Probe team: Women sexually assaulted before killing in Panjwai ...
• By Absin Zaheer arthurzbygniew.blogspotBefore the gun attack, US soldiers physically manhandled the two women and later turned their weapons on the helpless residents.
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Afghanistan
Accused G.I. ‘Snapped’ Under Strain, Official Says
• http://www.nytimes.com, By ERIC SCHMITT and WILLIAThe American staff sergeant suspected of killing 16 Afghan villagers had been drinking alcohol
Afghanistan: The dead just keep piling up
• http://www.aljazeera.com, by Mark LeVineIt's a well-worn ritual - the expression of outrage and "shock", as President Obama put it. The "condolences to the families" offered by senior leaders of the occupying power to the latest victims of their supposedly benign occupation.
US to ‘Stay the Course’ on Afghan Occupation
• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason DitzWith the war in Afghanistan seemingly blowing up in their faces, top Obama Administration officials are as determined as ever to shrug off criticism and insist that things are going just swimmingly, no changes required.
Terror, Trauma, and the Endless Afghan War
• http://www.commondreams.org, by Amy GoodmanWe 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.
Afghanistan wants early takeover of security: Karzai
• http://news.yahoo.comAfghanistan wants to take over control of the nation's security in 2013 not 2014 and for US troops to pull out of villages, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday, just days after a US soldier massacred 16 villagers.
Karzai calls for NATO to leave villages; Taliban scrap talks
• ReutersAfghanistan's President Hamid Karzai called for NATO troops to leave Afghan villages and confine themselves to major bases after the slaughter of 16 civilians by a U.S. soldier, underscoring fury over the massacre and clouding U.S. exit plans.
Taliban suspends peace talks with U.S. as Panetta concludes Karzai visit
• washingtonpost.com, by Greg JaffeThe Afghan Taliban has suspended preliminary peace talks with the United States and will forgo opening a political office in Doha due to Washington’s “alternating and ever changing position,” the group said in a statement on Thursday.
Terror, Trauma, and the Endless Afghan War
• http://www.truthdig.com, By Amy GoodmanWe 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.
Afghans fume over transfer of accused U.S. gunman
• cbsnews.comAfghanistan - Afghan lawmakers expressed anger Thursday over the U.S. move to fly an American soldier accused of killing 16 civilians out of the country to Kuwait,
Afghan man who crashed truck near Panetta plane dies from burns
• http://www.washingtonpost.com, By Greg JaffeKABUL — The Afghan man involved in the Wednesday attack that occurred during Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s visit to Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan died from burns, said Lt. Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti, the number two American commander in Afg
Taliban-linked Afghan convicted on drug charges
• By WILL LESTER Associated Press hosted.ap.An Afghan man linked to the Taliban who was one of the largest heroin traffickers in the world was convicted Tuesday on charges of importing and distributing heroin and for narco-terrorism, federal officials said.
Afghans seek new pact to try U.S. soldier in killings
• By Tom A. Peter,usatoday.comSome Afghans are demanding its government forge a new pact that allows U.S. soldiers accused of crimes to be tried by Afghan courts as the U.S. military on Tuesday said it found probable cause against a soldier accused of murdering 16 civilians.
Afghan official: Video shows soldier surrendering
• By MIRWAIS KHAN and HEIDI VOGT apnews.mywayThe U.S. soldier who allegedly shot 16 Afghan villagers was caught on surveillance video that showed him walking up to his base, laying down his weapon and raising his arms in surrender, according to an Afghan official who viewed the footage.
Decisions, not excuses in Afghanistan
• http://www.aljazeera.comSpare us and the US public the apologies, the psychiatry, and more useless trials and meaningless investigations.
Get out! Students demand US go after Kandahar bloodbath (PHOTOS)
• http://rt.comHundreds of Afghan university students have taken to the streets to protest the American soldier who slaughtered 16 villagers in Sunday's shooting spree in Kandahar.
America's Afghanistan Legacy
Stephen LendmanAmerica's rogue killing machine
In Afghanistan it's lies that are really killing our soldiers
• http://www.guardian.co.ukThe phoney oratory of British national security so beloved of Cameron and his generals has lost all contact with reality
Afghanistan: "Reducing the Number of Troops".
• http://www.globalresearch.caIn order to be able to claim "no more troops on the ground" in Afghanistan by 2014, the Pentagon envisaging transferring its special operations forces to the CIA, thus "making them spies" and "reducing the number of troops".
US soldier opens fire on Afghan civilians
• http://www.aljazeera.comA US soldier has killed more than a dozen civilians in a shooting spree in southern Afghanistan before being detained, officials say.
Guantanamo Taliban inmates 'agree to Qatar transfer'
• bbc.co.uk/news/world-asiaFive senior Taliban fighters held at Guantanamo Bay have agreed to be moved to custody in Qatar as part of a peace plan, Afghan government officials say.
Afghanistan, U.S. to sign prison transfer deal: officials
• ReutersThe US and Afghanistan are expected to sign a deal on the transfer of US.-run detention centers to Afghan authorities, improving the prospects of a strategic partnership allowing long-term U.S. involvement in the country.
US Probes Allegations of Narcotics Trafficking by Afghan Air Force
• http://news.antiwar.com, by John Glaser, March 08,An Afghan Air Force colonel who killed eight U.S. Air Force officers in April may have been involved in the drug running
6 British soldiers presumed dead in Afghanistan
• Associated PressSix British soldiers were believed killed after an explosion hit their armored vehicle in southwestern Afghanistan, Britain's Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.
Suicide Bomber Attacks US Base in Afghanistan
• www.voanews.comA suicide bomber has killed at least two Afghan civilians and wounded four others after detonating explosives at the gates of the U.S. military base at Bagram, just north of Kabul.
CIA-Led Force may Speed Afghan Exit
• Associated Press by Kimberly DozierTop Pentagon officials are considering putting elite special operations troops under CIA control in Afghanistan after 2014, just as they were during last year's raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan, sources told The Associated Press.
Displaced Afghans left out in cold
• Al Jazeera staffGovernment accused of "callous indifference" as number of those left homeless by violence tops 500,000.
In Afghanistan, two more U.S. troops killed over Koran burning
• By Laura King, Los Angeles TimesThe desert's nighttime chill had taken hold at a small U.S.-Afghan base in the Taliban's heartland: the home village, in fact, of Mullah Mohammed Omar, the movement's founder and supreme commander.
Two more Americans killed by Afghan gunman, officials say
• latimes.comTwo American soldiers were killed Thursday by a civilian employee of the Afghan army, according to Afghan officials.
The causes of the protests in Afghanistan
• by Glenn Greenwald (Salon)Protesters in Kabul interviewed on the road and in front of Parliament said that this was not the first time that Americans had violated Afghan cultural and religious traditions and that an apology was not enough. “This is not just about dishonori
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