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http://whatreallyhappened.com/taxonomy/term/59/0 en http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=549 <p>Malalai Joya was 27-years-old when she became the youngest person elected to the new Afghan Parliament. </p> <p>She’s now suspended from Parliament for criticizing other MPs and accusing many of being warlords and criminals. She calls Afghanistan’s democracy a farce and says her country’s liberation is a lie. She has written a book called A Woman Among Warlords. Malalai Joya was in Toronto.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/get-out-my-country" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/get-out-my-country#comments AFGHANISTAN TORTURE/WAR CRIMES WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:04:36 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46818 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.innworldreport.net/inn/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1744:international-n&catid=36:international&Itemid=1 <p>Colvin said: "As I learned more about our detainee practices, I came to the conclusion ..they were .. counterproductive and probably illegal.”</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/all-afghan-detainees-likely-tortured-diplomat" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/all-afghan-detainees-likely-tortured-diplomat#comments AFGHANISTAN TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:29:59 +0000 Mike Rivero 46800 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://tshtf.blogspot.com/ <p>Meaning:<br /> Something which is owed that is ruthlessly required to be paid back.<br /> Reap what one sows: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head." In modern terms; what goes around comes around, aka you get what you deserve.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/pound-flesh" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/pound-flesh#comments AFGHANISTAN CORPORATE MEDIA COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA CURRENT EVENTS ECONOMY IRAN IRAQ ISRAEL PAKISTAN / INDIA POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:07:51 +0000 Forked Tongue 46763 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzdACZcp5zU <p><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/XzdACZcp5zU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/XzdACZcp5zU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></object></p> <p>Not finished with the first part yet but here are some observations.....</p> <p>US takes over USSR base in Afghanistan (reminds me of the song "Walking in your Footsteps" - <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x33v1y_the-police-walking-in-your-footstep_music" title="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x33v1y_the-police-walking-in-your-footstep_music">http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x33v1y_the-police-walking-in-your-foo...</a> )</p> <p>Guy at 2:11 in a helicopter reminds me of that scene in "Full Metal Jacket" - "just don't lead them as much!"</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/taxi-dark-side-0" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/taxi-dark-side-0#comments AFGHANISTAN Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:40:17 +0000 SamLowrey 46718 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=516 <p>American lives are worth a lot. So when Americans get killed, it’s a big story. There are lots of editorials. Congressmen call for investigations. We want to find out what happened, why it happened, and how to make sure it never happens again.</p> <p>The lives of foreigners, on the other hand, are pretty much worthless. Even when they die because Americans killed them, news accounts marking their deaths are short, sweet, and short-lived. Congressional investigations? No way. To the contrary! If anyone is inconsiderate enough to mention the killings of people overseas in a public forum, they get shouted down or simply ignored.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/fort-hood-shootings-shockerwhy-not-us-war-crimes" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/fort-hood-shootings-shockerwhy-not-us-war-crimes#comments AFGHANISTAN IRAQ TORTURE/WAR CRIMES WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:37:20 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46717 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://rawstory.com/2009/11/thompson-afghanistan-war-already-lost/ <p>Fred Thompson, the actor and former Republican Senator, told listeners of his radio show Thursday that the war in Afghanistan is "already lost," and put the blame on President Barack Obama's delays in making a decision on a troop surge for the war effort.</p> <p>Thompson's salvo "seem[s] to lay the groundwork for Republican opposition to further American engagement in Afghanistan," suggests Ben Smith at Politico, but the former presidential candidate's words have roiled some critics, who note that, during the Bush administration, Thompson was a fierce opponent of those who painted the war effort negatively.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/thompson-afghanistan-war-%E2%80%98already-lost%E2%80%99" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/thompson-afghanistan-war-%E2%80%98already-lost%E2%80%99#comments AFGHANISTAN Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:45:18 +0000 ladylove 46710 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/17-Nov-2009/Militants-possession-of-Israeli-arms-raises-questions <p>Use of Israeli-made light arms by militants against security forces in Waziristan has raised several questions amongst many recently.</p> <p>TheNation has learnt on good authority that militants are using Israeli-made light arms including “Uzi gun” and “Rapid-fire pistol” against security forces in North Waziristan as the operation Rah-I-Rast reached its final stage.</p> <p>In addition to Israel-made sophisticated arms, militants are making use of the latest version of US-made M-16 carbine with laser designator and binoculars, Bulgarian and Czechoslovakia made Kalakov and M-4 carbine with a grenade launcher and laser designator, which is a unique weapon with the US marines.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/militants-possession-israeli-arms-raises-questions" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/militants-possession-israeli-arms-raises-questions#comments AFGHANISTAN COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA ISRAEL PAKISTAN / INDIA Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:14:40 +0000 Mike Rivero 46578 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Pakistan_offensive_displaces_268_00_11182009.html <p>More than a quarter of a million people have fled Pakistan's latest military offensive against Taliban insurgents in the tribal South Waziristan region, the United Nations said Wednesday.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/pakistan-offensive-displaces-268000-people-un" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/pakistan-offensive-displaces-268000-people-un#comments AFGHANISTAN PAKISTAN / INDIA Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:19:03 +0000 Mike Rivero 46540 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LsSppYxSHk&feature=player_embedded <object width="500" height="405"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4LsSppYxSHk&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4LsSppYxSHk&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" 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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8365187.stm <p>"We just need to be sure that the final result does not look like a humiliating defeat: to have lost so many men and now abandoned it all... in short, we have to get out of there." </p> <p>Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev - the speaker of those words - was understandably alarmed. </p> <p>It was June 1986, almost a year since he had taken the decision to start withdrawing Soviet troops from Afghanistan and hand over more responsibility to the government there. </p> <p>But Soviet losses, already above 10,000, kept mounting. </p> <p>With conflicting signals this week about the direction of Western policy in Afghanistan, there is a hint of the same kind of panic and indecision.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/soviet-lessons-afghanistan" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/soviet-lessons-afghanistan#comments AFGHANISTAN Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:07:17 +0000 malterwitty 46476 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.examiner.com/x-18425-LA-County-Nonpartisan-Examiner~y2009m11d17-US-lies-about-war-in-Iraq-Afghanistan-continues-crimes-against-humanity <p>Res ipsa loquitur translates in common use as “the facts speak for themselves.” I’m among hundreds of writers who document from our own government’s declassified information that all the reasons to go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan were known to be false at the time they were presented to the American public. Please verify this evidence for yourself here that your government “leaders” of both parties have lied and are lying about war in Iraq and Afghanistan.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-lies-yes-dead-lies-about-war-iraq-afghanistan-continues-crimes-against-humanity" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-lies-yes-dead-lies-about-war-iraq-afghanistan-continues-crimes-against-humanity#comments AFGHANISTAN COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA CURRENT EVENTS DICTATORSHIP IRAQ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:27:33 +0000 Carl_Herman 46442 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://news.antiwar.com/2009/11/16/us-presses-pakistan-to-escalate-war/ <p>According to an unnamed US official, President Obama has sent a letter to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari urging him to rally support for escalating his war across the nation. The letter reportedly claims that the Afghan war ‘depends’ on Pakistan doing so.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-presses-pakistan-escalate-war" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-presses-pakistan-escalate-war#comments AFGHANISTAN PAKISTAN / INDIA Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:09:16 +0000 Mike Rivero 46435 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.opfblog.com/9457/islamabad-ttp-leaders-evacuated-by-mysterious-airlifts/ <p>Mysterious airlifting of some Taliban elements from areas of Pakistan-Afghanistan border linking Waziristan have been reported by several sources and fears are growing that anti-Pakistan TTP terrorists are also being rescued by their “foreign allies” from across the border.</p> <p>The unexplained movements of “un-marked” helicopters and aircraft have been reported since last few days along Pak-Afghan border and one source claimed that they were being transported to the Eastern Afghanistan.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/islamabad-ttp-leaders-evacuated-mysterious-airlifts" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/islamabad-ttp-leaders-evacuated-mysterious-airlifts#comments AFGHANISTAN Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:01:55 +0000 Mike Rivero 46430 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.politicaltheatrics.net/?p=382 <p>Hezb’Allah warned that the tragic figures of the FAO-on the number of hungry people around the world-reveal the criminal face of the so-called materialistic culture of savage capitalism at present, holding responsible the world countries practicing and committing aggression, occupation and supporting it, with the US topping the list.</p> <p>Hezb’Allah issued on Monday a statement in which it commented on the opening of the World Food Summit in Rome for fighting hunger, which afflicts more than one billion people around the world.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/occupying-countries-responsible-global-hunger" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/occupying-countries-responsible-global-hunger#comments AFGHANISTAN MIDDLE EAST TORTURE/WAR CRIMES WHITE HOUSE Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:27:27 +0000 PoliticalTheatrics 46422 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.theweek.com/cartoons/index/102943/Obama_ponders_digging_a_hole_in_Afghanistan <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/pic-obama-ponders-digging-hole-afghanistan" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/pic-obama-ponders-digging-hole-afghanistan#comments AFGHANISTAN Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:22:22 +0000 malterwitty 46357 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/11/gordon-brown-britain-can-lead-new-world.html <p>PRIME Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday Britain must play a comprehensive role in 'changing the world' as he defended the country's military mission in Afghanistan.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/gordon-brown-britain-can-lead-new-world-order" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/gordon-brown-britain-can-lead-new-world-order#comments AFGHANISTAN GREAT BRITAIN Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:04:33 +0000 Mike Rivero 46265 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/83256 <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/delegates-nato-join-anti-war-demo" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/delegates-nato-join-anti-war-demo#comments AFGHANISTAN PROTESTS/REVOLUTION Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:58:09 +0000 Mike Rivero 46263 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://cryptogon.com/?p=12126 <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/cost-keeping-one-us-soldier-afghanistan-year-one-million-dollars" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/cost-keeping-one-us-soldier-afghanistan-year-one-million-dollars#comments AFGHANISTAN Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:45:16 +0000 malterwitty 46235 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/6570380/Why-we-will-lose-in-Afghanistan.html <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/why-we-will-lose-afghanistan" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/why-we-will-lose-afghanistan#comments AFGHANISTAN Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:58:55 +0000 malterwitty 46187 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://refreshingnews9.blogspot.com/2009/11/afghanistan-british-troops-in-helmand.html <p>More than 60 insurgents are thought to have been killed close to Patrol Base Waheed after the Taliban launched a series of "Kamikaze-style" attacks against British troops.</p> <p>In the southern area of the district, which is also controlled by the Grenadier Guards, soldiers from the battalion's reconnaissance platoon killed an estimated 16 fighters in a carefully planned ambush last Saturday, although it is difficult for the British Army to be precise about enemy casualties.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/afghanistan-british-troops-helmand-kill-80-taliban-10-days-fighting" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/afghanistan-british-troops-helmand-kill-80-taliban-10-days-fighting#comments AFGHANISTAN Sun, 15 Nov 2009 13:23:55 +0000 suman 46173 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23957.htm <p>An Afghan policeman earns around $120 a month. In return for this he is forced to do a more dangerous job than Afghan soldiers, some 1,500 policemen being killed between 2007 and 2009, three times the number of deaths suffered by the Afghan army. Compare this money and these dangers with that of a US paid consultant earning $250,000 a year -- and with the cost of his guards, accommodation and translator totalling the same amount again – lurking in his villa in Kabul. General Eikenberry is rightly sceptical about the dispatch of reinforcements to prop up a regime which is more of a racket than an administration. The troops may kill more Taliban, but they will also be their recruiting sergeants.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/stealing-money-selling-heroin-and-raping-boys" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/stealing-money-selling-heroin-and-raping-boys#comments AFGHANISTAN POLITICS/ELECTIONS/CORRUPTION WAR/DRAFT/VETERAN AFFAIRS Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:33:05 +0000 poorrichard 46155 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/war-in-afghanistan-not-in-our-name-1820949.html <p>Seven out of 10 Britons back The Independent on Sunday's call for a phased withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan as a landmark report by Oxfam this week exposes the real human cost of the war.</p> <p>The powerful dossier by the aid agency reveals how women and children in Afghanistan are bearing the brunt of the ongoing conflict, undermining the international community's claims that they are the very people being helped by the West's activities.</p> <p>Its contents will add to mounting concerns among the public, and in some quarters of the military and the House of Commons, that the US and the UK are fighting an ill-conceived and ill-judged war that has left as many as 32,000 Afghans dead and 235,000 displaced.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/war-afghanistan-not-our-name" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/war-afghanistan-not-our-name#comments AFGHANISTAN GREAT BRITAIN Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:20:34 +0000 malterwitty 46153 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6201840.ece <p>British soldiers in Helmand were under orders to turn a blind eye to the drug industry for fear of driving opium farmers into the arms of the insurgents. Army commanders argued that if they were to secure the support of an ambivalent population, the troops had to avoid becoming embroiled in fighting a narcotics trade that employed hundreds of thousands of local people.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-forces-arrive-helmand-pledge-tackle-opium-production" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/us-forces-arrive-helmand-pledge-tackle-opium-production#comments AFGHANISTAN COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:27:51 +0000 Mike Rivero 46141 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/may/23/afghanistan.drugstrade <p>US officials embarrassed the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, yesterday on the eve of his meeting with George Bush by leaking the contents of a memo that said he was "unwilling to assert strong leadership" in the country's war against heroin production.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/karzai-accused-being-soft-opium-trade" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/karzai-accused-being-soft-opium-trade#comments AFGHANISTAN Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:20:08 +0000 Mike Rivero 46140 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8319249.stm <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/afghan-opium-fuels-global-chaos" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/afghan-opium-fuels-global-chaos#comments AFGHANISTAN Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:09:35 +0000 Mike Rivero 46062 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=8289 <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/robert-greenwald-america-funding-taliban" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/robert-greenwald-america-funding-taliban#comments AFGHANISTAN Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:43:45 +0000 portos 46051 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://alethonews.blogspot.com/ <p>In a sign that the Taliban’s de facto control over the Nuristan Province is becoming more and more formal, one of the commanders of the group’s forces in the province says the Taliban is setting up a rival government.</p> <p>According to Dost Mohammed, the commander in question, the group has established its own judiciary and is appointing administrative officials, and is setting about to provide basic needs to the remote province’s residents.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/taliban-establish-rival-government-nuristan" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/taliban-establish-rival-government-nuristan#comments AFGHANISTAN Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:23:00 +0000 Mike Rivero 46013 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://eclipptv.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=8278 <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/alex-jones-pat-tillman-black-ops-opium-trade-afghanistan-111209" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/alex-jones-pat-tillman-black-ops-opium-trade-afghanistan-111209#comments AFGHANISTAN Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:31:52 +0000 portos 46003 at http://whatreallyhappened.com http://www.bushstole04.com/Iraqwar/afghan_taliban.htm <p>How the U.S. Funds the Taliban</p> <p>By Aram Roston, The Nation<br /> Posted on November 13, 2009, Printed on November 13, 2009<br /> <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/143898/" title="http://www.alternet.org/story/143898/">http://www.alternet.org/story/143898/</a></p> <p>Welcome to the wartime contracting bazaar in Afghanistan. It is a virtual carnival of improbable characters and shady connections, with former CIA officials and ex-military officers joining hands with former Taliban and mujahedeen to collect US government funds in the name of the war effort.</p> <p>In this grotesque carnival, the US military's contractors are forced to pay suspected insurgents to protect American supply routes. It is an accepted fact of the military logistics operation in Afghanistan that the US government funds the very forces American troops are fighting.</p> <p><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/how-us-funds-taliban" target="_blank" title="with WRH comments">WRH permalink</a></p><hr><br> http://whatreallyhappened.com/content/how-us-funds-taliban#comments AFGHANISTAN COVER-UP/DECEPTIONS/PROPAGANDA TORTURE/WAR CRIMES Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:26:30 +0000 911insidejob 45995 at http://whatreallyhappened.com