Posts Tagged ‘Afghanistan
Russian NATO warns of ‘full-blown’ war
A Russian-led security organization, seen as a counterforce for NATO, has proposed the boosting of the body’s armed capabilities, voicing concerns about the situation in Afghanistan.
Nikolay Bordyuzha, the Secretary-General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which is composed of Russia and six other ex-Soviet states, said, “We’ve long been talking about the necessity to [...]
Italy to sue The Times over ‘Taliban ties’
Italy has blasted a new report in UK’s daily newspaper The Times in which Italian government has been accused of Taliban links in order to escape attacks.
Italian Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa told reporters on Thursday that his government intends to prosecute “The Times” for the publication of alleged ties between Italian intelligence service and [...]
Deaths in Pakistan ‘US strikes’
A suspected US missile strike has killed at least seven people in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region.
One missile hit a vehicle in the village of Wana killing four people, while another strike killed three in a nearby village, both in South Waziristan on Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
“Tribesmen opened fire on the drones after the attacks,” a resident of Wana told Reuters news agency.
America’s chickens come home to roost
Thirty-nine women and children and eight teenagers at a wedding could hardly be mistaken for militants. Yet that’s what the U.S. military said about the 47 civilians murdered in an air strike in Afghanistan (BBC 11/07/08). Do we imagine, for a minute, that anyone vaguely knowing these people would forgive their tormentors and murderers?
“America’s chickens are coming home to roost! Violence begets violence. Hatred begets hatred and terrorism begets terrorism.”
By Paul J. Balles
British soldier killed by enemy gunfire in Afghanistan the fifth to die in three days
A British soldier was killed by enemy gunfire in Afghanistan yesterday – the fifth British serviceman to be killed there in three days.
The soldier from 29 Commando Royal Artillery was at a Forward Operating Base in the Gereshk area of Helmand Province when he was wounded.
Truckers refuse to haul NATO, US supplies
PESHAWAR: Pakistani truckers are refusing to haul vital supplies to NATO and US forces in Afghanistan because of mounting attacks along the main route, a transporters’ association said Monday.
Pakistani troops recently began escorting convoys through the Khyber Pass to the border to protect them from Taliban ambushes. Western military officials insist their Afghan operations are not at risk.
Canadian troops killed in Kandahar
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Three Canadian troops have been killed in Afghanistan, bringing Canada’s death toll there to 103 since its military mission in the country began in 2002.
The three were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle in the Arghandab district of southern Kandahar province on Saturday, a defence ministry statement said.
The military said in a statement a fourth soldier was also wounded in the blast.
2 U.S. soldiers accused of abusing detainees in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan: A military investigative hearing continued for a second day on Tuesday into allegations that two American soldiers abused detainees in Afghanistan, military officials said.
The case against the soldiers, Captain Roger Hill and 1st Sergeant Tommy Scott, both of the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, was prompted by “a report” within their unit about the possibility that detainees had been abused in an incident in eastern Afghanistan earlier this year, according to a statement issued by the American military command.
After Iraq: Britain may send more troops’ to Afghanistan
Britain could send more troops to Afghanistan as force levels in Iraq are cut next year, the head of the armed forces indicated last night.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup, Chief of the Defence Staff, said the pressure of maintaining forces in two theatres over a prolonged period meant it could not simply be a “one-for-one transfer”.
Kabul suicide attack on German convoy kills 3
A suicide attack near a German diplomatic convoy in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul left three Afghan civilians dead Sunday as 20 other people, most of them insurgents, were reported killed in other unrest. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the suicide bomb, the second in Kabul in three days, but similar attacks have been claimed by Taleban-led extremists waging an insurgency here. A German foreign ministry spokesman in Berlin said a vehicle belonging to its embassy in Kabul had been targeted. “The sole occupant of the vehicle, an Afghan employee of the embassy, was injured,” the spokesman said.