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Future of Freedom Foundation

by Sheldon Richman

08/10/10

Thanks to Wikileaks and heroic leakers inside the military, we now know the U.S. government has killed many more innocent Afghan civilians than we were aware of heretofore. We also know that American military and intelligence personnel roam Afghanistan assassinating suspected bad guys. Sometimes they kill people they later acknowledge weren’t bad guys at all. ‘Bad guys,’ like ‘Taliban,’ is implicitly defined as anyone who resists the U.S. occupation force and the corrupt puppet government it keeps in power. What other atrocities are our misleaders and misrepresentatives committing in our name?

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1008b.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan: Beyond the Body Count

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "The United Nations announced on Tuesday that the rate of civilian casualties in Afghanistan is reaching an all-time high as the US-led occupiers escalate a war that has ravaged the country since 2001. The report proves that the situation is getting worse for the people of Afghanistan amid allegations that coalition governments have attempted to cover up recent civilian massacres. The report tracks 2010 civilian casualties up to June 30, and does not include the consequences of escalated fighting during July."

http://www.truth-out.org/civilian-casualties-afghanistan-reach-all-time-high62222



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Afghan civilians dying at a faster pace, U.N. says

For ordinary Afghans, going about one's daily business - commuting to school or work, shopping, riding the bus - is getting more dangerous all the time.

http://bit.ly/bqhP5w


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U.S. Supersizes Afghan Mega-Base as Withdrawal Date Looms
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/09

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Wikileaks must be protected and respected

Fr33 Agents
by George Donnelly

08/08/10

WikiLeaks represents a clear and present danger to the United States government’s campaign of murder, occupation, torture, theft, spying and propaganda worldwide. That is why commentators such as Marc Thiessen of the Washington Post so strenuously demand that it be shut down. This is also why you must step forward in support of WikiLeaks, before its founder Julian Assange turns up shackled in a secret CIA prison overseas...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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WikiLeaks to publish new documents

ABC News

08/07/10

The online whistle-blower WikiLeaks said it will continue to publish more secret files from governments around the world despite U.S. demands to cancel plans to release classified military documents. ‘I can assure you that we will keep publishing documents — that’s what we do,’ a WikiLeaks spokesman, who says he goes by the name Daniel Schmitt in order to protect his identity, told The Associated Press in an interview Saturday...

http://tinyurl.com/329p685



The information war

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

08/09/10

No doubt the WikiLeaks furor will give a big boost to the currently fashionable area of ‘cyber warfare,’ to which billions of our tax dollars are being diverted. As Obama’s right hand man, Rahm Emanuel, reminded us, every crisis is an opportunity to expand the power and reach of the State. Yet our government’s cyber-wars will no doubt prove even less successful than their current ‘real world’ failures in Iraq and Afghanistan. After all, these are the same folks who still don’t have an integrated anti-terrorist database...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/08/08/the-information-war/



Gandalf and Wikileaks

Unqualified Offerings
by Thoreau

08/07/10

Hearing that WikiLeaks may be undermining a war effort does not make me upset. It makes me happy. There’s nothing more Christian than interfering with efforts to kill lots and lots of people. For that matter, there’s nothing more libertarian than interfering with efforts to kill lots and lots of people. So you’ll hear no wailing and gnashing of teeth from me if WikiLeaks undermines a war effort. However, I am disturbed to hear that WikiLeaks is compromising the identities of informants...

http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2010/08/07/11532


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Between the Bomb and the Burqa

Yana Kunichoff and Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "An internal Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) document released by WikiLeaks in March reveals a secret plan to use the plight of Afghan women and refugees in developing media strategies to 'leverage French (and other European) guilt' during an especially bloody summer of military escalation. The confidential document was prepared by the Red Cell, a secretive group that consults the US intelligence community."

http://www.truth-out.org/between-bomb-and-burqa62110



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Taylor Barnes, The Christian Science Monitor: "With WikiLeaks on the verge of publishing another cache of secret Afghan war documents 20 times larger than its original leak, the Pentagon said Thursday that it may 'compel them to do the right thing.'"

http://www.truth-out.org/pentagon-threatens-compel-wikileaks-hand-over-afghan-war-data62076



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By Press TV

President Hamid Karzai's office said late on Wednesday the inquiry shows 39 civilians -- all women and children -- were killed in the attack.

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Nato admits killing Afghan civilian

The undetermined number of deaths occurred on Thursday in the Shirzad district of Nangarhar province. Nato's International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) promised in a statement that the families of the victims would be compensated.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/08/20108518032745994.html



Afghans Say NATO Strikes Killed Civilians

NATO officials acknowledged preliminary reports that four to a dozen or more civilians were killed in a coalition airstrike Thursday in Nangarhar Province. Afghan accounts put the civilian deaths as high as 32.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/world/asia/06afghan.html



U.S. troops kill Afghan civilians

As many as "a dozen or more" Afghan civilians died during a nighttime raid by U.S. troops hunting for Taliban commanders in eastern Afghanistan, military officials acknowledged Thursday.

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/05/2132144/afghan-civilians-killed-in-nighttime.html



Family, U.S. offer differing versions of deadly Afghan raid

Aman lay bleeding in his family guest room, alongside two of his brothers, all shot dead by U.S. special forces who were on the hunt for a Taliban leader.

http://bit.ly/bOaNA8


From Information Clearing House

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“Air strike kills Afghans” hours after Petraeus warning

BBC News [UK]

08/05/10

A Nato air strike is said to have killed at least 12 Afghan civilians, hours after the US commander urged his forces to avoid hurting non-combatants. The Nato-led Isaf force said it regretted the ‘apparent’ loss of life in Nangarhar province, where its forces had been conducting operations. … Mohammad Hassan, head of Nangarhar’s Khogyani district, told news agencies that between 12 and 14 people had been killed in one incident. Villagers were carrying the body of a flood victim for burial in their home village when they were bombed by Nato planes, he told Reuters news agency...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-10884484


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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"Down with Obama!": Afghan Villagers Protest Night Raids
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/18-1



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In These Times
by Noam Chomsky

08/03/10

The War Logs — a six-year archive of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan, released on the Internet by the organization WikiLeaks — documents a grim struggle becoming grimmer, from the U.S. perspective. And for the Afghans, a mounting horror. The War Logs, however valuable, may contribute to the unfortunate and prevailing doctrine that wars are wrong only if they aren’t successful — rather like the Nazis felt after Stalingrad...

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Has Congress become useless?

Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

08/03/10

Has Congress become ‘a useless appendix on the governmental structure?’ That was what then-Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark., feared in 1968, according to newly released transcripts from the committee’s closed-session debates over Vietnam. Unless Congress was willing to assert itself on the war, he said, ‘I do not see how we have any real function.’ Last week found Congress once again doing a good imitation of a vestigial organ, as the House forked over $37 billion more for our endless Afghan adventure...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=12023



Alpha dogs

San Francisco Chronicle
by Jon Carroll

08/03/10

The interesting thing about those 90,000 leaked documents from WikiLeaks about the Afghanistan war was how unsurprising they were…. They told us we were doing badly in Afghanistan, which, duh. … Secrecy for the sake of secrecy is what got us here, from way back in the halcyon days of the invasion of Iraq. Remember when you weren’t supposed to call it an ‘invasion’ …? Obama ain’t Bush, but he apparently is equally fanatical about stopping leaks in his White House. … Well, good luck on that one. He should be grateful for something like WikiLeaks, which at least took the time to redact certain documents that might put American soldiers in harm’s way...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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„US-Elitesoldaten haben nach einem Medienbericht mindestens einen Taliban-Kommandeur in Afghanistan mit Hilfe deutscher Informationen gezielt getötet. Die Bundeswehr habe Qari Bashir 2009 zur Gefangennahme auf die Nato-Fahndungsliste gesetzt, berichtet der Spiegel. Der Mann sei dann im November 2009 bei einer mehrtägigen Operation nordwestlich von Kundus von US-Spezialkräften getötet worden. Bashir habe rund 50 Kämpfer unter seinem Befehl gehabt…“ Artikel in Süddeutsche Zeitung vom 31.07.2010 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/jagd-auf-taliban-bundeswehr-in-gezielte-toetung-verstrickt-1.982340


EADS macht (in) Schule

„Ein Kooperationsvertrag der EADS aus Friedrichshafen mit vier Gymnasien im Bodenseeraum sorgt für Unruhe. Welche Art der Zusammenarbeit wird da angestrebt zwischen Europas größtem Luft-, Raumfahrt- und Rüstungskonzern und den Schulen? „Verkaufen sich die Gymnasien an die Rüstungsindustrie“, wie die Friedensbewegung argwöhnt, oder handelt es sich um eine „Bildungspartnerschaft, wie es sie tausendfach im Land gibt“?...“ Artikel von H.-P. Koch vom 29. Juli 2010 bei SeeMoZ


Aus: LabourNet, 3. August 2010



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