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Dozens of Militants Killed in Afghanistan

Coalition and Afghan forces killed more than 40 militants in clashes across southern Afghanistan on Saturday, according to the U.S. military.

Karzai Orders Probe Into Afghan Killings

President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation Thursday into reported civilian casualties from a U.S.-led coalition airstrike in a southern town this week, a senior official said.

Coalition, Afghan Forces Kill 19 Militants

Coalition and Afghan forces killed at least 19 Taliban militants during an insurgent attack on a police headquarters in southern Afghanistan, the governor's spokesman said Thursday.

Child Killed in Afghan Suicide Attack

A suicide attacker in a car detonated a bomb near a U.S. military convoy in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing a boy who was playing nearby and wounding three other children, a provincial governor said.

Afghan Drug Lord Pleads Guilty to Charge

An Afghan drug lord suspected of ties to the Taliban and accused of plotting to poison U.S. neighborhoods with heroin pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge Tuesday.

Coalition, Afghan Forces Kill 30 Militants

Coalition and Afghan forces killed an estimated 30 extremists Tuesday in a raid on a hideout in southern Afghanistan, the military said. Coalition aircraft destroyed a helicopter damaged in an emergency landing during the operation.

Taliban Campaign Hurts Afghan Students

For 14-year-old Mohammed Salam, his tent school was about all this mud-brick farming village had going for it. That was until suspected Taliban militants burned it to the ground.

Kabul Uneasy After Series of Bombings

When the call to prayer rings out, Muslim faithful converge on the blue-tiled Qaraman-e-Karbala Mosque in the Afghan capital. At the gates, they are politely stopped and those with bags are searched.

Afghan Fighting Kills Coalition Officer

A coalition officer died Sunday of wounds suffered in fighting near an opium-rich insurgent stronghold, the military said.

6 Killed in Clash in Southern Afghanistan

One U.S.-led coalition soldier and five militants were killed in a clash in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said Friday.

U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan

As of July 8, 2006, at least 254 members of the U.S. military have died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.

Afghans Bonfire Consumes 40 Tons of Drugs

Afghan officials destroyed more than 40 tons of confiscated narcotics worth an estimated $500 million on Wednesday in a giant bonfire on the outskirts of Kabul.

Afghan, Coalition Forces Kill 10 Militants

Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed 10 suspected militants during several operations aimed at flushing out Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.

3 Bombs Explode in Kabul; 1 Person Killed

Three bombs exploded Wednesday in the Afghan capital in attacks that targeted buses carrying government workers and security forces, killing one bystander and injuring at least 47 other people, police and witnesses said.

Soldiers Now U.S. Citizens in Afghanistan

They were soldiers from 21 different countries. But at the end of a short ceremony Tuesday at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, they pledged allegiance to only one: the United States.

Bomb Explodes in Kabul, Wounding 4

A bomb exploded in front of a cinema near the presidential palace in central Kabul on Tuesday, wounding at least four people, police said.

30 Afghan Men Released From U.S. Base

Thirty Afghan men were released Monday from detention at main U.S. military base in Afghanistan, an official said. The men had been held for differing amounts of time from a year or longer, said Syed Sharif Yousafi, spokesman for the national reconciliation commission.

U.S. Giving Afghans $2B Worth of Weaponry

The United States is giving $2 billion worth of military weapons and vehicles to modernize Afghanistan's national army, a U.S. general said Monday.

Explosion in Afghan University Wounds 8

A small explosion went off Monday in a classroom at a university in western Afghanistan, wounding eight female college students, police said.

2 British Soldiers Killed in Afghan Attack

A coalition base came under attack by suspected Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, leaving two British soldiers and an interpreter dead, officials said Sunday.

Developments in Iraq and Afghanistan

Developments Saturday in Iraq and Afghanistan:

U.S. Probes Possible 'Friendly Fire' Death

The U.S. military on Saturday said it was investigating the death of a soldier in eastern Afghanistan as a possible "friendly fire incident."

Afghan Rocket Attack Wounds 2 Canadian GIs

Two rockets fired by insurgents slammed into a coalition base in southern Afghanistan, wounding two Canadian soldiers and several others, a coalition spokesman said Saturday.

Taliban Following Lead of Militant Iraqis

The Toyota Corolla careened toward a military convoy and exploded into a huge ball of fire. This time, the bomb detonated too soon and the two attackers only killed themselves.

Attack on U.S. Convoy in Afghanistan Fails

Two suicide bombers attacked a U.S. military convoy Wednesday in southern Afghanistan, killing only themselves while soldiers escaped unhurt, police said.

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Afghans muzzle press, despite law

Source: wilmingtonstar.com

Efforts step up to muzzle journalists; forbidden to criticize or speak out against government.

Haaretz debate: should Jews abroad slam Israel?

Source: Haaretz

Extensive Haaretz "Make your point" International and Israeli discussion over whether Jews should criticize Israel - their right? their duty? ALL people are obliged to criticize racism, war crimes & ethnic cleansing.

Racism corrupts Western Mainstream media Middle East reports

Source: aljazeera

Ramzy Baroud (author, "The Second Intifada"): racism plagues Western media Asian coverage that somehow assumes intrinsic European superiority over their indigenous, mostly Muslim Arab and Afghan victims.

Israel, US or Kashmir behind Mumbai Atrocity?

The death toll from the Mumbai train system bombing atrocity has risen to 200 with 700 wounded. Kashmir separatist non-state terrorism, Israeli state terrorism or US state terrorism are the most likely culprits, based on motive, opportunity and terrorism track record.

Huge medical error deaths & hospital risk management

Source: ABC TV Four Corners

"Do no harm" but 100,000 Americans die annually from medical "adverse events"; "system failure" rather than "individual fault"; death probability 10,000 times greater from medical error than from air travel; truth vital.

Filipino Independence Day on July 4 or June 12?

Source: Philippines Daily Inquirer

Filipino Declaration of Independence on June 12 1898 was followed by American invasion and war (1 million Filipinos died); ACTUAL Philippines Independence on 4 July 1946 but celebrated on June 12 from the 1960s.

Pilger reviewed - "writer of wrongs"

Source: The Scotsman

Jackie McGlone reviews outstanding Oz-UK journalist John Pilger's latest book "Freedom next time" (Bantam, 2006) - a collection of essays on wrongs done to Chagossians, Palestinians, Afghans, South Africans and Indians.

Pilger on UK-US & Israeli War on Children

Source: Al-Jazeerah

Pilger re Gaza: “Such collective punishment, identified as a crime against humanity in the Geneva Conventions, evokes the Nazis’ strangulation of the Warsaw ghetto and the US economic siege of Iraq in the 1990s.”

Guardian finds Afghan witnesses US couldn't

Source: guardian.co.uk

Declan Walsh: The US government said it could not find the men that Guantánamo detainee Abdullah Mujahid believes could help set him free. The Guardian found them in three days.

Israel de-legitimizing itself through violence & injustice

Source: Guardian comment is free

Simon Tisdall: Gaza invasion threat: "Israel is in danger not of obliteration by 'Islamic extremists' but of delegitimisation by its own polices and actions." Comment: 300,000 post-1967 Palestinian avoidable deaths.

Capitalism & US child sexual abuse epidemic

Source: MWC News

"1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men in the United States are subjected to sexual abuse by the time they reach puberty" ... "capitalist imperative" ... "do on a global scale ... replicate in the family"... "national epidemic".

US domestic violence epidemic against women

Source: Medline Plus

3,400 US women surveyed for domestic and intimate partner (IP) violence: 5-13% (domestic violence for more than 20 years), 15% (IP violence in previous 5 years), 8% ( IP violence in past year); "epidemic".

Australia ignoring gross sexual abuse of aboriginal children

Source: ABC Lateline

Australian doctor reports sexual abuse of Aboriginal children, violence & community & official "dysfunction"; sexually transmitted infections (STIs) found in under 10s, more common in older children; official "brick wall".

US rendition & torture of German citizen

Source: Washington Monthly

Khaled El-Masri took bus to Macedonia, was wrongly arrested (mistaken ID), handed to the CIA, renditioned to Afghanistan, TORTURED for weeks, released & then DENIED justice in US courts by the Bush Administration.

Whitehall's buried treasures too much to report

Source: Guardian comment is free

Daniel Davies - huge weekly Whitehall info "release" means they are "burying" what should be analyzed & reported; comment: Mainstream Media ignores UNICEF-reported UK-complicit Iraqi, Afghan mass mortality anyway

Iraqi & Afghan infant deaths fund White Australian tax bonanza

WHITE AUSTRALIA has an appalling record of 2 centuries of genocide, has been complicit in avoidable mortality in post-1950 US and UK Asian Wars totalling 18 million, is one of the worst countries in the world for extinction of unique wildlife and is overwhelmingly the world's wor

UK political sex scandal, private vs public lies, sleaze vs war crimes

Source: Guardian comment is free

Ros Taylor - private sexual morality apart from professional integrity; comments: sexual discretion indicative of general propriety; UK media hypocrisy - obsessed with sex & IGNORE UK-US war crimes, opiate deaths, betrayal of Coalition soldiers

Bush complicit in ~60,000 AMERICAN opioid drug deaths

US Mainstream Media ignore 2.3 million post-invasion Iraqi, Afghan deaths AND ~60,000 US deaths from US restoration of Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry.

Afghans hunt for Taliban after heavy fighting

Source: today.reuters.com

Afghan forces are now scouring the southern villages for the Taliban.

Israeli voters cynical, pragmatic, less passionate OR blind, racist & proto-Nazi?

Source: Guardian

Jonathan Spyer: pragmatism & unilateralism; comments: "blindness"; Israel, US, UK racism, proto-Nazism & denial of 2.6 million post-invasion excess (avoidable) deaths in Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi & Afghan Territories

Afghan convert = Islam cartoons

Source: news.yahoo.com

This article suggests that westerners are having the same response to this convert as Muslims had to the cartoons.

Afghan Christian convert may escape conviction due to 'insanity'

Source: news.independent.co.uk

It seems that the trial of that guy facing death penalty for converting to Christianity may be dropped on grounds of his "metal instability". Priceless. Didn't we bring Democracy over there in 2001? So much for that.

Pink ipods for democracy, Firing up the propaganda machine

Source: corpwatch.org

The employees of Voice for Humanity, in a fever of righteous idealism, traveled six hours on donkeys and horses through the remotest parts of the Afghanistan countryside. They were on a mission: to deliver what they thought was an invaluable literacy tool for Afghans.

US-restored Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium trade & 50,000 US drug deaths

Source: Countercurrents

After 2001 the US occupation restored the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium trade (UN data) - Coalition complicity in 0.4 million post-2001 opioid drug-related deaths (3,200 UK, 50,000 US).

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