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Afghan prisoners beaten to death at US military interrogation base
Two prisoners who died while being held for interrogation at the US military base in Afghanistan had apparently been beaten, according to a military pathologist's report. A criminal investigation is now under way into the deaths which have both been classified as homicides....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2003 4:46am PDT
Afghanistan Descending Into Chaos As Hamid Karzai Loses Control To Former Taliban
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Apr 13 (PNS) - Law and order situation in war-ravaged Afghanistan has almost completely broken down as attacks on the government soldiers have registered an unprecedented increase during the last few days in which several soldiers were either killed or injured....
Posted: Sun, Apr 13, 2003 2:47pm PDT
Fury as Jazeera Remembers Journalists Murdered By The US In Iraq and Afghanistan
"We cannot ascertain...whether this was a deliberate attack on our reporter,"
said Jazeera Chairman Hamad Bin Thamir-al Thani. "But I would like to remind you that
our bureau in Kabul was targeted in the Afghanistan war two years ago."...
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2003 9:39am PDT
War In Afghanistan Not Over: US Admits 11 Civilians Dead In Bombing Raid On E Afghanistan
The US military in Afghanistan says it has killed 11 Afghan civilians by mistake in an air attack....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2003 9:08am PDT
US War In Afghanistan Faces Setbacks: Ally of Afghan leader shot dead
A close ally of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been shot and killed in central Afghanistan, provincial government officials have said....
Posted: Sat, Apr 5, 2003 8:53am PST
Flaws in the Afghan model
Rumors about the death of the fanatics in Afghanistan were premature. Local bosses and drug traffickers are entering the vacuum created by the Karzai regime. The U.S., eager to bring the message of the West to Iraq, seems to be turning a blind eye....
Posted: Wed, Mar 26, 2003 11:24am PST
Iran pipeline route is the goal
The invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq are preparation for the invasion of Iran. The goal is control of the most profitable export route for transport of Caspian oil to the East Asian Market...
Posted: Tue, Mar 11, 2003 5:53pm PST
America tortures prisoners to death (Independent)
American military officials acknowledged yesterday that two prisoners captured in Afghanistan in December had been killed while under interrogation at Bagram air base north of Kabul - reviving concerns that the US is resorting to torture in its treatment of Taliban fighters and suspected al-Qa'ida operatives....
Posted: Sat, Mar 8, 2003 3:13am PST
Statement of RAWA's anti-war demonstration in Islamabad
The RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan) issued an statement against the war and held a demonstration in Islamabad.
Statement of RAWA's anti-war demonstration in Islamabad...
Posted: Tue, Mar 4, 2003 9:57am PST
Bay Area Premiere of an Anti-War Film
Afghanistan is not the kind of place one would expect to witness happiness, especially in the eyes of children who cannot truly comprehend concepts like war and hatred. All they see are their homes demolished daily, their families torn from them, and their own bodies ravaged by pain, fatigue, and hunger....
Posted: Wed, Feb 19, 2003 5:48pm PST
Is George W. Bush an Imperialist?
Does he share the War Party's vision of an Iran surrounded by U.S. air power in Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait, the Gulf, Afghanistan and Central Asia being ordered to destroy its missiles and nuclear reactors, or face U.S. attack? Sharon sees it. Anticipating a U.S. occupation of Iraq, he has called on us to smash Iran next. After that, Libya....
Posted: Fri, Feb 7, 2003 10:53pm PST
Fierce fighting erupts in Afghanistan
"It's the largest concentration of enemy forces since Operation Anaconda," Colonel King said - a reference to the US military campaign in eastern Afghanistan last March....
Posted: Tue, Jan 28, 2003 4:36pm PST
Is Pakistan Next?
As thousands of Pakistanis prepared to demonstrate Friday against the possibility of a U.S.-led war against Iraq, American troops based in Afghanistan threatened to complicate U.S.-Pakistani relations by asserting they have the right to cross the border into Pakistan in hot pursuit of enemy fighters....
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2003 9:47am PST
Afghanistan: The Nuclear Nightmare Starts
A startling new report based on research in Afghanistan indicates that our worst fears have been realized. The study, produced by the Uranium Medical Research Centre (UMRC), points to the likelihood of large numbers of the population being exposed to uranium dust and debris from the U.S. bombing campaign....
Posted: Fri, Jan 3, 2003 10:24pm PST
Flashpoints Dec 31: Jeremy Scahill on Iraq; Catherine Austin Fitts; HRW to Bush
KPFA Flashpoints Radio News, Dec 31, 2002
-reporter Jeremy Skahill on Saddam Hussein and his buddy Donald Rumsfeld
-another episode of The Real Deal with Catherine Austine Fitts
-Human Rights Watch calls for an investigation into alledged US torture against Afghanistanis.....
Posted: Wed, Jan 1, 2003 1:22am PST
Detainee dies during US interrogation in Afghanistan
US authorities last week reported that one of the detainees
being held by the military for interrogation at the Bagram Air
Base in Afghanistan had died. Almost nothing is known about who
he was, why he was detained or the circumstances surrounding his
death....
Posted: Wed, Dec 11, 2002 2:03pm PST
What did Bush Accomplish in Afghanistan?
Osama Ben Laden, Mullah Omar and the majority of other leaders are alive and well and it seems impossible to find them at this moment....Washington is trying to put a good face on things. But it is not coming out too good. They are already saying in the US quite openly: goal No.1 is to withdraw from Afghanistan with as little number of losses as possible, i.e. «leave while preserving image»....
Posted: Sun, Oct 13, 2002 2:49pm PDT
Xochitl of Not in Our Name on Resistance in a Time of War (video/x-pn-realvideo 5.1MB)
Xochitl, of the Not in our Name project discusses the bombing of Afghanistan, the round-up and detention of Arab-Americans, the attack on civil liberties, and the imminent war in Iraq. 43 minutes....
Posted: Thu, Sep 12, 2002 11:53pm PDT
Flashpoints Aug 19: journalist Robert Fisk, and Dr. Eyad Al-Saraj from Gaza
Flashpoints Aug 19, 2002:
-Robert Knight: war crimes coming home to roost (6 min)
-UK Independent journalist Robert Fisk on the US failure in Afghanistan (22 min)
-Palestinian psychologist Dr. Eyad Al-Saraj from Gaza (26 min)...
Posted: Mon, Aug 19, 2002 11:14pm PDT
Another American Declared To Be An Enemy Combatant
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that an American-born Taliban prisoner captured in Afghanistan, Yaser Esam Hamdi, could not have access to a lawyer, saying the government had the right to detain combatants in a time of war....
Posted: Fri, Jul 12, 2002 11:17am PDT