defenselink.mil - 3/2/2009
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2006 The Taliban’s habit of using human shields during attacks on coalition forces may have caused the deaths of a number of Afghan civilians during a recent incident in Kandahar province, NATO’s supreme allied commander in Europe said in the Afghan capital Oct. 28. ...
google.com - 3/2/2009
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google.com —
Feb 17, 2009 KABUL (AP) The number of
Afghan civilians killed in armed conflict surged to a...
record 2,118 people last year as the Afghan war turned increasingly bloody, the U.N. said in a new report Tuesday. Insurgents were responsible for 55 percent ...
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The Associated Press: UN: Afghan civilian deaths a ...
mypetjawa.mu.nu - 3/10/2009
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mypetjawa.mu.nu —
The imagined dialogue between Obama and the Taliban
begins with the demands that all Westerners leave Afghanistan...
and Pakistan, that all Israelis be marched into the Mediterranean Sea and drowned, and that insults to Islam be made a capital crime...
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When Obama Talks to the Taliban
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The Imperial Unconscious
Antiwar.com Original —
... recently, "[T]he enemy hides behind civilians." Hence, so this Empire-speak argument goes, dead civilians are actually the Taliban's doing. U.S. military and civilian spokespeople have long accused Taliban guerrillas of using civilians as " shields ," or even of purposely luring ...
Tom Engelhardt: The Imperial Unconscious
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... U.S. military and civilian spokespeople have long accused Taliban guerrillas of using civilians as "shields," or even of purposely luring ...
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msnbc.msn.com 2/18/2009 — KABUL - The number of Afghan civilians killed in armed conflict surged to a record 2,118 people last year as the Afghan war turned increasingly bloody, the U.N. said in a new report Tuesday. Insurgents were responsible for 55 percent of the deaths, ...
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Tactics?
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Coalition deaths from IED attacks soar in Afghanistan
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DefenseLink Speech:
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Afghans protest against U.S. on civilian deaths report
washingtonpost.com 1/27/2009 — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
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