TALIBAN CAPTURE NATO PLANE

"Taliban militants captured a NATO plane in Kunduz province... An official with NATO-led forces in Kunduz province also confirmed the incident. "A reconnaissance UAD plane made emergency landing in Yangariq area of Qalai Zal district"...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-07/28/c_13419226.htm

PAKISTAN HELPING TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN

"... Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, the country's spy service, has been holding strategy sessions with Taliban leaders to aid their efforts in Afghanistan..."
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/20107265854311217.html

U.S. ATTACK KILLS OVER 45 CIVILIANS

"A rocket attack on a village in... Sangin district in the southern province of Helmand last week killed at least 45 civilians, including women and children... men, women and children fled to Regey village and were fired on from helicopter gunships as they took cover..."
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/2010726132052786267.html

LEAKED FILES EXPOSE TRUTH OF OCCUPATION

"A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and Nato commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency...
The war logs also detail:
• How a secret "black" unit of special forces hunts down Taliban leaders for "kill or capture" without trial.
• How the US covered up evidence that the Taliban have acquired deadly surface-to-air missiles.
• How the coalition is increasingly using deadly Reaper drones to hunt and kill Taliban targets by remote control from a base in Nevada.
• How the Taliban have caused growing carnage with a massive escalation of their roadside bombing campaign, which has killed more than 2,000 civilians to date...
Most of the material, though classified "secret" at the time, is no longer militarily sensitive..."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/afghanistan-war-logs-military-leaks

LEAKED FILES SHOW TALIBAN HAVE STINGERS

"The reports ... shed light on some elements of the war that have been largely hidden from the public eye:
• The Taliban have used portable heat-seeking missiles against allied aircraft, a fact that has not been publicly disclosed by the military. This type of weapon helped the Afghan mujahedeen defeat the Soviet occupation in the 1980s...
The documents... show that the American military made misleading public statements — attributing the downing of a helicopter to conventional weapons instead of heat-seeking missiles.."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/26/world/asia/26warlogs.html?no_interstitial

AFGHAN SOLDIER KILLS U.S. TRAINERS

"An Afghan soldier opened fire on U.S. civilian trainers at an army base in northern Afghanistan, killing two Americans and another Afghan troop... An argument started during a weapons-training exercise and the Afghan soldier turned his gun on the Americans... The shooter was a "group leader" — an Afghan soldier selected to train other soldiers on the base..."
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2005386,00.html

NATO SAYS TROOPS WILL ALWAYS STAY IN AFGHANISTAN

"... the secretary general of Nato warned... that coalition troops would stay in the country even after Afghan troops had taken complete control of security... when the full transition finally happened, "international forces won't leave, they will simply move into a supportive role".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/20/afghanistan-troops-no-quick-exit

U.S. KANDAHAR BUILD-UP WILL STRENGTHEN TALIBAN

"... the Afghanistan NGO Security Office, which monitors trends in violence on behalf of aid organisations, said... The US military build-up in Kandahar is likely to further strengthen the hold of the Taliban over the vital southern Afghanistan city... Nato's counter-insurgency strategy was not showing any signs of succeeding amid rising violence, the unchecked establishment of local militias and a huge increase in attacks on private development workers across the country."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/19/us-military-buildup-in-ka_n_651825.html

AFGHAN SOLDIER KILLS NATO TROOPS

"A member of the Afghan National Army opened fire on a group of British soldiers yesterday, killing three and wounding four others. The attack occurred on a NATO base outside of Kandahar when the soldier opened fire with a machine gun and rocket-propelled grenade launcher before fleeing...

"... there have been numerous attacks by ANA soldiers against NATO troops. In December 2009 an Afghan soldier shot and killed a US soldier and wounded two Italian soldiers on a joint-NATO/Afghan base in Badghis Province. A month earlier, an Afghan policeman “possibly in conjunction with another” killed five British troops at a checkpoint in Helmand Province..."

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/14-8