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US-AFGHANISTAN: Four Thousand Marines to "Drink Lots of Tea"
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - After months of planning and putting pieces in order, aspects of the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan are beginning to be concretely implemented – including a surge of troops and attempts to curtail the poppy trade that allegedly funds insurgents.
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POLITICS: U.S. Uses False Taliban Aid Charge to Pressure Iran
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - The Barack Obama administration has given new prominence to a Bush administration charge that Iran is providing military training and assistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan, for which no evidence has ever been produced, and which has been discredited by data obtained by IPS from the Pentagon itself.
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PAKISTAN: Public Backs Army’s Push Against Taliban, Poll Finds
By Jared Levy
WASHINGTON - Pakistani public opinion remains supportive of the military’s fight against the Pakistani Taliban, said a new poll released Wednesday. However, Pakistanis roundly reject the U.S. military campaign in the region.
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POLITICS: U.N. Decries Aid Shortfall in Afghanistan
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations, which has expressed disappointment over the slow disbursement of development aid to crisis-stricken Afghanistan, has hurled one of its biggest political insults at Western donors: threatening to turn to a U.S. philanthropist for financial assistance.
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US-AFGHANISTAN: Bagram Detainees Treated "Worse Than Animals"
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - An investigation by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has revealed that former detainees at the U.S. Bagram airbase in Afghanistan were beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with dogs.
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MIDEAST: Iran Crisis Ripples Outward
Analysis by Helena Cobban*
WASHINGTON - As the political crisis that erupted after Iran’s Jun. 12 elections enters its third week, it is becoming evident that this crisis will have repercussions in many parts of the Middle East - and far beyond.
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US-AFGHANISTAN: Airstrike Report Belies "Blame Taliban" Line
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - The version of the official military investigation into the disastrous May 4 airstrike in Farah province made public last week by the Central Command was carefully edited to save the U.S. command in Afghanistan the embarrassment of having to admit that earlier claims blaming the massive civilian deaths on the "Taliban" were fraudulent.
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Q&A: Military Losing GI Hearts and Minds
William Fisher interviews MARJORIE COHN and KATHLEEN GILBERD of the National Lawyers Guild
NEW YORK - The continuing occupation or Iraq and the growing war in Afghanistan are leaving permanent physical and emotional scars on a whole generation of U.S. soldiers. Not since Vietnam have so many GIs objected to a war, and never have military families spoken out so strongly for withdrawal.
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POPULATION: The Worst Places to Be a Refugee
By Katie Mattern
WASHINGTON - Gaza, South Africa and Thailand are among the world's worst places to be a refugee, according to the latest annual World Refugee Survey released here Wednesday by the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI).
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U.S.: McChrystal Looks to Spin Afghan Civilian Deaths Problem
Analysis by Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - At his confirmation hearings two weeks ago, Gen. Stanley McChrystal said reducing civilian deaths from air strikes in Afghanistan was "strategically decisive" and declared his "willingness to operate in ways that minimise casualties or damage, even when it makes our task more difficult."
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MIGRATION: Pakistan Refugee Crisis Worst in a Decade, U.N. Says
By Marina Litvinsky
WASHINGTON - Forty-two million people were forcibly uprooted by conflict and persecution worldwide in 2008, said a new report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released Tuesday.
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US-PAKISTAN: CIA Secrecy on Drone Attacks Data Hides Abuses
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s refusal to share with other agencies even the most basic data on the bombing attacks by remote-controlled unmanned predator drones in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region, combined with recent revelations that CIA operatives have been paying Pakistanis to identify the targets, suggests that managers of the drone attacks programmes have been using the total secrecy surrounding the programme to hide abuses and high civilian casualties.
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U.S.: Congress Reviews Military Contracts, Kabul Embassy Scandal
By Pratap Chatterjee
WASHINGTON - Private security guards abandoning their posts at the U.S. embassy in Kabul for up to three and a half hours.
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After working to strengthen independent media in Afghanistan for three years, IPS has teamed up with The Killid Group (TKG) and Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) in 2007 to provide regular coverage from the ground of the war-torn country by Afghan journalists for an international audience. The partnership is a continuation of IPS's commitment to support local Afghan media, which has emerged as a platform for both debate and dissemination among the general public of diverse ideas, views and concerns about the country's past, present and future. And enhance pluralistic democracy by giving voice to Afghan citizens and civil society.