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2009-07-03: Headlines
Reuters: FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, July 3 2009-07-03
KHOST - A roadside bomb killed five security guards -- four Afghans and a foreigner -- working for an Indian road construction company in eastern Khost ...
Bloomberg: Marines Push Deeper Into Taliban Areas in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
July 3 (Bloomberg) -- US troops pushed deeper into a major Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan in a bid to root out ...
EasyBourse.com: Taliban Shoot At US Medical Choppers In Afghanistan 2009-07-03
CAMP DWYER, Afghanistan (AFP)--Taliban militants shot and damaged two unarmed marked medical helicopters charged with evacuating US Marines from ...
CCTV: Australian troops vital for Afghanistan 2009-07-03
SYDNEY, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Australian troops serving in Afghanistan have a dangerous and difficult job but it is important work, said Defense Minister John ...
ReliefWeb (press release): War against Islamic extremists putting lives of civilians in Asi ... 2009-07-03
The de-escalation in fighting in Sri Lanka now reduces the immediate threat of mass civilian casualties but MRG remains concerned about the human right ...
Center for Research on Globalization: Corrupt election campaign unfolds in US-occupied Afghanistan 2009-07-03
They are either warlords guilty of human rights abuses or individuals who are viewed as even more open agents of the US government.
The Public Record: Obama Continues to Move Further Away From Promise of Transparency 2009-07-03
... the end of the summer a CIA inspector general's report that was believed to have been sharply critical of the Bush administration's torture program.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty: Ahead Of Visit, Obama Calls On Russia To Break From The Past 2009-07-03
The Russian president insisted that the two nations are "united by the values of our civilization, the values of respect for human life and human rights ...
Antiwar.com: The Lingering Effects of Torture 2009-07-03
I have lost all my life," he told psychologists working for the non-profit Physicians for Human Rights. They diagnosed him as having post-traumatic stre ...
BBC News: Papers report Afghanistan tragedy 2009-07-03
Britain's papers have reported the latest deaths of British soldiers - and the huge assault that the Americans have unleashed there.
BBC News: Lt Colonel dies in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
A Welsh Guard, Lt Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, has become the most senior Army officer to die in action since the Falklands War. Trooper Joshua Hammond ...
Systems: Seabees Build Modern-day 'Noah's Ark' in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan - The Marines affectionately call the structure "Noah's Ark," for its similarities to the vessel built before flood water ...
SINDH TODAY: Resentful Afghans unlikely to welcome, support government, foreign ... 2009-07-03
Lashkar Gah (Afghanistan), July 3 (ANI) Incoming American forces are likely to continue to face a hostile Afghan population, even as they seek to reverse ...
Telegraph.co.uk: Analysis: Barack Obama's moment of truth in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
The thunderous rumble of American armoured personnel carriers storming the Taliban's Helmand citadel, and the whir of its largest helicopter deployment ...
Boston Globe: Karzai's pardons nullify drug court gains 2009-07-03
In 2006 he was fired from his border post due to corruption, but refused to leave, according to a State Department Human Rights report.
Reuters: Q+A: Opium and Afghanistan's insurgency 2009-07-03
KABUL (Reuters) - Controlling the opium trade in Afghanistan, the world's leading producer of the drug, is a key element in the fight ...
Grand Junction Sentinel: Soldier with Rifle ties dies in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
By SENTINEL STAFF/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel Pfc. Peter Kyle Cross, 20, died June 26 in a vehicle rollover in Afghanistan.
PR-Inside.com News: AMERICAS NEWS AT 0500 GMT 2009-07-03
WASHINGTON _ A top Republican presses for more information about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's ties to a Puerto Rican civil rights group he ...
Al-Ahram Weekly: The game of nations 2009-07-03
In the former socialist countries, the civil rights and nationalist movements also featured a reaction against the ideologically driven (or merely ...
9&10 News: Memorial planned...Search for soldier...More jobs lost 2009-07-03
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has marked the 45th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. Obama says the legislation helped opened doors for freedom ...
Al-Ahram Weekly: Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 2009-07-03
"Where is the representation of prominent Middle East and human rights experts?" he asks. "Many understood why, given domestic political realitie ...
Miadhu: Sri Lankan govt thanks Maldives 2009-07-03
The government of Sri Lanka expressed gratitude to Maldives government for the support extended by the Maldives at the UN Human Rights Council Special ...
Framingham TAB: HUDSON: Freedom cannot be compromised 2009-07-03
So easy to take those amazing human rights for granted. On this upcoming fourth of July, as America celebrates the 233rd year of our independence from ...
The Seoul Times: CSIS scholars brief on President Obama's Trip to Moscow, G8, Ghana 2009-07-03
President Medvedev reconstituted his presidential council on human rights which is populated by genuine human rights activists and they've met and convened ...
Barre Montpelier Times Argus: Vermont Guard will face tough mission in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
The soldiers, he said, are eager to improve conditions for Afghan people who have suffered human-rights abuses for decades. "The key to this mission ...
The Herald: Plymouth troops sent back to Afghanistan 2009-07-03
ARMED forces personnel in Plymouth are in line to return to Afghanistan in the summer of 2011. Sources have told The Herald that Stonehouse-based 3 Comm ...
InTheNews.co.uk: Tributes to British soldiers killed in Afghanistan blast 2009-07-03
The highest-ranking British soldier to die in action since the Falklands war has been killed alongside a young trooper after an explosion.
Liverpool Daily Post: Afghanistan changed me - TV's Ross Kemp 2009-07-03
ROSS KEMP has been dreaming about Afghanistan since he returned from the front line of Helmand Province. In one nightmare, he is playing football against ...
The Herald: Plymouth soldier killed in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
It is with deep sadness that the Ministry of Defence can confirm that Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe MBE, Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh ...
Southport Visiter: Southport soldier shot Taliban bomber in Helmand Province, Afghanistan 2009-07-03
A SQUADDIE from Southport shot a Taliban bomber in an area once described as the most dangerous in Afghanistan. Lance Corporal Gav Dowling, a soldier ...
Control Engineering: Urgent request from our man in Afghanistan; Electric Greens Mower ... 2009-07-03
An economy model of this machine is expected in a couple of years and will sell for $15000. At the Crown Golf Course in Traverse City, MI, I had a week ...
Indianapolis Star: Seeking an Afghanistan plan 2009-07-03
Would it be too much to ask of President Barack Obama to make it a little clearer what his intentions are in Afghanistan?
San Jose Mercury News: Russia-US summit a chance to jumpstart ties 2009-07-03
Experts expect the two sides to agree on over flights of US weaponry to Afghanistan, to pledge to agree to cuts in nuclear arsenals, and to set up a new ...
PRESS TV: Senior British commander killed in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
A roadside bomb killing one of the most senior British army officers in Afghanistan has dealt a huge personal blow to the forces stationed in the troubled ...
BurlingtonFreePress.com: Guard ordered to Afghanistan 2009-07-03
COLCHESTER — The Vermont National Guard announced Thursday it will send nearly 1500 soldiers ...
9&10 News: Memorial for Michael Jackson...Marines making progress in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson's public memorial service has been set for 10 am local time Tuesday at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.
The Daily Advance: US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 642 2009-07-03
AP Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 68 more members of the US military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
New York Times: Film Series and Movie Listings 2009-07-03
The movie, with its depictions of torture and themes of loyalty and friendship, is continually fascinating, despite a plot with crater-size holes and ...
DAWN.com: US soldier captured by militants in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
US Marines launched a major offensive into the Taliban heartlands of southern Afghanistan early on Thursday. Operation Khanjar involved nearly 4000 U ...
Dallas Morning News: 1 Marine dies in first day of new campaign in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
AP, The Washington Post, NAWA, Afghanistan – US Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged ...
Concord Monitor: NH soldiers will deploy to Afghanistan 2009-07-03
New Hampshire soldiers are among the 3000 troops who will head to Afghanistan next year in what will be the Vermont National Guard's largest ...
New York Times: US Faces Resentment in Afghan Region 2009-07-03
“Now there are more people siding with the Taliban than with the government,” said Abdul Qadir Noorzai, head of the Afghan Independent Human Right ...
TheChronicleHerald.ca: Offensive starts in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
NAWA, Afghanistan — US Marines hiked through searing heat and took fire from small pockets of militants Thursday after landing in th ...
Sierra Vista Herald: Major military operation starts in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
KABUL — Thousands of US Marines and hundreds of Afghan troops moved into Taliban-infested villages with armor and helicopters early Thursday in the first ...
People's Daily Online: No more troops for Afghanistan this year: Obama advisor 2009-07-03
White House National Security Adviser James L. Jones said the United States will not send more troops to Afghanistan this year beyond what President Barack ...
South Coast Today: Vermont Guard will send 1500 to Afghanistan 2009-07-03
AP COLCHESTER, Vt. — The Vermont Army National Guard will send about 1500 members to Afghanistan next winter in what will be the state's largest National ...
TPMCafé: Why is The West in Afghanistan? 2009-07-03
What are Western soldiers doing in Afghanistan? Is it to "reconstruct" the country as some of our leaders keep telling us? Is it to root out Bin Laden?
Boston Globe: Obama speaks on Putin, Jackson, and more 2009-07-02
Obama acknowledged severe misgivings about his own proposal to indefinitely hold some Guantanamo detainees -- a plan assailed by human rights groups.
Huffington Post: Volunteering Time and Talent in Afghanistan 2009-07-02
She's currently the Afghanistan country specialist for Amnesty International. She has lobbied congress, and she has spoken about pressing human right ...
Daily Kos: Bagram AFB : America's OTHER Torture Chamber 2009-07-02
But Bates ruled that some of those held at Bagram who were captured outside Afghanistan "are virtually identical to the detainees in Boumediene," describing ...
Vermont Public Radio: National Guard announces details of Afghanistan deployment 2009-07-02
Dubie says he's pleased the Vermont Guard is playing a part in the effort to train Afghan forces to help them bring the rule of law and human rights ...
Atlanta Journal Constitution: No reason to fear detainees 2009-07-02
The answer lies in the complex and less-than-pristine domestic politics of much of the world, where governments don't even pretend to honor human rights ...
Washington Post: Washington Area Literary Calendar: July 6-12 2009-07-02
Abigail Thernstrom, vice-chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, discusses her new book, Voting Rights¿and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest ...
The News International: Love marriage couple shot dead 2009-07-02
Satellite pictures of both Afghanistan and India showed that the westerly system had already entered the Northern parts of the country while heavy monso ...
PR-Inside.com News: EUROPE NEWS AT 1800 GMT 2009-07-02
MONS, Belgium _ NATO's new commander said the situation in Afghanistan remains «very challenging,» but that the Taliban and other insurgents can be defeated ...
Canada NewsWire (press release): MTS Allstream First in Canada to Offer Members of the Canadi ... 2009-07-02
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Khaleej Times: New York, New York and Bollywood 2009-07-02
No, it's not, though at times it would seem so — particularly the prison torture scenes, and in the way the FBI (and the hapless senior officer) has been ...
2009-07-02: Headlines
The Daily Advance: US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 642 2009-07-03
AP Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 68 more members of the US military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Detroit Free Press: Offensive aims to show that Taliban can be beat in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
KABUL — The massive Marine assault launched today in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province ...
The Associated Press: American soldier feared captured in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
WASHINGTON (AP) — An American soldier is believed being held by the Taliban after he walked off his base in eastern Afghanistan without his body armor ...
CBS 4: 1 Marine Killed, 1 Kidnapped In Afghanistan 2009-07-03
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Pasadena Star-News: Keeping base in Kyrgyzstan critical for US efforts in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
By Urmatbek Tashmatov After ordering the United States military airbase outside the capital Bishkek to close earlier this year, the Kyrgyz government h ...
The Public Record: Defense Department Releases Previously Secret Torture Documents 2009-07-03
The Department of Defense released redacted documents Thursday related to abuse and torture of detainee held e in US custody at Guantanamo Bay and other ...
The Australian: US fatality in Afghanistan offensive 2009-07-03
US Marines have established bridgeheads in Taliban strongholds after suffering the first fatality of their massive offensive against Afghanistan's hardline ...
NewsHour: As US Troops Mount Offensive in Afghanistan, New Strategy Is Tested 2009-07-03
JIM LEHRER: Now Judy Woodruff has more on the US Marine offensive in the south. She spoke earlier this evening with Rajiv Chandrasekaran of the Washingt ...
Newsday: US Marines push deep into southern Afghanistan 2009-07-03
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan - Columns of US Marines in eight-wheeled armored vehicles pushed deep into southern Afghanistan yesterday on a mission to cut ...
Washington Times: Hanoi urged to free priest 2009-07-03
A group of US senators urged Vietnam's president Wednesday to free a Catholic priest as human rights groups said his imprisonment justified putting Hanoi ...
NewsHour: US Troops Pour into Southern Afghanistan in New Offensive 2009-07-03
JAMES MATES: They promised decisive action to finally break the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, and this is what it looks like: the biggest airborne ...
Al-Ahram Weekly: The game of nations 2009-07-03
In the former socialist countries, the civil rights and nationalist movements also featured a reaction against the ideologically driven (or merely ...
Newsday: US soldier captured by Taliban in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
KABUL, Afghanistan - A US soldier who inexplicably walked off his barren military base earlier this week w ...
Vancouver Sun: Minimize civilian casualties in Afghanistan, Canadians commanders told 2009-07-03
US General Stanley McChrystal chats with an Afghan boy last month in the village of Deh-e-Bagh, where a Canadian initiative to help develop the town ...
Saudi Gazette: The new US strategy in Afghanistan 2009-07-03
Thousands of US Marines stormed deep into Taleban territory in the Helmand River valley on Thursday at the start of a major new offensive ...
Al-Ahram Weekly: Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 2009-07-03
"Where is the representation of prominent Middle East and human rights experts?" he asks. "Many understood why, given domestic political realitie ...
Wall Street Journal: Taliban Slip Away From Afghanistan Surge Battle 2009-07-03
WASHINGTON— The US embarked on a large offensive in southern Afghanistan Thursday in which one Marine was killed, while in the east ...
AFP: Top officer among soldiers killed in Afghanistan 2009-07-02
LONDON (AFP) — Two soldiers have been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, including the first commanding officer to die in operations since 1991 ...
gethampshire.co.uk: Aldershot battalion's senior officer dies in Afghanistan 2009-07-02
THE fourth Welsh Guard killed in Afghanistan was the battalion's commanding officer, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed.
Foreign Policy: Send my mother to Swat Valley: fixing America's global gratitude ... 2009-07-02
Orthodontist slit your gums while installing a torture contraption in your mouth? Probably ought to send a thank you note, just in case.
The Associated Press: Obama to reassess US troop levels in Afghanistan 2009-07-02
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama tells The Associated Press that he will reassess the possible need for additional US troops in Afghanistan ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune: US says American soldier missing, believed captured by insurgent ... 2009-07-02
For once, can't many of you simply make a kind statement of concern about this missing soldier instead of creating another story about torture or political ...
The National: Afghanistan's forgotten soldiers 2009-07-02
KABUL // Zalmay had been stationed on the frontline for three years when his luck finally ran out. The bomb destroyed both his legs and much of his left ...
American Thinker: US soldier captured in Afghanistan 2009-07-02
Somehow I imagine this poor fellow would welcome "torture" consisting of standing in a cold cave, wearing a hijab and listening to blaring traditional ...
Hilton Head Island Packet: Restaurateur wants to cook in Afghanistan for 'his' Marines 2009-07-02
With 200 bratwursts, 400 pieces of chicken and 15 locally grown watermelons in tow, Joshua Paticha headed Thursday morning to Marine ...
89.3 KPCC: Anonymous Lovers In Afghanistan 2009-07-02
Commentator Benjamin Tupper recalls the day his army interpreter fell in love with an anonymous stranger. The two lovers had never met in per ...
New York Times: US Faces Resentment in Afghan Region 2009-07-02
“Now there are more people siding with the Taliban than with the government,” said Abdul Qadir Noorzai, head of the Afghan Independent Human Right ...
TPMCafé: OBAMA'S AFGHANISTAN: IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK 2009-07-02
For some time now, I've been studying the war in Afghanistan, most intently during the months leading up to President Obama's November win, and since th ...
ISRIA: UN France - Security Council : Afghanistan - Statement by Je ... 2009-07-02
Developments in the area of human rights continue to be a source of great concern. Afghan authorities should, with the support of the international ...
Fox44 News: Vermont Guard will send 1500 to Afghanistan 2009-07-02
AP - July 2, 2009 3:55 PM ET COLCHESTER, Vt. (AP) - The Vermont Army National Guard will send about 1500 members to Afghanistan next winter in what will ...
guardian.co.uk: Commander among Afghanistan victims 2009-07-02
The most senior British officer to be killed in action in Afghanistan was one of the two latest casualties in the country, the Ministry of Defence has said.
U.S. News & World Report: Obama Turns Focus to War in Afghanistan 2009-07-02
There is a popular proverb that has been making the rounds in Kabul involving the inadvisability of juggling two watermelons with one hand.
Washington Post: Washington Area Literary Calendar: July 6-12 2009-07-02
Abigail Thernstrom, vice-chair of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, discusses her new book, Voting Rights¿and Wrongs: The Elusive Quest ...
CounterCurrents.org: Unorthodox Reflections Of A Revolutionary 2009-07-02
The Civil Rights Movement was going through a down period, a low, and a young volunteer from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Monsters and Critics.com: German parliament beefs up Afghanistan deployment (Roundup) 2009-07-02
Berlin - Germany's parliament approved Thursday a deployment of up to 300 airmen to assist in airborne surveillance operations in Afghanistan.
BBC News: UK Lt Colonel dies in Afghanistan 2009-07-02
The highest ranking Army officer to be killed since the Falklands War is one of the two latest British casualties in Afghanistan, officials have confirmed.
The Herald: Most senior officer killed in Afghanistan 2009-07-02
The most senior British officer to be killed in action in Afghanistan was one of two UK soldiers who died in an attack in Helmand.
Times Online: Taleban bombs fail to break spirit of British forces in Afghanistan 2009-07-02
The blast from the roadside bomb was a breaking storm of noise and shock that scrambled the senses and shrouded men and machines in a white pall of choking ...
Sky News: Commander And Trooper Killed In Afghanistan 2009-07-02
The most senior British officer to be killed in action in Afghanistan was one of the two most recent casualties in the country, the Ministry of Defence h ...
Huffington Post: Obama's Agenda: Hope, Change and Lobby-Centricity 2009-07-02
Melody Barnes, lobbied in 2003 and 2004 for liberal advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil Right ...
American Conservative Magazine: What Cheney learned from Stalin 2009-07-02
When he defends the routine use of torture as a means of warfare, however, theirs is the most recent example. The French, in the Algerian War, were the last ...
CounterCurrents.org: Waging War Upon Our Friends 2009-07-02
... guarding the rights of God's creation with one arm, while we killed and indiscriminately erased both people and human rights with the other strong arm.
Huffington Post: Volunteering Time and Talent in Afghanistan 2009-07-02
We asked you, our readers, to submit your stories of volunteerism and community service, and you've delivered stories of doing good across the globe.
Daily Kos: Bagram AFB : America's OTHER Torture Chamber 2009-07-02
But Bates ruled that some of those held at Bagram who were captured outside Afghanistan "are virtually identical to the detainees in Boumediene," describing ...
Canada NewsWire (press release): MTS Allstream First in Canada to Offer Members of the Canadi ... 2009-07-02
... a proud sponsor of Cindy Klassen, 2006 World Champion and Canada's greatest Olympian, and a proud contributor to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
WPTZ.com: Vt. Guard Says 1500 Leaving For Afghanistan 2009-07-02
COLCHESTER, Vt. -- The commander of the Vermont National Guard confirmed publicly Thursday what he's been telling Guard members and their families ...
Boston Globe: Obama speaks on Putin, Jackson, and more 2009-07-02
Obama acknowledged severe misgivings about his own proposal to indefinitely hold some Guantanamo detainees -- a plan assailed by human rights groups.
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Human Rights Watch recently conducted research in Germany, where a number of states have banned the wearing of the headscarf, a far less severe form ...
Mangalorean.com: Homosexuality: where does India figure? 2009-07-02
UNAIDS executive director Michel Sidibe welcomed the decision and said that "the Delhi High Court has restored the dignity and human rights of millions ...
CBS 3: Montgomery Co. Sergeant Home From Afghanistan 2009-07-02
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PR-Inside.com News: EUROPE NEWS AT 1800 GMT 2009-07-02
MONS, Belgium _ NATO's new commander said the situation in Afghanistan remains «very challenging,» but that the Taliban and other insurgents can be defeated ...
Post Chronicle: Daily Almanac - July 2 2009-07-02
In 1964, US President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In 1974, US President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev ...
ISRIA: US DOD - On the Ground: Forces Donate Supplies, Celebrate Mother ... 2009-07-02
In an ongoing mission to provide support to the Afghan people, Afghan and coalition forces distributed humanitarian aid to several villages and ...
Times Online: Blow to British forces as Afghanistan bombing kills senior officer 2009-07-02
British Forces in Afghanistan have been dealt a huge personal blow with the loss of the most senior infantry commander to be killed in action since ...
Canada NewsWire (press release): RISE Selects MTS Allstream for Unified Communications Solutions ... 2009-07-02
... a proud sponsor of Cindy Klassen, 2006 World Champion and Canada's greatest Olympian, and a proud contributor to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
ISRIA: Lithuania - President - US Congressmen thanked President Adamku ... 2009-07-02
... democracy and human rights cherished by the United States were a source of inspiration for the Lithuanian nation in its fight for independence.
Vermont Public Radio: National Guard announces details of Afghanistan deployment 2009-07-02
(Host) Fifteen-hundred members of the Vermont Army Guard will go to Afghanistan early next year. It will be the largest deployment of Vermont Guard member ...
WHAS 11.com (subscription): National Guardsman makes history; preparing to deploy ... 2009-07-02
(WHAS11) - For the fourth time in his life, General Joseph Culver is packing up and getting ready to go to war. He enlisted in the National Guard 35 year ...
Daily Monitor: Why Afghanistan might become Obama's Vietnam 2009-07-02
Each day that passes proves one point to me; that unless Barack Obama disengages completely from the mess that George Bush created for Americ ...
Huffington Post: Sundance Film Afghan Star Incredible 2009-07-02
In the process I talked to a British war journalist, Rachel Reid -- now the brilliant Human Rights Watch officer there. "Rachel in fact told me about ...
APA: Anne Derse: “I learn Azerbaijan and it is giving me access to your ... 2009-07-02
And our governments have requested the world people and respect for human rights. We do recognize that it takes time to develop strong institutions ...
Daily Times: VIEW: Asia's hour? —Jamie F Metzl 2009-07-02
America played the lead in creating the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, and international humanitarian and human rights law.
The News International: Love marriage couple shot dead 2009-07-02
Satellite pictures of both Afghanistan and India showed that the westerly system had already entered the Northern parts of the country while heavy monso ...
Melbourne Herald Sun: War against Taliban in Afghanistan is winnable, says Malcolm Turnbull 2009-07-02
FEDERAL Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull says Australia and its allies can win the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan. After his visit to Australi ...
Irish Examiner: US begins major offensive in Afghanistan 2009-07-02
US MARINES hiked through searing heat taking fire from small pockets of militants after landing in ...
WA today: US troops capture Afghanistan district 2009-07-02
Thousands of US Marines have poured into Afghanistan's Taliban heartlands on Thursday, quickly capturing a district in the first major assault of President ...
Khaleej Times: New York, New York and Bollywood 2009-07-02
No, it's not, though at times it would seem so — particularly the prison torture scenes, and in the way the FBI (and the hapless senior officer) has been ...
Scotsman: Britain pays out over deaths of 104 civilians in Afghanistan 2009-07-02
THE Ministry of Defence has paid out, or is considering, compensation in relation to at least 104 civilian deaths allegedly caused by the British Army ...
FOXBusiness: From Afghanistan to South Florida:Technology Unites Soldier ... 2009-07-02
MIAMI, Jul 02, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) ----Independence Day brings family and friends together nationwide as all Americans celebrate our shared history.
Atlanta Journal Constitution: No reason to fear detainees 2009-07-02
The answer lies in the complex and less-than-pristine domestic politics of much of the world, where governments don't even pretend to honor human rights ...
The Washington Independent: Human Rights First's Rona Dissents From Kate Martin's Detenti ... 2009-07-02
Having recently returned from a mission to Afghanistan to study US detention policies and practices, we (Human Rights First) have recommended to ...
The Nation.: Ties That Bind: the NAACP and The Nation 2009-07-02
In 1909, when the founders of the NAACP needed help organizing their new civil rights group, they reached out to Oswald Garrison Villard ...
CBS News: Washington Unplugged: World is Watching Obama in Russia 2009-07-02
The president, Conley said, should also address human rights, since "it's unclear how much information the Russian public is getting on these issues.
PR-Inside.com News: Senior British soldier killed in Afghanistan 2009-07-02
© AP LONDON (AP) - Britain's Defense Ministry says a soldier killed in an explosion is the most senior UK officer to have died in combat in Afghanistan.
2009-06-29: Headlines
Daily Press: Freedom isn't free 2009-06-29
... instilled into our Constitution and thus our way of freedom — had to operate in secrecy to avoid torture, persecution and execution for such notions.
Jakarta Post: Issues: `Fatal shooting of Papuan teenager' 2009-06-29
I call for international attention to be paid to the human rights problems in West Papua. The international community must take action to solve this problem ...
Tehran Times: Britain responsible for increase in drug cultivation in Afghanistan 2009-06-29
TEHRAN -- National Police Chief Esmaeil Ahmadi-Moqaddam blamed Britain for the rise in cultivation of drug in Afghanistan lamenting the fact that there h ...
Voice of America: Russian Activists Concerned Obama May Pursue Pragmatic Policies 2009-06-29
Police in Russia often use force to break up opposition demonstrations, raising the question of how the Kremlin deals with dissent and human rights.
OhMyGov!: Facebook may determine the next Afghan president 2009-06-29
By choosing a government that values transparency, addresses human rights, and meets the basic needs of the people, America might just regain its standing ...
Omaha World-Herald: » Cornhuskers in Afghanistan: Planting ... 2009-06-29
Sgt. William Jones, a member of the Nebraska National Guard's agricultural development team, applies fertilizer to newly planted fruit trees north of Kabul.
guide2.co.nz: Key `concerned' By Reports Of Conflict In Afghanistan 2009-06-29
Wellington, June 29 NZPA - Prime Minister John Key says he is concerned by reports of increasing conflict in Afghanistan, where New Zealand patrols ...
Voice of America: Local Police Chief, 9 Others Killed in Southern Afghanistan 2009-06-29
By VOA News A senior member of the Kandahar provincial council says at least nine other police officers were killed in Monday's clash outside ...
Xinhua: UNSC extends UN mission's mandate in Afghanistan 2009-06-29
KABUL, June 29 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has extended the mandate of the World body's assistance mission in Afghanistan ...
Defence Management: Afghan POWs may have been abused 2009-06-29
The MoD could face a new round of compensation claims after government lawyers admitted Afghan prisoners taken by British troops, may have ultimately been ...
Wired Blogs: High-Tech Brigade Heads to Afghanistan, Loaded With Gagdets 2009-06-29
The soldiers of the 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division are shipping out to Afghanistan this month — equipped with a controversial array ...
Strategy Page: Unleashing Special Forces In Afghanistan 2009-06-29
The new commander of US forces in Afghanistan has a Special Forces background, and is expected to change the rules for how special ...
New York Observer: nbc's Former Specials Chief Now Planning Presidential Debates ... 2009-06-29
Back in February, Phil Alongi, the former executive producer of NBC News' specials unit, left 30 Rock for good to start his own medi ...
Opposing Views: President Obama Leaves Open Loopholes for Torture 2009-06-29
By Amnesty International , Working To Protect Human Rights - 8 Hours Ago Today, June 26, is the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
McClatchy Washington Bureau: Commentary: Can saffron save Afghanistan? 2009-06-29
By Farooq Faizi | The Institute for War & Peace Reporting HERAT, Afghanistan - Abdul Samad has given up growing poppy. The farmer from Gulmir ...
This is London: Afghanistan troops 'highest defence spending priority' 2009-06-29
Supporting British troops in Afghanistan is the highest priority for the defence budget but must be balanced against meeting the dangers of an uncert ...
USA Today: Fewer civilian deaths crucial in Afghanistan 2009-06-29
By Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP By Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY MOSCOW — The US-led war in Afghanistan enters a critical phase this summer under a new commander ...
OpEdNews: Watershed Moment Summer: Deadly Reasons to Oust Incumbents in 2010 2009-06-28
Or how about that torture thing? Turns out that Democrats may not have ordered it, but they are sure good about covering it up and protecting those who ...
Washington Times: What sort of president? 2009-06-28
However, this still must be a democracy that respects human rights, and particularly, the rights of women. We also should not be pushing for negotiati ...
ZNet: Judge Orders Release From Guantánamo Of Al-Qaeda Torture Victim 2009-06-28
In Afghanistan, as he has admitted all along, he spent five days at an al-Qaeda-affiliated guest house in Kabul, and 18 days in January and February 2000 ...
News14.com: Community helping soldiers in Afghanistan 2009-06-28
CHARLOTTE – What started with one woman sending a care package to her son has now grown into an effort to help thousands of soldiers.
Asmarino Indpendet: My celebration as an Eritrean-American 2009-06-28
Individual respect and individual human rights produces development ,whereas, individual disrespect to its own citizens by the government ...
First Tracks: US Snowboarding's Watanabe Facebooks From Afghanistan 2009-06-28
Afghanistan - In the midst of his goodwill tour to Afghanistan, US Snowboarding's Graham Watanabe (Sun Valley, ID) was able to find a moment to update h ...
Washington Post: Violence delays mine clearing in Afghanistan 2009-06-28
AP -- KABUL, Afghanistan - Kneeling in the hot morning sun, a few men carefully poke and prod at the baked earth on the outskirts of ...
Reuters: West skeptical on Russian security plan for Europe 2009-06-28
... West told Russia on Sunday that its proposal for a pan-Europe security pact must not undermine NATO or a continental security and human rights group.
Boston Globe: Beth Murphy, Plymouth filmmaker, documents on human rights issues 2009-06-28
... about two suburban Boston women who channeled their grief over their husbands' deaths on 9/11 into founding a program for widows in Afghanistan.
Xinhua: Afghan police kill 5 Taliban militants in S. Afghanistan 2009-06-28
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police eliminated five Taliban militants and wounded two more in a clean-up operation in the suburban ...
Kansas City Star: Pro-Con | Should Obama outline an exit strategy from Afghanist ... 2009-06-28
“Not later than December 31, 2009, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report outlining the United States exit strategy for United State ...
IRINnews.org: AFGHANISTAN: 800 civilians killed in conflict in January-May – UN ... 2009-06-28
In May alone, 261 non-combatants lost their lives in conflict in Afghanistan, John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency ...
Los Angeles Times: U.S. to shift approach to Afghanistan drug trade 2009-06-28
Abdul Khaleq / AP Afghan farmers work in a poppy field in Helmand province. US efforts to eradicate the crop have benefited the Taliban, envoy Richard ...
American Chronicle: Global Peace A Reality 2009-06-28
When anarchy prevails in places like Somalia human rights are non existent and the horrific suffering of people continues to spread causing a continuing ...
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle: APSU teacher leading bee effort in Afghanistan 2009-06-28
Apples and honeybees have a definite connection, and that connection has been broken in Afghanist ...
Xinhua: Suicide attack targeting US forces kills child, wounds 9 in E ... 2009-06-28
KABUL, June 28 (Xinhua) -- A suicide car bombing against international troops in eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar claimed the live of one child ...
2009-06-28: Headlines
Kansas City Star: Pro-Con | Should Obama outline an exit strategy from Afghanist ... 2009-06-28
“Not later than December 31, 2009, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report outlining the United States exit strategy for United State ...
Sydney Morning Herald: Refugee boat had 194 on board 2009-06-28
A report released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights this month showed a 28 per cent increase in the number of people seeking asylum ...
Xinhua: Suicide attack targeting US forces kills child, wounds 9 in E ... 2009-06-28
KABUL, June 28 (Xinhua) -- A suicide car bombing against international troops in eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar claimed the live of one child ...
News14.com: Community helping soldiers in Afghanistan 2009-06-28
CHARLOTTE – What started with one woman sending a care package to her son has now grown into an effort to help thousands of soldiers.
Edmonton Sun: US officials look to influence Canada to stay in Afghanistan 2009-06-28
OTTAWA — Obama Democrats have quietly sounded out power-brokers in Ottawa looking for advice on how to convince ...
Telegraph.co.uk: Britain to continue poppy eradication in Afghanistan despite U ... 2009-06-28
Britain will continue to fund the destruction of opium fields in Afghanistan despite the United States condemning poppy eradication as a waste of money.
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle: APSU teacher leading bee effort in Afghanistan 2009-06-28
Apples and honeybees have a definite connection, and that connection has been broken in Afghanist ...
Xinhua: Afghan police kill 5 Taliban militants in S. Afghanistan 2009-06-28
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Afghan police eliminated five Taliban militants and wounded two more in a clean-up operation in the suburban ...
Reuters: FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, June 28 2009-06-28
FARAH - Five policemen were killed when Taliban insurgents attacked a checkpoint in the Posht-e-Rud district of western Farah province on Saturday ...
PRESS TV: Afghanistan violence continues to claim lives 2009-06-28
Violence in Afghanistan has claimed the lives of at least one child, seven police officers and 14 suspected militants. A child was killed and nine people ...
Green Bay: Peshtigo Soldier Dies From Wounds in Afghanistan - CBS 5 2009-06-28
A 19-year old soldier from Peshtigo has died from injuries he received while serving in Afghanistan. Steven Drees suffered a wound to the eye when he w ...
NEXT: Chinua Asuzu 2009-06-28
When we say or hear 'human rights', what really spring to mind are human wrongs. Discussion of human rights is agitated by their all too frequent violati ...
guardian.co.uk: Violence delays mine clearing in Afghanistan 2009-06-28
AP foreign, Sunday June 28 2009 Associated Press Writer= KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Kneeling in the hot morning sun, a few men carefully poke and prod ...
Los Angeles Times: U.S. to shift approach to Afghanistan drug trade 2009-06-28
Abdul Khaleq / AP Afghan farmers work in a poppy field in Helmand province. US efforts to eradicate the crop have benefited the Taliban, envoy Richard ...
United Press International: UPI newstrack topnews 2009-06-28
The civil rights leader, no relation to the singer, said Saturday he met with the Jackson family Friday and heard concerns about the medications ...
Canada.com: Afghan women battle heavy odds in struggle for freedom, dignity 2009-06-28
"Some people say there is now democracy and human rights here, but there are no changes yet in the country," she said, noting that some leaders in Kandahar ...
Boston Globe: Beth Murphy, Plymouth filmmaker, documents on human rights issues 2009-06-28
... about two suburban Boston women who channeled their grief over their husbands' deaths on 9/11 into founding a program for widows in Afghanistan.
Baltimore Sun: Vermont soldier paralyzed in Afghanistan roadside bombing ... 2009-06-28
Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas, second from right, and his Dorothy, welcome home Pfc. Andrew Parker during a parade welcoming Parker home in Hyde Park, Vt.
IRINnews.org: AFGHANISTAN: 800 civilians killed in conflict in January-May – UN ... 2009-06-28
KABUL, 28 June 2009 (IRIN) - Civilian deaths resulting from armed hostilities between insurgents, the US military, the International Security Assistance ...
Xinhua: Presidential candidate promises to revise constitution system ... 2009-06-28
KABUL, June 28 (Xinhua) -- As two-month election campaign in the post -Taliban country is going on, Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah said ...
American Chronicle: Global Peace A Reality 2009-06-28
When anarchy prevails in places like Somalia human rights are non existent and the horrific suffering of people continues to spread causing a continuing ...
OpEdNews: Watershed Moment Summer: Deadly Reasons to Oust Incumbents in 2010 2009-06-28
Or how about that torture thing? Turns out that Democrats may not have ordered it, but they are sure good about covering it up and protecting those who ...
First Tracks: US Snowboarding's Watanabe Facebooks From Afghanistan 2009-06-28
Afghanistan - In the midst of his goodwill tour to Afghanistan, US Snowboarding's Graham Watanabe (Sun Valley, ID) was able to find a moment to update h ...
ZNet: Judge Orders Release From Guantánamo Of Al-Qaeda Torture Victim 2009-06-28
In Afghanistan, as he has admitted all along, he spent five days at an al-Qaeda-affiliated guest house in Kabul, and 18 days in January and February 2000 ...
Washington Times: What sort of president? 2009-06-28
However, this still must be a democracy that respects human rights, and particularly, the rights of women. We also should not be pushing for negotiati ...
Kuwait Times: Relieved US keeps base key to Afghanistan war 2009-06-28
Sometimes, paying three times the price for the same merchandise can be a good deal. That is the American calculation behind quiet ...
Reuters: West skeptical on Russian security plan for Europe 2009-06-28
... West told Russia on Sunday that its proposal for a pan-Europe security pact must not undermine NATO or a continental security and human rights group.
The Age: Bitter Vietnam lessons lost in Afghanistan 2009-06-27
IF GOOD intentions ever paved a road to hell, they are doing so in Afghanistan. History rarely declares when folly turns to disaster, but it does so now.
ifight365.com: Military brother of WWE wrestler killed in Afghanistan blast 2009-06-27
Major Sean Birchall, brother of WWE wrestler Paul Burchill, was killed on Friday in an explosion while stationed in Afghanistan. According to The Guardi ...
Xinhua: China expects Afghanistan to achieve peace, stability 2009-06-27
ROME, June 27 (Xinhua) -- A senior Chinese official said on Saturday that China hopes and believes that Afghanistan will achieve its peace and stability ...
Seattle Times: Young lieutenant from Steilacoom killed in Afghanistan wanted ... 2009-06-27
Lt. Brian Bradshaw, 24, a 2007 graduate of Pacific Lutheran University, died Thursday in Kheyl, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when an improvised bomb went ...
Eden Prairie News: Army chaplain reflects on tour in Afghanistan 2009-06-27
By Forrest Adams Chanhassen resident and Faith Presbyterian Church pastor Chris Carlson sneezed for 10 months in Afghanistan, the “dustiest place” he's ever ...
Globe and Mail: Burning down the house 2009-06-27
Musharraf responded by arresting Iftikhar Chaudhury, the Supreme Court chief justice, human rights advocates, journalists and activists.
guardian.co.uk: They say Obama is starting to stumble. The hell he is 2009-06-27
That may upset liberals, who are already fuming at him for not doing more to support gay marriage or the prosecution of people who authorised torture in ...
FOXNews: Remembering Jackson -- In Afghanistan 2009-06-27
Embedded in Afghanistan, Matt Sanchez finds that the Afghan media has followed the death of Michael Jackson --one of the famous singers that young people ...
Schenectady Gazette: Online Letter to the Editof for June 27 2009-06-27
In response to the June 21 article, “Psychologist pushes ban on torture,” Steve Reisner is a self-professed “do gooder.” He believes his mission is ...
2009-06-27: Headlines
Bloomberg: US Reverses Poppy Policy in Afghanistan, G-8 Ministers Told 2009-06-27
June 27 (Bloomberg) -- The US will reverse its policy of destroying opium crops in Afghanistan and devote “hundreds of millions ...
Xinhua: Taliban raid kills 8 policemen in S Afghanistan 2009-06-27
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Taliban militants killed eight policemen in an overnight assault on a police post in southern Afghan province ...
Globe and Mail: Burning down the house 2009-06-27
Musharraf responded by arresting Iftikhar Chaudhury, the Supreme Court chief justice, human rights advocates, journalists and activists.
ifight365.com: Military brother of WWE wrestler killed in Afghanistan blast 2009-06-27
Major Sean Birchall, brother of WWE wrestler Paul Burchill, was killed on Friday in an explosion while stationed in Afghanistan. According to The Guardi ...
U.TV: Afghanistan's discredited elections 2009-06-27
The Afghan election campaign officially opened last week and the people of Kabul woke up to a city covered in images of presidential hopefuls.
Janesville Gazette: Con: Obama needs to stay course in Afghanistan 2009-06-27
WASHINGTON — EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer is addressing the question, Should Congress require Obama to outline an ex ...
Seattle Times: Young lieutenant from Steilacoom killed in Afghanistan wanted ... 2009-06-27
Lt. Brian Bradshaw, 24, a 2007 graduate of Pacific Lutheran University, died Thursday in Kheyl, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when an improvised bomb went ...
Schenectady Gazette: Online Letter to the Editof for June 27 2009-06-27
In response to the June 21 article, “Psychologist pushes ban on torture,” Steve Reisner is a self-professed “do gooder.” He believes his mission is ...
Pilot News: Rockies flag flying high in Afghanistan 2009-06-27
PHS Rockies senior football players are, front, from left: Daryl Huff, Zach Ferree, John Barron (football coach), Aimee Portteus (PHS guidance counselor)
Eden Prairie News: Army chaplain reflects on tour in Afghanistan 2009-06-27
By Forrest Adams Chanhassen resident and Faith Presbyterian Church pastor Chris Carlson sneezed for 10 months in Afghanistan, the “dustiest place” he's ever ...
Newnan Times-Herald: Home from Afghanistan, soldier enjoys mom's broccoli casserole 2009-06-27
US Army Specialist Danny Moss has his priorities straight. The first thing he needed when he got back to Newnan from his tour in Afghanist ...
Wausau Daily Herald: After work in Afghanistan, chaplain finds he has Lou Gehrig's disease 2009-06-26
STEVENS POINT -- The Rev. Dan Farley has faced danger before; in fact, he's survived ...
Daily Kos: The US Must Honor Its International Commitment Against Torture 2009-06-26
by ACLU By Nahal Zamani, Advocacy Associate, ACLU Human Rights Program Today marks the anniversary of the day that the Convention against Torture and Other ...
Daily Kos: Dear Mr. President: And where shall we sweep the HOMICIDES? 2009-06-26
Prisoners died of torture at Asadadad, Bagram, and Gardez in Afghanistan and at Abu Ghraib, Camp Whitehorse, Basra, Mosul, Tikrit, Bucc ...
Asia Times Online: Pentagon 'rewrites' airstrike atrocity 2009-06-26
The independent human-rights organization had said in its May 26 report that at most 25 to 30 insurgents had been killed, though not necessarily in ...
NPR: Proposal Offers Specifics On Preventive Detention 2009-06-26
But many human rights groups say they don't need to hear any more details. They believe the very notion of preventive detention flies in the face ...
Wired News: US Payoff Keeps Key Hub for Afghanistan Open 2009-06-26
After promising to evict the US military from its territory, the government of Kyrgyzstan has reversed course: Its parliament yesterday ...
Reuters: Pentagon nears award on new trucks for Afghanistan 2009-06-26
WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - The Pentagon is nearing a contract award to one of four teams bidding to build thousands of armored ...
Salt Lake Tribune: Protesters call for investigation of US torture allegations 2009-06-26
Over 100 protesters shared their anger, rallying against torture and other alleged human rights abuses by the US government. Rebecca Browning traveled ...
Politico: Ross's new job 2009-06-26
“The US negotiated nuclear arms with the Soviets at the same time as it pressed human rights concerns,” Makovsky said. Ross has “always believed that you ...
Nick.com: Texas Girl Raises Money for Girls in Afghanistan 2009-06-26
11-year-old Sarosha Hansraj says kids all over the world have a lot more in common than they might think. "You don't have to think really deep or far," she ...
2009-06-26: Headlines
Wausau Daily Herald: After work in Afghanistan, chaplain finds he has Lou Gehrig's disease 2009-06-26
STEVENS POINT -- The Rev. Dan Farley has faced danger before; in fact, he's survived ...
NPR: Proposal Offers Specifics On Preventive Detention 2009-06-26
But many human rights groups say they don't need to hear any more details. They believe the very notion of preventive detention flies in the face ...
Huffington Post: Never Forget: The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture 2009-06-26
As Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, explained in a speech reproduced in today's Daily Star, Lebanon, "The prohibition of torture ...
Daily Kos: Dear Mr. President: And where shall we sweep the HOMICIDES? 2009-06-26
Prisoners died of torture at Asadadad, Bagram, and Gardez in Afghanistan and at Abu Ghraib, Camp Whitehorse, Basra, Mosul, Tikrit, Bucc ...
EuropeNews: FREEDOM vs. TOLERANCE: American Freedom Alliance Dinner 2009-06-26
There, we observed all the farcical and frightening idiocies of the United Nations, whose "human rights" commission convened a meeting on racism ...
Washington Post Blogs: Burqas, Bikinis and the Debasement of Women 2009-06-26
Freedom of religion, and of conscience are fundamental human rights that I hold sacrosanct. Sarkozy's proposal to ban the niqab because he (and others) view ...
Salt Lake Tribune: Protesters call for investigation of US torture allegations 2009-06-26
Over 100 protesters shared their anger, rallying against torture and other alleged human rights abuses by the US government. Rebecca Browning traveled ...
Reuters: Pentagon nears award on new trucks for Afghanistan 2009-06-26
WASHINGTON, June 25 (Reuters) - The Pentagon is nearing a contract award to one of four teams bidding to build thousands of armored ...
Reuters: FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, June 26 2009-06-26
EASTERN AFGHANISTAN - A soldier serving with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was killed by a roadside bomb in eastern ...
Wired News: US Payoff Keeps Key Hub for Afghanistan Open 2009-06-26
After promising to evict the US military from its territory, the government of Kyrgyzstan has reversed course: Its parliament yesterday ...
The Ledger: Afghanistan Strategy 2009-06-26
In a World War II movie, Clint Eastwood faces down a German Tiger tank in a small town protecting a bank filled with gold bars. Hoping to rob that bank ...
Free Speech Radio News: Afghanistan police prepare for August elections 2009-06-26
Violence is peaking in Afghanistan as the central Asian country approaches its Presidential elections. The Afghan army reported it killed 23 Talib ...
News-Sun: Afghanistan: The Mideast briar patch 2009-06-26
To understand the complicating factors of our current involvement in Afghanistan, three things are necessary. One must have a map of the ...
News & Observer: 82nd Airborne now Facebooking from Afghanistan 2009-06-25
AP FORT BRAGG, NC -- Paratroopers in the 82nd Airborne Division task force now serving in Afghanistan can stay in touch with friends and family through ...
IRINnews.org: AFGHANISTAN: NGOs squeezed out of funding appeals - analysis 2009-06-25
KABUL, 25 June 2009 (IRIN) - The Afghanistan Humanitarian Action Plan (HAP) 2009 launched on 3 February in Geneva by John Holme ...
The Public Record: Five Decades of US Behavioral Scientists Implicated in Torture 2009-06-25
The Center for Constitutional Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, Amnesty International and other human rights organization have called publicly for ...
Democracy Now: 72 Killed in Baghdad Bombing 2009-06-25
On Wednesday, High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said, “People who order or inflict torture cannot be exonerated, and the roles of cert ...
BBC News: 'Shift needed' in Afghan combat 2009-06-25
The US has admitted that at least 26 people were killed, but the Afghan government and human rights groups say the toll was more than 100.
Houston Chronicle: Commentary: Jails must aim to stop prisoner sex abuse 2009-06-25
If America is to reclaim its moral authority as a defender of human rights and dignity, it must start at home. The plea quoted above came from Rodney Hul ...
PopMatters: Afghan Star 2009-06-25
A favorite film at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, the documentary opens 26 June at New York's Cinema Village, exploring the show' ...
New York Times: A Misguided 'War on Drugs' 2009-06-25
Governments around the world have used it as an excuse for unchecked human rights abuse and irrational policies based on knee-jerk reactions rather th ...
OpEdNews: Why Demand to Prosecute Torture Will Grow 2009-06-25
We held him in Afghanistan, but I don't mean "held" in the sense in which one lovingly holds a baby. We put a hood on him, stripped him, shackled him ...
Washington Post: NATO to start offensive soon in south Afghanistan 2009-06-25
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, boosted by a big influx of US troops, will step up operations in Helmand province ...
Systems: Rodriguez Assumes New Afghanistan Post 2009-06-25
KABUL - Army Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez arrived in Afghanistan yesterday to assume his post as deputy commander of US Forces Afghanistan.
Baltimore News Net: US Bagram base alleged to be torture chamber 2009-06-25
The main US military base at Bagram, Afghanistan, is under a cloud after prisoners said they were abused and neglected there. The BBC has reported 27 former ...
Reuters: Is Germany at 'war' in Afghanistan? Defence Minister says 'no' 2009-06-25
Germany's defence minister gets his tongue in a twist every time he tries to explain why the German army is not in a “war” in Afghanistan, even though more ...
NTDTV: Afghanistan's Jewish Past 2009-06-25
And in Afghanistan decades-old Jewish synagogues in the west of the country have now been renovated. They are now serving as much needed schools in ...
2009-06-25: Headlines
Detroit Free Press: Afghanistan strategy to change 2009-06-25
BY JASON STRAZIUSO • AP • June 25, 2009 CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan -- US Gen. Stanley McChrystal said Wednesday that US and other NATO troops must shift away from being a force designed for high-intensity combat and instead make protecting Afgh ...
News & Observer: 82nd Airborne now Facebooking from Afghanistan 2009-06-25
AP FORT BRAGG, NC -- Paratroopers in the 82nd Airborne Division task force now serving in Afghanistan can stay in touch with friends and family through a Facebook profile. The division has announced that word about the profile for Combined Joint Task ...
Australia.TO: Rudd Speech at the reception for the King and Queen of Spain 2009-06-25
As modern democracies and market economies, Australia and Spain share a common commitment to advancing human rights, to promoting strong and effective global institutions, and supporting a prosperous, peaceful, secure future. Our countries have worked ...
The Public Record: Detainees Were Also Murdered At Bagram in Afghanistan 2009-06-25
By Jason Leopold A new report documenting the torture of more than two-dozen former prisoners held at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan between 2002 and 2008 comes several months after a bipartisan congressional committee linked the murder of two detainee ...
The Public Record: Bagram is Now Obama's Guantanamo 2009-06-25
In 2005, following well-documented accounts of detainee deaths, torture and “disappeared” prisoners, the US undertook efforts to turn the facility over to the Afghan government. But due to a series of legal, bureaucratic and administrative misstep ...
Registan.net: Afghanistan Needs a New Constitution, Not CEO 2009-06-25
The argument for a “chief executive” of Afghanistan is interesting, leaving aside the many legal, ethical, and constitutional hurdles that would have to be surmounted for it to work. “The office of president is … a 48-hour job given a 24-hour time ...
Daily Post: Fears for North Wales soldiers serving in Afghanistan 2009-06-25
THE mothers of two Welsh Guards serving in Afghanistan have spoken of their fears that their sons could be the next to be killed in action. Gina Hill, from Prestatyn, and Maria Dawson, from Kinmel Bay, told of their agony after the death rate of armed ...
BBC News: 'Shift needed' in Afghan combat 2009-06-25
The US has admitted that at least 26 people were killed, but the Afghan government and human rights groups say the toll was more than 100. A US military report blamed the civilian deaths on a failure by US forces to follow procedures in air strikes.
Belfast Telegraph: UK soldiers in Afghanistan air assault 2009-06-25
British troops in Afghanistan have carried out one of the biggest air operations of modern times, the Ministry of Defence said. Operation Panther's Claw, an assault by Scots soldiers on one of the last Taliban strongholds in Helmand Province ...
Mansfield Chad: VIDEO: Seeing Afghanistan through the eyes of our troops 2009-06-25
THESE pictures show the day to day life of Mansfield troops serving in Afghanistan, seen through the eyes of one of our local lads on the ground. Mansfield Woodhouse resident WO2 Michael Hancock is currently serving with the Territorial Army in the war ...
IPS: POLITICS: Some Drug Trades Easing Up, UN Says 2009-06-25
"I appeal to the heroic partisans of the human rights cause worldwide to help UNOCD promote the right to health of drug addicts," he states in his preface to the report. As the report also states, "The purpose of arrest and incarceration is to deter ...
ISRIA: Italy: Minister Frattini's speech at the Swedish Institute ... 2009-06-25
But this “diffusion of power”, this new global governance in fieri, must not imply a “dilution of values” or a change in the way we interpret the fundamental rights of the individual and the respect for human rights. Given the complexity of these ...
MaximsNews Network: UK'S GLENYS KINNOCK, MINISTER OF STATE FOR EUROPE: "THE CHALLENGE ... 2009-06-25
But by gathering our EU partners around us, we can add the weight of 27 countries to messages and action on human rights, security and crisis situations around the world. So, for example, when UN sanctions against the Mugabe regime were blocked ...
Angus Reid Global Monitor: Afghans Not Sold on Karzai's Leadership 2009-06-25
Karzai has been recently criticized by human rights groups for picking Mohammad Qasim Fahim as one of his two vice-presidential nominees. Fahim is a former mujahedeen commander. The mujahedeen groups fought against Soviet forces in the 1970s and 1980 ...
SINDH TODAY: NYT bribed Taliban guards to free its abducted reporter ... 2009-06-25
Lahore, June 25 (ANI): A leading US daily bribed the Taliban several times to set free one its staffers and his associate, who were kidnapped in Afghanistan last year, it has been learnt. According to the ABC News, The New York Times purportedly bribed ...
Reuters UK: Bagram lesser known - but more evil - twin of Guantanamo 2009-06-25
And as evidence of abuse there has begun to leak out, the US military has responded in exactly the same way as it did to similar allegations at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere: by insisting that the torture is just the work of a few low-ranking “bad apples” ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Services are Saturday for soldier killed in Afghanistan 2009-06-25
AP GERMANTOWN, Ill. — Services will be Saturday for a soldier from here killed last week in Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Joshua Melton, 26, died along with Sgt. Paul Smith of East Peoria, 43, last Friday when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device ...
defpro: MV-22 Osprey ready for Afghanistan? 2009-06-25
06:05 GMT, June 25, 2009 In a recently published report prepared for a US Congressional hearing on the Future of the V-22, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that the MV-22, the Marine Corps model of the V-22 Osprey, "has not performed ...
Vancouver Sun: Military refusing to disclose the future cost of war in Afghanistan 2009-06-25
By Mike Blanchfield, Canwest News ServiceJune 21, 2009 In a significant policy shift, the Canadian government now believes that telling the country's taxpayers the future cost of the war in Afghanistan would be a threat to national security.
Trend News Agency: 9 Taliban insurgents killed in central Afghanistan 2009-06-25
Afghan troops with the support of NATO -led International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) have killed nine Taliban fighters in Wardak province, some 70 km west of Afghan capital Kabul, an official said on Thursda, reported Xinhua.
Daily Kos: Take Action: Demand an Exit Strategy in Afghanistan 2009-06-24
by ZP Heller Though the Pentagon finally took responsibility for the Afghan civilian deaths in last month's Farah province airstrikes, we're only seeing minor adjustments toward a deeply flawed military strategy in need of a complete overhaul.
ReliefWeb (press release): Afghanistan's Election Challenges - ICG report 2009-06-24
Afghanistan's second round of elections following the Taliban's ouster begins with the presidential and provincial council polls on 20 August 2009. Provincial representatives will then be chosen for the National Assembly's upper house (the Meshrano ...
This Is Lancashire: Darwen factory worker receives medal for serving in Afghanistan 2009-06-24
A PAINT factory worker who risked his life as a Royal Marines reservist in Afghanistan has been rewarded for his bravery. Major Roger Brown, 38, Belthorn, was honoured last week with an Operational Service Medal for duty on Operation Herrick 9 ...
Livemint: Security risks: India lacks clear direction 2009-06-24
Trillions of dollars burned on homeland security, human rights violations, extraordinary renditions, infringements of basic jurisprudence and continual body count in three different war zones have irreversibly changed the US way of life.
Scoop.co.nz (press release): Lou Wolf Testimony 2009-06-24
In 1997, Bolivian Captain Filmann Urzagaste Rodriguez was among others who were responsible for the kidnapping and torture of Waldo Albarracin, who was then director of the Popular Assembly for Human Rights in Bolivia and is now the country's Hum ...
The National: Show of mercy may be calculated 2009-06-24
Ms Goderiaux said that perhaps the amputations were postponed because of pressure from international human rights groups. “We don't know the real reason,” she said. “It's important to keep putting pressure on them.”
CafeSentido.com: Malalai Joya Fights for Afghan Rights, Persecuted for Speaking Out 2009-06-24
Human rights activists abroad and within Afghanistan have sought to elevate Joya as an example of a modern Afghan woman, fighting for democratic rights in a deeply traditional society; they have also called on the government to protect her against ...
Hürriyet: Turkish-American cooperation in the broader Eurasian region (I) 2009-06-24
One pillar is their bond of shared values and principles of society: namely democracy, the rule of law, human rights, gender equality and separation of religion and state. Turkey is still unique in espousing and nurturing these standards in its regi ...
The Japan Times: Dancing with the dragon 2009-06-24
The Obama administration has declared that America's "most important bilateral relationship in the world" is with China, going to the extent of demoting human rights to put the accent on security, financial, trade and environmental issues with Beijing.
KATU: Afghanistan opens its first national park 2009-06-24
Band-e-Amir is seen in this undated photo in Bamiyan province of Afghanistan. (AP Photo) By JASON STRAZIUSO Associated Press Writer BAND-E-AMIR, Afghanistan (AP) — The US ambassador to Afghanistan pedaled a green swan-shaped boat across the deep blue ...
Business Gazette: Germantown soldier killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan 2009-06-24
by Sebastian Montes and Melissa A. Chadwick | Staff Writers Rosa Isabel Castillo was setting the Sunday breakfast table when two Army representatives pulled up to her Gaithersburg home. "They came to the house, so elegant, so somber.
Michigan Radio: Changing Focus in Afghanistan 2009-06-24
Army Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his nomination in Washington DC The new US commander in Afghanistan says US and NATO troops must make protecting Afghan civilians their first priority. Gen.
Wikinews: Former detainees allege abuse at US Bagram base in Afghanistan 2009-06-24
The BBC claims that they have uncovered allegations of abuse and neglect at the detention facility at Bagram Air Base, a United States base in Afghanistan. According to the BBC, they interviewed 27 men over a period of two months.
SANA: BBC report alleges abuse of detainees in Afghanistan 2009-06-24
LONDON (SANA): Former detainees at the Bagram military base in Afghanistan have reported being beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with dogs by US forces, according to a report by the BBC published Wednesday. The BBC said it interviewed 27 former ...
U.TV: Battle of Barbaji: A fight for hearts and minds in Afghanist ... 2009-06-24
The plan was simple: with overwhelming force, the British soldiers would arrive in Babaji – one of the most dangerous insurgent strongholds in southern Afghanistan - and scare away the local Taliban without a fight, leaving a permanent military ...
Worldfocus: In Afghanistan's small towns, Canada rebuilds 2009-06-24
Anup Kaphle is embedded with British and Canadian forces in Afghanistan. He is reporting for Atlantic magazine, and is chronicling his experience on the “Dispatches from Afghanistan” blog. He describes local reconstruction efforts.
Carmi Times: Southern Illinois GI killed in Afghanistan to be buried Saturday 2009-06-24
A southern Illinois soldier killed last week in Afghanistan will be buried Saturday at Carlyle. A funeral service for Illinois National Guard Staff Sgt. Joshua Melton will be held at 10 am Saturday at Church of St. Boniface, 306 Munster, Germantown ...
NEWS JUNKIE POST: New Revelations of Widespread Torture of Prisoners in Afghanistan 2009-06-24
Posted by Jason Leopold on Jun 24th, 2009 and filed under Headlines. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry from your site By Jason Leopold, NEWS JUNKIE POST Former detainee ...
Daily Camera: Broomfield firefighter, paramedic headed to Afghanistan 2009-06-24
By Sally Bridges (Contact) STAR FOR HIS SERVICE: North Metro Fire Rescue firefighter and paramedic Mike Anderson places a Single Blue Star Banner on the Station 64 on Wednesday. The banner, which is actually a sticker, signifies North Metro has ...
Hartford Courant: Soulful Films At Atheneum 2009-06-24
HARTFORD — "The Illuminated Soul" is the theme of this year's summer film series at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. The series features character-driven dramas and comedies, and one documentary, from Jordan, Sweden, Canada, Afghanist ...