Afghanistan

One Thousand Extra Marines for Afghanistan

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13/01/2011

According to the New York Times, the United States of America will send more than 1,000 additional Marines to Afghanistan this month.

Conditioned to kill

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14/09/2010

As the war in Afghanistan continues without an end in sight, Dave Crouch delves into the testimony of serving soldiers to reveal the full horror of an unwinnable conflict.

Afghanistan: US hasn’t liberated us, say women

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08/09/2010

The Kabul district of Khoshal Khan Mina has a dark history. In 1992 the worst massacre of Afghanistan’s bloody civil war took place here.

WikiLeaks reveal the scope of U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan

31/07/2010

THE release of more than 92,000 classified documents relating to the war in Afghanistan by the muckraking Web site WikiLeaks has left the US administration and its war partners trying to defend the in

Obama’s ‘good war’ goes bad in Afghan killing-fields

12/07/2010

June has been the deadliest month for US and British troops in Afghanistan since the invasion began nine years ago.

Irish troops in Chad to be sent to Afghanistan

01/04/2010

Reliable sources in the Dept. of Defence have said that the Irish troops now in Chad are to be send immediately to Afghanistan to join the 7 Irish soldiers already taking part in the war, writes Roger Cole, Chair of the Peace & Neutrality Alliance.

The Bundeswehr is waging a war against the Afghan population

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11/03/2010

Christine Buchholz of the Left Party in Germany made a speec in the parliament recently condemning :that country's participation in the Afghan war.

Afghanistan - the graveyard of US power?

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08/01/2010

It is difficult to believe now that Barrack Obama fought his election campaign on the assumption that switching US troops to the “ good war” of Afghanistan would be a vote- catcher. Today, Obama is tripping himself up explaining to a war weary America what more troops will be doing in a war whose purpose has been forgotten. Afghanistan is rapidly becoming Obama’s failure, writes Marnie Holborow

Answering Obama's Afghanistan deceptions

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15/12/2009

Barack Obama's December 1 nationally televised address to announce a further escalation of 30,000 troops to Afghanistan cemented his role as a war president who bears responsibility for the U.S. war on that country. It also marked Obama's assumption of the task of providing the justifications, alibis and obfuscations needed to cloak U.S. military aims in an aura of legitimacy.Eric Ruder goes through Obama's speech and counters seven of Barack Obama's worst half-truths and lies about Afghanistan.

'Obama Peace Prize? He's a killer!': Video feature

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14/12/2009

'Obama Peace Prize? He's a killer!': Video feature

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