The New Dark Age

26 July, 2010 — Information Clearing House

Afghanistan War Logs:
Massive Leak of Secret Files Exposes Truth of Occupation

By Nick Davies and David Leigh

Hundreds of civilians killed by coalition troops · Covert unit hunts leaders for ‘kill or capture’ · Steep rise in Taliban bomb attacks on Nato · Read the Guardian’s full war logs investigation
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26016.htm

How US Marines Sanitised Record of Bloodbath

By Declan Walsh

War logs show how marines gave cleaned up accounts of incident in which they killed 19 civilians.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26024.htm

Secret CIA Paramilitaries’ Role in Civilian Deaths

By David Leigh

Innocent Afghan men, women and children have paid the price of the Americans’ rules of engagement.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26019.htm

Task Force 373
Special Forces Death Squads Hunting Top Taliban

By Nick Davies

The Nato coalition in Afghanistan has been using an undisclosed “black” unit of special forces, Task Force 373, to hunt down targets for death or detention without trial. Details of more than 2,000 senior figures from the Taliban and al-Qaida are held on a “kill or capture” list.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26018.htm

White House attacks Pakistan over Taliban aid

By Declan Walsh

The Obama administration, which gives $1bn a year in military aid to Pakistan, did not challenge the veracity of the files, but said that while Islamabad was making progress against extremism, “the status quo is not acceptable”.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26017.htm

US Condemns Massive Leak of Afghan War Files

By AFP

“The United States strongly condemns the disclosure of classified information by individuals and organizations which could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security,” said White House National Security Advisor James Jones.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26020.htm

Afghan War Leaks Expose Costly Folly

By Ray McGovern

The brutality and fecklessness of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan have been laid bare in an indisputable way just days before the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on whether to throw $33.5 billion more into the Afghan quagmire, when that money is badly needed at home.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26022.htm

Revealed: Document Exposes US Double-talk On Lockerbie

Jason Allardyce and Tony Allen-Mills

The document, acquired by a well placed US source, threatens to undermine Obama’s claim last week that all Americans were “surprised, disappointed and angry” to learn of Megrahi’s release.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26021.htm

A Decade of Declining House Prices  

By Mike Whitney

he housing depression will last for a decade or more. This is by design. The Fed has been working with the banks to withhold inventory so prices do not fall too fast or too far. That way the banks can manage their write-downs without slipping into insolvency. But what’s good for the banks is bad for the country.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26023.htm

US Attack Kills 52 In Afghan Village:

A Nato rocket attack on a village in Afghanistan last week killed 52 civilians, including women and children, the office of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has said in a statement.
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/2010726143021529494.html

Sunday: Over 20 Taliban militants killed in NATO-led operation in east Afghanistan:

Afghan national security forces and NATO aviation have killed 26 Taliban militants in a combat operation in the Nuristan province in eastern Afghanistan, the regional authorities said on Sunday, RIA Novosti reported.
en.trend.az/regions/world/afghanistan/1725860.html

Afghan leader calls for probe into civilian deaths:

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into the deaths of “a number” of civilians in a rocket attack in southern Afghanistan, his spokesman told AFP on Monday.
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100726/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestcivilians

Civilians caught in firing line of British troops:

The US army’s archives contain descriptions of at least 21 separate occasions in which British troops are said to have shot or bombed Afghan civilians, including women and children.
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/british-troops-afghan-civilian-shootings

Two NATO soldiers killed in helicopter “crash” in Afghan capital:

The cause of the “crash” was under investigation, he said.
bit.ly/cEWahz

Body of U.S. soldier found in Afghan province:

Afghan and NATO-led troops have found the body of a U.S. soldier and operation for rescuing another is going on, spokesman for provincial administration Deen Mohammad Darvesh said Monday.
en.trend.az/regions/world/afghanistan/1726190.html

Julian Assange on the Afghanistan war logs:

‘They show the true nature of this war’: Video: Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, explains why he decided to publish thousands of secret US military files on the war in Afghanistan
bit.ly/cvBI06

Download Afghan War Diary, 2004-2010

wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010

Wikileaks Afghanistan files: download the key incidents as a spreadsheet:

Key incidents from the Wikileaks Afghanistan war logs selected by Guardian writers. As a spreadsheet, with co-ordinates
bit.ly/aVVDDZ

How the US is losing the battle for hearts and minds:

Leaked Afghanistan war logs reveal villagers’ unenthusiastic responses to US army attempts to build bridges
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/26/us-battle-hearts-minds-afghanistan

Taliban spokesman: 1 missing US sailor dead, other captured by insurgents:

Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the pair drove into an area of Logar province that is under insurgent control. He says that during a brief gunfight, one American was killed and the other was captured.
bit.ly/92aluO

Taliban seize key district in Afghan east:

Taliban guerrillas have captured a strategic district from the Afghan government after days of clashes in eastern Nuristan province, officials said on Sunday.
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100725/wl_nm/us_afghanistan_violence

U.S. says Afghan war will get worse:

“No one is declaring victory but there is progress,” he told reporters in Kabul. “I believe that goal is still achievable and certainly the proof of that will be what happens over these next many months in what is a very challenging period.”
bit.ly/ajsG3o

US suspects Hamid Gul as Taliban liason:

Gul is mentioned so many times in the reports that it seems unlikely that Pakistan’s current military and intelligence officials could not know of at least some of his wide-ranging activities.
bit.ly/ayW2w0

Pakistan: Twenty-one militants killed in Kurram, Orakzai:

Twenty-one militants were killed during a fresh military operation in Kurram Agency and Upper Orakzai Agency on Sunday.
bit.ly/9CqAPY

US Kills13 in Pakistan attacks: :

Thirteen people were killed and 11 others injured in drone attacks in Pakistan’s North and South Waziristan areas on Sunday, local media reports said on Monday.
www.newkerala.com/news2/fullnews-7630.html

8 killed, 25 injured in Pak suicide attack:

At least eight people were killed and 25 injured when a suicide bomber struck near the home of Pakistan’s provincial minister whose only son was killed two days earlier by Islamist militants, officials said.
bit.ly/9SIqfl

US Attack Kills 4 In Pakistan: :

A US drone fired 2 missiles in Dandi Darba Khel area of South Waziristan on Sunday.
bit.ly/cN78Xc

Iraq: 4 killed, 10 injured in Al Arabiya suicide bombing:

Four people were killed and more than 10 others wounded in Baghdad on Monday when a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle by the offices of Al Arabiya, its correspondent in Baghdad and interior ministry officials said.
www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/07/26/114859.html

Sunday: Seven security officials killed in northern Iraqi violence:

Seven people, all of them police officers and security guards, were killed Sunday in violent incidents in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, officials said
bit.ly/dnUQ8v

Ohio soldier killed in Iraq attack:

The Department of Defense says a soldier from Ohio has been killed in Iraq after insurgents attacked his convoy vehicle with an improvised explosive device.
www.wchstv.com/newsroom/oh/news10.shtml

Chilcot inquiry: Iraq expert Carne Ross claims civil servants are withholding vital documents:

Britain’s ‘deep state’ of secretive bureaucrats is denying witnesses to the Chilcot inquiry crucial files
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/25/chilcot-iraq-carne-ross

8 people killed in shelling in Somalia’s capital::

Mogadishu ambulance service chief Ali Muse says five people died and seven were wounded late Saturday. A witness saw three more wounded people. Muse says three died and seven were wounded Sunday when mortars hit a market. He says most of the dead were civilians.
www.yorkdispatch.com/nationworld/ci_15599285

In Somalia, Talk to the Enemy:

The Ethiopian military moved into Somalia to protect the unpopular government, and for the next two years the United States bankrolled a brutal occupation. Today, no one doubts that this was a tragic error. To defend the dysfunctional government, Ethiopian soldiers robbed, killed and raped with abandon.
www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/opinion/25bruton.html?_r=1

France’s Sarkozy says will punish Al Qaeda killers:

President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Monday to punish al Qaeda’s north African wing after confirming the death of a 78-year-old French hostage kidnapped in Niger.
bit.ly/b5P03t

Fighting erupts after Yemen truce:

Fresh fighting has erupted in northern Yemen between Shia rebels and a government-backed tribe a day after tribal mediators brokered a ceasefire between the two.
english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/20107251937191958.html

Bomb kills 6 at Iraq office of Arabic news channel:

A suicide bomber driving a minibus blew himself up in front of the Baghdad office of a popular Arabic news station Monday, killing six people and burying a lawmaker alive under the rubble of his collapsed home, police and hospital officials said.
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAQ?SITE=AP

Manufacturing Consent For Attack On Iran:
U.S. strike on Iran likelier than ever, former CIA chief says:

A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program.
bit.ly/9afxhH

EU to hit Iran with ‘toughest ever’ sanctions, diplomats say:

Proposed EU sanctions are understood to go further than current UN sanctions, calling for a ban on ‘dual-use’ goods which can be used for both military and civilian purposes.
bit.ly/bCMo1P

Iran won’t trade with countries imposing sanctions:

“Any country that creates limitations for Iran’s assets, we will stop trading with them,” Hamid Borhani, deputy head of the Central Bank of Iran, told the semi-official Mehr news agency. “We have to protect our assets.”
news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100724/wl_nm/us_iran_banks_assets

Iran delivers response to IAEA:

“Through submitting an official letter, I expressed the Islamic Republic of Iran’s readiness to engage in negotiations over fuel [provisions] for the Tehran nuclear reactor,” Soltanieh said.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=136323&sectionid=351020104

Pipes: To Get Obama To Act, Netanyahu Should Threaten To Nuke Iran:

“I think it’s realistic for the Israelis to attack and do real damage,” Pipes said.
bit.ly/cy8I90

Top settler rabbi arrested for allegedly inciting to kill non-Jews:

Rabbi Yitzhak Shapira is the alleged author of a book which deems as legal, according to ‘Jewish law,’ the killing of non-Jews.
bit.ly/dav0oW

Burma is working on nuclear weapons programme, experts claim:

Burma is working on a nuclear weapons programme, experts have concluded, after its existence was exposed by leaked photographs.
bit.ly/aVSeDV

BP fails to put money in promised escrow account.:

Ken Feinberg, who was appointed to administer oil spill claims out of the escrow fund, has said he “hasn’t been able to start writing claims checks” because BP PLC has failed to deposit any money into the $20 billion fund it promised to create:
bit.ly/cbI9IK

Geithner calls for reverse of Bush tax cuts to staunch deficit:

Wealthy Americans should pay higher taxes to help clear the country’s record debts, Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury Secretary, said
bit.ly/ds8vZ0

Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,366,350″
www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s War On Iraq:  4,731
icasualties.org/oif/

Number Of  International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1,967

Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan
$1,021,376,134,133
www.costofwar.com/

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