U.S. Troops May Stay In Afghanistan Until 2024
"America and Afghanistan are close to signing a strategic pact which would allow thousands of United States troops to remain in the country until at least 2024... Afghan and American officials said that they hoped to sign the pact before the Bonn Conference on Afghanistan in December. Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai agreed last week to escalate the negotiations and their national security advisers will meet in Washington in September... "
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8712701/US-troops-may-stay-in-Afghanistan-until-2024.html
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
$360 MILLION LOST TO TALIBAN
"... the U.S military estimates $360 million in U.S. tax dollars has ended up in the hands of... the Taliban, criminals and power brokers with ties to both... payments from the U.S. pass through companies hired by the military for transportation, construction, power projects, fuel and other services to businesses and individuals with ties to the insurgency or criminal networks..."
http://news.yahoo.com/360m-lost-insurgents-criminals-afghanistan-150450640.html
"... the U.S military estimates $360 million in U.S. tax dollars has ended up in the hands of... the Taliban, criminals and power brokers with ties to both... payments from the U.S. pass through companies hired by the military for transportation, construction, power projects, fuel and other services to businesses and individuals with ties to the insurgency or criminal networks..."
http://news.yahoo.com/360m-lost-insurgents-criminals-afghanistan-150450640.html
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
TRUE COST OF WAR
"... Congress has allotted $1.3 trillion for war spending through fiscal year 2011 just to the Defense Department... the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq... and their ripple effects have cost the United States $3.7 trillion, or more than $12,000 per American... "
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/15/120758/true-cost-of-afghan-iraq-wars.html
"... Congress has allotted $1.3 trillion for war spending through fiscal year 2011 just to the Defense Department... the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq... and their ripple effects have cost the United States $3.7 trillion, or more than $12,000 per American... "
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/15/120758/true-cost-of-afghan-iraq-wars.html
Monday, August 15, 2011
EFFECT OF DRONE STRIKES
"... far more civilians are being injured or dying than the Americans and Pakistanis admit... the strikes not only kill the innocent but injure untold numbers and radicalise the population. "There are just pieces of flesh lying around after a strike. You can't find bodies. So the locals pick up the flesh and curse America. They say that America is killing us inside our own country, inside our own homes, and only because we are Muslims. The youth in the area surrounding a strike gets crazed. Hatred builds up inside those who have seen a drone attack. The Americans think it is working, but the damage they're doing is far greater."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/17/us-drone-strikes-pakistan-waziristan
"... far more civilians are being injured or dying than the Americans and Pakistanis admit... the strikes not only kill the innocent but injure untold numbers and radicalise the population. "There are just pieces of flesh lying around after a strike. You can't find bodies. So the locals pick up the flesh and curse America. They say that America is killing us inside our own country, inside our own homes, and only because we are Muslims. The youth in the area surrounding a strike gets crazed. Hatred builds up inside those who have seen a drone attack. The Americans think it is working, but the damage they're doing is far greater."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/17/us-drone-strikes-pakistan-waziristan
Friday, August 12, 2011
U.S. TO KEEP CONTROL OF PARWAN PRISON
"The United States will remain in control of Afghanistan’s highest-profile prison well beyond January 2012, missing a key milestone in the plan to transfer judicial and detention operations to Afghans... over the past three years, the number of detainees has tripled. Parwan now holds 2,600 inmates... the Taliban has successfully used the prison for propaganda to galvanize insurgents, drawing on reports of harsh interrogation methods... U.S. officials decided that the Afghan legal system is still too weak to permit the hand-over of the Parwan Detention Center, even after the United States spent millions attempting to improve the country’s judiciary... U.S. officials say that giving Afghans control over the fates of suspected insurgents would allow dangerous Taliban fighters to slip through the cracks of an undeveloped legal system..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/afghan-prison-transfer-delayed/2011/08/12/gIQApCGMBJ_story.html?hpid=z2
"The United States will remain in control of Afghanistan’s highest-profile prison well beyond January 2012, missing a key milestone in the plan to transfer judicial and detention operations to Afghans... over the past three years, the number of detainees has tripled. Parwan now holds 2,600 inmates... the Taliban has successfully used the prison for propaganda to galvanize insurgents, drawing on reports of harsh interrogation methods... U.S. officials decided that the Afghan legal system is still too weak to permit the hand-over of the Parwan Detention Center, even after the United States spent millions attempting to improve the country’s judiciary... U.S. officials say that giving Afghans control over the fates of suspected insurgents would allow dangerous Taliban fighters to slip through the cracks of an undeveloped legal system..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/afghan-prison-transfer-delayed/2011/08/12/gIQApCGMBJ_story.html?hpid=z2
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