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RIGHTS-US: Abuse Claims Mount Against Pentagon, Contractors
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - As human rights groups demanded the release of a report on a long-running investigation of the role of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the unlawful interrogations of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, new torture claims were leveled at two U.S. military contractors by a former Abu Ghraib "ghost" detainee who was wrongly imprisoned and later released without charge.
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POLITICS-US: Pentagon Targeted Iran for Regime Change after 9/11
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON - Three weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, former U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld established an official military objective of not only removing the Saddam Hussein regime by force but overturning the regime in Iran, as well as in Syria and four other countries in the Middle East, according to a document quoted extensively in then Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith's recently published account of the Iraq war decisions.
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AFGHANISTAN: Death Row Numbers Raise Grave Doubts
By Tahir Qadiry
KABUL - By lifting the shroud of secrecy over the number of Afghans on death row -- some 100 -- the government has ended up raising grave doubts about the trial procedures that led to the extreme sentences.
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AFGHANISTAN: Bid to Slay Karzai Exposes Security Mess
By Anand Gopal
KABUL - Violence levels have increased in Afghanistan in the first quarter of 2008, compared to the first part of 2007, a series of newly-released studies indicate.
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AFGHANISTAN: Global Emergency Triggers Food Riots
By Anand Gopal
KABUL - In the teeming, dense flour bazaars of Kabul, it's hard not to miss the anger.
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PAKISTAN: Bulldozers Poised to Raze Afghan Refugee Camp
By Ashfaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR - "We are shifting to a rented house in nearby Cherat village after being here for 20 years. We have to leave because my shop has been demolished," said an agitated Afghan refugee, Gul Wali, in the sprawling Jalozai refugee camp, 35 km east of this border city in Pakistan.
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US/PAKISTAN: New Gov't Needs Aid, Leeway to Address Terror Front
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - With the intelligence community and Congressional investigators warning that the greatest threat to the United States is developing in the tribal areas along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, appeals for the George W. Bush administration to reassess its "global war on terror" and Pakistan's place in it are growing.
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RIGHTS-US: Vets' Lawsuit Opens Door on Suicides, Poor Care
By Aaron Glantz
SAN FRANCISCO - The United States government does such a bad job of caring for wounded war veterans, advocates told a federal judge here Monday, that 18 veterans commit suicide every week.
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FINANCE: U.S. Lawmakers Invested in Iraq, Afghanistan Wars
By Abid Aslam
WASHINGTON - U.S. lawmakers have a financial interest in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a review of their accounts has revealed.
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AFGHANISTAN: More, But of What
Analysis by Claudia Ciobanu
BUCHAREST - At the Bucharest summit, NATO adopted an undisclosed "comprehensive" security strategy in Afghanistan, which combines military with civilian efforts. The publicised discussions on Afghanistan, however, were focused on the numbers of troops.
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POLITICS-US: Campaigns Spar Over Where to Focus Troops
By Ali Gharib
WASHINGTON - Last week's violent clashes in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Basra reverberated all the way to Washington, where suddenly, the Iraq war was thrust back into the limelight just as the 2008 primary season enters its final stretch.
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NORWAY: Afghanistan Gets a 'Super Envoy'
By Tarjei Kidd Olsen
OSLO - The U.N. has given Norwegian diplomat Kai Eide an ambitious new mandate to coordinate the international community's much criticised military and civilian efforts in Afghanistan. "For me it will be important to work in a closer dialogue with the Afghan leadership," the 'super envoy' told IPS.
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AUSTRALIA : Bone to Pick With NATO On Afghan Deployments
By Stephen de Tarczynski
MELBOURNE - As the largest non-NATO contributor to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, Australia is expected to make its own demands at this week’s crucial summit of the arms pact in Bucharest.
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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.