War Resister Update on Resisters still in Canada: Jan 26, 2009

To guests who are attending War Resister Action : Let Them Stay week : Jan 19 - 24, 2009


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 Special report

In the second of our series of dispatches from the ravaged country, Afghans explain how mounting civilian casualties are aiding Taliban recruiting.

• Clancy Chassay
• The Guardian, Tuesday 16 December 2008
  
  Clancy Chassay on Afghanistan's civilian casualties Link to this video

It was 7.30 on a hot July morning when the plane came swooping ( Read more... )

Elite Officer Recalls Bin Laden Hunt

Oct. 5, 2008(CBS) Shortly after 9/11, the Pentagon ordered a top secret team of American commandos into Afghanistan with a single, simple order: kill Osama bin Laden. It was America's best chance to eliminate the leader of al Qaeda. The inside story of exactly what happened in that mission, and how close it came ( Read more... )

October 5, 2008

Canada's $22-billion little war must give way to a negotiated peace settlement
By ERIC MARGOLIS

At last, a faint glimmer of light at the end of the Afghan tunnel.

Last week, the U.S.-installed Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, revealed he had asked Saudi Arabia to broker peace talks with the alliance of tribal and political groups ( Read more... )

The situation in Afghanistan is not straightforward. Anybody who wants to understand what's going on should ask themselves:

* Why is it that the Iranians get along very well with the Karzai administration?

* Why is it that the Russians also get along well with the Karzai administration and don't want NATO to fail?

* Why is it that all Afghans ( ( Read more... )

October 5th, 2008

In slip up, Palin calls Afghanistan “our neighboring country”

Posted by: Jason Szep

Tags: Tales from the Trail: 2008, Afghanistan, CBS, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey

SAN FRANCISCO - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin called Afghanistan “our neighboring country” on Sunday in a speech that could ( Read more... )

The New York Times

October 5, 2008
By JAMES RISEN

WASHINGTON - When Afghan security forces found an enormous cache of heroin hidden beneath concrete blocks in a tractor-trailer outside Kandahar in 2004, the local Afghan commander quickly impounded the truck and notified his boss.

Before long, the commander, Habibullah Jan, received a telephone call ( Read more... )

Afghanistan in Peril: Defeat and disaster for USA & India

Posted on October 4, 2008 by Moin Ansari

NEWS | October 3rd, 2008 | Moin Ansari | معین آنصآرّی | اخبار روپیہ | Afghanistan is lost. Only the announcements are left. “The American strategy is destined to fail”: Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles. The delay in realizing the reality of the situation can ( Read more... )

Related
Confronting Taliban, Pakistan Finds Itself at War: Pathetically flawed NYT article. Below  a partial antidote to Zionist poison.

Firstly,
The Good Taliban, The Bad And The Ugly

Secondly,

America's War, Not Ours
By by Ahmed Quraishi

02/10/09 "The News" -- -- 9/30/2008 -- A little noticed but major flaw in the Pakistan-US partnership in the war on ( Read more... )

The First Presidential Debate
September 26, 2008
Following is a transcript of the first presidential debate between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama in Oxford, Miss., as recorded by CQ Transcriptions:
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MCCAIN: First of all, I won't repeat the mistake that I regret enormously, and that is, after we were able to help the ( Read more... )