Tag Archives: KPF
Pentagon looks to aid foreign troops that violate human rights
The Pentagon is increasingly training and equipping local security services to combat militants in their countries. A 16-year-old law that bars American aid to foreign security forces that violate human rights is drawing unusual fire from some top military commanders who say it undermines their ability to train the troops to fight militants. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/us/politics/military-says-law-barring-us-aid-to-rights-violators-hurts-training-mission.html?ref=us The […]
Afghans shot protesting deaths at US base
Soon after family members found what they believe are the bodies of the last three people still missing out of 17 Afghan men detained by an American Special Forces team in Wardak Province, another tragedy found them: they said one person was killed and another was critically wounded on Tuesday when Afghan Army troops opened […]
US special forces assett sought for torture killing
Family members on Tuesday found the body of a man missing since last November near the American Special Forces base in Afghanistan which he was last seen being taken. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/world/asia/torture-victims-body-is-found-near-us-base-afghans-say.html?ref=world After his disappearance, the man, Sayid Mohammad, was seen in a video undergoing torture at the hands of an Afghan-American named Zakaria Kandahari, who was […]
Sibel Edmonds, Gladio B, and the birth of Al Qaeda
“You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game” explained Gladio operative Vincenzo Vinciguerra during his trial in 1984. “The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people… to turn to the State to ask for greater security.” http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/whistleblower-al-qaeda-chief-u-s-asset/ While the reality […]
NWO, “War on Terror suits us very well”
A top Pentagon official said Thursday that the evolving war against Al Qaeda was likely to continue “at least 10 to 20 years” and urged Congress not to modify the statute that provides its legal basis.“As of right now, it suits us very well,” The assistant secretary of defense for special operations, said, referring to […]
“Nation Building” another police state in Afghanistan
The authorities in Afghanistan are seeking the arrest on murder and torture charges of a man they say is an American and part of a Special Forces unit operating in Wardak Province. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/world/asia/afghans-say-an-american-tortured-civilians.html?ref=world Zakaria Kandahari, and much of his unit are American. There is testimony and documents implicating Mr. Kandahari and his unit in the […]
US Special OPs continue to murder Afghans
A special operations raid meant to disrupt a Taliban arms operation in southern Afghanistan ended in the death of a man with family ties to the Afghan president’s inner circle. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/11/world/asia/death-of-man-with-ties-to-karzai-adds-to-tensions-with-military.html?ref=world The conflict comes at a time of growing tensions over American Special Operations forces in the country, after President Hamid Karzai recently banned their […]
US and Afghan militant carousel
The decision by the US to hand over of the Bagram Prison was said to have been eased in part by “private assurances” from Afghan officials. “We are on the same page,” Kerry said. “I don’t think there is any disagreement between us,” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/world/asia/us-cedes-control-almost-on-afghan-prisoners.html?pagewanted=1&ref=world Among those released in recent years by Afghan officials or Afghan […]
Afghans protest special forces presence
300 demonstrators from Wardak Province staged a noisy but peaceful demonstration calling for President Hamid Karzai’s order that the Americans remove all Special Operations troops from the province, after complaints about night raids in which victims disappeared to be obeyed. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/world/asia/objections-to-us-troops-intensify-in-afghanistan.html?ref=world&_r=0 Some were apparently relatives of people who disappeared in raids by Afghans who work […]
Karzai accuses US of colluding with Taliban
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday accused the Taliban and the U.S. of working in concert to convince Afghans that violence will worsen if most foreign troops leave. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/03/10/world/asia/ap-as-afghanistan.html?hp Karzai said two suicide bombings that killed 19 people on Saturday — one outside the Afghan Defense Ministry and the other near a police checkpoint in […]
CIA special forces commit war crimes
It became clear that armed individuals named as US special forces stationed in Afghanistan engage in harassing, annoying, torturing and even murdering innocent people. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21566295 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/secret-war/ A recent example in the province is an incident in which nine people were disappeared in an operation by this suspicious force and in a separate incident a student […]
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