In Afghanistan coltivare cereali è diventato più redditizio
"The untold stories of the five Afghan prisoners released with Sami al-Haj reveal, yet again, the wholesale mockery of justice at Guantánamo." By Andy Worthington
military discussion to give award to psychological injuries as well as physical ones
The Pentagon must focus on current war demands, even if it means straining the U.S. armed forces and devoting less time and money on future threats, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.
<sep/>military to focus more on wars against insurgents and militias such as the ones in Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than focusing time and money on potential conflicts.
And when you don't have an effective overarching policy [including economic development and building civil society] to match ...
With an increasing number of troops being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, the modern military is debating whether to award one of the nation's top military citations to veterans with psychological wounds, not just physical ones.
photos of afghanistan and pakistan
Millions of condoms will be distributed across Afghanistan in 2008 in a new drive to prevent sexually transmitted diseases, reduce maternal mortality and<sep/>
KABUL ? Afghanistan's top civilian counterterrorism official has been suspended in connection with last month's attempted assassination of President Hamid Karzai.
<sep/>from Guantanamo in November 2005. He was brought to Guantanamo in 2002 after being captured in Afghanistan.
Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi, who was released from Guantanamo in November 2005, is the first suicide bomber to be identified as a former Guantanamo detainee. He was one of the three April 26 attackers who blew themselves up in Mosul.
The stumps were still bleeding and covered in pus. He received no further treatment or new dressings. Every time he tried to hoist himself up to sit on his pot by clinging to the wire, a guard would come and hit his hands with a billy-club.
Afghans call them 'night letters' -- notes scattered or pushed under doorways by Taliban militants in the dead of night, threatening villagers' lives if they cooperate with foreign forces and the government.
"It would be neat if the world were divided between freedom-loving democrats without a thought of aggression and murderous totalitarians, heirs of Hitler, bent on imposing their will. Yet this clearly is not the case."
Toronto Star May 10, 2008
[Found by James Mills.] Anti-war video (song set to still images).
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