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Afghanistan: Der deutsche Militäreinsatz lässt sich immer weniger rechtfertigen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25313/1.html

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Erklärung des Bundesausschusses Friedensratschlag zum Tod von Bundeswehrsoldaten in Afghanistan vom 20.5.07 http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/Afghanistan/tote.html


Der Krieg, der nirgendwo hinführt

„Lange Zeit blieb die Bundeswehr verschont. Doch das hat sich nach dem gestrigem Selbstmordanschlag geändert. Drei Tote, sieben Verletzte, davon zwei schwer, forderte die Explosion auf dem Marktplatz von Kundus: der schlimmste Angriff auf deutsche Truppen in Afghanistan seit Jahren. Solche Akte treffen, wie beabsichtigt, den Nerv der Öffentlichkeit. Nur folgerichtig also, dass in den deutschen Medien umgehend die Rede davon war, dass die Diskussion über den Einsatz der deutschen Soldaten in Afghanistan neu entfacht ist, zumal das Afghanistan-Mandat im Herbst ausläuft, wie in vielen Berichten betont wird…“ Artikel von Thomas Pany auf telepolis vom 20.05.2007 http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/25/25313/1.html


„Die Sicherheit Deutschlands wird auch am Hindukusch verteidigt". Afghanistan und die Folgen

Artikel von Peter Strutynski aus der von der Bundestagsfraktion DIE LINKE herausgegebenen Broschüre „Schwarzbuch zur Sicherheits- und Militärpolitik Deutschlands“, Berlin 2007, dokumentiert beim Friedensratschlag http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/themen/Bundeswehr/weissbuch/strutynski.html


Aus: LabourNet, 21. Mai 2007



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

Scores of civilian deaths over the past months from heavy American and allied reliance on airstrikes to battle Taliban insurgents are threatening popular support for the Afghan government and creating severe strains within the NATO alliance.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051307B.shtml

By JASON STRAZIUSO

The proposal from the upper house of parliament, which also calls for a date to be set for the withdrawal of foreign troops, suggests that Afghan support for the five-and-a-half-year-old international military mission is crumbling amid a spate of civilian deaths.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17673.htm

Video

The story of a six day battle the ministary of defense did not want you to see.

http://snipurl.com/1k96w


From Information Clearing House

At least 40 civilians were killed in a foreign forces-led air strike in Afghanistan, witnesses said on Thursday. The deaths took place in the southern province of Helmand and, if confirmed, would raise the civilian death toll at the hands of foreign troops to 110 in the past two weeks.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051007M.shtml

The killing of large numbers of civilians by American forces, through indisciplined firing or as a result of their heavy reliance on air-strikes, has been a bitter feature of the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq-just as it was in Vietnam.

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=9141410&fsrc=RSS


From Information Clearing House

Military specialists with the CIA were among a US force accused of killing more than 50 civilians during the hunt for a Taliban commander in Afghanistan.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/09/wafg09.xml


From Information Clearing House

Airstrikes called in by U.S. Special Forces soldiers fighting "insurgents" in southern Afghanistan killed at least 21 civilians, officials said Wednesday. One coalition soldier was also killed.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/09/asia/AS-GEN-Afghan-Violence.php



Afghan MPs demand end to military offensives

Afghan MPs today called for an end to military offensives by international forces amid reports that 21 civilians had died in a wave of US-led air strikes yesterday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,2075849,00.html


From Information Clearing House

Nearly 60 civilians have been killed in raids by U.S.-led troops in the past week, Afghan officials say, sparking four days so far of anti-American, anti-Karzai protests.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP174602.htm


From Information Clearing House