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Tom Engelhardt and NIck Turse ask: Is it all over but the (anti-American) shouting — and the killing? Are the exits finally coming into view? Sometimes, in a moment, the fog lifts, the clouds shift, and you can finally see the landscape ahead with startling clarity. In Afghanistan, Washington may be reaching that moment in a state of panic, horror, and confusion.
May I start by saying how pleased I am to be in the company of Christine Assange, StandFast, Stop the War Coalition, Medical Association for the Prevention of War, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Jews against the Occupation
By Tariq Saeed
Peshawar—Within twenty four hours of the Pakistani administration expressing anguish over “Abbottabad incident” and asking the US administration to honour sovereignty of the country, the American drones in a couple of strikes killed at least 12 people mostly civilians and wounded many others in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) Friday afternoon.
Reports reaching here from Miran Shah headquarters of NWA said the predator planes carried out a couple of strikes targeting a compound and a vehicle in Datoi area of Tehsil Datta Khel firing eight missiles destroying both the targets.
By Jason Ditz
Though some of the slain are still being referred to as “suspects,” the missile strikes also destroyed some nearby homes killing at least nine civilians, five women and four children. Large numbers of people were also wounded according to local officials.
US officials have said that the attacks will continue even if the Pakistani government forces them to stop using airfields in Pakistan for drone launches. They suggested the drones would instead be launched out of Afghanistan if that happens.
With Taliban insurgents showing no sign of war weariness and high casualties on both sides, prospects for negotiations in Afghanistan remain remote…Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Tuesday that the U.S. military is bracing for a tough year in Afghanistan with potentially significant losses.
Mullen made the comments as he visited U.S. bases in Afghanistan, according to the American Forces Press Service affiliated with the Pentagon.
“We’re going to have a very tough year this year. I’ve been very straight with the American people on that,” he told reporters traveling with him to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The drone-fired assaults in the South Waziristan tribal area, which borders Afghanistan, also were the first since a mid-March strike that Pakistan’s army chief said took out dozens of peaceful tribesmen. A U.S. official denied innocent people were targeted.
The U.S. relies heavily on the covert, CIA-run missile program to kill al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in Pakistan’s northwest, and, aside from occasional lulls, it keeps up the attacks even when relations with Pakistan are more sour than usual. Pakistan publicly denounces the strikes, but secretly assists the program.
A US intelligence agent arrested after shooting dead two men was the acting head of the CIA in Pakistan and had been gathering intelligence for drone attacks, according to intelligence sources.
U.S. military operations in the remote mountains of northeastern Afghanistan killed 65 innocent people, including 22 women and more than 30 children…
Cageprisoners’ Patron Victoria Brittain reports on compelling new evidence in the case of Aafia Siddiqui. New evidence of the kidnapping of Dr Siddiqui prises open part of one of the most shocking of the myriad individual stories of injustice in the war on terror.
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