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NFI. 56 Killed None Insurgent

Wikileaks veröffentlicht fast 92.000 meist geheime Dokumente des US-Militärs, die Einblick in die Situation in Afghanistan gewähren.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33029/1.html

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Wie die Wahrheits Hacker von WikiLeaks die Freie Presse fördern
http://quintessenz.at/d/000100008045

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28. Juli 2010

Afghanistan-Dokumente dürfen nicht folgenlos bleiben

Die Vorsitzende der LINKEN, Gesine Lötzsch fordert Konsequenzen aus den jetzt verfügbaren Dokumenten über den Afghanistankrieg. Lötzsch hält eine Überprüfung und Neuabstimmung der Afghanistan-Mandate der Bundeswehr für notwendig.

Es wird immer klarer, dass in Afghanistan Krieg herrscht, wie wir es von Anfang an gesagt haben. Bei der Verabschiedung der Afghanistanmandate lagen nicht alle Informationen vor, die jetzt verfügbar sind. Die Situation am Hindukusch eskaliert seit Jahren. Wir müssen den Mut aufbringen, der Wahrheit ins Auge zu schauen. Die Bundeswehr steht in Afghanistan in einem Kriegseinsatz. Die Zahl der unschuldigen Opfer steigt ständig. Die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung will einen baldigen Abzug. Die Afghanistanmandate der Bundeswehr müssen jetzt in Kenntnis der neuen Dokumente überprüft und neu zur Abstimmung gestellt werden, damit sich alle Abgeordneten fragen können, ob sie diesen Einsatz noch vor ihrem Gewissen verantworten können. An dieser Debatte kommt niemand mehr vorbei. Wir sind für den sofortigen Abzug der Bundeswehr aus diesem Krieg.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/afghanistan-dokumente-duerfen-nicht-folgenlos-bleiben/



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Afghanistan War Logs: Massive Leak of Secret Files Exposes Truth of Occupation

By Nick Davies and David Leigh

Hundreds of civilians killed by coalition troops · Covert unit hunts leaders for 'kill or capture' · Steep rise in Taliban bomb attacks on Nato · Read the Guardian's full war logs investigation.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26016.htm



How US Marines Sanitised Record of Bloodbath

By Declan Walsh

War logs show how marines gave cleaned up accounts of incident in which they killed 19 civilians.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26024.htm



Secret CIA Paramilitaries' Role in Civilian Deaths

By David Leigh

Innocent Afghan men, women and children have paid the price of the Americans' rules of engagement.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26019.htm



Task Force 373: Special Forces Death Squads Hunting Top Taliban

By Nick Davies

The Nato coalition in Afghanistan has been using an undisclosed "black" unit of special forces, Task Force 373, to hunt down targets for death or detention without trial. Details of more than 2,000 senior figures from the Taliban and al-Qaida are held on a "kill or capture" list.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26018.htm



Afghan War Leaks Expose Costly Folly

By Ray McGovern

The brutality and fecklessness of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan have been laid bare in an indisputable way just days before the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on whether to throw $33.5 billion more into the Afghan quagmire, when that money is badly needed at home.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26022.htm



US Attack Kills 52 In Afghan Village

A Nato rocket attack on a village in Afghanistan last week killed 52 civilians, including women and children, the office of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has said in a statement.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/2010726143021529494.html



Afghan leader calls for probe into civilian deaths

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into the deaths of "a number" of civilians in a rocket attack in southern Afghanistan, his spokesman told AFP on Monday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100726/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestcivilians



Civilians caught in firing line of British troops

The US army's archives contain descriptions of at least 21 separate occasions in which British troops are said to have shot or bombed Afghan civilians, including women and children.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/british-troops-afghan-civilian-shootings



Julian Assange on the Afghanistan war logs

'They show the true nature of this war': Video: Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, explains why he decided to publish thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan.

http://bit.ly/cvBI06



Download Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010



Wikileaks Afghanistan files: download the key incidents as a spreadsheet

Key incidents from the Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs selected by Guardian writers. As a spreadsheet, with co-ordinates.

http://bit.ly/aVVDDZ



How the US is losing the battle for hearts and minds

Leaked Afghanistan war logs reveal villagers' unenthusiastic responses to US army attempts to build bridges.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/26/us-battle-hearts-minds-afghanistan



Afghan files: Task Force 373 - the Taliban hunters

Channel 4 News analyses claims Task Force 373 appeared to botch attempts to kill al-Qaida operatives.

http://bit.ly/aS2J0T



Congress's response to WikiLeaks: shoot the messenger

Despite the release of some 92,000 classified documents that cast doubt on the success of the US war effort in Afghanistan, all but the staunchest antiwar members of Congress focused their most scathing words Monday on WikiLeaks, the website that published the material.

http://bit.ly/cnzzKg


From Information Clearing House

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This Was All Secret?

Eugene Robinson: "The tens of thousands of classified military documents posted on the Internet Sunday confirm what critics of the war in Afghanistan already knew or suspected: We are wading deeper into a long-running, morally ambiguous conflict that has virtually no chance of ending well. The Obama administration, our NATO allies and the Afghan government responded to the documents - made public by a gadfly organization known as Wikileaks - by saying they tell us nothing new. Which is the problem."

http://www.truth-out.org/eugene-robinson-this-was-all-secret61719



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Wall Street Journal

07/25/10

Thousands of secret military documents were released Sunday by a Web-based organization, a gigantic leak of classified information that appeared to present a bleak view of Afghanistan war and could have a profound impact on the public perception of the conflict. The release of the documents, which were obtained and made public by the website WikiLeaks, evoked the Pentagon Papers, the secret history of the Vietnam War, which when published contradicted the public narrative of that war and played a role in turning public opinion against it...

http://tinyurl.com/23fu4tv



Bradley Manning’s gift

AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

07/26/10

They said the huge cache of classified documents — including 250,000 diplomatic messages passed from US embassies around the world to Washington — was a fantasy, ‘boasting’ by Pfc. Bradley Manning, the intelligence analyst who gave Wikileaks that video of US soldiers laughing and shouting ‘good shot!’ as they mowed down Iraqi civilians. The ‘hi tech’ media, especially Wired magazine, did everything they could do discredit and smear him, including spreading rumors about his alleged sexuality. Now, with the release of over 91,000 internal US government communications, intelligence analyses and incident reports via Wikileaks, the motive behind the determined effort to smear Manning and shut down Wikileaks is all too apparent...

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2010/07/25/bradley-mannings-gift/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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The Opposites Game: All the Strangeness of Our American World in One Article
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/26-8

The Heroism of PFC Bradley Manning
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/30-1

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Pentagon Eyes Accused Analyst Over WikiLeaks Data

Military investigators are checking computers used by Bradley Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst charged this month with leaking classified information, to see if he is the source of thousands of military documents published Sunday by WikiLeaks.

http://bit.ly/bJl8W4



Legal Fund Established to Fight Imprisonment of Accused WikiLeaks Whistleblower

At 4PM EST on July 27, the Bradley Manning Support Network ( http://www.bradleymanning.org ) will begin accepting online donations for the legal defense of Private First Class Bradley Manning.

http://www.bradleymanning.org/


From Information Clearing House



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Concerns about the lack of progress in Afghanistan are rising as U.S. lawmakers consider an emergency funding bill.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/20/world/la-fg-afghan-war-support-20100721



Senate Approves $60B for Afghanistan Surge

In a take-it-or-leave-it gesture, the Senate voted Thursday night to reject more than $20 billion in domestic spending the House had tacked on to its $60 billion bill to fund President Barack Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/22/politics/main6704719.shtml


From Information Clearing House

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Will House Dems Oppose a Jobless War Supplemental?
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/23-13

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Time to Make a Fuss

Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "Obama's latest supplemental spending request, which would sign away $33 billion more for Afghanistan and Iraq, is hovering on the brink of passage. Those billions would be heaped on top of the $159.3 billion that Congress approved (with little fuss) for the wars in May. Now, if ever, Congress should be fussing - and so should the rest of us."

http://www.truth-out.org/afghanistan-funding-time-make-a-fuss61736

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No More Afghanistan War Funding

In the wake of 90,000 leaked documents finally exposing the truth of how completely misguided the occupation of Afghanistan is, and how badly it's really going, the New York Times is reporting that

"In Congress, House leaders were rushing to hold a vote on a critical war-financing bill as early as Tuesday, fearing that the disclosures could stoke Democratic opposition to the measure."

Stop The Afghanistan War Funding Action Page: http://www.peaceteam.net/action/pnum1053.php

The truth WOULD tend to put a crimp in continuing hideously bad policy, so of course they want to rush to extend the bad policy even more, before even more truth comes out. Well, we the people have our own urgent message for Congress. Stop it. Stop it cold. Stop it now. Or don't count on being in office after the next election.

If there were a law requiring truth in political advertising, all those politicians shouting, "Support our troops" would be shouting "Support our war profiteers" instead. The ongoing occupation of Afghanistan is not the biggest gift to those recruiting terrorists to attack Americans all over the world. No, Iraq is the biggest gift in that regard, but Afghanistan is a close second.

It's over. It's beyond redemption. The only justification for going into Afghanistan in the first place was to get Osama bin Laden. They failed to do that. That means the mission was a TOTAL failure. It was a lost cause 9 years and a trillion dollars ago. And parking hundreds of thousands of our troops there for a hundred years, like ducks in an IED shooting gallery, will not change that reality.

We have generated so much hatred against America after a decade of collateral genocide in the Middle East, that if Osama bin Laden was the starting center of the Karachi Jihadists basketball team, nobody would breathe a word of it for a thousand miles. That's just how bad it is.

So pick up a 25 pack of the "Corporations Are Not The People" bumper stickers for a modest donation if you have not done so already, because the war-making corporations are just pursuing their own profit at the expense of the good foreign policy interest of the American people in all this. Any donation you make is what makes it possible for us to send a free sticker to anyone who cannot make a donation right now. But we still need your energy to distribute the bulk packs as widely as possible.

Bulk Corporations Are Not The People bumper stickers: http://www.peaceteam.net/bumper_stickers_bulk.php

And you can always get one free for yourself with no donation required, if you have not requested yours already.

And here is the Facebook link for the Stop The Afghanistan War Funding action page further above.

[Facebook] Action Page: http://apps.facebook.com/fb_voices/action.php?qnum=pnum1053

And this is the Twitter reply for this same action

@cxs #p1053

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.

usalone402b:320927

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Obama signs war spending bill

USA Today

07/29/10

President Obama on Thursday signed legislation to fund his troop surge in Afghanistan, even though it was stripped of money for domestic stimulus programs. Congress passed the bill on Tuesday and Obama signed it without public remarks in a low-key Oval Office session. Democratic leaders had to rely on Republican support to pass the $59 billion measure, which provides money for 30,000 additional troops in Afghanistan and other programs...

http://tinyurl.com/23qzcdx


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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NATO foreign ministers heard only what they wanted to hear on Tuesday in Kabul as they sought to reassure the world that withdrawal can take place in 2014. The reality, however, is quite different.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,707689,00.html#ref=rss



Rebuild America, or Bomb Afghanistan? Bring Our War $$ Home!

By Lisa Savage

The current war in Afghanistan costs in excess of $48,000 a minute. Meanwhile, a National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is talking about cuts to Social Security, Medicare and the home mortgage deduction to address the nation's growing budget deficit.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25995.htm


From Information Clearing House

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No Quick Exit for Troops in Afghanistan, Nato Head Says
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/21-4



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Das Land soll ab 2014 selbst für seine Sicherheit sorgen.
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/32/32994/1.html



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Future of Freedom Foundation
by Sheldon Richman

07/14/10

They used to say the truth shall set you free. These days it might get you fired. Apparently, stumbling onto the truth is a grave offense in the Republican Party. Ask Michael Steele, its chairman. Steele provoked the wrath of Republican neoconservatives William Kristol, Liz Cheney (the former vice president’s daughter), and Sen. John McCain by saying that ‘the one thing you don’t do, is engage in a land war in Afghanistan … because everyone who has tried over a thousand years of history has failed, and there are reasons for that’...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com1007e.asp


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Another official report says "things just getting worse" in Afghanistan

The ANSO report also reveals that June saw a record number of Taliban attacks - up 51 per cent on the previous year to 1,319 operations.

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2010/07/afghanistan-worse-coin-report


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By Nick Turse

If Americans care only sparingly for their paid, professional soldiers -- the ones A.O. Scott says deserve 90 minutes of our time -- they care even less about Afghan civilians. That's why they don't understand war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25935.htm



U.S. Contractor Deaths Soaring in Afghanistan

U.S. contractors deaths are soaring, from 189 last June 30th since the war began in 2001, to 521 this June 30th - an increase of 175% in just one year.

http://bit.ly/dc6t92


From Information Clearing House



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Cato Institute
by Gene Healy

07/13/10

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele caught grief recently for suggesting the war was doomed to fail. Steele, who has offended everyone from pro-lifers to Rush Limbaugh fans, truly has the gift of gaffe. But he wasn’t wrong to call Afghanistan a ‘war of Obama’s choosing.’ A recent National Journal graphic shows that under the president’s Afghan ’surge,’ OEF deployments passed Iraq troop levels in ‘a strategic pivot point’ earlier this year. Obama, Steele suggested, had bought into the Democratic ’script’ that has prevailed since the 2004 Kerry campaign: Iraq’s a distraction — ‘the battle should really be in Afghanistan.’ Obama’s escalation of that battle raises young John Kerry’s question about Vietnam: How do you ask someone ‘to be the last man to die for a mistake?’

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11975


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Afghanistan Violence Soars
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/16-1

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"What Was My Father's Crime?"

Video

Afghan Man Tells Story of His 92-year-old Father's Killing by U.S. Special Forces.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25989.htm



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Why is the Pentagon killing people in Afghanistan?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis195.html



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