” … U.S. military and CIA officials have been interested in Afghanistan’s minerals since at least 2004. … For Americans, the first question is whether the knowledge of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth has played a part ...
By Daily Mail Foreign Service (Except) | 27th July 2010 … In a disclosure that has dismayed Downing Street and the White House, the website has published the files and handed them over in full ...
“… There are numerous instances in which SEAL Team 6 members have been accused of killing civilians during raids …” As the U.S. military focused heavily on the Iraq war in 2006, the general in ...
The Islamic militant group ISIS, formerly known as Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and recently rebranded as the so called Islamic State, is the stuff of nightmares. They are ruthless, fanatical, killers, on a mission, and that ...
“… ‘This whole 12 years was one of constant pleading with America to treat the lives of our civilians as lives of people,’ Karzai stated, continuing his denunciation of the terror of anti-terrorism exemplified by ...
November 17, 2013 The United States has paid more than $150 million to local contractors in Afghanistan who have allegedly helped in terrorist attacks on American soldiers and posts, according to an “alert letter” from the Special ...
Presence of US-backed private security in Afghanistan seems only to contribute to the ongoing violence. As the world media spotlight fixes to the Syria crisis, hidden from view is the continuing bloody war raging in ...
Fars News Agency, December 9, 2012 TEHRAN (FNA)- The notorious Blackwater security firm plans to widen its activities in Afghanistan after the US-led foreign forces withdraw from the war-torn country in a bid to secure the ...
“… [A] picture shows him surrounded by Afghans he refers to as ‘my nignogs’ with a friend adding the comment ‘it’s lovely to see a white man back in control of the subhuman’. …” Sydney ...
By: James Cogan The Nation | January 6, 2011 2010 was the bloodiest year of the now nine-year conflict in Afghanistan and the tribal border regions of Pakistan. Under the command of Gen David Petraeus, ...
US military investigates ‘death squad’ accused of murdering Afghans By Chris McGreal The Guardian | December 29, 2010 The US military is investigating the leadership of an army brigade whose soldiers are accused of running a ...
“…Salomon said he was asked to lie and misrepresent financial data to the Pentagon’s Defense Contract Audit Agency. He once found a financial journal entry that was accompanied by a card that stated, ‘Do not ...
By Roddy Newman Constantine Report Contributor While there has been much debate about the wars in Iraq, the Balkans and Afghanistan, the most important aspect of those conflicts – the clearly racist, religiously-motivated decision by the American and UK ...
Members of a ‘kill team’ have been accused of murdering civilians By Andrew Purcell in New York Scotland Herald | October 3, 2010 The United States military is struggling to contain a war crimes ...
A group of American soldiers are facing murder charges for a five-month killing spree in which they randomly targeted Afghan civilians for sport, a US military investigation has reported. By Ben Farmer in Kabul Telegraph ...
” … Reports on the Wikileaks documents show how the special forces of Task Force 373 failed attempt to kill al Qaeda leader Abu Laith al-Libi, which ended in the deaths of seven children. Al-Libi ...
Sweden Rescinds Warrant for WikiLeaks Founder By JOHN F. BURNS and ERIC SCHMITT NY Times | August 21, 2010 LONDON — Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blower Web site WikiLeaks who has been embroiled in ...
“… We are living the deformed dream of monsters and sociopaths. … American troops are tasked by their treasonous political leaders with many things; shelter heroin, defend the sites of oil pipelines, and patrol Afghan ...
July 25, 2010 Shum Khan, a man both deaf and unable to speak, lived in the remote border hamlet of Malekshay, 7,000ft up in the mountains. When a heavily armed squad from the CIA barrelled ...
” … Whether regular soldiers or Special Forces, many veterans of US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have succumbed to near-epidemic rates of suicide. Being ordered to slaughter civilians, even inadvertently, must weigh heavily ...
By Michel Comte | AFP | April 28, 2010 A view of the Parliament building in Ottawa OTTAWA — Canada’s government may be held in contempt of Parliament if it does not soon release uncensored documents ...
by Stephen Lendman Baltimore Chronicle | 6 April 2010 … After General Stanley McChrystal took charge of US/NATO Afghan forces last June, systematic atrocities escalated sharply after promises of kinder, gentler killing (an oxymoron), winning ...
AllGov.com | March 14, 2010 When is a city not a city? When the media actually does its homework and stops taking the Department of Defense at its word. In February, the U.S. and NATO ...
By Spencer Ackerman Washington Independent | 1/13/10 It’s a question that rarely gets asked: from where does the Obama administration locate the legal authority to launch missiles from the CIA’s unmanned drones into Pakistani (and, ...
“… The scandal … leaked a week after the same daily wrote that an elite soldier had trained neo-Nazis for terror attacks and infighting. …” Brisbane Times | November 10, 2009 AFP – The Czech ...
By VOA News 07 November 2009 NATO officials in Afghanistan say 25 international troops wounded during a recent operation may have been hit by friendly fire. NATO initially blamed ‘insurgent activity’ for the casualties. … ...
“… the United States and its Afghan allies bear a large share of responsibility for the drug industry’s dramatic expansion since the invasion. Buried deep in the report, its authors admit that reduced levels of ...
” … While the current Afghan government fails every test of legitimacy, NATO rogues bluff that they need to protect the Afghan populace when they killed bulk of them … “ By Dr. Abdul Ruff ...
By Melvin A. Goodman The Public RecordSep 8th, 2009 President Barack Obama is currently facing the most two important decisions of his young presidency. On Wednesday, we will learn whether he has the intestinal fortitude ...
Wackenhut is investigating … itself … CNN September 3, 2009 WASHINGTON (CNN) — The parent company of a security contractor said Thursday it is “fully cooperating” in the investigation of allegations that the contractor allowed ...
Related: “How the CIA Paid for Judy Miller’s Stories – All the News That’s Fit to Buy” “… The Rendon Group became infamous after the invasion of Iraq once it was discovered that its PR ...
By Elizabeth GouldHuffington PostJuly 27, 2009 Kenneth J. Cooper’s Boston Globe review of our book, Invisible History, Afghanistan’s Untold Story, titled “Conspiracy-laden look at messy Afghan history” is a painful example of the magical thinking ...
Who’s winning the Afghan War?: “DynCorp has emerged as one of the big winners of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which now generate 53% of DynCorp’s $3.1 billion of annual revenue. … “ Nathan ...
