MATTHEW COLE, BRIAN ROSS and ANGELA M. HILL ABCnews.com September 27, 2010 Dressed in a t-shirt and Army shorts, a 22-year-old corporal from Wasilla, Alaska casually describes on a video tape made by military investigators how his unit’s “crazy” sergeant randomly chose three unarmed, innocent victims to be murdered in Afghanistan. Corporal Jeremy N. Morlock [...]
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Confession Video: US Soldier Describes Thrill Kill of Innocent Afghans
Posted: September 27, 2010 in Afghanistan, US News1
Woodward: CIA Has 3,000 Man Covert Army in Afghanistan
Posted: September 22, 2010 in Afghanistan, US NewsJack Tapper ABC News September 22, 2010 Legendary Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s new book “Obama’s Wars” hasn’t hit stores yet, but the New York Times’ Peter Baker got a copy and has published some choice excerpts. Some highlights, per Baker: * The book describes President Obama pushing a withdrawal timetable because, “I can’t lose [...]
Probe claims soldiers smuggling heroin from Afghanistan
Posted: September 13, 2010 in Afghanistan, US NewsMail Online September 13, 2010 Soldiers returning from Afghanistan are being subjected to rigorous security checks amid claims that some are involved in heroin trafficking. The Ministry of Defence confirmed last night that military police were investigating a tip-off alleging that soldiers sent to fight the Taliban were buying drugs from Afghan dealers and shipping [...]
Press TV September 7, 2010 General David Petraeus claims the extra troops are intended to mainly train Afghan security forces, a NATO official said on Monday. “There is now a discussion underway for additional resources, principally trainers, that could be sent to Afghanistan to bolster the mission,” AFP quoted the official as saying. The mission [...]
Jack Cafferty CNN August 31, 2010 While the U.S. publicly criticizes corruption in the Afghan government… privately the CIA is making secret payments to “multiple members” of President Karzai’s administration. The Washington Post has an explosive report on these payments, which in some cases have been going on for a long time. They’re meant to [...]
Afghan Official at Center of Corruption Trial is on CIA Payroll
Posted: August 26, 2010 in Afghanistan, War on TerrorFox News August 26, 2010 As the Obama administration and Congress begin tying U.S. aid to anti-corruption efforts in Afghanistan, it turns out the man at the center of a corruption investigation in Kabul has been on the CIA payroll for years, several high-level officials confirmed to Fox News on Thursday. Mohammed Zia Salehi, the [...]
Troops Wonder: WTF Are We Doing In Afghanistan, Again?
Posted: August 26, 2010 in Afghanistan, US NewsSpencer Ackerman Wired August 26, 2010 BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Two years ago, when I was last in Afghanistan, soldiers complained to me off the record that there weren’t enough of them to properly fight the war. This time around, in similarly candid moments, I heard a more fundamental complaint: The war doesn’t make [...]
Gina Cavallaro Army Times August 24, 2010 Marines are holding the initiative in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, the Corps’ top officer said Tuesday, but he cautioned they will likely remain there longer than expected. The Obama administration has said U.S. forces would begin to withdraw from Afghanistan in mid-2011, but continued violence and questions about the [...]
Hamid Karzai: U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Private Contractors Engaging In Terrorist, Mafia-Like Activity
Posted: August 23, 2010 in Afghanistan, US NewsThe Huffington Post August 23, 2010 Afghanistan’s embattled president Hamid Karzai said on Sunday that U.S. taxpayers were indirectly funding “mafia-like groups” and terrorist activities with the American government’s support of private contractors inside his country. In a rare U.S. media appearance, Karzai continued to press for the removal of the vast majority of U.S. [...]
MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS Wall Street Journal August 21, 2010 SANGIN, Afghanistan—Somewhere in this dusty town, concealed among the cornfields, irrigation canals and mud-walled compounds, is a man the Marines particularly want to kill. They don’t know what he looks like. But they know he is a very good shot with a long rifle, and, every [...]
