Category Archives: Afghanistan

Five Years With the Taliban

Posted on October 22, 2017 by

Thirty-one-year old Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been kept in captivity by Taliban in Afghanistan for five years after having left his post had pleaded guilty to desertion. Now he is awaiting being sentenced in Fort Bragg in N.Y. He … Continue reading →

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Bowe Bergdahl, Daniel Pearl, Nick Berg

Posted on June 7, 2014 by

Modified 14 September 2014, see below. When watching the video which has been released by the Haqqani group showing the handover of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl to U.S. Special Forces after five years in captivity on 31 May, I am much … Continue reading →

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Absurd Verdict

Posted on October 5, 2012 by

A federal U.S. district court yesterday ordered, besides al-Qaeda, absurdly also Afghanistan Taliban guerrillas,  Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Iran to pay $6 billion compensation to the 11 September 2001 victims. As plaintiffs in The Havlish v. Iran 2004 lawsuit report the … Continue reading →

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Unquenched Lust to Kill

Posted on March 25, 2012 by

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 … Continue reading →

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Two Soldiers

Posted on March 17, 2012 by

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 … Continue reading →

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