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UK Afghanistan Newswire Archive

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Occupied Afghanistan: The attack on the British Council in Kabul

21-08-2011 15:09

The British Council in Kabul, 19 August 2011

The attack on the British Council in Kabul on 19th August, resulting in twelve deaths and many injuries, further underlined how unwelcome the occupiers are, in a country in which they should never have been in the first place. Further tragedies, heaped on tragedies, also illustrated how out of touch those both on the ground in country - and those in high places abroad are. The day of the attack was both the Sabbath (Friday) and national holiday marking the 92nd anniversary of Afghanistan's independence from Britain in 1919 and of course, the 19th: 19 -1919.

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Solidarity with Afghanistan War Refusenik Michael Lyons - Colchester Prison

11-08-2011 14:00

YOUTUBE Speaking Outside Colchester Military Prison - Ciaron O'Reilly from Giuseppe Conlon House/ Catholic Worker, Naomi from "UK Friends of Bradley Manning", Katrina recites a poem, Ben Griffin Afghanistan/Iraq combt veteran "Veterans for Peace", Jill Harris Michael Lyon's mother, Fr. Martin Newell Giuseppe Conlon House , Giorgio Riva Payday
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxazNPBw8oo

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XE's Raymond Davis, Afghanistan, Libya, opening shots of World War III?

05-03-2011 01:59

Audio
Broadcast at 6pm Friday 4th March 2011.
This week's discussion was about the deepening military conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan. The new military government in Egypt and nascent civil war in Libya.

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Obama’s reign of terror in Afghanistan

05-01-2011 01:53

2010 was the bloodiest year of the now nine-year conflict in Afghanistan and the tribal border regions of Pakistan. Under the command of General David Petraeus, a massively expanded US and NATO force is waging a campaign of extermination against various ethnic Pashtun and Taliban-linked insurgent movements that have not accepted the foreign invasion of their country.

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Afghanistan: Global NATO’s first ground war in its tenth year

11-10-2010 18:42

NATO forces deployed in Afghanistan (February 2010)
A war in its tenth year in which NATO’s casualties mount by the day is not sufficient for an increasingly ambitious and expansionist, indeed global, NATO. While attacks on its forces increase steadily and its troop strength reaches record levels – and with at least 170 of its oil tankers destroyed in Pakistan since the killing of Pakistani troops on September 30 – the military bloc is planning new wars on the scale of the one in Afghanistan.

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Afghanistan 9 years, Reading Names of the Dead, London - Pictures

08-10-2010 12:52

The Strategic Defence Review, RAF, RN, BA.
On the ninth anniversary of the beginning of the Afghanistan war, and at the start of the tenth year of occupation, peace campaigners from the Justice Not Vengeance group (JNV) gather opposite Downing Street in London for nine hours to read the names of those who have been killed on all sides during the conflict.

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Afghanistan Anniversary Vigil

04-10-2010 10:15

End the War in Afghanistan / Remember the Dead

9am - 6pm, Thursday 7 October
Whitehall (opposite Downing Street)

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Naming The Dead: End The War in Afghanistan

18-09-2010 09:55

Central London event to mark the anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan with Maya Evans (JNV) and Susan Clarkson - some risk of arrest.

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Afghanistan: NATO's ten-year war in South Asia

01-09-2010 15:58

member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) - March 2006
In slightly over a month, on October 7, the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan will enter its tenth year.

The conflict represents the longest continuous combat operations in the history of the United States and Afghanistan alike. With the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for the only time in its existence activating its Article 5 mutual military assistance clause in September 2001 and thus entering the Afghan fray, European nations that had not been at war since the Second World War are now engaged in an endless combat mission.

There are 150,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, 120,000 of them under the command of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Military personnel from over a quarter of the 192 members of the United Nations. They include soldiers from almost every European country, several Asia-Pacific states, and nations in the Americas and the Middle East.

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Wikileaks-FALLOUT FROM THE COLD WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

29-07-2010 10:42

The Wikileaks documents published this week proved US helicopters, drones and warplanes had been shot down by surface-to-air heat-seeking missiles and not, as military spokesmen kept claiming, by artillery and ground fire.
Obviously no one in the Pentagon was eager to recall the Cold War against the Soviets when the Americans shipped hundreds of the shoulder-held Stingers to the Afghan

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The Afghanistan documents and the struggle against war

29-07-2010 08:05

The public release of the 92,000 secret documents on the Afghanistan war by WikiLeaks, together with the reaction of the media and the official establishment, has immense political implications for the antiwar struggle in the US and internationally.

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Afghanistan casualty rate highest of war

26-07-2010 23:24

Eight months after the Obama administration announced a “surge” of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to crush the Taliban-led insurgency, the rate of US and allied casualties has soared to the highest level of the nearly nine-year war and is beginning to match the bloodiest stages of the occupation of Iraq.

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Trail of Tears for Afghanistan – London to Colchester Peace Walk - An account

06-07-2010 11:17

Malcolm leads the walk into Colchester (D. Viesnik)
The Trail of Tears for Afghanistan peace walk from London to Colchester took place from Sunday, 27th June to Thursday, 1st July 2010. It was meant as an act of solidarity with British war resister Joe Glenton and others like him, and as a remembrance of the countless victims on all sides of the bloody (almost) nine-year war in Afghanistan, now spreading to Pakistan.

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"The war is worth waging":Afghanistan's vast reserves of minerals and naturalgas

17-06-2010 12:17

Afghanistan's mining minister holds a press conference in Kabul, 17 June 2010
The 2001 bombing and invasion of Afghanistan has been presented to World public opinion as a "Just War", a war directed against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, a war to eliminate "Islamic terrorism" and instate Western style democracy. The economic dimensions of the "Global War on Terrorism" are rarely mentioned.

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AFGHANISTAN: WHY THE TROOPS SHOULD COME HOME

17-06-2010 11:52

Cambridge Stop the War Coalition are holding a public meeting on
Afghanistan with:

Karla Ellis (Military Families against the War)
Judith Orr (Stop the War Coalition national officer)

on Friday 18th June at 7.30 pm in the Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane,
Cambridge.

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NATO In Afghanistan: World War In One Country

14-05-2010 17:05

Afghanistan has, whether by convenience, design or some combination of the two, been transformed into a vast training ground for the consolidation of a fifty-nation military structure that has already been extended into Central Asia, the Caucasus, Eastern Europe, the Horn of Africa, the Indian Ocean and the Middle East.

It is also a testing range for new 21st century weapons and combat systems intended for future use around the world.

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General Election Hustings: AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ & PALESTINE - WHERE DO YOU STAND?

08-04-2010 11:14

Details in brief

Date: Wednesday 14th April 2010
Time: Meeting to start 7.45 pm
Location: Friends Meeting House,12 Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BA.

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Afghanistan: Has the war been lost there and at home?

24-02-2010 12:33

Cambridge Stop the War Coalition are holding a public meeting and AGM on Tuesday 2nd March at 7.30 pm in Bramwell Lounge, Cambridge University Sports and Social Club, Mill Lane, Cambridge.

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24.10.09 - Troops Out Of Afghanistan National Demonstration

25-10-2009 14:08

PEACE!!!
National gathering to demand troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan. Co-ordinated by Stop The War Coalition

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Escalation of US NATO War in Afghanistan: The Risks of Regional Conflagration

17-10-2009 09:20

If McChrystal gains the additional 60,000 American troops he's requested and NATO provides several thousand more, combined Western military forces in Afghanistan could number some 180,000. With control of former Soviet airbases in the nation in addition to air fields in Central Asia, Iraq, the South Caucasus, Turkey and the Black Sea nations of Bulgaria and Romania, Washington and its allies could be poised for military operations against Iran far more ambitious than any discussed or rumored before.

The expansion of the South Asian war into Pakistan also allows the West to employ that nation for future attacks against Iran.
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