World-News

Jonathan Steele on Afghanistan:
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/11/02-0

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Afghanistan: ISAF data show night raids killed more than 1,500 civilians

Inter Press Service
11/01/11

U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) killed well over 1,500 civilians in night raids in less than 10 months in 2010 and early 2011, analysis of official statistics on the raids released by the U.S.-NATO command reveals. That number would make U.S. night raids by far the largest cause of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan...

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105704


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Army sergeant shot Afghan 'with a smile': witness

A U.S. Army sergeant accused of murdering three unarmed Afghan civilians casually shot one victim 'with a smile on his face,' then pulled a tooth from the dead man s mouth, a fellow soldier testified on Wednesday.

http://bsun.md/s11SWJ


From Information Clearing House



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ISAF
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Special+Operations+Forces
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=night+raid
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=casualties
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jonathan+Steele
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