Leaving Afghanistan Is a $7 Billion Moving Task for U.S.
It will require sending Humvees, helicopters, drones and 12 1/2-ton mine-resistant vehicles home by rail and truck networks stretching from Karachi to ports in the Baltic Sea.
http://is.gd/xE876X
Afghans Claim to Have Video of U.S. Special Forces Guy Torturing Civilians
Allegedly, there s a videotape in Afghan government hands showing a man named Zakaria Kandahari presiding over the torture of an Afghan civilian who, along with 15 others, recently disappeared from Wardak Province. Kandahari, an American citizen, is ''seen conducting'' the torture session and ''supervising'' others.
http://is.gd/qI9EUC
New revelations of torture and murder of Afghan civilians by US Special Forces
Zakaria Kandahari, a member of a US Special Forces ''A Team,'' has been accused by Afghan officials of carrying out and directing the torture of 15 civilians detained in recent raids in Warduk province.
http://is.gd/R5saKu
Drones Are the Napalm of Our Crazy Time
By Ethan Casey
The common element is death rained down from the sky, and drones take this a step further by leaving the inflictors of it safe back in the States.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35034.htm
US Government Admits Extrajudicial Murder of Four American Citizens
By RT
"I am writing to disclose to you certain information about the number of US citizens who have been killed by US counterterrorism operations outside of areas of active hostilities." United States Attorney General Eric Holder.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35049.htm
Killing Americans: Jeremy Scahill on Obama Admin s Admission 4 U.S. Citizens Died in Drone Strikes
Video
Three killed in Yemen: the Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. A fourth, Jude Kenan Mohammed, whose death was not previously reported, was killed in Pakistan.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35062.htm
Learning to Fear Obama
How Counter Terrorism Equals Terrorism
By Douglas Valentine
You are more likely to be killed by a bee sting than a terrorist attack.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35071.htm
Why Did You Kill My U.S.-Born Son, Grandson in Drone Strikes?
Video
Nasser al-Awlaki speaks out for the first time since the Obama administration confirmed drones had killed four U.S. citizens, including his son.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35201.htm
From Information Clearing House
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Secrecy, drones, prisons and kill lists
CounterPunch
by Alyssa Rohrright
But who could be surprised? From the very start of Obama s presidency, he and his administration have managed to take the Bush-era attack on civil liberties and not just continue them, but in many cases, significantly expand them...
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/15/secrecy-drones-prisons-and-kill-lists/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Obama Speaks On Drones and Gitmo: CODEPINK Speaks Back
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/22-6
Counterterrorism in the Twilight Zone
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/07/09-3
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The Halfway "Obama Doctrine"
Robert Parry, Consortium News: President Obama's counterterrorism speech failed to quiet his critics on the Left who want an immediate end to the "war on terror" and those on the Right who demand more Bush-Cheney policies, says Robert Parry.
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16595-the-halfway-obama-doctrine
Obama s Counterterrorism Policy
Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: Ted Asregadoo talks to law professor and Truthout writer, Marjorie Cohn about torture and indefinite detention at Guantanamo, Just War theory and the Obama administration's new rules on drone strikes.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16719-truthout-tv-interviews-marjorie-cohn-about-obamas-counterterrorism-policy
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