 | Blackwater Officials Indicted for Weapons Violations
From the first days of the launch of the so-called "war on terror," Blackwater has been at the epicenter of some of the most secretive operations conducted by US forces globally |
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 | NATO Troops Kill Four Students in Khost
Afghan government officials confirmed that an overnight NATO shooting in the Khost Province left four students, one of them as young as 11 years old, dead. The Afghan Education Ministry confirmed that all four were students, but other reports suggest the eldest, an 18 year old, may have been working as a police officer as well. |
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 | Mottaki: Washington summit repeated Bush’s scenario
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Friday that the Washington Nuclear Summit repeated former US president George W. Bush’s scenario |
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 | Veteran journalist criticizes NATO allies wars in Iraq, Afghanistan
A UK-based veteran journalist said Sunday that the NATO allies were "criminally fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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 | Court action to prevent UK complicity in Afghan torture
The British government was being challenged Monday to prevent allegations of its complicity in torture in Afghanistan by stopping the transfer of prisoners captured by UK forces into Afghan custody. |
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 | Ash cloud hampering UK operations in Afghanistan
The cloud of volcanic ash over Europe has had the unforeseen consequence of hampering Britain’s military operations in Afghanistan due to the ban on all flights in the UK. |
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 | US forces kill 4, injure dozen Afghans
US military forces have opened fire on a vehicle killing four and wounding more than a dozen civilians in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost. |
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 | Afghanistan: More Than 100 Dead In Bloody Week
More than 100 people including dozens of civilians were killed in violence related to Afghanistan's ongoing war against the Taliban in the past week, authorities said Sunday. |
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 | Obama’s Afghan War: The New Metric of Civilian Casualties
The following article is by Professor Marc W. Herold, a political analyst from Global Research website.
During 2009, seven out of ten civilians killed by the Obama and NATO military machines have been women and children. Clearly, the Obama regime has failed on the metric of civilian casualties. |
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 | GI dies in US copter crash in Iraq
An American troop has lost his life and three others have sustained wounds in a helicopter crash in northern Iraq, says the US Army in a statement. |
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