Posts Tagged Afghanistan
The DoD – the biggest corporation of all
on 07/03/2010 (6 days ago) by NW0.eu in Politics, Comments (0)
By SAUL LANDAU and NELSON P. VALDES
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of [...]
Marjah – Winning the Battle; Losing the War
on 24/02/2010 (3 weeks ago) by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
We are now witnessing the first act of the increased US troop level in Afghanistan. The scene is Marjah in Helmand Province. There, the US has sent some 10,000 US troops and an even greater number of Afghani troops. The idea is to break the Taliban’s control over this remote, dusty village of some [...]
Predator Drones Use Less Encryption Than Your TV and DVDs
on 18/12/2009 by NW0.eu in Science and Technology, Comments Off
Nate Anderson writes on ars technica:
What three-letter Internet acronym best fits the bizarre news out of Iraq and Afghanistan that militants there have been intercepting US Predator drone video feeds using laptops and a $30 piece of Russian software: LOL, WTF, or OMG?
Actually, all three are appropriate for something this farcical, horrible, and brain-numbing. The reason that the transmissions could be picked up easily by a cheap satellite recording program? They were broadcast in the clear between the drone and ground control. That’s right — no encryption was used.
Perhaps, you might be thinking to yourself in a mental bid to make the military seem competent here, no one could have suspected this would happen. But they did suspect it, because it had been happening for a decade already. The Wall…
Karzai Rules Out Sacking Corrupt Afghan Ministers
on 05/11/2009 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
‘Hamid Karzai began his new presidency yesterday with a pledge to reach out to opponents and tackle the corrosive corruption which has deeply tainted his government and led to […]
Karzai’s re-election ‘not legitimate’
on 04/11/2009 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
Hamid Karzai’s main electoral rival has condemned election officials’ decision to declare him president, saying Karzai’s re-election lacks ‘legitimacy’.
Rogue Afghan policeman shoots dead five British soldiers in cold blood at military compound
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Five British soldiers have been killed by a rogue policeman as they drank tea inside a military compound in Afghanistan.
Karzai declared Afghan vote winner
on 03/11/2009 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
AFP Monday, Nov 2nd, 2009 Election organisers on Monday declared Hamid Karzai Afghan president for a second term, cancelling a one-man presidential run-off following a diplomatic push led by UN […]
Occupiers involved in drug trade: Afghan minister
on 02/11/2009 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
Press TV Sunday, Nov 1st, 2009 The Afghan minister of counter narcotics says foreign troops are earning money from drug production in Afghanistan. General Khodaidad Khodaidad said the majority of […]
Washington Post claims White House ‘appears committed’ to sending up to 15,000 more soldiers
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Raw Story Sunday, Nov 1st, 2009 US President Barack Obama has asked the Pentagon for more options on troop levels in Afghanistan including sending less than the roughly 40,000 new […]
U.N. Can’t Account for Millions Sent to Afghan Election Board
on 30/10/2009 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
The United Nations cannot account for tens of millions of dollars provided to the troubled Afghan election commission, according to two confidential U.N. audits and interviews with current and former senior diplomats.
Karzai’s brother said to be on CIA payroll: report
on 28/10/2009 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
Reuters – The brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been getting regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing current and former U.S. officials. Ahmed Wali Karzai is a suspected player in Afghanistan’s opium trade and has been paid by the CIA over the past eight years [...]
US drone strikes may break international law: UN
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US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan could be breaking international laws against summary executions, the UN’s top investigator of such crimes said.
Six U.N. foreign staff killed in attack in Kabul
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Reuters - Taliban militants killed six U.N. foreign staff in an assault on an international guest-house in Kabul on Wednesday, raising questions about security for a presidential election run-off due in 10 days. Read Article
Bombings push U.S. toll to worst month in Afghan war
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Reuters – Eight U.S. troops were killed in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday ahead of a run-off presidential election, the NATO-led alliance said, in the deadliest month for U.S. forces since the start of the war eight years ago. Read Article
America's Phoney War in Afghanistan
on 22/10/2009 by NW0.eu in World News, Comments Off
Even during the 2008 Presidential campaign candidate Obama argued that Afghanistan not Iraq was where the US must wage war. His reason? Because he claimed, that was where the Al […]
