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„Im Herbst 2007 soll im Bundestag zum wiederholten Mal der Einsatz der Bundeswehr in Afghanistan verlängert werden. Die bisherigen Abstimmungen waren ohne besondere Diskussionen und ohne nennenswerten Widerstand über die Bühne gegangen. Einen neue Situation trat erst ein, als im Frühjahr d.J. die Bundesregierung den Afghanistan-Einsatz um die Entsendung von sechs Tornado-Aufklärungsflugzeugen meinte aufstocken zu müssen, angeblich um den Verbündeten NATO-Kräften bei der Identifizierung von feindlichen Taliban-Stellungen behilflich zu sein. Da dieser zusätzliche Einsatz – wohl aus Rücksicht auf die deutliche Ablehnung in der Öffentlichkeit - zunächst nur für ein halbes Jahr bewilligt wurde, steht nun ebenfalls im Herbst auch die Verlängerung dieses Einsatzes an. Wir haben es also um drei Einsätze zu tun, die wir zunächst auch unterschieden müssen…“ Artikel von Von Peter Strutynski vom 2. Juli 2007 beim Friedenspolitischen Ratschlag.

http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/Afghanistan/strutynski3.html


Aus: LabourNet, 2. Juli 2007



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

Just a week after Afghan President Hamid Karzai chastised international forces for being "careless," Afghan officials reported Saturday that possibly 100 or more civilians had been killed in a NATO and U.S.-led "assault".

http://tinyurl.com/2tzstw


From Information Clearing House



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

By Robert Fisk

"Abu Henry" says we may have to remain in Afghanistan for decades to protect Afghans from the Taliban. Our ambassador in Kabul - Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, KCMG, LVO, to be precise - apparently sees no contradiction in this extraordinary prediction.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17947.htm

Jason Burke of The Observer UK reports: "Air strikes in the British-controlled Helmand province of Afghanistan may have killed civilians, coalition troops said yesterday as local people claimed that between 50 and 80 people, many of them women and children, had died."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070107A.shtml

Anti-Taliban air strikes by US- and NATO-led forces in Afghanistan killed 65 villagers including children, a local official said Saturday, amid growing anger here over civilian deaths.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070630/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrest


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

Record opium crop in southern Afghanistan

Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, where some 7,000 British troops are based, is on the verge of becoming the world's biggest drugs supplier, cultivating more opium than entire countries such as Burma, Morocco, or even Colombia, the UN warned yesterday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,2112348,00.html


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There's big business in arms, oil and drugs
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Afghanistan

Alles richtig und gut? http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25592/1.html

U.S.-led , NATO occupation forces fighting "insurgents" in Afghanistan have killed at least 203 civilians so far this year - surpassing the 178 civilians killed in militant attacks, according to an Associated Press tally.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-06-24-karzai_N.htm



Karzai angry over West's tactics

"Innocent people are becoming victims of reckless operations" because the troops had ignored Afghan advice for years, Mr Karzai told reporters. He was speaking after a week in which up to 90 Afghan civilians were killed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6233082.stm


From Information Clearing House

US-led coalition and NATO forces fighting insurgents in Afghanistan have killed at least 203 civilians so far this year - surpassing the 178 civilians killed in militant attacks. Insurgency attacks and military operations have surged in recent weeks, and in the past ten days, more than 90 civilians have been killed by airstrikes and artillery fire targeting Taliban insurgents.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062507P.shtml