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19May

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Afghanistan, Iraq

Did You Serve in Iraq or Afghanistan?

NOVANEWS Did you serve in Iraq or Afghanistan? (And have you registered for VA health care?) OEF/OIF/OND combat Veterans can receive cost free medical care for any condition related to your service in your theater of operation for five years after the date of your discharge or release. For this reason, combat Veterans are strongly encouraged to apply for enrollment within their enhanced eligibility period, even if no medical care is currently needed. Your 5-year enrollment period begins on your discharge or separation date from Active Duty military service, or in the case of multiple call-ups, your most recent discharge date. Comprehensive VA health benefits — including preventative care, mental health care, prescriptions, emergency and surgical care — are available to all Veterans (us...

4May

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Afghanistan

Obama in Afghanistan Declares ‘Light Of New Day’ In Speech To America

NOVANEWS Military personnel watch on a screen as President Barack Obama makes a live address at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) WASHINGTON -- In a dramatic address to Americans broadcast from a military hangar outside Kabul, Afghanistan, President Barack Obama on Tuesday trumpeted the near-end of U.S. military operations in the country, 10 years after the U.S. invasion and one year to the day after he ordered the assassination of Osama bin Laden. Speaking against the backdrop of two armored military vehicles, one draped with an American flag, Obama said that he just signed "an historic agreement" with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai outlining a new, post-war relationship between the two countries. But before outl...

4May

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Afghanistan

OSAMA BIN LADEN DIED IN 2001!!!

NOVANEWS Written by Nashid Abdul-Khaaliq The information put out by the White House about the killing of Osama Bin Laden is a DELIBERATE LIE! OSAMA BIN LADEN HAS BEEN DEAD SINCE 2001!!! As shown below by reports from Taliban fighters, Osama Bin Laden's family, Heads of State, the CIA, Pakistani Intelligence, Israeli Press, NY Times, and other sources, Osama Bin Laden died of natural causes in Tora Bora in December, 2001. Why the hoax about his death at this time? It is because the US doesn't need the Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda boogeyman to justify attacking Muslim nations anymore. The Al-Qaeda boogeyman was used successfully to attack Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan and other places. But as evidenced in Libya, all that needs to be done now is claim that leaders are killing their...

30Apr

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Afghanistan, Arabic

أفغانستان: عنف على وقع موعدَيْ انسحاب «الأطلسي» والانتخابات الرئاسية

Posted By: Siba Bizri Arabic Shoah Editor in Chief كابول – كاميليا انتخابي فرد في الأسبوع الماضي، شنّ متمردون سلسلة من الهجمات العنيفة في كابول وفي أربع محافظات أخرى في أفغانستان، مُبدين بذلك قدرة كبيرة على تحدّي جهاز الاستخبارات الحكومي في مدن كبيرة مثل كابول وجلال آباد. وبعد حوالى أسبوع على تسليم العمليات الليلية إلى قوات الأمن الأفغانية، تحدّت حركة «طالبان» والمتمرّدون قدرات أجهزة الاستخبارات الأفغانية والقوات الخاصة من خلال إرسال 36 انتحارياً إلى أنحاء مختلفة من البلد، علماً أنّ معظمهم شنّ هجوماً على العاصمة. وفي 15 نيسان (أبريل)، دخل نحو 20 انتــحارياً في غضون دقائق إلى كابول مدجّجين برشاشات ثقيلة وقاوموا قوات الأمن الأفغانية على مدى 20 ساعة. ولم يكن الهدف من الهجمات التي نفّذت من أعلى المباني الشاهقة ضد سفارات أجنبية ومقر «إيساف» التسبب بسقوط ضحايا مدنيين، بل زرع خوف دائم في نفوس...

28Apr

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Afghanistan Is Not a US Colony!

NOVANEWS By Ismail Salami Hell is empty and all the devils are here. — William Shakespeare, The Tempest. A country robbed of peace and bereft of aspirations, Afghanistan seems to be plunging more and more into a pitiful morass of grievances brought about by the military madness the US troops exhibit in the beleaguered land with brazen-faced contumely. One such instance of military insanity is reflected in the two-year-old photographs recently published by the Los Angeles Times which show US soldiers posing with the mangled bodies of Afghan militants. These repugnant photos dealt a rapid blow to US-Afghan relations at a time when Washington seeks a strategic deal with Afghan President Hamed Karzai to maintain a presence in the country after the 2014 pullout of most foreign troops. ...

28Apr

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Afghanistan

Afghan Screams Aren’t Heard

NOVANEWS by Kathy Kelly and Hakim Last weekend, in Kabul, Afghan Peace Volunteer friends huddled in the back room of their simple home. With a digital camera, glimpses and sounds of their experiences were captured, as warfare erupted three blocks away. Two Afghan youth taking refuge together with the Afghan Peace Volunteers The fighting has subdued, but the video gives us a glimpse into chronic anxieties among civilians throughout Afghanistan. Later, we learned more: Ghulam awakens suddenly, well after midnight, and begins to pace through a room of sleeping people, screaming. Ali suddenly tears up, after an evening meal, and leaves the room to sit outside. Staring at the sky and the moon, he finds solace. Yet another puzzles over what brings people to the point of loaning themsel...

22Apr

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Afghanistan: Is Karzai Peace Plan a No-Go?

NOVANEWS Is Afghanistan a House of Cards, Just Waiting to Fall? …by Khalil Nouri STAFF WRITER / EDITOR High vantage points - a standard Taliban tactic The wave of coordinated attacks unleashed by the Taliban militants in Afghanistan on Sunday targeting Parliament and eastern cities gives a grim realization that Western backed Afghan President Mr. Karzai’s staked peace deal efforts with the Taliban aren’t working. But the real question is whether the fragile empire that Mr. Hamid Karzai has built will stay seamed together when international troops begin to leave Afghanistan in 2014 – or will it be swept aside by dangerous political fractures opened up by his efforts to negotiate peace with the Taliban? Evidently, Mr. Karzai’s pursuit of peace was, from the outside, driven by political pra...

19Apr

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In Afghanistan Photos, G.I.’s Posed With Body Parts

NOVANEWS By GRAHAM BOWLEY and ALISSA J. RUBIN KABUL — Photographs apparently showing United States soldiers posing with body parts of dead insurgents drew strong condemnation on Wednesday from American officials including Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and the commander of international forces in Afghanistan . The Los Angeles Times published on the front page of its early editions a photograph of what it described as a soldier from the Army ’s 82nd Airborne Division with a dead insurgent’s hand on his shoulder. It said the photograph was one of 18 of soldiers posing with the corpses of insurgent fighters given to the newspaper by a soldier who served in Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne’s Fourth Brigade Combat Team from Fort Bragg, N.C. The newspaper said the Afghan died plant...

15Apr

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Afghanistan

Between Kafka & Kabul

NOVANEWS Gilad Atzmon interviews Sarah Gillespie I have been working with Sarah Gillespie for the last five years. Sarah is an incredible singer songwriter, a very unique combination of poetic power coupled with natural compositional skills. Sarah doesn’t follow the book, she doesn’t fit into any recognized genre. Through collages of sounds, beat poetry and broken associations she manages to communicate yearning, pain, disillusion, joy and sometimes, hope. I spoke to Sarah about her new project, The War On Trevor – a narrative piece of music depicting the plights of a luckless London lad whose life unravels in 1 day. YouTube Gilad Atzmon: Why Trevor? Sarah Gillespie: Obviously it is a pun on the slogan ‘The War on Terror’. A pun is a figure of language that ...

15Apr

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Duff on Press TV – US Ends Night Raids in Afghan Deal

NOVANEWS US makes many errors in Afghanistan, passes them by lies By Press TV US Desk “The US has made an incredible number of errors and we could pass those errors by simply lying about it…because the American troops were simply lost and broke into the wrong home. That’s happened not dozens of times but hundreds of times.”” A prominent political analyst says the US makes “an incredible number of errors” during its war activities in Afghanistan, simply lying about them to pass them over. The United States and Afghanistan have signed a deal on the controversial night raids carried out by the US-led forces. YouTube However, Afghan President Hamid Karzai had demanded an end to such operations, with Afghans saying the raids violate their privacy. Press TV has conducted an inte...