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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 […]
Dirty Babylon 