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Hashmat Baktash and Shashank Bengali, McClatchy Tribune Agency: New allegations from Afghan President Hamid Karzai accuse US troops of torturing and abducting civilians.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14766-karzai-citing-abuse-orders-us-units-out-of-afghan-province



We Are Those Two Afghan Children, Killed by NATO While Tending Their Cattle

Staff, Voices for Creative Nonviolence: Two young Afghan boys herding cattle in Uruzgan Province of Afghanistan were mistakenly killed by NATO forces on March 2nd. They were seven and eight years old.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/15039-we-are-those-two-afghan-children-killed-by-nato-while-tending-their-cattle



SOF Troops Still in Wardak as Joint US-Afghan Probe Continues

Shah Noori and Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: Two weeks after Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded the withdrawal of all US. Special Operations Forces, American military presence is still active.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/15049-sof-troops-still-in-wardak-as-joint-us-afghan-probe-continues

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Afghan governor details alleged abuse by U.S. Special Operations forces

Karzai on Sunday stunned the International Security Assistance Force, as the coalition of foreign forces is known, by ordering all U.S. Special Operations forces to leave Wardak in two weeks, based on allegations that they had been involved in the torture and murder of ''innocent people.''

http://is.gd/NKIujK



Afghans demand inquiry into US special forces

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The US special forces, and Afghans working with them, have been accused of torture, theft and even murder in the province directly west of Kabul.

http://is.gd/TXWCdp



US ordered to hand over Afghan militia

President Hamid Karzai yesterday gave US-led foreign forces three months to transfer control over armed Afghan militias to his government, following allegations of abuses by the militiamen.

http://is.gd/o0cuGD



General Says 20,000 Troops Should Continue Afghan Occupation

Gen. James N. Mattis of the Central Command, revealed his recommendation during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he also said that a NATO contribution to an ''enduring mission'' in Afghanistan could equal half of the American deployment.

http://is.gd/Y4zw8R



Karzai accuses US and Taliban of double speak

The bombings, which the Taliban claimed responsibility for, ''were not to show [Taliban] prowess to the United States. They were in the service of the United States. They were in the service of the rhetoric of '2014'. It was meant to scare us, [to show] if they [foreign forces] are not here, 'we will not leave you alone''', Karzai said.

http://is.gd/a4Yusi



US dismisses Karzai s accusations of Taliban terror collusion

The US has denied that it is collaborating with Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan to prolong the stay of its forces beyond next year, refuting an accusation made by President Hamid Karzai in the wake of a series of suicide bombings.

http://is.gd/ULt81i



Afghan villagers threaten uprising if US special forces don t leave

Despite Karzai s orders, the American special operations forces remain in the province where dozens of villagers accuse them and their Afghan partners of intimidation through unprovoked beatings, mass arrests and forced detentions.

http://is.gd/uv1SMe



Massive Afghan rally demands US troops withdrawal from Wardak province

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Hundreds of Afghans have marched to the parliament complex in Kabul demanding the withdrawal of US special troops from the eastern province of Wardak. The demonstrators were infuriated by reports of civilians being tortured and killed.

http://is.gd/0vlo7a


From Information Clearing House



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