Economic Stimulus: Military-led Investigation Concludes U.S. Taxpayer $2.16 Billion Funneled to Taliban Under Transportation Contract “Dear Ma – Sorry the bank took our house because the Government exported all of our jobs overseas to bring about this engineered economic collapse and capitalizing on Wall Street’s fraudulent mortgage backed securities, needing our houses to balance their [...]
Nearly 500 Taliban Break Out of Prison April 25th, 2011 Via: AFP: Almost 500 Taliban fighters and commanders tunnelled out of a prison in an audacious jailbreak in southern Afghanistan which the government admitted on Monday was a security “disaster”. The Taliban said it was behind the operation to free the inmates through a [...]
IRONY Why Do the Good Guys Always Get It? REALITY CHECK Saudi Arabia Fears Islamist Extremism? NEXT UP Armitage to Represent in Kabul? What’s This?Translate What’s This?Return Contractor deaths surpass U.S. military losses in both Iraq and Afghanistan Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Wednesday, February 9, 2011 – 11:37 AM Share Sometimes it takes me [...]
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US Has Now Occupied Afghanistan For Just as Long as Soviets Julianne Escobedo Shepherd November 26, 2010 Nine years, 50 days. We’ve now been stationed in Afghanistan for just as long as the Soviets in the ’70s and ’80s. But where Russia eventually recognized the futility of the situation, the US is fresh off an [...]
Daniel Tencer Raw Story Nov 21, 2010 Fewer than one in 10 Afghans are aware of the 9/11 attacks and their precipitation of the war in Afghanistan, says a study from an international think tank. A report (PDF) from the International Council on Security and Development (ICOS) shows that 92 percent of those surveyed had [...]
US clutching at straws in Afghanistan By Zia Sarhadi November 21, 2010 – In an incredible twist of events that would qualify as a script for a spy thriller, the Americans are publicly claiming credit for “succeeding” in convincing the Taliban, especially some members of the Quetta Shura, to negotiate a peaceful end to the [...]
Iraq, Afghanistan among ‘most corrupt’ nations AFP October 26, 2010 BERLIN — Iraq and Afghanistan on Tuesday came near the top of a closely watched global list of countries perceived to be the most corrupt, despite efforts to stamp out graft in the war-torn nations. Nearly three-quarters of the 178 countries in Transparency International’s annual [...]
CIA hired Karzai’s brother before 9/11, Woodward says Published on 10-03-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Share | Source: Washington Post Ahmed Wali Karzai, the half-brother of Afghanistan’s president and boss of the strategically important Kandahar province, has been on the CIA payroll for over a decade, Bob Woodward writes in his new book, “Obama’s Wars.” [...]
Afghanistan: Wealth, Corruption and Criminality Amidst Mass Poverty The Collapse of Public Health and Sanitation by Prof. Marc W. Herold September 25, 2010 – Afghanistan might be characterized as having a paucity of toilets and an excess of corruption. These two aspects capture the post-Taliban essence of the country. The “achievements” of Hamid Karzai the [...]
By Katherine Smith In September 2006, the world experienced a paradigm shift when a strong lobbying effort by grassroots organizations effectively derailed an initiative: A move that was tantamount to a declaration of war on Iran. U.S.: Iran Resolution Shelved in Rare Defeat for Israel Lobby In a significant and highly unusual defeat for the [...]
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By Katherine Smith The timing of an investigation by the House Ethics Committee, which on August 2, 2010 formally brought a case against Congresswoman Maxine Waters, one of America’s most enduring liberal and fierce Anti War politicians, and the WikiLeaks of tens of thousands of Army documents related to the war in Afghanistan may be [...]
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USA funded Osama Bin Laden in 1989 to destabalise Pakistan Published on 08-02-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Source: Deadline Live What a find this is! Pakistan’s President clearly says George Bush funded CIA Operative Osama Bin Laden to destabilise Pakistan. Originally uploaded in January 2010.
Afghanistan: U.S. Spends $20 Billion Per Year for Air Conditioning in Tents July 29th, 2010 This astonishing statistic is mentioned in the audio feature on the page linked below. Via: PRI: The term we were looking for is “Forward Operating Base” or FOB. The US has many FOBs in Iraq and Afghanistan. The large ones [...]
U.S. paying millions to insurgents, Taliban and Afghan warlords Published on 06-22-2010 Email To Friend Print Version Source: Washington Post The U.S. military is funding a massive protection racket in Afghanistan, indirectly paying tens of millions of dollars to warlords, corrupt public officials and the Taliban to ensure safe passage of its supply convoys throughout the [...]
Alert Issued for 17 Afghan Military Members AWOL From U.S. Air Force Base By Jana Winter Published June 17, 2010 | FOXNews.com Text Size U.S. Air Force FILE: Air traffic controllers from the 37th Operations Support Squadron prepare to navigate F-16 Falcons down the runway on Lackland Air Force Base. A nationwide alert has been [...]
