AFGHAN WOMEN'S SEX LAW
"Afghanistan has quietly passed a law permitting Shia men to deny their wives food and sustenance if they refuse to obey their husbands' sexual demands...the legislation also grants guardianship of children exclusively to their fathers and grandfathers, and requires women to get permission from their husbands to work."It also effectively allows a rapist to avoid prosecution by paying 'blood money' to a girl who was injured when he raped her," the US charity Human Rights Watch said..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/14/afghanistan-womens-rights-rape
Friday, August 14, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
45,000 MORE US TROOPS NEEDED
"... Anthony Cordesman, an influential American academic who is a member of a team that has been advising General Stanley McChrystal... (said) The United States should send up to 45,000 extra troops to Afghanistan... This would bring the total American military presence in Afghanistan to about 100,000..."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6789142.ece
"... Anthony Cordesman, an influential American academic who is a member of a team that has been advising General Stanley McChrystal... (said) The United States should send up to 45,000 extra troops to Afghanistan... This would bring the total American military presence in Afghanistan to about 100,000..."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6789142.ece
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