Afghanistan Archives - Page 50 of 66

6Jun

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Afghanistan, USA

Soldier pleads guilty in Afghan massacre, says ‘not a good reason in this world’ for slayings

NOVANEWS (Peter Millett/ Associated Press ) - In this detail from a courtroom sketch, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, left, stands before military judge Col. Jeffery Nance, right, Wednesday, June 5, 2013, during a plea hearing in a military courtroom at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state. Bales pleaded guilty to multiple counts of murder, stemming from a pre-dawn attack on two villages in Kandahar Province in Afghanistan in March, 2012. By Associated Press JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — Seated at a table with his hands folded in front of him, twiddling his thumbs, an American soldier dryly spoke about how he slipped away from his base in Afghanistan last year in the middle of the night and killed 16 civilians, later setting some bodies on fire with a kerosene lanter...

5Jun

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Afghanistan, United Kingdom

British soldier admits sexually abusing Afghan boy as colleague confesses to racially attacking civilians

NOVANEWS ed note–and yet, according to Tony Blair, we are supposed to see ISLAM as the problem, and that murders such as what took place 2 weeks ago against a British soldier have nothing to do with what the British have done to Muslims in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, etc?? Yeah, makes sense to the rest of the sane world… dailymail.co.uk Two soldiers admitted offences during tour of Afghanistan Given anonymity after judge ruled naming them would risk their life Solider X pulled an Afghan boy’s hand towards his crotch while saying ‘Touch my special place’ and insulted another boy, aged about 10 Soldier Y had an Afghan man photographed holding a racist sign that read ‘Silly P*ki’ Two British soldiers have admitted abusing Afghan civilians at a court martial hearing toda...

30May

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The pointless Afghanistan war has cost Britain more than £37 billion

NOVANEWS By Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian British soldiers in Helmand province. Despite the cost of the war, not a single al-Qaida operative has been killed and the war's main beneficiaries are arms dealers and Afghan drug lords. The war in Afghanistan has cost Britain at least £37bn and the figure will rise to a sum equivalent to more than £2,000 for every taxpaying household, according to a devastating critique of the UK's role in the conflict. Since 2006, on a conservative estimate, it has cost £15m a day to maintain Britain's military presence in Helmand province. The equivalent of £25,000 will have been spent for every one of Helmand's 1.5 million inhabitants, more than most of them will earn in a lifetime, it says. By 2020, the author of a new book says, Britain will hav...

25May

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Afghanistan

YOU ARE TERRORIST !

24May

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Afghanistan, United Kingdom

British soldier jailed for stabbing 10-year-old Afghan boy

NOVANEWS A British soldier has been jailed for stabbing a 10-year-old boy after getting drunk on vodka while serving in Afghanistan. The Minsisty of Defence said all British troops undergo comprehensive training on the strict rules of engagement that UK forces and Isaf operate under Photo: GETTY By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent Grenadier Guardsman Daniel Crook was jailed for 18 months and dismissed from the Army in June for stabbing Ghulam Nabi in the kidney with a bayonet in Helmand Province. Details of the incident emerged in a court martial, which heard that the soldier stabbed the boy who had been pestering Crook for chocolate. The incident took place in March last year after Crook had drunk a bottle of vodka sent in a disguised container from a friend in E...

24May

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Afghan Voices Tell the Tales of Human Lives Cut Short by US War

NOVANEWS by Kathy Kelly KABUL—Since 2009, Voices for Creative Nonviolence has maintained a grim record we call the “The Afghan Atrocities Update” which gives the dates, locations, numbers and names of Afghan civilians killed by NATO forces. Even with details culled from news reports, these data can't help but merge into one large statistic, something about terrible pain that's worth caring about but that is happening very far away. Some of the 12 children killed in a US/NATO airstrike in Kunar Province, Afghanistan in April of this year. (Photo: Namatullah Karyab for The New York Times) It’s one thing to chronicle sparse details about these U.S. led NATO attacks. It’s quite another to sit across from Afghan men as they try, having broken down in tears, to regain sufficient com...

20May

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Afghanistan, USA

US building military base in Afghanistan near Iran border

novanews The United States is building a military base in Afghanistan near the border with the Islamic Republicof Iran, Press TV reports. Press TV’s correspondent in Afghanistan said thebase is being built in an area known as Chahlang in Afghanistan’s Farah Province. The site of theconstruction is three kilometers from the Iranian border. According to information obtained by Press TV, the US forces have already constructed a communications tower and dug some channels in the ground at the site of the base. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on May 9 that the US had demanded to keep nine military bases across the war-torn country, adding that, “We are in very serious and delicate negotiations with America.” On Thursday, however, White House Spokesman Jay Carney rejected Karzai’s remark...

18May

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Nazi Robert Bales’ Killing Rampage Recounted By Afghans

NOVANEWS huffingtonpost.com Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant black shawl. Hidden from view, her words burst forth as she told her side of what happened to her family sometime before dawn on March 11, 2012. According to Masooma, an American soldier wearing a helmet equipped with a flashlight burst into her two-room mud home while everyone slept. He killed her husband, Dawood, punched her 7-year-old son and shoved a pistol into the mouth of his baby brother. “We were asleep. He came in and he was shouting, saying something about Taliban, Taliban, and then he pulled my husband up. I screamed and screamed and said, `We are not Taliban, we are not government. We are no one. Please don’t hurt us,’” she said. The sold...

15May

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Afghanistan Demands Arrest of ‘American’ Death Squad Leader

NOVANEWS The US and Afghanistan are at loggerheads again after new accusations that an American citizen has ‘disappeared’ fifteen people in the province of Wardak, where continued NATO presence has been hotly opposed. RT Washington has denied any involvement. Afghan officials say that a man by the name of Zakaria Kandahari, allegedly an ethnic Afghan, but a US citizen, has led a pro-government death squad that has terrorized locals in Wardak, New York Times reports. The newspaper says three officials have confirmed that he is being sought on charges of torture and murder. A key piece of evidence is a video tape of Kandahari torturing a local, while speaking English with an American accent. Over the past year, Kandahari and his soldiers have also been seen throughout the area wearing ...

11May

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Afghanistan, Campaigns, Pakistan & Kashmir, USA

Ground the Drones

NOVANEWS No cooperation with British war crimes! Since Nato launched its illegal and unjustified invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, drones (aka Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) have gone from being an untried technology to one of the primary means of warfare. The runaway leader in the field, the US, now operates 7,500 vehicles - more than 40 percent of all US defence aircraft - and trains more drone pilots each year (350 in 2011) than fighter and bomber pilots combined. Meanwhile, some 40 other countries, seeing the writing on the wall, are in the process of buying or developing their own unmanned vehicles. Although information about British involvement in armed drone strikes is largely kept from the public, the MoD has recently admitted that British pilots have carried out thousands of dro...