Posts Tagged ‘Insurgents’

Video : Talibanksy Tags Dollar Signs and Poppies Around Kabul

In Afghanistan, Art, Crime, fame, Hip Hop, Music, News, Opinion, Politics, War on 16 March 2010 tagged Chand Ast, drugs, graffiti, Insurgents, M.I.A., Paper Planes, poppy, poppy fields, Tagging, taliban, Talibanksy, Video, vimeo with no comments

As M.I.A.’s Paper Planes – a song about hustling as a form of survival in a hostile environment – plays in the background Talibanksy uses guerilla street art to point out the harvesting and trafficking of Opium is funding militants in Afghanistan while bewildered Afghans look on. Amazing. How much, states the video’s title slide [...]

Operation Moshtarak to Take Four Months For Completion

In Afghanistan, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War on 18 February 2010 tagged CNN, Helmand, insurgent, Insurgents, Maj. Gen. Nick Carter, Marja, Marjah, NATO, Operation Moshtarak, taliban with no comments

As U.S., Afghan, and NATO forces want to ensure that insurgents do not return to Marjah and that an Afghan government presence is established in the town often referred to as a Taliban stronghold, it is estimated that Operation Marjah should take about four months before completion: It will take NATO-led military forces another 25 [...]

BNW on AU Observer Afghanistan Panel

In Afghanistan, DC, History, Iraq, News, Opinion, pakistan, Politics, War on 10 November 2009 tagged #Afghanelection, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Afghan election, Afghanistan, American University, AU Observer, Azizullah Lodin, Azizullah Ludin, Barack Hussein Obama, Burhanuddin Rabbani, CIA, Civilan Surge, Counter-Insurgency, Counterterrorism, DC, Democracy, donald rumsfeld, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Dr. Ashraf Ghani, Dr. Ramazan Bashardost, George W. Bush, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq, Hamid Karzai, IEC, Independent Election Commission, Insurgency, Insurgents, Iraq, Kabul, Malalai Joya, Mullah Omar, NATO, Osama Bin Laden, Politics, Qasim Fahim, Rawa, run-off, runoff election, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Soviet Union, taliban, The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, Tora Bora, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Nations, USSR, Ustream, Veterans, Video, Vietnam, Weapons of Mass Destruction, WMD with 2 comments

Opium From Afghanistan Kills 100,000 People Around the Globe Annually

In Afghanistan, Crime, News, Opinion, Politics, War on 21 October 2009 tagged Afghan, Afghanistan, Antonio Maria Costa, black turbans, Canada, Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Columbia, Heroin, Insurgency, Insurgents, Latin America, Mexico, Morphine, Myanmar, Najibullah Zazi, NATO, Opium, taliban, U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, United Nations, United States of America, Verbiage, warlords with no comments

I suffer from no delusions to say that Afghanistan does not produce Opium, or that it isn’t the largest producer of Opium, but CNN’s verbiage in relation to Afghanistan has been very questionable of late. From their incessant need to constantly restate the word ‘Afghan’ in stories about Najibullah Zazi, to this article’s headline and [...]

Former Soldier Bragged About Rape and Murder in Iraq

In Iraq, News, Racism, War on 27 April 2009 tagged Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, America, Baghdad, Brian Skaret, Insurgents, Iraq, Iraq War, Kentucky, Mahmudiya, Midland, Paducah, Patrick Bouldin, personality disorder, Private 1st Class, Rape, Reuters, Soldiers, Steven Green, Texas, War with 2 comments

The tolls of a war fought by an unprepared military facing an unspecified enemy? Government prosecutors in the courtroom said former Private 1st Class Steven Green, alleged ringleader of the slayings, was only interested in killing Iraqis “nonstop” and bragged during a barbecue celebration later that what he had done was “awesome.” Green, 23, is [...]