JNN 01 May 2011 : A bomb has exploded in a crowded market in southeast Afghanistan, leaving at least three civilians dead and 14 others wounded, the Interior Ministry says. According to the ministry, the incident occurred in Barmal district in Paktika province of the war-ravaged country on Sunday, when an attacker detonated his explosive vest in the market, a Press TV correspondent reported. Continue reading
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Poppy Crop – A Taliban Revenue Earner
JNN 28 April 2011 KABUL — Nearly a decade into the war in Afghanistan, opium poppies are still the major crop for many farmers and a big source of income for the Taliban despite expensive efforts to stamp out cultivation. Continue reading
540 Taliban Prisoners escapes after successful Jail Break in Kandhar
JNN 25 April 2011 : At least 540 Taliban militants, including 106 commanders, have escaped from Kandahar central prison in southern Afghanistan, an official says.
Angry Protester on Desecration of Quran in US, Attack & Kill 8 UN Gaurds in Afghanistan
JNN 01 Apr 2011 : At least eight foreigners were among the dead after attackers took out security guards, burned parts of the compound and climbed up blast walls to topple a guard tower, said Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, a police spokesman for the northern region. Continue reading
Taliban Kills 20, injures 50 worker at Construction sight By Car Bomb in Afghanistan
JNN 29 Mar 2011 : At least 20 people have been killed and 50 others injured after a massive bomb explosion targeted a construction company in eastern Afghanistan. Continue reading US Strikes Killing Civilians in Afghanistan
JNN 28 Mar 2011 : The Afghan government says it has launched an investigation into a recent US-led airstrike that killed several civilians in the war-ravaged country. Continue reading Pakistan military bombs Afghanistan
JNN 04 Feb 2011 : Pakistani forces have bombarded residential areas and police checkpoints in eastern Afghanistan one day after Afghan and Pakistani troops exchanged fire across border, a top Afghan official says. Continue reading US troops desecrate Qur'an
JNN 24 Jan 2011 Kabul : As anti-US sentiments are on the rise in Afghanistan, shocking new footage shows American soldiers desecrating the holy Qur’an after killing civilians in an Afghan village. Continue reading US troops desecrate Qur’an
JNN 24 Jan 2011 Kabul : As anti-US sentiments are on the rise in Afghanistan, shocking new footage shows American soldiers desecrating the holy Qur’an after killing civilians in an Afghan village. Continue reading Bin Laden possibly dead; US silent
JNN 25 Dec 2010 : A former White House spokesman has lashed out at the US government for using ‘Osama bin Laden’ as a pretext to continue its occupation of Afghanistan.
Suggesting bin Laden may be dead, ex-spokesman Robert Weiner and James Lewis, a US national security analyst at Robert Weiner Associates wrote “Since 2004, we have seen no new bin Laden videos.”
The article published in The Washington Times last Thursday read
“We’ve only heard audios. One video released in 2007 could be a compilation of older videos. So why does the intelligence community continue to support the impression that he’s alive?”
The article read “Last week, al-Qaeda issued its annual Christmas threat to the United States, promising suicide bombings during the holidays. Here’s a better idea for a Christmas present from al-Qaeda: a video showing Osama bin Laden – or his grave.”
The two analysts in their article said “Is bin Laden dead or alive? Nobody seems to know for sure, or, if anybody does, he isn’t saying. The White House’s Afghanistan-Pakistan review this month didn’t even mention him despite an ongoing, decade-long manhunt.”
They also underlined that bin Laden is unlikely to be still alive due to his ill health.
US envoy for Pakistan & Afghanistan ,Holbrooke in critical condition
JNN 14 Dec 2010 : The US State Department says the country’s special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke has undergone surgery and is in a critical condition.The 69-year-old diplomat was admitted to George Washington University Hospital after falling ill at work on Friday, AP reported.
“This morning, doctors completed surgery to repair a tear in his aorta,” State Department Spokesman Philip J. Crowley said on Saturday.
“He is in critical condition and has been joined by his family,” he added.
Former two-time Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to Germany, Holbrooke brokered the 1995 accord that ended the Balkans war. The success brought him one of his seven Nobel Peace Prize nominations.
He has also played a key role in leading American diplomatic efforts in the region in the early days of the Obama Administration.
Holbrooke, who began his long career as a foreign service officer at the American Embassy in Saigon during the Vietnam War, has been alternating between financial executive and diplomat.
Nicknamed “the Bulldozer,” Holbrooke is known for getting warring leaders to the negotiating table, an ability which served him as the US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan.
In 1998, Holbrooke was nominated by former US President Bill Clinton as the American envoy to the United Nations. His appointment, however, was delayed for more than a year as a federal ethics probe was carried out over his second career on Wall Street.
He was also an advisor to Senator John Kerry during his presidential campaign in 2004, as well as Hillary Clinton in the 2008 campaign.
Sex-tainted Canadian commander quits
JNN 28 Nov 2010 : A Canadian Army general facing court martial over an alleged sexual affair with a female subordinate has tendered his resignation.
The 26-year veteran voluntarily gave his notice on November 17, Canadian Forces spokesman Commander Hubert Genest said about Brigadier General Daniel Menard who is accused of having had a sexual affair with Master Corporal Bianka Langlois.
“He now wishes to focus on his family,” the National Post quoted Cmdr. Genest as saying on Friday.
Menard was relieved of his duties as project leader for the Military Personnel Management Capability Transformation Project shortly after, he added.
In May, Menard, a former commander in Afghanistan, was abruptly pulled from Kandahar where he served as task force commander.
Langlois was convicted in summary trial on September 28 on one count of conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline and was reprimanded and fined 693 US dollars.
No date has yet been set for Menard’s trial. He will be leaving the Canadian Army on December 17.
According to Canadian officials, the decision will not affect his court martial on two counts of conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline and four counts of obstructing justice offences punishable by up to 10 years in prison and disgraceful dismissal from the military.
Kabul blames UK for Taliban imposter
JNN 26 Nov 2010 : Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s chief of staff says British diplomats brought a fake Taliban commander to sensitive government meetings.Mohammad Umer Daudzai made remarks in an interview with The Washington Post on Thursday.
“The last lesson we draw from this: International partners should not get excited so quickly with those kind of things.”
The imposter tried to impersonate Taliban commander Mullah Mansour. He disappeared after an employee who knew the real Mansour raised the alarm.
The imposter is said to have met with Afghan officials three times and flown on a NATO aircraft to Kabul.
It appears that he was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to take on the role. British officials say the money came from the Afghan government not the UK.
But the British newspaper The Times says the imposter was planted by the UK’s MI6 overseas spying agency.
An unnamed US official has also told Washington post that the Mansour impersonator was the Brit’s Guy.
Karzai recently formed a peace council to lead talks with the Taliban, electing Afghanistan’s former President Burhanuddin Rabbani as chairman of the council.
The newly-established peace council has been making efforts to initiate dialogue with discontented Afghans and militants who have engaged in warfare with the government.
The council has expressed willingness to listen to legitimate demands by the militants.
The development comes after senior officials in the UK floated the idea of making peace with the Taliban whose uprooting was one of the main objectives of the 2001 US-led invasion.
The US-led invasion was launched with the official objective of curbing militancy and bringing peace and stability to the war-ravaged country.
Anti-war groups have highlighted the fact that Afghanistan remains unstable nine years after the invasion.
The Taliban have repeatedly rejected peace talks, calling for the withdrawal of US-led foreign forces from Afghanistan.
US admits mistakes made in Afghanistan
A recent US probe confirms that Americans had been faulty in carrying out certain airstrikes in western Afghanistan in early May that killed 150 civilians. According to IRIB, citing an unnamed senior US military official, the report said that the US air force and ground troops had made serious mistakes when US war planes bombed suspected Taliban positions.
The report quoted the official as saying “American personnel made significant errors in carrying out some of the air strikes in western Afghanistan on May 4 that killed dozens of Afghan civilians”.
Nearly 150 civilians, including 95 children, were killed last month when US warplanes dropped bombs on two villages in the Bala Baluk district of the western province of Farah.
General Stanley McChrystal warned about the consequences of civilian deaths caused by US and NATO-led forces, saying “this may be the critical point.”
The deadly strikes also sparked days of protests in Kabul and other major cities across the violence-wracked Afghanistan.
Medics told Press TV that some of those wounded in the attack have unusual burns which could have been caused by the flesh-eating chemical — white phosphorus.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has demanded a halt to Washington’s airstrikes in his country following the deadly incident.
Washington says it will not stop airstrikes in Afghanistan which have frequently led to civilian casualties across the war-ravaged country.
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