google.com - 3/2/2009
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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 of the deaths, but U.S., NATO and Afghan ...
nytimes.com - 3/2/2009
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Dawn was breaking over Afghanistan one day this
month as Air Force surveillance planes locked in on...
a top-ranking insurgent commander as he traveled in secret around Kandahar, the spiritual home of the Taliban . But as attack aircraft were summoned ...
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Civilian Risks Curbing Strikes in Afghan War
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 ...
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DefenseLink News Article: Taliban Tactics May Have Led ...
nytimes.com - 3/2/2009
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KABUL, Afghanistan An airstrike by the United
States-led military coalition killed 13 civilians and 3 militants...
last Tuesday in western Afghanistan, not “up to 15 militants” as was initially claimed by American forces, military officials here said ...
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U.S. Concedes Afghan Attack Mainly Killed Civilians
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... , bureaucratic language of "global counterinsurgency" or "irregular warfare" (IW), of "soft power," "hard power," and "smart power." But flying over the Pashtun wildlands is the blunt-edged face of predation and death, ready at a moment's notice to deliver hellfire to those below. Imperial Arguments: Let's pursue this just a little further. Faced with rising numbers of ...
Tom Engelhardt: The Imperial Unconscious
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... Af-Pak border regions.
In Washington, when the Af-Pak War is discussed, it's in the bloodless, bureaucratic language of "global counterinsurgency" or "irregular warfare" (IW), of "soft power," "hard power," and "smart power." But flying over the Pashtun wildlands is the blunt-edged face of predation and death, ready at a moment's notice to deliver hellfire to those below.
Imperial Arguments: Let's pursue this just a little further. Faced with rising numbers of civilian casualties from U.S. and NATO air strikes in Afghanistan and ...
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