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The Taliban Strikes Back
Gary Brecher for AlterNet says: "After six years of ignoring Afghanistan, things have gotten bad enough to force American officials to pay attention. For the past two months, US casualties in Afghanistan... ...
rudkla - 22. Jul, 08:58
Military spending has soared in recent years
The Terrible Plight of Afghan Children The U.S. military alone spends $100 million a day fighting Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan while the total spending by all donors is only $7 million a day, aid... ...
rudkla - 8. Jul, 09:03
Canada: Watchdog to hold public hearings on Afghan detainee transfers
For more than a year, the Military Police Complaints Commission investigated a complaint that transfers of Afghan detainees to Afghan security forces are in violation of international law. http://www.cbc.ca/ca nada/story/2008/03/12/afgh an-detainees.html From.. . ...
rudkla - 13. Mar, 10:15
Israel: War was a catastrophe, top security officials told Olmert
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... ...
rudkla - 31. Mar, 10:24
Blair defends decision to drop fraud probe into Saudi arms deal
Blair said advising the Serious Fraud Office to drop its long-running investigation was necessary to ensure national security, but lawmakers from all political sides accused him of bowing to Saudi demands. http://tinyurl.c om/yku6ml Arms... ...
rudkla - 18. Dec, 12:04
Blair's foreign policy is now a threat to national security
A new prime minister who wants to defuse domestic extremism will need to rethink the relationship with Washington. http://www.guardian.co.u k/comment/story/0,,1857775 ,00.html From Information Clearing... ...
rudkla - 26. Aug, 12:40
Afghan opium cultivation hits a record
Opium cultivation in Afghanistan has hit record levels — up by more than 40 percent from 2005 — despite hundreds of millions in counternarcotics money, Western officials told The Associated Press. http://news.yahoo. com/s/ap/20060816/ap_on_re _as/afghan_opium_boom Fr om... ...
rudkla - 17. Aug, 11:34
Civil liberties 'made for another age'
says Reid Guardian [UK] 08/10/06 John Reid yesterday accused the government's anti-terror critics of putting national security at risk by their failure to recognise the serious nature of the threat facing... ...
rudkla - 10. Aug, 14:03
Afghanistan Close to Anarchy, Warns General
The most senior British military commander in Afghanistan has described the situation in the country as "close to anarchy" with feuding foreign agencies and unethical private security companies compounding... ...
rudkla - 24. Jul, 11:16
Rights group condemns Afghanistan press restrictions
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday demanded that Afghanistan revoke recent National Security Directorate rules that restrict the freedom of the press and effectively ban journalists from writing about... ...
rudkla - 23. Jun, 14:07
