February 2012
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“It’s just a book: why would people get violent over it?”
“This is not just about dishonoring the Koran, it is about disrespecting our dead and killing our children,” said Maruf Hotak.
“We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat,” said General Stanly McChrystal. The US military has repeatedly — as in, over and over — killed young Afghan...
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UN chief speaks of losing fight against Afghan... →
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Is it worth your tax dollars to fund this...
“I served on the ground for 15 months during 2007 - 2008 in the Tribal Regions of the Afghan / Pak border as a US Paratrooper / Infantryman…We had soldiers FIGHT interpreters over “Jesus”. …We had Cooks that purposely put “pork products” in every dish served to purposely exclude the “locals” and “terps” working on our base from...
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“By blood, we are immersed in love of you. The youth lose their heads for your...”
– Ahmad Shah Baba.
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Clashes in Afghanistan over 'Quran burning' →
Reports of casualties in latest clashes after US apologies over reports copies of Quran were burnt at NATO base. “These protests that began outside the Bagram base on Tuesday, have now seemed to have spread to other cities across Afghanistan.”
Allegations that NATO troops working inside the base had set fire to copies of the Quran were first reported by a senior government...
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Truth, lies and Afghanistan →
I spent last year in Afghanistan, visiting and talking with U.S. troops and their Afghan partners. My duties with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force took me into every significant area where our soldiers engage the enemy. Over the course of 12 months, I covered more than 9,000 miles and talked, traveled and patrolled with troops in Kandahar, Kunar, Ghazni, Khost, Paktika, Kunduz, Balkh, Nangarhar...
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Nato apologises after killing eight Afghan... →
Threat? children? seriously? . If they were really a threat why would you apologize? This is just to justify it.
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“Because Americans tell the best stories. They can invade a country and...”
– Jean-Luc Godard
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450 Bases and it's Not Over Yet: The Pentagon’s... →
Whether the U.S. military will still be in Afghanistan in five or 10 years remains to be seen, but steps are currently being taken to make that possible. U.S. military publications, plans and schematics, contracting documents, and other official data examined by TomDispatch catalog hundreds of construction projects worth billions of dollars slated to begin, continue, or conclude in 2012.
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Follow watanAfghanistan's twitter account. →
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15 February marks the day Soviet troops pulled out...
The withdrawal of Soviet combatant forces from the Afghanistan began on May 15, 1988 and successfully executed on February 15, 1989 under the leadership of Colonel-General Boris Gromov who also was the last Soviet general officer to walk from the Asfghanistan back into Soviet territory through the Afghan-Uzbek Bridge. The whole time, during the withdrawal over the border, troop convoys were...
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Foreign powers hijack Afghan peace process →
Foreign meddling in Afghan affairs has done more damage than good over the past two centuries, especially since 1973 when King Zahir Shah was ousted in a bloodless coup due to the confluence of three external anti-nationalist phenomena: communism, pan-Islamic extremism and CIA intrigue.
Today the Afghans are trapped in a violent nexus between three other essentially non-indigenous forces:...
every1isfree2wearsunscreen-deac asked: I've never been to Afghanistan but i must say the most striking people i've ever seen are from your country. Just Beautiful
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NATO Air Strike Kills Eight Children in... →
baseballlibertarian:
And the mass murder continues.
At least eight Afghan children were killed today in Kapisa Province as the result of a NATO air strike against the Nejrab District. The attack was condemned by the Karzai government.
NATO would only “confirm there has been a situation,” while promising to send a “joint NATO assessment team” to find out exactly what happened and how. So...
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“one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter”
– Gerald Seymour
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Pashto Landay : A form of Afghan poetry
Pashto Landay Anonymous Pashto Couplets Landay are those national couplets in Pashto whose authors are unknown. They can, therefore, be called mirrors which reflect the sentiments and passions of every sensitive pashtoon man and woman. These couplets are sung and enjoyed among lofty mountains, verdant valleys, vast deserts and sylvan surroundings, in villages and towns, by the side...
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Donations for Afghan children help to spread.
Please donate for Afghan children in need. Afghanistan’s population of 31 million consist of more than 50% of children under the age of 15. For almost 30 years Afghan children have been affected by conflict. Only half of children are in school today, many work in the streets or in fields and homes to support their families. Children in Afghanistan face one of the worst chances of...
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Ruthless Pakistan Outclass Brave Afghanistan
Pakistan 198-3 (Younus Khan 70no) beat Afghanistan 195 (Shahid Afridi 5-36) by 7 wickets One-Day International, Sharjah.
Thousands of Afghans took a break from the war Friday, glued to their television sets to watch their cricketers take on neighbouring Pakistan in a historic one-day international.
Newcomers Afghanistan, who have played just 18 one-day internationals against fellow...
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Kabul experiences coldest weather in 15 years →
The Afghan capital has been experiencing its worst cold-snap and heaviest snows in at least 15 years, the National Weather Center said Wednesday.
The cold, combined with about 19.6 inches (50 centimeters) of snow, has caused power blackouts and iced over most of the capital’s roads. The bad weather has also caused a sharp increase in demand for wood, the main fuel used by the...
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