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Obama’s Magical Mystery Tour: Long Term Afghan Security Agreement

Roll up for the Magical Mystery Tour, Step right this way! According to this New York Times article, the Obama Administration has just completed the “draft” of a long-term security agreement with the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan that provides a “framework” for support and assistance from the U.S. for at least ten [...]

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Paula Lerner, 52, Dies, Photographer of Afghan Women

The award-winning photographer Paula Lerner has died at the age of 52. She was the principal photographer for the Emmy Award-winning project, "Behind The Veil: An Intimate Journey Into The Lives of Kandahar’s Women Featuring Photography." It appeared in the Toronto Globe & Mail. In 2009, she provided photographs to Democracy Now! for a remarkable [...]

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“Terror, Trauma, and the Endless Afghan War”

We may never know what drove a U.S. Army staff sergeant to head out into the Afghan night and allegedly murder at least 16 civilians in their homes, among them nine children and three women. The massacre near Belambai, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, has shocked the world and intensified the calls for an end to the [...]

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“The Afghan War’s Nine Lives” By Amy Goodman

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan Eight youths, tending their flock of sheep in the snowy fields of Afghanistan, were exterminated last week by a NATO airstrike. They were in the Najrab district of Kapisa province in eastern Afghanistan. Most were reportedly between the ages of 6 and 14. They had sought shelter near a [...]

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Afghan Air Force and Coalition Forces respond to Attack in Kabul

Courtesy of NATO TV www.natochannel.tv

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Taliban attack kills Afghan security chief

The top security chief in northern Afghanistan has been killed in a Taliban suicide attack. Germany’s defence minister condemned what he called a “murderous attack” on NATO and national forces. Owen Leitch has more.

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Afghan War – To our Troops British Army French Army Canadian Forces

Afghan War – To our Troops British Army French Army Canadian Forces Film Producer and Director : Karl Prost – Post-production : Sigrid CONRAD – consultant Robert Ottaviani Otaviani ASSAUT Magazine – Yves DEBAY – With our partner Yves DEBAY Assaut Magazine

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Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death

In the middle of June when we first revealed the small parts of our story about the mass graves here at Dasht-i-Leili, the Pentagon effectively denied that the atrocity had taken place at all. They also denied that American soldiers were anywhere near the vicinity nor did any American personal have any knowledge whatsoever about [...]

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