Locals of the Laghman Province claim civilians were killed in a NATO raid, contrary to NATO claims, and that they are not “insurgents”, but people defending their home against NATO’s ‘broken promises’ to not raid their village (2:00):
Posts Tagged ‘Hamid Karzai’
Afghan Villagers Claim Self-Defense in NATO’s Deadly Night Raid (Video)
Posted: 28 September 2010 by Little Alex in Af-Pak WarTags: Afghanistan, airstrikes, CIA, civilian casualties, COIN, CT, drone, extrajudicial assassination, FATA, Hamid Karzai, Haqqani Network, Laghman Province, NATO, night raids, North Waziristan, NWFP, Pakistan, Quetta Shura, War on Terror
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Daily Briefing—25th-26th Aug 2010
Posted: 26 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, biometrics, BP, CIA, Cordoba House, David Petraeus, drones, extrajudicial assassination, general strike, Ground Zero Mosque, Gulf oil spill, Halliburton, Hamid Karzai, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq, Iraq War, Jack Hunter, Jeremy Scahill, JSOC, Mossad, NOLA, Pakistan, Park51, Ronald Bailey, SCOTUS, South Africa, Spencer Ackerman, Stephen Walt, Taliban, UN, Wal-Mart, whistleblowers, Wikileaks, Yemen
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Weekend Briefing—20th-22nd Aug 2010
Posted: 22 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Alexander Cockburn, Blackwater, BP, Bushehr, Colombia, Constanza Vieira, Daphne Eviatar, David Sirota, drones, economic crisis, general strike, George Donnelly, Gulf oil spill, Hamid Karzai, Iran, Iraq, Iraq election, Iraq War, Israel, Jason Ditz, Kenya, Lebanon, Middle East, Omar Khadr, Pakistan, Palestine-Israel, peace process, public opinion, Scott Horton, Somalia, South Africa, Stephen Walt, tea party movement, TF 121, TF 373, TF 42, TSA, Wikipedia, Xe, Zionism
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‘Militants’ Today, Cops Tomorrow in Afghanistan
Posted: 18 August 2010 by Little Alex in Af-Pak WarTags: Af-Pak War, Afghan National Police, Afghanistan, Blackwater, Central Asia, Dyncorp, Hamid Karzai, Iraq, Obama Administration, Politics of Afghanistan, private military contractors, PSCs, Triple Canopy, United States, United States Department of Defense, War, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), War on Terror, Xe
Kabul today announced it plans to replace U.S. militant contractors with Afghan militants. Jack Rice—criminal defense attorney, journalist and former C.I.A. analyst—discussed why he doesn’t expect U.S. military contractors out of Afghanistan soon. He stressed that Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s puppet status, the size of the corporate force machine occupying the country and political motivations igniting recent Newspeak at RT, yesterday evening (6:13):
Daily Briefing—16th Aug 2010
Posted: 16 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Adam Habib, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Afghanistan motherlode, Bangladesh, banking, China, civil liberties, double-dip recession, Federal Reserve, gay marriage, Hamid Karzai, home foreclosures, human rights, Human Rights Watch, IDF, India, Islam, Islamophobia, Jammu and Kashmir, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, labor unions, law, oil, Pakistan, Poland, private military contractors, Prop 8, PTSD, Riz Khan, Robert Gates, Robert Naiman, Stanley McChrystal, Stephen Lendman, Taliban, UJ, UK, universal jurisdiction, Uzbeks, war crimes, workers rights
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Weekend Briefing—30th July-1st Aug 2010
Posted: 1 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Aegis System, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, arms trading, ballistic missiles, BP, Charlie Rangel, China, Congo, counterterrorism, CT, Death Penalty, DRC, drug war, economic sanctions, EU, extrajudicial assassinations, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, Hamid Karzai, human rights, Iran, Iraq War, Israel, Justin Raimondo, media, Mike Mullen, missile defense, NATO, oil, Pakistan, parenting, Robert Fisk, Romania, Spain, Spencer Ackerman, Stefan Molyneux, Taliban, UN, UN Security Council, universal jurisdiction, UNSC, war games, Wikileaks
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Report: Days Before ‘Forced’ Resignation, McChrystal Warned NATO ‘Not to Expect Progress’ This Year
Posted: 27 June 2010 by Little Alex in Af-Pak WarTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Carlotta Gall, COIN, COINdinistas, counterinsurgency, David Kilcullen, David Petraeus, Eric Schmitt, Hamid Karzai, Haqqani Network, Henry Kissinger, ISAF, Jane Perlez, Michael Hastings, Mullah Omar, NATO, Obama Administration, Quetta Shura, Sirajuddin Haqqani, Stanley McChrystal
The recently-resigned U.S. top commander in Afghanistan told ISAF allies the local insurgency was enhanced since the Obama-led surge. Karzai’s best option is negotiating with leaders of opposing militant factions.
More Substance Than Gossip in Rolling Stone’s McChrystal Profile
Posted: 23 June 2010 by Editors in Af-Pak WarTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, AntiWar radio, COIN, COINdinistas, COMISAF, David Petraeus, Gareth Porter, George Will, Hamid Karzai, Hillary Clinton, human rights, ISAF, Joe Biden, John Kerry, John McCain, Kandahar Surge, Karl Eikenberry, Marja Surge, Michael Hastings, NATO, Newspeak, Obama, Obama Administration, Petraeus Doctrine, Scott Horton, Stanley McChrystal, US, War, War on Terror
The controversial article which led to today’s resignation by the top commander in Afghanistan and David Petraeus as his replacement is discussed as if it was a celebrity gossip column. It actually makes the substantive case that the occupation of Afghanistan is regressively destructive.
Optimistically, 15-20 Years Before Tapping Afghanistan ‘Motherlode’… So What?
Posted: 17 June 2010 by Editors in Af-Pak WarTags: Af-Pak War, Afghan Mines Ministry, Afghanistan, Ann Marlowe, cobalt, copper, corporatism, fascism, gold, Hamid Karzai, human rights, iron, libertarian, lithium, natural resources, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Saudi Arabia, US, War on Terror, World Bank
Ann Marlowe, Afghanistan expert at the Hudson Institute, told Russia Today that it would take at least a couple of decades before Afghanistan’s untapped minerals are significantly accessed, under optimal conditions (5:15):
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