoy of container trucks rumbled across northern Afghanistan loaded with a human cargo of suspected Taliban and al Qaida members who'd surrendered to Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, an Afghan warlord and a key U.S. ally in ousting the Taliban regime.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21446.htm



Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death

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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/article20740.htm



US general warns British forces are in Afghanistan stalemate

British forces are locked in a stalemate against the Taliban and need tens of thousands of reinforcements to win, America's top general in Afghanistan said yesterday.

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West paying Taliban protection money

Taleban tax: allied supply convoys pay their enemies for safe passage.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5327683.ece


From Information Clearing House

By James Cogan

The Labor government repeatedly tries to ennoble the Afghan war with flowery descriptions of Australian soldiers as "heroes" who are "putting their lives on the line for the rest us". The truth is they are killing and maiming people, including entirely innocent civilians, of an oppressed country for a thoroughly reactionary, neo-colonial cause.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21430.htm

By Robert Fisk

Memo to the Americans, the Brits, the Canadians and the rest of Humpty Dumpty's men. Read Roberts. Read history.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21299.htm



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Civilians in Afghanistan have paid the heaviest price for the conflict in their country, caught up almost daily in both Taliban attacks and air raids by US force. Al Jazeea's David Chater has been to the main hospital in the Afghan city of Kandaha, where he heard some of their stories.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21287.htm