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Awlaki's 16-year-old son killed by US drone
Glenn Greenwald rounds up a number of reports related to the killing of al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son by an unmanned aerial drone from the US: Two weeks after the U.S. killed American citizen Anwar...
View ArticleSebastian Junger on Marine Afghan corpse urination incident
From the combat filmmaker's Washington Post op-ed: "There is a final context for this act in which we are all responsible, all guilty. A 19-year-old Marine has a very hard time reconciling the fact...
View ArticleAfghan goat giveaway “lacked accountability”
Government investigators suspected that goats may have been used to bribe locals in Afghanistan, but found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing in the goat-giving program. [Muckrock]
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Inside Kabul: landmine survivor aid activist live-blogs from lockdown in...
I've known of James Hathaway and the NGO he co-founded, Clear Path International, for many years. They do great work to help civilian survivors of landmine blasts, people who now have disabling...
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Your tax dollars at work: Afghan Air Force used as "flying drug mules"
Spencer Ackerman at Danger Room on reports (utterly shocking reports!) that Afghanistan’s military uses its US-bought aircraft to transport drugs throughout the country. At a cost of nearly $2 billion...
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After slaying of 16 Afghan civilians, American Army sergeant held for...
An elderly Afghan man sits next to the covered bodies of civilians killed by an American soldier in Kandahar province, March 11, 2012. REUTERS/ Ahmad Nadeem An American soldier is reported to have...
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TOM THE DANCING BUG - Hunger Games 2012
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Pentagon tried to prevent publication of Afghanistan corpse abuse photos
The Los Angeles Times this week published photographs of US soldiers in Afghanistan posing with the mangled bodies of Afghan men believed to be suicide bombers. Government officials were quick to...
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Junkbot insects from a metalworker in Afghanistan
Noah sez, "I thought you would appreciate these giant insects made from repurposed materials (including vehicle parts and bits of a blown up toolbox) by metalworker Ben Marcacci, who is currently at...
View ArticleTaliban uses CC instead of BCC, exposes identity of 400+ contacts
A Taliban spokesperson sent out a press-release and used CC instead of BCC, exposing a long list of Taliban press-contacts, as well as several parties friendly to Taliban communiques. The list, made...
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Mine Kafon; a bamboo tumbleweed that clears landmines
The "Mine Kafon" is Massoud Hassani's artificial tumbleweed, made from lightweight materials like bamboo. It is designed to be blown across uncleared minefields, detonating forgotten mines. It was...
View ArticleProto-warblogger Kevin Sites returns to Afghanistan. Here's the reporting...
Just before the US-led Iraq war began 10 years ago, an internet friend began forwarding emails from a CNN correspondent; emails this war reporter was sending home to friends and family as he tried to...
View ArticleUS spies supplied intelligence on investigative journalist to NZ military
US spy agencies fed "metadata" about a New Zealand journalist's communications to New Zealand's military spies, who were upset that he had reported on human rights abuses against Afghani prisoners of...
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Afghan Taliban critiques journalism ethics of The Daily Beast
The website banner for shahamat-english.com, an English-language website of the Taliban in Afghanistan. A Daily Beast story about Taliban’s ruling council meeting for peace talks in Pakistan “violates...
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White House leaks name of Kabul CIA chief, yet no one goes to prison
Soldiers take photos as U.S. President Barack Obama (C) shakes hands with troops after delivering remarks at Bagram Air Base in Kabul, May 25, 2014. (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)The identity of the top CIA...
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US official backs Marines' request to classify photos of forces urinating on...
A still from a 2011 video posted online that showed Marines urinating on dead bodies. [Reuters]"In an apparent expansion of the government’s secrecy powers, the top official in charge of the...
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UK military slang from Afghanistan
"ALLY Term for a battlefield fashionista - desirables include having a beard, using a different rifle, carrying vast amounts of ammunition, being dusty and having obscene amounts of tattoos and hair....
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Obama apologizes to aid group for bombing hospital. MSF: Thanks, but we want...
Doctors Without Borders received an apology from President Barack Obama today for the deadly U.S. bombing of its hospital in northern Afghanistan. The international medical aid organization released a...
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That hospital we bombed in Afghanistan in 2015? Not a war crime, says Pentagon
U.S. forces bombed a Doctors Without Borders-run hospital in Afghanistan last year, destroying it and killing and injuring scores of medical personnel and patients. But the air strike didn't amount to...
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