CIA’s ‘Spider’ Has Key Role with Karzai

WSJ | The Obama administration has turned to the Central Intelligence Agency’s station chief in Afghanistan to troubleshoot Washington’s precarious relationship with President Hamid Karzai.

Karzai: Private contractors ‘looting and stealing,’ working with terrorists

Raw Story | Afghan President Hamid Karzai defended his decision to ban private security contractors from operating in public in Afghanistan.

Hidden Intelligence Operation Behind the Wikileaks Release of “Secret” Documents?

F. William Engdahl | General Gul claims that US intelligence orchestrated the Wikileaks on Afghanistan to find a scapegoat.

Ron Paul: The Cycle of Violence in Afghanistan

Dr. Ron Paul | Last week the National Bureau of Economic Research published a report on the effect of civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq that confirmed what critics of our foreign policy have been saying for years.

Army Doctor Refuses Deployment, Doubts Obama’s Birthplace

Personal Liberty Digest | A highly decorated 18-year Army veteran was officially charged with disobeying orders and dereliction of duty after refusing to be deployed to Afghanistan because he questions whether Barack Obama is eligible to be president.

Attack kills U.S., foreign doctors on medical mission in northern Afghanistan

Washington Post | The group, which included foreigners and Afghans, appeared to be the same one that was working with the International Assistance Mission, an organization that has operated in Afghanistan since 1966.

Pentagon to Wikileaks: Give Us Back our Documents

Telegraph | The Pentagon has demanded Wikileaks remove more than 70,000 classified documents published online as well return thousands more unpublished files about the Afghanistan war leaked last month.

The next justification for war

Detroit Free Press | The continuation of the war in Afghanistan, some nine years after the U.S. invasion, rests upon endlessly redefining the goals and purposes of the conflict.

Pakistan’s Zardari says war with Taliban being lost

Reuters | Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari warned that the international community was losing the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Pentagon retaliates against WikiLeaks

August 2nd, 2010 The World Socialist Web Site By: Bill Van Auken In response to the WikiLeaks posting of tens of thousands of secret documents on the Afghanistan war, the Pentagon has launched a manhunt within the military and called in the FBI for possible prosecution of the actual whistleblower who supplied the evidence of

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