Both the Democratic and Republican U.S. presidential candidates have stated their intention to increase the military presence in Afghanistan should they win the election to become the country’s next Executive. As a recent article in the Washington Post observed, “The well-advertised differences between John McCain and Barack Obama on the war…
While the U.S. presidential candidates both suggest an increase in military forces as the solution for the conflict in Afghanistan, U.S. allies, and even the U.S. Defense Secretary, have agreed that a political solution involving engaging in diplomacy with the Taliban is necessary. Britain’s most senior military commander in Afghanistan,…
Video evidence has emerged supporting local villagers’ claims that a U.S. airstrike last month killed a great number of civilians, contradicting the Pentagon’s claim that it was a legitimate strike resulting in few civilian casualties. The Pentagon has been in full damage control mode since being accused of killing 90…
The Pentagon issued a statement on Tuesday denying that scores of civilians had been killed in an airstrike in the village of Azizabad in Herat province, Afghanistan. The August 22 airstrike killed as many as 90 civilians, according to Afghan officials. President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack, and U.N. officials…
The U.S. has denied that it killed 90 civilians in an airstrike in Herat province in Afghanistan on August 21. President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack and United Nations officials have said that there is “convincing evidence” that the airstrike killed at least 90 civilians, including 60 children. The Pentagon…
United Nations officials have said that there is “convincing evidence” that a U.S. airstrike in the Herat province of Afghanistan on August 21 killed at least 90 civilians, including 60 children. President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack earlier this week. The U.S. dismissed the criticism as “outrageous.” After the statement…
U.S. coalition airstrikes in Afghanistan killed up to 95 civilians on Saturday. The airstrikes occurred in the village of Azizabad in Herat Province. A spokesman for the police chief there said that the dead included 40 children, 19 women, and 26 men. He added that there were no Taliban in…
U.S. intelligence agencies have publicly claimed that intercepted communications show that officers of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s intelligence agency, were responsible for the bombing of India’s embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on July 7. The government of Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of being behind the attack, as well as an earlier…
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai threatened to send forces into Pakistan in response to militant groups using Pakistan as a base to launch attacks into Afghanistan. “If these people in Pakistan give themselves the right to come and fight in Afghanistan,” Karzai said, “as was continuing for the last 30 years,…
Amid a growing number of reports that the US is increasingly unhappy with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, the Independent reports that Zalmay Khalilzad is being considered as a replacement for the job. Zalmay Khalilzad is, like Karzai, an ethnic Pashtun and native of Afghanistan. He is currently the US ambassador…
After “six years” of being “the darling of the United States”, the “luster” of Afghan President Hamid Karzai “may be fading”, reports the New York Times, because of a “growing concern” that he “is not up to addressing Afghanistan’s many troubles.” “According to American and European diplomats, recent tension has…
When asked what the U.S. response would be the news that North Korea has detonated a nuclear device, President George W. Bush said that he would not use force because “diplomacy hasn’t run its course,” thus implying that he believes that the use of force should be a last resort.…
The decision by the United States government to use cluster munitions in the war in Iraq has not gone entirely unnoticed by the American media. A study by USA Today, for instance, acknowledged that civilian deaths – “collateral damage” in Pentagon parlance – from the use of cluster munitions were…
Secretary of State Colin Powell wrote a memo to follow-up on the January 25, 2002 State Department memorandum to the George W. Bush, entitled “Decision Re Application of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War to the Conflict With al Qaeda and the Taliban”, which contended the Justice Department’s judgment…
Jeremy R. Hammond is an independent political analyst and a recipient of the Project Censored Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism. He is the founding editor of Foreign Policy Journal (www.foreignpolicyjournal.com) and can also be found on the web at JeremyRHammond.com. His new book, "Ron Paul vs. Paul Krugman: Austrian vs. Keynesian economics in the financial crisis", is now available at Amazon.com.
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