Afghans Fleeing War Find Misery in Urban Slums
Half a million Afghans who fled fighting have been abandoned to starvation and death as they subsist in makeshift shelters and they have been let down by their government and international donors, Amnesty International said in a new report released today.
http://bit.ly/wqYfNQ
Afghanistan: ''A Deeply Violated Land''
We don t know how many Afghans have died as a consequence of the war, we don t know where the refugees go or what s happened to the promise of freedom. Basically, we want it to end. For us. And so we let it slip away from our thoughts.
http://huff.to/AsbVDB
From Information Clearing House
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Remembering the Context of War Crimes: The Crime of War Itself
Camillo ''Mac'' Bica, Truthout: ''War cannot be understood, rationally or intellectually, by watching a film or by reading a book. To ?know? war, you have to experience it, live it, feel it in your gut, the anxiety, fear, frustration, boredom, hopelessness, despair, anger, rage, etcetera. In truth, warriors exist in a world totally incomprehensible to those who have never had the misfortune of experiencing the horrors of the battlefield.''
http://www.truth-out.org/war-crime-or-crime-war/1329930406
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It was time to leave about ten years ago
Campaign For Liberty
by Philip Giraldi
02/26/12
The news media today are reporting how seven US servicemen who were advising Afghan security forces were wounded in a grenade attack carried out by one of their students. That is on top of two US Army officers murdered while advising an Afghan government ministry three days ago. If anything underlines the absolute futility of the US 'mission' in Afghanistan it is the attacks being staged against so-called trainers and advisers by the very people that some in Washington believe we are helping...
http://bit.ly/zIwyzy
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=refugees
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=starvation
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Amnesty+International
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Camillo+Bica
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Philip+Giraldi
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