By JULIAN E. BARNES And MATTHEW ROSENBERG / Wall Street Journal The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the planned burning of Qurans on Sept. 11 by a small Florida church could put the lives of American troops in danger

Categories: al-Qur'an  Afghanistan  9/11  Taliban  The US  

Added: September 07, 2010

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By James Cogan / WSWS.org A series of leaks to the New York Times and the Washington Post over the past week has revealed that members of the Afghan government headed by President Hamid Karzai are paid agents and informers of the CIA.

Categories: Afghanistan  The CIA  Hamid Karzai  Corruption  Taliban  

Added: August 31, 2010

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By Scott Horton / Harpers It is increasingly apparent that the United States is itself one of the most staggeringly corrupt actors in the region, willing to slide hundreds of millions of dollars under the carpet to foreign government officials to induce them to do Washington's bidding, on occasion doing this so crudely that it undermines the credibility of the government it has picked as an ally. Indeed, twice now American bribery operations targeting a foreign head of state helped provoke revolutions that toppled a gevernment.

Categories: Corruption  Kyrgyzstan  The CIA  Afghanistan  Central Asia  

Added: August 30, 2010

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By The Alex Jones Show In a landmark interview, Alex talks with former director of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, Hamid Gul. Mr. Gul recently characterized the "leaked" Wikileaks documents implicating him in a string of attacks against US and NATO forces in Afghanistan as "malicious, fictitious, and preposterous."

Categories: Interview  Afghanistan  Intelligence Agencies  Blackwater  Nuclear Weapons  Pakistan Army  

Added: August 21, 2010

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By Marwan Bishara /Al Jazeera If Western wars are meant to 'liberate' Muslim women, why do centuries of Western military intervention have so little to show, asks Marwan Bishara.

Categories: Afghanistan  Muslim Women  Islam  Gender Equality  Feminism  War  

Added: August 09, 2010

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By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN / NY Times Pakistan's nukes are a problem for us because of the nature of that regime, and Saudi Arabia's oil wealth is a problem for us because of the nature of that regime. We have chosen to play a double game with both because we think the alternatives are worse. So we pay Pakistan to help us in Afghanistan, even though we know some of that money is killing our own soldiers, because we fear that just leaving could lead to Pakistan's Islamists controlling its bomb.

Categories: Afghanistan  Al-Qaeda  Saudis  Pakistan Army  Taliban  The US  

Added: August 04, 2010

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By Jacob Hornberger / fff Before, Gul was helping the Afghans bring an end to the Soviet occupation of their country. That made him a freedom fighter. Now, however, Gul is helping the Afghanis bring an end to the U.S. occupation of their country, and that makes him a terrorist.

Categories: Afghanistan  Freedom Fighter  Intelligence Agencies  Pakistan Army  Terrorism  

Added: August 03, 2010

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By ERIC MARGOLIS / QMI Agency Trying to make Pakistan into a satellite state will result in that vastly important, nuclear-armed nation one day exploding with anti-American hatred, as was the case in Iran in 1979.

Categories: Afghanistan  Taliban  The CIA  Brutality  Nato  Pakistan  

Added: August 03, 2010

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By Haroon Siddiqui / Tronto Star Obama's military surge of 30,000 additional troops has not stopped the Taliban from controlling more territory. They are using more roadside bombs and hitting more NATO convoys and bases, even in Kabul.

Categories: Afghanistan  Barack Obama  Taliban  Nato  Intelligence Agencies  

Added: August 02, 2010

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By Peter Chamberlin /Countercurrents.org Government leaders undoubtably understood the great potential danger risked by allowing the release of the Wiki documents, but, being the practitioners of Nazi mind-science that they are, they fully understood the potential rewards to be reaped by the correct handling of the leaks and Western reporting on them. Popular emphasis upon the Pakistani angle of Wiki revelations could help create a national consensus for attacking Taliban bases in Pakistan.

Categories: Afghanistan  Intelligence Agencies  Taliban  Pakistan  Conspiracies  

Added: July 31, 2010

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