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• Most Afghan civilian deaths caused by Dutch

  
  2012. The big wobble — Authority: 439
  The defence ministry says that at least 80 Afghan civilians have been killed and 120 injured since mid 2006 when the Dutch mission in the country began, reports NRC Handelsblad. The majority of the deaths and injuries were in the province of Uruzgan and were caused by Dutch soldiers. In total the Dutch have paid ...
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• Nicknames less cool when prosecution uses them

  
  SeriouslyGuys — Authority: 140
  Oh, to be a fly on the wall at the Blackwater nicknaming ritual … Sgt. Blutarsky: From now on, your Blackwater nickname is “Weasel.” From now on, your name is “Mothball.” Kroger, your Blackwater nickname is “Pinto.” Kroger: Why “Pinto?” Sgt. Blutarsky: [ belches ] Why not?! Dorfman: ...
  3 days ago

• Afghanistan – Why More U.S. Troops?

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 484
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• Imran Khan demands judicial inquiry into US drone strikes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Islamabad, Dec. 19 (ANI): Former cricketer and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has called for a judicial inquiry into civilian deaths caused by US drones in Pakistan’s tribal areas.Khan issued a statement demanding that a judicial inquiry panel, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar ...
  1 week ago

• Needlenosing then and now: Iraq

  
  Needlenose — Authority: 120
  Remember 2003, when we just got going in Iraq? When the count of U.S. Soldiers killed in the Iraq Occupation hit 150? We’re at 4370 now, not counting another 300 or so folks from the Coalition of the Increasingly Unwilling. When only 1,500 civilians had died to date due to Bush’s non-existent post-war ...
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• NATO Airstrike Kills Another Three Civilians in Afghanistan

  
  Brave New Films blog — Authority: 120
  AFP reports that a NATO airstrike from a helicopter gunship killed three civilian men and wounded a woman in Kandahar province, Afghanistan . NATO’s International Security Assistance Force’s (ISAF) press release claims the helicopter crew fired at men placing IEDs next to the road and afterwards “discovered ...
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• Contemplation of Drone Strikes in Quetta Belies Obamas Claim of Just War

  
  Newshoggers.com — Authority: 594
  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: 120
  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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• Climate Refugees Could Number 1 Billion by 2050

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 109
  Climate refugees in central Zimbabwe. Photo via EcoWorldy While the disastrous consequences of climate change may seem a ways off for some in the developed world, the International Organization for Migration reported today that it has already driven an estimated 24 million people from their homes–a number, they ...
  2 weeks ago

• Urban refugees struggle to make ends meet in South Africa

  
  Refugees United Blog — Authority: 109
  PRETORIA, South Africa, December 7 (UNHCR) - Telmore Mutinhima struggles to sleep on his grimy, threadbare mattress on an early South African morning. It’s his most treasured possession - it’s his only possession.There’s the odour of unwashed bodies in the abandoned warehouse where he lies in a cubicle amid ...
  2 weeks ago

• The September 4 Kunduz air strike, no show of force

  
  MoStFab — Authority: 494
  On September 4 this year, two hijacked fuel tankers were bombed in Kunduz province at German request, with a significant number of civilian casualties . Since then, the ramifications reached quite far . I am not detailing those. I am merely noting that what eventually, by now, transpired about this case was my ...
  3 weeks ago

• AFGHANISTAN: Afghan victims of Taliban violence suffer in silence

  
  War Victims Monitor — Authority:
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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