University students shout slogans against US and foreign troops during a demonstration following US air strikes in Farah province, in Kabul. (AFP/Massoud Hossaini)

Concerns white phosphorus used in Afghan battle

AP/Yahoo | May 10, 2009 | By JASON STRAZIUSO and RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press Writers

KABUL – Doctors voiced concern over “unusual” burns on Afghan villagers wounded in an already controversial U.S.-Taliban battle, and the country’s top human rights groups said Sunday it is investigating the possibility white phosphorus was used. The American military denied using the incendiary in the battle in Farah province — which President Hamid Karzai has said killed 125 to 130 civilians — but left open the possibility that Taliban militants did. The U.S. says Taliban fighters have used read more

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Despite a reduced poppy harvest, Afghanistan still produces more than 90% of the world’s heroin. (Paula Bronstein, Getty Images)

NATO troops drafted for anti-drug war

Heroin Trade; Take action against operations tied to insurgency Tom Blackwell, National Post Published: Monday, November 17, 2008

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Operation enduring disaster

19/11/2008 04:19:00 PM GMT, Aljazerra — Obama would be foolish to imagine that Petraeus can work a miracle cure in Afghanistan. The cancer has spread too far and is affecting US troops as well. If the American media chose to interview active-duty soldiers in Afghanistan (on promise of anonymity), they might get a more accurate picture of what is happening inside the U.S. Army there.

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Despite a reduced poppy harvest, Afghanistan still produces more than 90% of the world’s heroin. (Paula Bronstein, Getty Images)

NATO troops drafted for anti-drug war

Heroin Trade; Take action against operations tied to insurgency Tom Blackwell, National Post Published: Monday, November 17, 2008

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Muhammad Ayud has grown cannabis in his village, Khwaja Gholak, since a crackdown on Afghan poppies. He, like many other farmers in Balkh Province, simply switched crops. (Photograph by Max Becherer/Polaris, for The New York Times)

US military: 40 tons of Afghan dope (Cannabis) destroyed

KABUL (AP): Coalition and Afghan troops hunting for Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan discovered a drug lab and destroyed more than 40 tons of hashish on Monday, officials said.
The joint force discovered the drug facility in Kandahar province\’s Spin Boldak district, which borders Pakistan, the U.S. military said in a statement.

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Pool image by Mark Wilson / Getty Images / MCT Rather than producing valuable intelligence or keeping terror suspects off the streets, the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base practices radicalized detainees, and for many served as a ’school for Jihad,’ or holy war. (Photo courtesy McClatchy News Service DC)

SPECIAL REPORT — GUANTANAMO: BEYOND THE LAW

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An eight-month McClatchy investigation of the detention system created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has found that the U.S. imprisoned innocent men, subjected them to abuse, stripped them of their legal rights and allowed Islamic militants to turn the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba into a school for jihad.
‘The most comprehensive reporting and gathering of facts on the matter to date. Bravo McClatchy.’ — Free-4-Now

FRANCE 24’s Claire Billet spent a few days with Taliban fighters and accompanied them during one of their operations against Afghan security forces.

Embedded with the Taliban

Friday 12 September 2008 FRANCE 24 reporters accompanied a group of Taliban fighters on an attack against Afghan troops. The group’s leader has a warning for French troops after last month’s deadly ambush: leave now or face more.

EXCLUSIVE: Embedded with the Taliban
Friday 12 September 2008
FRANCE 24 reporters accompanied a group of Taliban fighters on an attack against Afghan troops. The group’s leader has a warning for French troops after last month’s deadly ambush: leave now or face more.

France has 3,000 troops in Afghanistan (AFP archive image from 2006)

Ten French soldiers have been killed in an ambush by Taleban fighters east of the Afghan capital, Kabul, the French president’s office has confirmed.

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“The North Gate” The main and north gate of Camp Salerno, Khost – home to the 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, the Army Rangers and Special Forces (photo: http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-photography/article_2302.jsp)

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: August 19, 2008 Filed at 12:37 a.m. ET KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan governor says militants wearing vests packed with explosives tried to storm a main U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan.

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