Tag: Afghanistan
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afghan opium production ‘soars’
update: ‘on the map’ with avi lewis – war on drugs (june 21, 2007)Avi talks to Andre Hollis, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for counternarcotics. He’s one of the author’s of America’s appoach in Colombia, and a player in the current plans for Afghanistan… from bbc: Opium production in Afghanistan is soaring out…
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booga booga back for more
bin laden overseeing iraq & afghanistan opsfrom reuters: Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is orchestrating militants’ operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a senior commander of Afghan Islamist group Taliban said in remarks broadcast on Wednesday. Bin Laden has not made any video statements for many months raising speculation that he might have died. “He…
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‘deliberate and calculated lies’
from raw story: In a major hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the brother of deceased Army Specialist Pat Tillman, who appears to have been a victim of friendly fire, said that reports of his brother’s ‘heroic death’ were “deliberate and calculated lies.” “These were intentional falsehoods that meet the legal…
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Officers Blamed for Tillman Case Errors
‘You know, this war is so fucking illegal.’ – Pat Tillman from ap/yahoo: Nine officers, including up to four generals, should be held accountable for missteps in the aftermath of the friendly fire death of Army Ranger Pat Tillman in Afghanistan, a Pentagon investigation will recommend… Dozens of soldiers — those immediately around Tillman at…
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brotherhood official: emmanuel goldstein is alive
from ap/breit bart: A senior Taliban commander says Osama bin Laden is alive and in contact with leaders of Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgents, according to an interview aired on British television. Mullah Dadullah said he had not met bin Laden since the fall of the Taliban regime after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, but…
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US hands major weapons supplies to afghan army
from reuters/yahoo: The Unites States handed over thousands of weapons and hundreds of vehicles to Afghanistan’s fledgling national army on Thursday as part of its strategy to boost local security forces in the fight against the Taliban. Afghan President Hamid Karzai attended the handover of 800 High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicles and other trucks, and…
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Afghanistan’s opium crop at an all-time high
from jerry mazza: The question is why. Under Taliban rule, which began in the late 1990s, Afghanistan just about kicked the growing habit by 2001. After five years the Taliban is slipping back in, but poppy production has grown by leaps and bounds. According to the Washington Post, “Opium production in Afghanistan, which provides more…