ANGELS TO PROTECT TRAINERS AGAINST ATTACKS BY AFGHAN TRAINEES

"... after a spate of attacks that included the killing of six Marine trainers this month.... the military decreed that American and NATO service members should always carry a loaded magazine in their weapons, to save precious moments if attacked by Afghan forces. Another initiative, now a priority, is a program named “Guardian Angel” that calls for one or two soldiers to monitor the Afghans during every mission or meeting... The “angels,” whose identities are not disclosed to the Afghans, must be prepared to fire on anyone who tries to kill a coalition service member...
"Only a handful of the 31 attacks this year have clearly been a result of Taliban activity like infiltration. That suggests a level of malaise or anger within the Afghan forces that could complicate NATO’s training program, which relies on trust and cooperation... the military is realizing that it ultimately does not fully understand what is driving the attacks..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/world/asia/afghan-attacks-on-allied-troops-prompt-nato-to-shift-policy.html?_r=2

U.S. HELPS REWRITE AFGHAN SCHOOLBOOKS

"Afghanistan's.. education ministry has endorsed a new history curriculum for school students that deletes nearly four decades of the country's war-torn past... not much mention of (the Taliban) or the US-led forces that drove them from power and have stayed for more than a decade... the civil war and the Taliban regime had been wrapped up in just a few lines... US military officials say they had no discussions on content in the books, some of which were paid for with US money. But a spokesman for the US military in Kabul, David Lakin, added: ''Our cultural advisers reviewed the social studies textbooks for inappropriate material, such as inciting violence or religious discrimination."
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18579315

... TO COUNTERACT PREVIOUS U.S. SCHOOLBOOKS

"Taliban in Madrassas with texts our taxes designed.... Look up texts our taxes spawned at University of Nebraska Omaha. Hate texts, illegally pushing one established religion, and glorifying murderous warfare for Allah. Delivered to Afghanistan Taliban to create militant terrorists. The neocon plan was to aim them at "godless communists." Another "initiative" that started what we cannot now stop. No exit plan."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/10/23/260889/-School-Vouchers-create-Madrassas-here

"... during the presidency of Ronald Reagan — when all vision was still focused on the Cold War — the United States got itself into the business of sponsoring militant Islamic schools for Afghanistan, then a nation under the influence of the Soviet Union... The U.S. Agency for International Development was funding the foreign aid program that was essentially schooling this new generation of terrorists...
The plan: Flood rural Afghanistan with millions of schoolbooks preaching and teaching Islamic militancy. Books reportedly filled with language celebrating jihad (holy war), violent images of war... Primers from which boys learned math by counting pictures of soldiers, tanks, guns and land mines.
The purpose: Create a generation of militant Islamic freedom fighters — another term might be terrorists — who would rise up and run the godless Soviet communist forces out of Afghanistan. Which they did. Then they stuck around."
http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3453

AFGAN ATTACKS ON US - MISSION FAILURE

"Trend of Afghan soldiers killing US counterparts speaks to 'mission failure' in Afghanistan... a US war strategy in tatters... a sweeping message from our Afghan allies... "your mission’s failed, get out or die."
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/08/10

KABUL EMBASSY TO BE LARGER THAN BAGDAD

"... The building project going on is apparently part of a massive expansion of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, targeted to have it surpass the embassy in Iraq's capital, Baghdad, as the largest U.S. Embassy - in the world..."
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/08-1


$500M KABUL EMBASSY EXPANSION

"The United States is bolstering its presence in Afghanistan with a 500 million dollar expansion of its Kabul embassy... Washington's Kabul embassy is already its biggest in the world, with about 1,100 employees, projected to rise to 1,200 by the end of the year..."
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hmuDhk6gDGOjUtRZAT866kfUXV8g

PAKISTAN TO DEPORT AFGHAN REFUGEES

"Pakistan is preparing to send 400,000 Afghan refugees back across the border to war-torn Afghanistan... In addition to the immediate planned deportations, Pakistan may send back almost 3 million refugees within the year, a move that... could further destabilize Afghanistan, straining its economy and challenging its fledgling security forces... The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has called the situation the "largest and most protracted refugee crisis in the world."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/29/pakistan-afghanistan-refugees_n_1637154.html

NATO STRIKE KILLS FAMILY WITH 6 CHILDREN

"... eight members of a family have been killed after an airstrike by the US-led NATO coalition... the Paktia provincial government said on Sunday that a man, a woman and their six children were killed... in Suri Khail village of Gurda Saria district. "This man had no connection to the Taliban or any other terrorist group... Mohammad Shafi was not a Taliban. He was not in any opposition group against the government. He was a villager."
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/05/20125277911748807.html

OBAMA SNEAKS IN TO ESTABLISH AN AFGHAN OKINAWA

"In the fortified but chronically battle-ravaged capital city of Kabul, the only city in Afghanistan where, backed by the U.S. military, Hamid Karzai actually governs... a seemingly fearful Obama, arriving by night, sneaked into the unlit city with its overflowing sewage and vanishing water table to sign the "Enduring Strategic Partnership" agreement...

In the Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement, under point six of Section III, which is entitled Advanced Long-Term Security, we read that “Afghanistan shall provide U.S. personnel continued access to and use of Afghan facilities through 2014, and beyond as may be agreed in the Bilateral Security Agreement, for the purposes of combating al-Qaeda and its affiliates, training the Afghan Security Forces and other mutually determined missions to advance shared security interests."

Instead of withdrawing all U.S. troops, the ‘….continued access to and use of Afghan facilities through 2014, and beyond…’ are plans to establish an 'Afghan Okinawa'..."

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/09-7