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Narko-produktion og -handel: Opium og heroin

Helmand Heroin Menace Grows (February 8, 2010) "Helmand, the Afghan province that alone produces more than half of the world's opium poppy, now presents another menace. As the price of the raw opium from the poppy plant has declined precipitously, local businessmen have branched out by refining it into heroin."
Russia files claim on NATO attitude to drug trafficking in Afghanistan (January 27, 2010) "It was noted in UN data heroine at the amount of USD 2.8 mln in total have been exported from the country, which is 1/4 of the GDP of the country."
UN Report: Afghan Heroin Killed 90,000 in 2009 (January 18, 2010) "since the US sent troops to Afghanistan in 2001, the country has become the world leader in opium production and has outrun Morocco in terms of hashish production."
Iran says US, UK, Canada assist Afghan drug trade (January 14, 2010) "According to our indisputable information, the presence of the United States, Britain and Canada has not reduced the dug trade and the three countries have had major roles in the distribution of drugs, (...) the war-torn country is the producer of 90 percent of the world's opium"
The Mafia Is Running the Giant World Casino (January 6, 2010) "A breathtakingly powerful Mafia is running away with the world as we knew it. We now have indiscriminate killings, torture and deprivation of civil rights. We have unbound aggression on countries that present an obstacle to U.S. global power. We have colossal negligence of the environment, we have an impending economic disaster"
Obama and Afghanistan: America's Drug-Corrupted War (January 1, 2010) "In Afghanistan in 2001 as in 1980, and as in Laos in 1959, the U.S. intervention has since been a bonanza for the international drug syndicates. With the increase of chaos in the countryside, and number of aircraft flying in and out of the country, opium production more than doubled, from 3276 metric tonnes in 2000 (and 185 in 2001, the year of a Taliban ban on opium) to 8,200 metric tonnes in 2007. (...) "Estimates are that $500 billion to $1 trillion of international criminal proceeds are moved internationally and deposited into bank accounts annually. It is estimated half of that money comes to the United States""
U.S. backed-drug gangs fight Taliban's traffickers in endless turf battle (November 17, 2009)
Stealing Money, Selling Heroin and Raping Boys -- The Very Dark Side of the Afghan Occupation (November 13, 2009)
Daisy Cutters and Poppy Wearers - Obama's War Against Afghanistan and the History of Opium (November 13, 2009) Meget grundig baggrundsartikel, inkl historisk udvikling af Taliban
Romancing the Afghan Dragon (November 11, 2009) "Properly irrigated, the plains of southern Afghanistan made for the perfect strategic location for Britain's huge opium business with the Far East, specifically China."
UN Report Misleading on Afghanistan's Drug Problem (November 6, 2009) "75% is captured by government officials, the police, local and regional power brokers and traffickers - in short, many of the groups now supported (or tolerated) by the United States and NATO are important actors in the drug trade."
Soon After His Brother is Revealed to be a CIA Drug Runner, Look Who is Handed a Second Term (November 1, 2009)
NY Times: Afghan Opium Kingpin On CIA Payroll (October 28, 2009) "Before the invasion, the Taliban collaborated closely with the U.N. to reduce opium production down to just 185 tonnes, a figure at least 2000% below current levels. The notion that the "Taliban benefits from the drug trade" and that the U.S. is trying to stop it, as both Bush and Obama claimed, is the complete opposite of what is actually happening."
Britain is protecting the biggest heroin crop of all time (July 21, 2009) Former UK ambassador to Afghanistan: "In six years, the occupation (...) has increased Afghan GDP by 66 per cent and constitutes 40 per cent of the entire economy. (..) The achievement is the highest harvests of opium the world has ever seen. The Taliban had reduced the opium crop to precisely nil."
Afghan Opium Production Doubles (December 11, 2003)

Afghanistan-Pakistan (AfPak) krigen

The Last Station: Surging Into the Savage Past in Afghanistan (February 13, 2010) "the Western media has fully bought into the hackneyed, transparently false narrative of "the largest military operation of its kind since the American-backed war began eight years ago," with a plucky band of Marines and their faithful Afghan allies facing down "hundreds" of hardened fighters in the "largest Taliban sanctuary inside Afghanistan.""
The US Military: A Mindset of Barbarism (February 8, 2010) "On December 27, in the eastern Kunar region of Afghanistan, ten Afghans, eight of whom were schoolchildren, were dragged from their beds and shot by US forces during a nighttime raid. Afghan government investigators said the eight students were aged from 11 to 17 years. This incident is but one example of countless atrocities US military personnel have carried out in the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan."
US to launch Fallujah-style attack in Afghanistan (February 6, 2010) "As US and British troops prepare to attack the town of Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, military commanders and the media are openly comparing the operation to the November 2004 siege of Fallujah, one of the bloodiest war crimes of the Iraq war."
What's at stake in the Canadian intervention in Afghanistan? (February 6, 2010) "In his testimony on prisoners transferred to Afghan security forces, Colvin said, "Many were just local people - farmers, truck drivers, tailors, peasants; random human beings in the wrong place at the wrong time; young men in their fields and villages who were completely innocent but were nevertheless rounded up.""
Obama's Secret Prisons (January 29, 2010) "The truth of counterinsurgency (though you'll seldom see it said) is that, as a strategy, it has no chance unless its underpinning is a robust program of (...) targeted assassinations, night raids, secret detention centers, disappearances, and other acts of counterterror (which is really terror in uniform or at least under state orders)"
All-party conspiracy of silence on German army role in Afghanistan (January 23, 2010) "The article shows Steinmeier and Merkel agree that the military deployment in Afghanistan should continue, even though the September 4 massacre in Kunduz initiated by German army officers has revealed the criminal character of the war. According to recent opinion polls, over 70 percent of the German population is opposed to the presence of German troops in Afghanistan."
Afghanistan: NATO Intensifies Its First Asian War (January 15, 2010) "Over 40 percent of the bodybags that leave Afghanistan do not go to the U.S. They go to other countries"
VIDEO: Brzezinski on the Afghan war Pt1 (January 12, 2009) 16:46 "Zbigniew Brzezinski on Afghanistan and the American strategy for Eurasia and the world"
Japan ends refueling mission for US forces (January 15, 2010) "Japan's Democratic party-led government in an unprecedented decision has ended its nearly a decade-long refueling mission of the US-led forces in Afghanistan."
The Shadow War - Making Sense of the New CIA Battlefield in Afghanistan (January 10, 2010) "Think of it as a battlefield filled with muscled-up, militarized intelligence operatives, hired-gun contractors doing military duty, and privatized "native" guard forces. Add in robot assassins in the air 24/7 and kick-down-the-door-style night-time "intelligence" raids, "surges" you didn't know were happening, strings of military bases you had no idea were out there, and secretive international collaborations you were unaware the U.S. was involved in. (...) This is pure "lord of the flies" stuff -- beyond oversight, beyond any law, including the laws of war."
Afghan War Costs 101 (December 17, 2009) "$57,077.60. That's what we're paying per minute. Keep that in mind -- just for a minute or so."
Russia, NATO and Afghanistan: High Stakes Great Game (December 17, 2009) "if its Afghan gamble implodes, not only will it have to take Russia seriously, but so will Europe, giving the Russian Atlantists the opportunity to integrate with Europe without the US breathing down their necks. I"
Afghanistan Massacre on Eve of Obama's Surge (December 13, 2009) "the massacre of as many as 15 civilians in a US raid has heightened fears that the Obama administration's so-called surge will spell a dramatic rise in bloodletting. (...) These troops are being sent in to suppress not only the armed resistance but the increasingly evident mass opposition to the eight-year-old US occupation."
Malalai Joya: "Afghans are fed up with the U.S. occupation and the corrupt, Mafia-state of Hamid Karzai" (December 12, 2009) "The people of Afghanistan are fed up with the occupation of their country and with the corrupt, Mafia-state of Hamid Karzai and the warlords and drug lords backed by NATO.... It is clear now that the real motive of the U.S. and its allies, hidden behind the so-called "war on terror," was to convert Afghanistan into a military base in Central Asia and the capital of the world's opium drug trade"
Little Known Facts About Afghanistan and Bin Laden (December 5, 2009) "The government apparently planned the Afghanistan war before 9/11 (...) And the government apparently could have killed Bin Laden in 2001 and AGAIN in 2007 (...) the goal has always been to create "regime change" and instability in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Lebanon and other countries."
Af-Pak War Racket: The Obama Illusion Comes Crashing Down (December 5, 2009) "Now that the much despised George W. Bush is out of the way and a more popular figurehead is doing PR for Dick Cheney's right-hand military leader Gen. Stanley McChrystal, (...) with long time Bush family confidant Robert Gates still running the Defense Department, the masters of war have never had it so good. Barack Obama, the anti-war candidate, has proven to be a perfect decoy for the military industrial complex."
This is Obama's plan for Afghanistan, a carbon-copy of George Bush's. - The Audacity of Ethnic Cleansing (December 4, 2009) "The U.S. is just as committed now as it was at the war's inception to establish a beachhead in Central Asia to oversee the growth of China, to execute disruptive/covert operations against Russia, to control vital pipeline routes from the Caspian Basin, and to maintain a heavy military presence in the most critical geopolitical area in the world today. "
Examining Obama's Rationale for Escalating the War in Afghanistan (December 4, 2009) "the reason we went into Afghanistan was to get bin Laden. This is belied by the fact that there were plans to overthrow the Taliban that predated 9/11. The consideration then had mostly to do with U.S. interests in seeing oil and gas pipelines constructed in transit through the country."
Afghanistan, Neighbors React to the Obama Plan (December 3, 2009) "The last time a foreign military staged a 'surge,' i.e. the Soviets in the early 1980s, it produced so much violence that 3 million Afghans were forced to flee to northern Pakistan."
Ron Paul: Obama Is Preparing for Perpetual War (December 3, 2009) "I think Obama is actually preparing us for perpetual war. He's been warning in that speech and elsewhere that we will be going into Pakistan."
Trigger-happy security complicates convoys (December 2, 2009) ""These guys are like gun-toting mercenaries with probably not a whole lot of training. ... They're just light on the trigger finger." (...) "Most of them are addicted to heroin," (...) Until recently, the identities of the companies for whom the security guards worked remained shrouded in mystery,"
U.S. Adding Contractors in Afghanistan at Fast Pace (December 2, 2009) "Contractors already outnumber U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and their numbers have been rising all year(...) The Defense Department's latest census shows that the number of contractors increased about 40% between the end of June and the end of September, for a total of 104,101"
How Many Private Contractors Are There In Afghanistan? Military Gives Us A Number (December 2, 2009) "Kloppel told TPM yesterday that there are roughly 9,000 private security contractors, though the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan says there are at least 14,000. That would not include private security for other countries or contractors"
As Obama Sends More Troops, Giant Shadow Army Of Contractors Set To Grow In Afghanistan (December 1, 2009) "last December, contractors made up 69% of the DOD workforce, "the highest recorded percentage ... in any conflict in the history of the United States.""
Obama's extra-judicial killers (November 18, 2009) "Many national security experts interviewed for this story agree that it has become so hard for the U.S. to detain people that in many instances, the U.S. government is killing them instead."
War and Remembrance: About Patria, Pageants and Poppies (November 17, 2009) "from the former Yugoslavia to Somalia the Anglo-Saxon Empire is busy turning the planet into a graveyard, polluting the air, water and earth as it goes."
Escalation of Afghanistan War: Canada Faces a Fateful Decision (November 17, 2009) "the stakes in the war remain the same for the U.S. and its allies - securing Afghanistan as a reliable transit route for Central Asian oil and gas, and establishing a permanent and geographically proximate threat to competing regional powers, including Russia, China and Iran."
US, British media transform tragedies into war propaganda (November 13, 2009)
Russia-India-China: The Bush Curse (November 11, 2009) "As Lavrov rightly points out, it is the regional countries China, Russia, India and Iran that are the ones left to pick up the pieces in AfPak after the US finally packs its many bags."
Afghan Carpetbaggers Hit Pots of Gold in Washington (November 9, 2009) Korruption for millioner af dollars
If You Say the Taliban = 9/11 Often Enough, Maybe Someone Will Believe It? (November 6, 2009)
Claim: CIA Sent Prisoners Abroad to Be Boiled Alive and 'Raped with Broken Bottles' (November 6, 2009) "There are designs of this pipeline, and if you look at the deployment of US forces in Afghanistan, as against other NATO country forces in Afghanistan, you'll see that undoubtedly the US forces are positioned to guard the pipeline route. It's what it's about. It's about money, it's about oil, it's not about democracy."
In Afghanistan, the Pentagon Digs in - The Pentagon's building boom in Afghanistan indicates a long war ahead. (November 5, 2009) Gennemgang af Pentagons ekstreme bygge-aktivitet i Afghanistan. "In fiscal year 2009, for example, the civilian US Agency for International Development awarded $20 million in contracts for work in Afghanistan, while the US Army alone awarded $2.2 billion "
Why it's impossible to support the war in Afghanistan (October 31, 2009) "After all these years many Americans have lost sight of the alleged purpose of our invasion - to hunt for Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda."
The geopolitics behind the phoney US war in Afghanistan (October 21, 2009) "The US military is in Afghanistan for two reasons. First to restore and control the world's largest supply of opium for the world heroin markets and to use the drugs as a geopolitical weapon against opponents, especially Russia."
Ridding the World of the "Sickness of Pacifism" (September 30, 2009)
Escalation of the Afghan War? US-NATO Target Russia, China and Iran (September 10, 2009)
Afghan War: NATO Builds History's First Global Army : Never before have soldiers from so many states served in the same war theater (August 9, 2009)
VIDEO: "Operation in Afghanistan is rooted in Israel" (July 20, 2009) "The real reason why the U.S. continues its presence in Afghanistan is Iran the country which is an annoyance for Israel, said Karen Kwiatkowski, a writer and former U.S. Air Force officer."

Afghanistan

Under Obama in Afghanistan, US Conducts Night Raids, Runs Hidden Detention Centers (January 28, 2010) "The interrogators blindfolded him, taped his mouth shut, and chained him to the ceiling, he alleges. Occasionally they unleashed a dog, which repeatedly bit him. At one point, they removed the blindfold and forced him to kneel on a long wooden bar. "They tied my hands to a pulley [above] and pushed me back and forth as the bar rolled across my shins. I screamed and screamed." They then pushed him to the ground and forced him to swallow 12 bottles worth of water."
Women Are Setting Themselves On Fire In Afghanistan (January 19, 2010) "According to a new report, "self-immolation is being used by increasing numbers of Afghan women to escape their dire circumstances." (...) in 2008 more than 80 women attempted suicide by setting themselves on fire, many of them in the early 20s."
Afghans shot down while protesting US occupation (January 14, 2010) "At least eight protesters were killed and 13 wounded in the southern Afghanistan town of Garmsir Wednesday, when security forces fired on a demonstration of several thousand people protesting against the US military."
Personifying Friendship and Terror (January 5, 2009) "The man on the left is Jalaluddin Haqqani. He was aided back in the 80s by the CIA in his battles with the Soviets in Afghanistan. He even helped form the post-war government back then. He visited the Reagan White House, and was claimed to be "goodness personified" by Charlie Wilson (...) He is also the prime suspect in the planning of a very successful suicide bombing around the new year that took out seven CIA employees in Afghanistan."
Afghan Children Handcuffed and Killed By U.S. Soldiers (January 4, 2010) "First the foreign troops entered the guest room and shot two of them. Then they entered another room and handcuffed the seven students. Then they killed them."
Afghanistan: Shooting Handcuffed Children (JAnuary 3, 2010) "The occupied government of Afghanistan and the United Nations have both concluded that U.S.-led troops recently dragged eight sleeping children out of their beds, handcuffed some of them, and shot them all dead."
Why 30? Airstrikes in Afghanistan keep killing exactly 30 people (December 22, 2009) ""Back in 2007," Carlstrom says, "there were reports about US policy that said that if more than 30 civilians are to be killed in a military operation, sort of expected collateral damage, that the Pentagon would have to sign off on the operation.""
Stunning Statistics About the War Every American Should Know by Jeremy Scahill (December 19, 2009) "the current total US force in Afghanistan is approximately 189,000 personnel (68,000 US troops and 121,000 contractors). (...) A year from now, we will likely see more than 220,000 US-funded personnel on the ground in Afghanistan."
Kunduz: Is the German army empowered to carry out targeted killings? (December 17, 2009) "It has now been established that German army colonel Georg Klein gave the order for the strike with the deliberate intention of killing the large number of people in the vicinity of two hijacked tankers bogged down in a sandbank. The government was aware of this fact from the outset,"
Major challenge for Pentagon is getting fuel to U.S. troops in Afghanistan (December 15, 2009) "about 300,000 gallons of jet fuel are delivered to Afghanistan each day, in addition to diesel, motor and aircraft gasoline. A typical Marine corps combat brigade requires almost 500,000 gallons of fuel per day"
US prepares Fallujah-style offensive in Afghanistan (December 5, 2009) "The attack on the largely abandoned city of Now Zad comes in preparation for an assault on a larger and more populous city, Marja (...) The commander of the operation in Now Zad, Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, said the model for the coming attack on Marja will be the US destruction of the Iraqi city of Fallujah, in 2004, in which thousands of civilians were killed. (...) the attack in Helmand is a precursor to the sort of operations that will take place in the coming years' fighting in Afghanistan."
Little Known Facts About Afghanistan and Bin Laden (December 5, 2009) "US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld established an official military objective of not only removing the Saddam Hussein regime by force but overturning the regime in Iran, as well as in Syria and four other countries in the Middle East"
Examining Obama's Rationale for Escalating the War in Afghanistan (December 4, 2009) "the reason we went into Afghanistan was to get bin Laden. This is belied by the fact that there were plans to overthrow the Taliban that predated 9/11. The consideration then had mostly to do with U.S. interests in seeing oil and gas pipelines constructed in transit through the country."
'There hasn't been two seconds of intelligent discussion about living standards in Afghanistan' (December 3, 2009) "The poverty in Afghanistan is almost beyond imagining. Thirty Afghans die from TB every day; life expectancy is 43 years; per capita income is $426; only 13% have access to sanitary drinking water;"
Epicenter of Mendacity: Obama's Illegal War Against Afghanistan (December 3, 2009) "the war in Afghanistan which President Barack Obama just ramped up by 50% this year (...) is being fought on the shaky legal basis of a hastily passed Authorization (...) voted by Congress back in October 2001, more than three years before Obama was even elected to the Senate."
Meet the Commanded-in-Chief (December 3, 2009) "nd as for those 30,000 troops, most expected to arrive in the Afghan combat zone within the next six months, the numbers are even more impressive when you realize that, as late as the summer of 2008, the US only had about 28,000 troops in Afghanistan."
President's speech struck a new milestone for Washingtonian denial (December 3, 2009) "The Afghans came to the U.S. in the late 40's and early 50's asking for help. They needed some basic infrastructure development. They needed a cement factory, paved roads. They needed a hospital and some city buses."
Craig Murray - Obama Is Wrong On Both Counts (December 2, 2009) Former UK ambassador to Afghanistan: "The CIA is up to its usual tricks again supporting the drug running of key warlords loyal to them. They are also setting up death squads on the Central American model, in cooperation with Blackwater. (...) the military-industrial complex and the security industry (...) have captured Obama."
President Obama's Secret: Only 100 al Qaeda Now in Afghanistan (December 2, 2009) "With New Surge, One Thousand U.S. Soldiers and $300 Million for Every One al Qaeda Fighter (..) A senior U.S. intelligence official told ABCNews.com the approximate estimate of 100 al Qaeda members left in Afghanistan reflects the conclusion of American intelligence agencies and the Defense Department."
Robert Scheer: Here We Go Again (December 2, 2009) "President Barack Obama's own top national security adviser has stated that there are fewer than 100 al-Qaida members in Afghanistan and that they are not capable of launching attacks. What superheroes they must be, then, to require 100,000 U.S. troops to contain them."
Former Member of Afghan Parliament: Obama, We Don't Want a Troop Surge in Our Country (December 1, 2009)
Torture continues at US prisons in Afghanistan (December 1, 2009) "...the US military continues to carry on torture and illegal detention in Afghanistan at a dungeon known to inmates as "the black prison.""
Obama issues order for escalation in Afghanistan (December 1, 2009) "on Sunday, President Barack Obama formally issued the order to send at least 30,000 additional US troops to Afghanistan"
Tajik Grip on Afghan Army Signals New Ethnic War (November 30, 2009) "Contrary to the official portrayal of the Afghan National Army (ANA) as ethnically balanced, (...) the Tajik minority now accounts for far more of its troops than the Pashtuns, the country's largest ethnic group."
Karzai Said What? (November 30, 2009) "Afghanistan's embattled president Hamid Karzai dropped a major bombshell. "Within the next two years," he declared, his administration intends to phase out "operations by all private national and international security firms""
Obama Never Considered Diplomacy in Afghanistan (November 28, 2009) "Even as polls show a majority of Americans want U.S. forces out of Afghanistan and that Americans do not believe the war is worth fighting, President Obama---a former editor at the CIA front Business International Corporation in 1983-84---embraces a position in line with the long-held CIA view the U.S. must control the Middle East's energy resources."
Mullah Omar Rejects Talks with US, Demands Western Departure (November 27, 2009) "The USG Open Source Center translates the statement of Mullah Omar, leader of the "Old Taliban" in Afghanistan, on the occasion of the Muslim Feast of Sacrifice (Eid al-Adha)."
Obama Vows to Finish Job; Heroin Trade Thrives; Afghanistan, Inc.? (November 25, 2009) "the drug trade in Afghanistan is now worth $4 billion annually. (...) during the past seven years, drug output in Afghanistan has grown 40 times over, now standing at 7,700 tons a year."
Afghan Army Turnover Rate Threatens U.S. War Plans (November 25, 2009) "One in every four combat soldiers quit the Afghan National Army (ANA) during the year"
Canada's Guantanamo (November 24, 2009)
Obama plans to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan (November 23, 2009) Efter 9 års krig: "We have to start showing progress within six months on the political side or military side or that's it," the U.S. defense official said."
Britain: Brown and Miliband seek in vain to regain support for Afghan war (November 23, 2009) "Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Foreign Secretary David Miliband have tried desperately to regain support for a war which three-quarters of the British population now oppose."
Afghanistan Contractors Outnumber Troops - Despite Surge in U.S. Deployments, More Civilians Are Posted in War Zone (November 22, 2009)
An Inside Look at Nepotism and Corruption in Karzai's Afghanistan (November 18, 2009)
Washington's crisis over Afghanistan deepens (November 17, 2009)
US unveils extended Bagram prison (November 15, 2009) "Human-rights lawyers say that, while the environment for the prisoners may be changing, their legal situation is not ... not having been charged. Nor has any civilian lawyer ever been allowed inside."
High Costs Weigh on Troop Debate for Afghan War (November 14, 2009) "The estimated $1 million a year it costs per soldier is higher than the $390,000 congressional researchers estimated in 2006."
How the U.S. Funds the Taliban (November 13, 2009) "The U.S. government is funding the very forces its troops are fighting -- funds that add up to a huge amount of money for the Taliban."
German defence minister defends Kunduz massacre (November 12, 2009)
Afghanistan Is Worse Off Than Ever, Thanks to the Sham Army We're Propping Up (November 11, 2009)
Taliban Still Working for the CIA? (November 8, 2009) "As President Obama ponders whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, there is mounting evidence the Taliban is supported by the CIA."
Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A. (November 6, 2009)
New Ebola-like Virus Threatens U.S. Troops In Afghanistan (November 7, 2009)
U.S. Seeks to Limit Warlords in Karzai Cabinet (November 7, 2009)
Afghan election farce ends, escalation to begin (November 3, 2009) "An election watchdog panel formed by the United Nations found that one million ballots supposedly cast for Karzai - fully one third of his vote - were fraudulent."
U.S., NATO Forces Rely on Warlords for Security (October 28, 2009)
September 9, 2001: The shot that was not heard round the world (September 9, 2009) "On that day, Afghanistan lost a leader of global stature - a man who truly was irreplaceable."
Barracks and Burger King: U.S. Builds a Supersized Base in Afghanistan (August 6, 2009)

Pakistan

Destabilizing Pakistan (February 8, 2010) "In 2009, on the orders of President Obama, the U.S. unloaded more missiles and bombs on Pakistan than President Bush did in the years of his secret drone war, and the strikes have been accelerating (...) "Are you with us or against us?" the newspaper quoted a senior Pakistani military officer demanding of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates"
America's Third War Revealed (February 4, 2010) "The Pakistani public has been increasingly upset about US military and para-military (Blackwater/ Xe) actions in their country. On Tuesday, several US drone strikes killed a total of 29 persons."
China to Establish Military Bases Overseas (February 3, 2010) "Defence analysts say China is concerned over the massive arms build up by India with the help of the United States. (...) China which has strategic military and economic partnership with Pakistan has always come to Pakistan's aid "
What Robert Gates Didn't Say - And US Media Hides - About Blackwater In Pakistan (January 23, 2010) "This is about Pakistan wanting to keep an independent foreign policy versus Pakistan blindly serving US policy on Afghanistan, India and China."
U.S. Army to take control of Pakistan Nukes (January 17, 2010) "In face of a growing anti-Americanism among the Pakistan military, the US army moves to train a 'crack unit' to thwart possible attacks on the country's nuclear facilities."
AfPak war claimed over 12,500 lives in Pakistan during 2009 (January 14, 2010) "In 2009, the low-level civil war in Pakistan cost the lives of at least 12,632 people and wounded another 12,815, as compared to an estimated 6,500 deaths in Afghanistan."
Obama has announced the partition of Pakistan (December 30, 2009) "President Obama's West point speech of December 2 is a thinly veiled declaration of war against Pakistan in the sense that it announces the intent of the US to promote the dismemberment, the partition of Pakistan along ethnic lines"
Obama Declares War on Pakistan (December 15, 2009) "As he made clear in his West Point speech, President Obama is poised to use the escalation of the Afghan War as an excuse to further escalate the Pakistan War as well."
OSC: Pakistani Editorials on Obama AfPak Policy (December 5, 2009) "The USG Open Source Center rounds up Pakistani Urdu editorials concerning President Barack Obama's new Afghanistan policy."
Our timeline, and the Taliban's (December 4, 2009) "But irrespective of whether the Pakistani government gives its consent to the US opening a new front in its clandestine war, it appears that preparations are being made to expand the campaign of drone attacks."
Separatists, Islamists and Islamabad Struggle for Control of Pakistani Balochistan (December 3, 2009) "Reports that the U.S. is seeking Pakistan's approval for expanding its controversial drone campaign against targets in Balochistan (...) Balochistan occupies approximately 42 percent of Pakistan's total landmass (...) Balochistan lies along the route of the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline"
India to give dates next week for trilateral talks on IPI (December 2, 2009) "In a bid to revive the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project, India will next week specify dates for restarting dialogue between the three nations, Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Seifollah Jashnsaz said"
Informed Comment: Zardari Turns Nuclear Arsenal over to PM Gilani (November 29, 2009) "Zardari faces several outstanding corruption cases, now that an amnesty passed by Musharraf in 2007 has expired, but he continues to enjoy immunity as long as he remains president."
The Secret US War in Pakistan (November 23, 2009) "in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater (...) plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets (...) Blackwater operatives also assist in gathering intelligence and help direct a secret US military drone bombing campaign that runs parallel to the well-documented CIA predator strikes"
Civil war spreads across north west Pakistan (November 23, 2009)
US prepares contingency plans to seize Pakistani nuclear triggers (November 20, 2009) "...a special unit drawn from several agencies is on four hours' notice to deploy to Pakistan from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland." ... inkl baggrund om USAs forhold til Pakistan, bl.a. støtte til millitærdiktaturet
Taliban Blame 'Blackwater' for Pakistan Bombings (November 17, 2009)
What is Israel's Role in the Destabilization of Pakistan? (November 12, 2009)
U.S. Military Agenda: Destabilizing Pakistan's Nuclear Arsenal? (November 9, 2009)
C.I.A.'s 'Blackwater' unit anchored in Peshawar (November 4, 2009) "They are pushing journalists to publish fictional news stories of Taliban, as the Psychological Operations group of US Army has planned. "Blackwater" are paying as high as $ 1000 per published news story to journalists. "
Pakistanis challenge Clinton over drone attacks, US bullying (November 2, 2009)
Death squads, disappearances and torture in Pakistan (September 16, 2009)
Codename Operation Enduring Turmoil Exposed! Zionist Neocon Plans for Pakistan and rest of the World (December 22, 2008) "Codename: Operation Enduring Turmoil - Project for the New American Century (PNAC) and Pakistan"
ILLUSTRATION: Project for the New American Century: Overall PNAC plan

Europæiske perspektiver

What Middle East Policy to Expect from the New German Government? (November 5, 2009)
The meaning of Europe's "step change" in Afghanistan (November 3, 2009)
A think tank war: Why old Europe says no (March 7, 2003)

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