THREE TIMES AS MANY AL QAEDA IN YEMEN AS AFGHANISTAN
"Gen. Stanley McChrystal says he is not discouraged by estimates that there are many more al Qaeda fighters in Yemen than there are in Afghanistan where he is overseeing a major surge in U.S. troops... (saying) "I don't think that this war's in the wrong place"... (He) was reacting to a question from ABC's "World News" anchor Diane Sawyer who cited intelligence estimates that there are only 100 al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan while there are as many as 300 in Yemen..."
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Afghanistan/afghanistan-general-stanley-mcchrystal-tells-diane-sawyer-surge/story?id=9525700&cid=yahoo_pitchlist
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
U.S. TO TURN BAGRAM PRISON OVER TO AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan judiciary will try the inmates.
"Hundreds of inmates held without trial at a controversial prison on a US base will be allowed to challenge their detention through the courts when Afghanistan takes over the jail... the prison at Bagram Air Field north of Kabul has been compared to the Cuba-based Guantanamo Bay detention centre and Abu Ghraib in Iraq due to harsh treatment of prisoners detained there without charge.... Afghans have long been asked why, when we have a legal government, our citizens are taken away never to be heard from again... "
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iGRVVfWuxHAg0MeD9YC_xrWnqzuQ
Afghanistan judiciary will try the inmates.
"Hundreds of inmates held without trial at a controversial prison on a US base will be allowed to challenge their detention through the courts when Afghanistan takes over the jail... the prison at Bagram Air Field north of Kabul has been compared to the Cuba-based Guantanamo Bay detention centre and Abu Ghraib in Iraq due to harsh treatment of prisoners detained there without charge.... Afghans have long been asked why, when we have a legal government, our citizens are taken away never to be heard from again... "
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iGRVVfWuxHAg0MeD9YC_xrWnqzuQ
WASTE AND FRAUD UNDERMINING U.S. RECONSTRUCTION OF AFGHANISTAN
"... Concerns have been raised in past months that the waste and fraud that has undermined the U.S. reconstruction effort in Iraq is being repeated in Afghanistan... The international community has invested more than $60 billion since 2002 in reconstruction efforts, including $40 billion from the U.S. alone... The U.S. agency overseeing the multibillion dollar Afghanistan reconstruction effort is investigating 38 criminal cases ranging from contract fraud to theft — most involving non-Afghans... the government might not be ready to deal with the flow of additional funds into Afghanistan..."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100112/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan_reconstruction;_ylt=AkVV9tQzfghRfJ5raQNbQGcUewgF;_ylu=X3oDMTNpZ2wybzVrBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMTEyL2FzX2FmZ2hhbmlzdGFuX3JlY29uc3RydWN0aW9uBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMgRwb3MDMgRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3JpZXMEc2xrA3VzaW52ZXN0aWdhdA--
"... Concerns have been raised in past months that the waste and fraud that has undermined the U.S. reconstruction effort in Iraq is being repeated in Afghanistan... The international community has invested more than $60 billion since 2002 in reconstruction efforts, including $40 billion from the U.S. alone... The U.S. agency overseeing the multibillion dollar Afghanistan reconstruction effort is investigating 38 criminal cases ranging from contract fraud to theft — most involving non-Afghans... the government might not be ready to deal with the flow of additional funds into Afghanistan..."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100112/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan_reconstruction;_ylt=AkVV9tQzfghRfJ5raQNbQGcUewgF;_ylu=X3oDMTNpZ2wybzVrBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMTEyL2FzX2FmZ2hhbmlzdGFuX3JlY29uc3RydWN0aW9uBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMgRwb3MDMgRzZWMDeW5fdG9wX3N0b3JpZXMEc2xrA3VzaW52ZXN0aWdhdA--
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
DEPLETED URANIUM BOMBS CAUSING CANCER EPIDEMIC
"... The real hazard for Iraqis these days is cancer. Cancer is spreading like wildfire in Iraq. Thousands of infants are being born with deformities. Doctors say they are struggling to cope with the rise of cancer and birth defects, especially in cities subjected to heavy American and British bombardment... In Falluja, which was heavily bombarded by the US in 2004, as many as 25% of new- born infants have serious abnormalities, including congenital anomalies, brain tumors, and neural tube defects in the spinal cord... The cancer rate in the province of Babil, south of Baghdad has risen from 500 diagnosed cases in 2004 to 9,082 in 2009... In Basra there were 1885 diagnosed cases of cancer in 2005.... the number increased to 2,302 in 2006 and 3,071 in 2007... about 1,250-1,500 patients visit the Oncology Center every month now... Iraqi doctors and some Western scholars say the massive quantities of depleted uranium used in U.S. and British bombs, and the sharp increase in cancer rates are not unconnected. ... the incubation period for depleted uranium is five to six years, which is consistent with the spike in cancer rates... The water, soil and air in large areas of Iraq, including Baghdad, are contaminated with depleted uranium that has a radioactive half-life of 4.5 billion years..."
"There are also similar patterns of birth defects among... Afghan infants who were also born in areas that were subjected to depleted uranium bombardment... in infants in eastern and south- eastern Afghanistan... Many children are born with no eyes, no limbs, or tumors protruding from their mouths and eyes..."
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=80e260b3839daf2084fdeb0965ad31ab
"... The real hazard for Iraqis these days is cancer. Cancer is spreading like wildfire in Iraq. Thousands of infants are being born with deformities. Doctors say they are struggling to cope with the rise of cancer and birth defects, especially in cities subjected to heavy American and British bombardment... In Falluja, which was heavily bombarded by the US in 2004, as many as 25% of new- born infants have serious abnormalities, including congenital anomalies, brain tumors, and neural tube defects in the spinal cord... The cancer rate in the province of Babil, south of Baghdad has risen from 500 diagnosed cases in 2004 to 9,082 in 2009... In Basra there were 1885 diagnosed cases of cancer in 2005.... the number increased to 2,302 in 2006 and 3,071 in 2007... about 1,250-1,500 patients visit the Oncology Center every month now... Iraqi doctors and some Western scholars say the massive quantities of depleted uranium used in U.S. and British bombs, and the sharp increase in cancer rates are not unconnected. ... the incubation period for depleted uranium is five to six years, which is consistent with the spike in cancer rates... The water, soil and air in large areas of Iraq, including Baghdad, are contaminated with depleted uranium that has a radioactive half-life of 4.5 billion years..."
"There are also similar patterns of birth defects among... Afghan infants who were also born in areas that were subjected to depleted uranium bombardment... in infants in eastern and south- eastern Afghanistan... Many children are born with no eyes, no limbs, or tumors protruding from their mouths and eyes..."
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=80e260b3839daf2084fdeb0965ad31ab
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
ARMY SAYS CIA IGNORANT ABOUT AFGHANISTAN
"... Major General Michael Flynn, deputy chief of staff for intelligence in Afghanistan for the U.S. military and its NATO allies... described U.S. intelligence officials there as "ignorant of local economics and landowners, hazy about who the powerbrokers are and how they might be influenced ... and disengaged from people in the best position to find answers"... calling the United States "clueless" because of a lack of needed intelligence about the country..."
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre60403v-us-afghanistan-usa-intelligence/
"... Major General Michael Flynn, deputy chief of staff for intelligence in Afghanistan for the U.S. military and its NATO allies... described U.S. intelligence officials there as "ignorant of local economics and landowners, hazy about who the powerbrokers are and how they might be influenced ... and disengaged from people in the best position to find answers"... calling the United States "clueless" because of a lack of needed intelligence about the country..."
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre60403v-us-afghanistan-usa-intelligence/
Monday, January 4, 2010
STATUS OF U.S. IN AFGHANISTAN AT NEW YEAR
"... the US is killing schoolchildren far too often, enraging the Afghan public. It has provoked a studnet protest movement against it in Jalalabad and Kabul. Its informants are double agents (who blew up 7 CIA officers). Its supposed partner, the Afghan army, mostly doesn't actually exist and couldn't be depended on to show up to anything important; and that is when they aren't taking potshots at US troops; and there is no Afghan government as we go into 2010."
http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/serial-catastrophes-in-afghanistan.html
"... the US is killing schoolchildren far too often, enraging the Afghan public. It has provoked a studnet protest movement against it in Jalalabad and Kabul. Its informants are double agents (who blew up 7 CIA officers). Its supposed partner, the Afghan army, mostly doesn't actually exist and couldn't be depended on to show up to anything important; and that is when they aren't taking potshots at US troops; and there is no Afghan government as we go into 2010."
http://www.juancole.com/2010/01/serial-catastrophes-in-afghanistan.html
U.S. RAIDERS SHOOT 8 SCHOOL CHILDREN, SPARKING STREET PROTESTS
"The US military launched a raid in Kunar Province... in which President Hamid Karzai alleged that 10 civilians, some 8 of them schoolchildren, had been killed (some say dragged out of their beds and executed).... "They gathered eight school students from two compounds and put them in one room and shot them with small arms."... The charitable theory is that in a nighttime raid, US troops got disoriented and hit the wrong group of young men...
"The outraged Afghan public saw this raid as an atrocity, and... mounted street protests against the US in Jalalabad, an eastern Pashtun city, and Kabul. In Jalalabad, hundreds of university students blocked the main roads, and then marched in the streets, chanting "Death to Obama" and "Death to America," and burning Obama in effigy..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/world/asia/31afghan.html?_r=2
"... ten Afghans, eight of them schoolchildren, were killed... US-led troops dragged innocent children from their beds and shot them during a nighttime raid. Afghan government investigators said the eight students were aged from eleven to seventeen, all but one of them from the same family... NATO officials have insisted that they believe the people who were killed were part of a Taliban network making improvised explosive devices, homemade bombs, the roadside explosives..."
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/6/us_led_forces_accused_of_executing
"The US military launched a raid in Kunar Province... in which President Hamid Karzai alleged that 10 civilians, some 8 of them schoolchildren, had been killed (some say dragged out of their beds and executed).... "They gathered eight school students from two compounds and put them in one room and shot them with small arms."... The charitable theory is that in a nighttime raid, US troops got disoriented and hit the wrong group of young men...
"The outraged Afghan public saw this raid as an atrocity, and... mounted street protests against the US in Jalalabad, an eastern Pashtun city, and Kabul. In Jalalabad, hundreds of university students blocked the main roads, and then marched in the streets, chanting "Death to Obama" and "Death to America," and burning Obama in effigy..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/world/asia/31afghan.html?_r=2
"... ten Afghans, eight of them schoolchildren, were killed... US-led troops dragged innocent children from their beds and shot them during a nighttime raid. Afghan government investigators said the eight students were aged from eleven to seventeen, all but one of them from the same family... NATO officials have insisted that they believe the people who were killed were part of a Taliban network making improvised explosive devices, homemade bombs, the roadside explosives..."
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/6/us_led_forces_accused_of_executing
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