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6Jun

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Afghanistan: Stop Sabotaging the Implementation of the Peace Agreement

By Kadir A. Mohmand By Kadir Mohmand for VT Dear Ms. Deyoung: Please do not sabotage the peace agreement signed on February 29, 2020. I believe the report was extremely bias, supporting the misguided views of war profiteers, both Afghan and American, who want to sabotage this agreement and the troop withdrawal to the detriment of U.S. taxpayers and Afghan civilians. I invite you to hear and present both sides in your newspaper. During these past two decades, The Washington Post has transitioned into a mouthpiece for those whom solely profit off the almost two decades of war in Afghanistan, most under false presumptions. Stop misleading the American people. I read your June 1, 2020 article regarding the Taliban’s alleged present contacts with al-Qaeda. You hav...

18May

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Afghanistan, USA

Maternity ward massacre shakes Afghanistan and its peace process

By: Orooj Hakimi, Abdul Qadir Sediqi, Hamid Shalizi KABUL - After struggling to get pregnant for years, Zainab, 27, gave birth to a baby boy on Tuesday morning at a small hospital in the southwestern corner of Kabul. She was overjoyed and named the boy Omid, meaning ‘hope’ in Dari. At around 10 a.m. (0530 GMT), an hour before she and her family were set to return home to neighbouring Bamiyan province a three-hour drive away, three gunmen disguised as police burst into the hospital’s maternity ward and started shooting. Zainab, who rushed back from the washroom after hearing the commotion, collapsed as she took in the scene. She spent seven years trying to have a child, waited nine months to meet her son and had just four hours with him before he was killed. “I brought m...

After 18 Memorial Days of the “War on Terror,” Will We Ever Learn?

10May

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After 18 Memorial Days of the “War on Terror,” Will We Ever Learn?

U.S. Marines and Georgian soldiers exit a Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey during an operation in Afghanistan's Helmand Province on September 23, 2013. BYErik Edstrom, TomDispatch “Every day is a copy of a copy of a copy.” That meme, from the moment when Edward Norton’s character in Fight Club offers a 1,000-yard stare at an office copy machine, captures this moment perfectly — at least for those of us removed from the front lines of the Covid-19 crisis. Isolated inside a Boston apartment, I typically sought new ways to shake the snow globe, to see the same bubble — the same stuff — differently. Quarantine has entered a new season. The month of May has brought daffodils and barbeque grills. Memorial Day is just around the corner. And every Friday at 7:00 PM, residents in m...

7May

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Bailing Out the War State

Posted by Mandy Smithberger In this century, the war-fighting performance of the U.S. military has proven woeful indeed and both the Pentagon high command and key Trump administration officials have evidently been incapable of drawing obvious conclusions from that fact. Or think of it another way: even the president who can’t tell Lysol from a helpful prescription drug has noticed that something is truly wrong with America’s war in Afghanistan. This should have long been obvious. After all, almost 19 years after the U.S. invaded that country on a mission to destroy the Taliban, as well as al-Qaeda, and “liberate” Afghans, thousands of American troops, advisers, and contractors (though officially being drawn down) remain there, along with striking amounts of...

WHAT WAS THE BRITISH ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN?

22Apr

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WHAT WAS THE BRITISH ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN?

Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Amanda Mason In 2014, British combat troops left Afghanistan. British forces had been in the country since 2001 when they were sent as part of a coalition tasked with intervening in Afghanistan to find the leaders of al-Qaeda after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. By the end of 2001, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan had collapsed but an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) remained. ISAF's role was to oversee the transition to a new government and provide security for the redevelopment of the war torn country. In 2006, as part of a reorganisation of ISAF (now under NATO control), British troops were sent to the southern province of Helmand. Their intended role was to provide stability and security for reconstruction projects, but thei...

22Apr

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Britain’s Disastrous Retreat from Kabul

In the 1842 Afghanistan Massacre, Only 1 British Soldier Survived Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr Remnants of an Army.Elizabeth Thompson [Public domain] By Robert McNamara A British incursion into Afghanistan ended in disaster in 1842 when an entire British army, while retreating back to India, was massacred. Only a single survivor made it back to British-held territory. It was assumed the Afghans let him live to tell the story of what had happened. The background to the shocking military disaster had been the constant geopolitical jockeying in southern Asia which eventually came to be called “The Great Game.” The British Empire, in the early 19th century, ruled India (through the East India Company), and the Russian Empire, to the north...

5Apr

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Afghan war: after 18 years is there finally an end in sight?

Just as in Vietnam, the mighty USA has spent incalculable blood and treasure trying to enforce its will, and has signally failed. Lalkar writers Afghan resistance fighters and villagers attend a gathering as they celebrate the peace deal signed between the US and Taliban, Laghman province, 2 March 2020. On 29 February 2020, the Times reported: “America has signed a deal with Taliban insurgents that could pave the way towards the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghanistan and an end to the 18-year war in the country. “Under the agreement, America will cut its forces from 13,000 to 8,600 in the next three to four months, with its remaining troops withdrawing in 14 months. Complete withdrawal depends on the Taliban meeting commitments to prevent terrori...

15Mar

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Aussie SAS Faces War Crime Arrest for Murders in Afghanistan

By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor ABC Australia: Extraordinary footage captured on the helmet camera of an Australian soldier in Afghanistan could result in charges of war crimes. Key points:The video shows the SAS soldier shooting the man dead at close rangeThe video is at odds with what soldiers told investigators, who ruled the killing was self-defenceAnother SAS soldier who served in the same squadron has described it as a “straight-up execution”Four Corners has obtained video which shows a Special Air Service (SAS) operator shooting an unarmed Afghan man three times in the head and chest while he cowers on the ground. His death took place within three minutes of the soldiers arriving in the village. An Australian Defence Force (ADF) investigation later ruled the killing ...

15Mar

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No, President Trump, the Never-ending War in Afghanistan Is Not Ending

Trump is wrong to pretend he’s bringing the troops home from Afghanistan. All he’s agreed to do is bring them back down to the level they were at when he took office. byJesse Jackson U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, 2001. (Photo: Sergeant Joseph R. Chenelly / United States Marine Corps) Don’t fall for the hype. That is the one lesson that we all should have learned about President Donald Trump. He’s a salesman, not a statesman. He offers up fantasies, not facts. The most recent agreement with the Taliban in Afghanistan is a clear example of this. In the 2016 campaign, Trump had the good sense to promise to end America’s forever wars and bring the troops home. Afghanistan, our longest war now in its 19th year, is a classic example. We invaded Afghanistan to get Osama b...

15Mar

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Afghanistan: Imagine There’s No Future

By Daniel Lazare Global Research, Here’s a little thought experiment. Imagine it’s Sept. 12, 2001, and America is in deep shock over the destruction of the World Trade Center the previous day. George W. Bush goes on national TV and declares: “Now is not the time to lose our heads. Like Pearl Harbor, the death of thousands of innocent people in Lower Manhattan is a crime that will live in infamy. But our response must be carefully calibrated. With that in mind, we are sending teams of commandos to Afghanistan with the sole purpose of apprehending Osama bin Laden and his top henchmen. Once they’re arrested – and, mark my words, they will be – we will bring them to New York to stand trial just a few yards from where their despicable act of mass murder occurred. We hav...