TALIBAN FIGHT BETTER THAN OUR AFGHAN ARMY
"... "their" Afghans are the fierce fighters of history books and legend and "ours", despite billions of dollars and massive training efforts, are not. This puzzling situation had its parallel in Vietnam decades ago when American military advisors regularly claimed they would give up a division of U.S.-trained South Vietnamese forces for a single battalion of "VC."
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175111
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
ALCOHOL BANNED AT U.S. HEADQUARTERS AFTER DEADLY AIR STRIKE
( Rest of bases not affected)
"After a Nato airstrike killed as many as 125 people last week, General Stanley McChrystal... tried to contact his underlings to find out what had happened, however, he found, to his fury, that many of them were either drunk or too hungover to respond... The Isaf headquarters is only half a mile square but it has at least seven bars that serve tax-free beer and wine... (now) General McChrystal, head of International Forces in Afghanistan (Isaf), banned alcohol at his headquarters... the civilian staff, who are free to leave the base, were not concerned. “It’s only on HQ that they’ve banned it. All the other bases that served it, still do..."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6825321.ece
( Rest of bases not affected)
"After a Nato airstrike killed as many as 125 people last week, General Stanley McChrystal... tried to contact his underlings to find out what had happened, however, he found, to his fury, that many of them were either drunk or too hungover to respond... The Isaf headquarters is only half a mile square but it has at least seven bars that serve tax-free beer and wine... (now) General McChrystal, head of International Forces in Afghanistan (Isaf), banned alcohol at his headquarters... the civilian staff, who are free to leave the base, were not concerned. “It’s only on HQ that they’ve banned it. All the other bases that served it, still do..."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6825321.ece
U.S. TROOPS STORM SWEDISH HOSPITAL
"... the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan said the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division forced their way into the charity's hospital without permission to look for insurgents in Wardak province, southwest of Kabul... a clear violation of internationally recognized rules and principles... it also went against an agreement between NATO forces and charities working in the area.... The U.S. troops came to the hospital looking for Taliban insurgents late at night... kicked in doors, tied up four hospital guards and two people visiting hospitalized relatives, and forced patients out of beds during their search... also barged into women's wards... strange men entering rooms where women are in beds is a serious insult to the local Pashtun culture and word of it could turn the community against international troops..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/07/us-troops-stormed-through_0_n_278627.html
"... the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan said the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division forced their way into the charity's hospital without permission to look for insurgents in Wardak province, southwest of Kabul... a clear violation of internationally recognized rules and principles... it also went against an agreement between NATO forces and charities working in the area.... The U.S. troops came to the hospital looking for Taliban insurgents late at night... kicked in doors, tied up four hospital guards and two people visiting hospitalized relatives, and forced patients out of beds during their search... also barged into women's wards... strange men entering rooms where women are in beds is a serious insult to the local Pashtun culture and word of it could turn the community against international troops..."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/07/us-troops-stormed-through_0_n_278627.html
Friday, September 4, 2009
TALIBAN ANTI-TANK MINES FROM U.S.
"... evidence from the US Defense Department, Canadian forces in Afghanistan and the Taliban themselves (indicates) that the increased damage to NATO tanks by Taliban forces has come from anti-tank mines provided by the United States to the jihadi movement against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s...
"according to the Pentagon agency responsible for combating roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan ( JIEDDO or Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, a unit of the US Department of Defense), the increased Taliban threat to US and NATO vehicles comes not from any new technology from Iran but from Italian-made TC-6 mines left over from the US Central Intelligence Agency's military assistance to the anti-Soviet jihadists in the 1980s.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KI05Ak02.html
"... evidence from the US Defense Department, Canadian forces in Afghanistan and the Taliban themselves (indicates) that the increased damage to NATO tanks by Taliban forces has come from anti-tank mines provided by the United States to the jihadi movement against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s...
"according to the Pentagon agency responsible for combating roadside bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan ( JIEDDO or Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, a unit of the US Department of Defense), the increased Taliban threat to US and NATO vehicles comes not from any new technology from Iran but from Italian-made TC-6 mines left over from the US Central Intelligence Agency's military assistance to the anti-Soviet jihadists in the 1980s.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/KI05Ak02.html
NATO AIRSTRIKE KILLS 40 CIVILIANS
"... An Afghan police officer said the 90 dead included about 40 civilians who were siphoning fuel from trucks.... Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said insurgents hijacked the trucks... the vehicles became stuck in the mud and the insurgents opened valves to release fuel and lighten the loads. He said about 500 villagers swarmed the trucks to collect the fuel despite warnings that they might be hit with an airstrike. Mujahid said no Taliban died in the attack...
"Kunduz Gov. Mohammad Omar, who also gave the 90 deaths figure, said a local Taliban commander and four Chechen fighters were among those killed...
"NATO command said a "large number of insurgents" were killed or injured... after determining that there were no civilians in the area..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/04/AR2009090400543_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009090400002
"... An Afghan police officer said the 90 dead included about 40 civilians who were siphoning fuel from trucks.... Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said insurgents hijacked the trucks... the vehicles became stuck in the mud and the insurgents opened valves to release fuel and lighten the loads. He said about 500 villagers swarmed the trucks to collect the fuel despite warnings that they might be hit with an airstrike. Mujahid said no Taliban died in the attack...
"Kunduz Gov. Mohammad Omar, who also gave the 90 deaths figure, said a local Taliban commander and four Chechen fighters were among those killed...
"NATO command said a "large number of insurgents" were killed or injured... after determining that there were no civilians in the area..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/04/AR2009090400543_2.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009090400002
Friday, August 14, 2009
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
"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
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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