U.S. investigators of the March 11 Kandahar massacre officially believe that Staff Sgt Robert Bales went out alone for the massacres in two villages in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan, one north (Najeeban) of the Camp Belambai and one south (Alkozai). The numbers of dead civilians now differ. While Bales is [...]
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Unquenched Lust to Kill
Posted in Afghanistan, USA, tagged Alkozai, blood money, Camp Belambai, compensation, Kandahar Massacre, Kunduz airstrike, Najeeban, Panjwai, Robert Bales on March 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Two Soldiers
Posted in Afghanistan, USA, tagged Bradley Manning, Fort Leavenworth, John Henry Brown, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Kandahar, Neil Shea, Panjwai massacre, Robert Bales, war crime on March 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Update below. The name of the American soldier who massacred and partially burnt last Sunday 16 Afghan civilians including nine children in the Panjwai shooting spree in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, and who had been rescued to Kuwait before Afghan authorities and judiciary could get hold of him, has been revealed yesterday. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales [...]
Democracy
Posted in Afghanistan, USA, tagged Art Bears, Chris Cutler, Dagmar Krause, democracya, Fred frith, Granai, Kunduz, massacre, Qur'an burning, The World As It is Today on March 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I was a bit in doubt which Art Bears’ song I should post when I read that Afghan President Hamid Karzai asked/ordered American withdrawal from his country today. Maybe this one? One of my all-time favorites. A lost war. A disaster. Bridges, schools? Democracy? What will be remembered is the Kunduz massacre, the Granai air [...]
The Revenge Effect
Posted in Afghanistan, NATO, tagged CIVCAS, insurgents, Isaf, Jacob N. Shapira, Joseph H. Felter, Kunduz, Luke N. Condra, National Bureau of Economic Research, Radha K. Iyengar on July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In a previous post, I have featured a widely published diagram which had obviously been created for enlightening its attentive viewers in the incredibly complicated situation in the war on terror in Afghanistan 9 years after 9/11. I have referred to an interesting analogy in Medicine, in particular, systems biology where teachers now and then [...]
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