Citing the “biohazard” created by blood-stained money, a judge sentenced Ellen Barfield of War Resisters League to 25 days in jail for a protest at a Senate hearing on Afghanistan.
Hundreds of women, many carrying pictures of relatives killed by drug lords or Taliban militants, marched in Kabul, demanding that President Karzai purge his government of war criminals.
The latest US drone strike in Pakistan is reported to have not killed a supposed al-Qaeda leader whose death, capture, suicide and escape have been repeatedly reported in a maze of media accounts.
The open letter to the Nobel Committee protesting Obama’s prize as he escalates in Afghanistan is signed by Sara Flounders of the International Action Center—a supporter of war criminals and genocide.
A Pakistani judge demanded the Interior Ministry reply to a petition requesting disclosure on the activities of Blackwater in the country, alleging a corporate role in the relentless terror attacks.
Opposition Afghan member of parliament Malalai Joya warns, “If Barack Obama heralds an escalation of the war, he will betray his own message of hope and deepen my people’s pain.”
The Karzai government’s amnesty offer to the Taliban reveals again the hypocrisy of US claims to be defending democracy, secularism and women’s rights in Afghanistan.
The Afghan attorney general announced that two cabinet ministers are being investigated on corruption charges—a week after President Karzai vowed in his inaugural address to fight corruption.
Richard Colvin, a former diplomat with Canada’s mission in Afghanistan, testified that all detainees transferred to Afghan prisons were likely tortured—and many of them were innocent.
The Pentagon is opening a new detention facility in Afghanistan amid charges from human rights groups that Bagram air base is becoming the “new Guantánamo.”
More than 350 Taliban inmates are on hunger strike at the Sarposa prison in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province in response to harsh conditions, including abuse by guards.
Two Czech soldiers serving in Afghanistan wore the insignia of SS divisions on their helmets, as German troops are engaged in their first ground offensive since World War II.
