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• Contemplation of Drone Strikes in Quetta Belies Obamas Claim of Just War

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 621
  By Derrick Crowe Once again, the United States is rattling a saber about killing people in Quetta , despite all the inevitable civilian death and mass outrage. Such a move would show the shallowness of the "just war" talk in President Obamas disgraceful Nobel paean to Mars . Quetta is a city of 850,000 people, ...
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• Contemplation of Drone Strikes in Quetta Belies Obama’s Claim of Just War

  
  Brave New Films blog — Authority: 123
  Derrick Crowe is the Afghanistan blog fellow for Brave New Foundation / The Seminal . The views expressed are his own. Sign our CREDO petition to reject escalation in Afghanistan & join Brave New Foundation’s #NoWar candlelight vigil on Facebook and Twitter . But make these your first steps as an activist ...
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• Report Cites Vast Civilian Killings in East Congo

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  The report, which said more than 1,400 were killed during two military operations, paints a bleak picture of a country that has been ravaged by civil war for more than a decade.
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• Airstrikes Kill at Least 35 in Northwestern Yemen

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  A witness said bombs struck a market, apparently killing civilians. Houthi rebels said the strikes were carried out by Saudi warplanes.
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• Lawyers Warned U.N. Over Joining Congo’s Army in Joint Operations

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  The United Nations Office of Legal Affairs warned that peacekeepers should not participate in joint operations with the Congolese Army for fear of putting them at risk of violating international humanitarian law.
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• Obama’s Contributions to a Dying Empire

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 436
  Old habits die hard, especially imperialist ones. Imperial imperatives, whether economic, geopolitical, or ideological, persist because the ruling elites are dependent on them. In order to conceal... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• World Briefing | Europe: Germany: New View on Airstrike

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  Germany’s defense minister told Parliament on Thursday that he had reassessed a German commander’s decision to call in a NATO airstrike in Afghanistan.
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• Panel Criticizes Military’s Use of Embedded Anthropologists

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  A two-year-old Pentagon program that assigns social scientists to work with military units in Iraq and Afghanistan has come under sharp criticism.
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• Taliban to CNN : Troop Increase ‘Means more dead Americans’

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 130
  CNN recently contacted a Taliban spokesperson, Zabiullah Mujahid for the group’s response to Obama’s recently announced U.S. troop surge in Afghanistan. Mujahid’s statement seems to echo similar fears from Afghans about mounting Afghan civilian casualties. According to Reuters, former Afghan Prime ...
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• UN: US troop surge must not kill more civilians

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  A surge of tens of thousands of American soldiers must not cause more civilian deaths, the top United Nations official in Afghanistan has warned.
  2 weeks ago

• National Briefing | South: Kentucky: Conviction Is Challenged

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  A former soldier who raped a girl and killed her and three family members in Iraq said he was wrongly tried in a civilian court and should have faced a military trial.
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• German minister quits over Afghan cover-up scandal

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Berlin, Nov 27 (DPA) Former German defence minister Franz Josef Jung resigned his post as labour minister Friday over an alleged cover-up of civilian casualties in an airstrike in Afghanistan earlier this year.“I take the political responsibility for the internal information policy in the defence ministry” he told ...
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• NATO chief seeks troops for Afghanistan amid German crisis (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Berlin, Nov 26 (DPA) NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday that European states would have to send more troops to Afghanistan, as a scandal over civilian casualties in the country rocked the German government.Two of Germany’s highest military officials resigned and a former defence minister came ...
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• German General Resigns Over Afghan Air Strike

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 153
  German General Wolfgang Schneiderhan in Kabul, Afghanistan on Nov. 12.
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• The Picket Line — 26 November 2009

  
  Anarchoblogs — Authority: 158
  26 November 2009 Today, I’m thankful for Fafblog : Had Nidal Malik Hasan been launched from a remotely-piloted Predator drone into a Pakistani funeral procession, it would have been a bold victory in the War on Terror; had the major been dropped onto a village in Waziristan or fired into an Afghan ...
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• Measuring Human Rights (9): When “Worse” Doesn’t Necessarily Mean “Worse”

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 504
  I discussed in this older post  some of the problems related to the measurement of human rights violations, and to the assessment of progress or deterioration. One of the problems I mentioned is caused by improvements in measurement methods. Such improvements can in fact result in a statistic showing increasing ...
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• AFGHANISTAN: Afghan victims of Taliban violence suffer in silence

  
  War Victims Monitor — Authority: 91
  AFPBy LYNNE O’DONNELLNovember 22, 2009KABUL — The stench of sewage hangs in the air as barefoot children clamber up a suburban hillside in Kabul, past green flags that flap over the graves of Afghans killed in suicide attacks.Perhaps a third of the tombs, each surrounded by a wrought-iron fence, are marked as the ...
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• Landmine targeting army convoy detected in Assam

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 724
  Guwahati, Nov 23 (IANS) A major tragedy was averted in Assam Monday with security forces detecting a powerful landmine planted on a road used by army convoys to reach the Chinese border along the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, officials said.An army spokesperson said soldiers on a routine patrol Monday ...
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• Afghan Air War: More fighting, More Bombs, and Continued Civilian Casualties

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 796
  Filed under: Afghanistan Journal , Afghanistan SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. -- American strike fighters and bombers are pounding insurgents in Afghanistan with increasing fury, despite a standing order by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander, to avoid civilian casualties. President Obama is expected ...
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• Letters: Using Drones in Afghanistan

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 903
  To the Editor:.
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