Monday, December 13, 2010
LISTEN UP: HERE ARE FOUR NEWS STORIES FROM IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN NOT REPORTED BY U.S. MEDIA
LISTEN UP: Here are four news stories about Iraq and Afghanistan you will NEVER see in the mainstream media in the United States.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Iran conducts military exercise near Iraq border
Thousands quit Afghan police force
With New Violence, More Christians Are Fleeing Iraq
As U.S. assesses Afghan war, Karzai a question mark
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Source: http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/
KARZAI TELLS GEN. PETRAEUS HE WOULD RATHER HAVE TALIBAN THAN U.S. TROOPS RULE AFGHANISTAN
In a story posted on the VetVoice website, Hamid Karzai, president of Afghanistan, has told Gen. David Petraeus he would rather have the Taliban in control of Afghanistan than U.S. troops.
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Karzai: U.S. and "enemy", would rather have Taliban.
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NEWS UPDATE: SEVEN US SOLDIERS KILLED IN AFGHAN SUICIDE ATTACK FOUR MORE WOUNDED
Seven US Soldiers Killed in Kandahar Suicide Attack
Suicide Mini-Van Struck Kandahar Base
by Jason Ditz, December 12, 2010
At least seven US soldiers have been killed and four others wounded, according to Afghan army commander General Abdul Hameed, when a suicide bomber attacked a military base in Kandahar Province.
Accoridng to reports the attacker was in a mini-van filled with explosives and denonated alongside the base. The explosion collapsed a wall, burying the soldiers beneath. NATO had yet to confirm the nationalities but the Afghan forces say all seven were Americans.
The deaths add further to the record 2010 death toll in Afghanistan, which is nearing 700 NATO soldiers killed this year. The vast majority of these deaths have been US soldiers.
The attack came the Zhari District, which NATO has occupied seven times since the 2001 invasion.
Locals have been complaining about the most recent occupation, by US forces, saying that the troops are bulldozing civilian homes en masse.
WASHINGTON POST IS REPORTING MONDAY ALL SIX TROOPS KILLED IN AFGHAN SUICIDE BOMBING WERE U.S. TROOPS
The Huffington Post on Monday is reporting the Washington Post is saying all six troops killed in the suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan were U.S. troops.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/12/afghanistan-suicide-bomber_n_795588.html
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AGHANS GO TO STREETS TO PROTEST NUMBER OF CIVILIANS KILLED BY U.S. TROOPS
Scores of Afghans took to the streets on Sunday to protest the number of Afghan civilians who have been killed by U.S. troops.
READ MORE HERE:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/155038.html
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