After First Denying Involvement, US Forces Admit Killing Two Pregnant Afghan Women & Teenager
US-led forces have admitted for the first time to killing two pregnant Afghan women and a teenage girl during a nighttime raid in eastern Afghanistan on February 12th. NATO officials initially denied any involvement but were later forced to admit to the killings after the Times of London and other news outlets published accounts of survivors who described how the atrocity was carried out by US-led forces. We speak with Jerome Starkey, the Times of London correspondent in Afghanistan who broke the story. Ref. Source 8
Afghans Believe US is Funding Taliban
By Daniella Peled
It's near-impossible to find anyone in Afghanistan who doesn't believe the US are funding the Taliban: and it's the highly educated Afghan professionals, those employed by ISAF, USAID, international media organisations - and even advising US diplomats - who seem the most convinced. Ref. Source 6
With you.S. Aid, Warlord Builds Afghan Empire
By DEXTER FILKINS
The most powerful man in this arid stretch of southern Afghanistan is not the provincial governor - It is Matiullah Khan, the head of a private army that earns millions of dollars guarding NATO supply convoys and fights Taliban insurgents alongside American Special Forces. Ref. Source 8
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Give you.S. Troops time to win, generals say
As skepticism mounts over President Barack Obama's plan to quell the insurgency in Afghanistan and begin withdrawing combat forces next summer, military leaders from San Diego to Kabul are urging Americans to give the troops enough time to prevail. Ref. Source 2