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Suspect in Afghanistan Airfield Incident Dies

Officials don't believe the man was specifically targeting Leon Panetta.

(KABUL AFPS) - The suspect in yesterday’s car theft and possible attack at Bastion Airfield in Afghanistan’s Helmand province died this morning while under medical care, the commander of International Security Assistance Force Joint Command said here today.

Barack Obama is a One-Term President: Yvonne Ridley

"This latest U.S. president, given a Nobel peace Prize because he was not George W. Bush" - Yvonne Ridley

(TEHRAN) - You would certainly know Yvonne Ridley or at least heard of her name if you have been a regular follower of Press TV, especially in Britain.

Ridley is a renowned British journalist, war correspondent and TV host. She made the headlines in 2001 when she was arrested by the Taliban members in Afghanistan while working for the Sunday Express.

Why don`t they love us?

And we wonder why people in the Middle East don’t appreciate what we are doing for them.

(RICHMOND, R.I.) - In January, a video surfaced showing American Marines urinating on the bodies of Afghans they had killed, in February, U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan "inadvertently” burned numerous copies of the Koran. In March, an American soldier murdered 16 Afghan civilians – mostly children – in their own homes.

U.S. Soldier Accused of Murdering Civilians Leaves Afghanistan

The deadly shooting has damaged relations between the U.S. and Afghanistan; now officials fear this latest violence will destroy any hope of political progress.

(SALEM) - The U.S. Army Staff Sergeant accused of gunning down 16 Afghan villagers has not yet been charged, however he was flown out of Afghanistan to an undisclosed location in another country Wednesday.

The Truthman Show: Is Reality Locked in a Detention Camp?

The murdered passengers, like the people blown to smithereens in the Towers, and the millions killed in the Middle East, are still around, watching, mutely urging us to get them some justice and liberate their spirits.

(SUNDANCE, Wyoming) - Propaganda strategy deployed against 9/11 truth:

Build walls around it to prevent contagion of the illusion-dwelling masses; divide-and-conquer various truther factions by driving wedges and confining each faction to its own ghetto.

Women`s Participation in Afghanistan`s Elections

In Afghanistan, there is no one blueprint for a successful female candidacy.

(KABUL) - The establishment of a democratic system under Afghanistan’s 2004 constitution has without doubt led to an unprecedented expansion of political participation for its women.

In the years that have followed, millions of women have turned out to vote in successive rounds of presidential, legislative and provincial elections.

Latest Afghanistan Massacre will be Remembered as Tipping Point in the War

Press statement by Richard Becker, Western Region Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Today’s cold-blooded murder of at least 16 Afghani civilians by a U.S. Army soldier is the latest in a decade-long history of atrocities carried out by the NATO occupiers.

It will be remembered as the tipping point in a criminal war that grows more criminal with each passing month.

PTSD Psychotic Soldier Kills Afghan Civilians

Army superiors should have seen this coming. Will they see the next one?

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - This terrible psychotic act was/is predictable and the soldier involved needs to be in a psychiatric facility as soon as possible. The “system” which put him there for his fourth deployment, the first three in Iraq, is to blame. His immediate superiors, Sergeants and officers at the least should get a reprimand, but better, fines and probable discharges for dereliction of duty which this certainly is.

PTSD Denial and Dead Afghan Civilians

Pushed Too Far? Soldier was a sniper who supported Navy SEAL's and Green Berets.

(SALEM) - Last week we learned that army psychiatrists are increasingly denying that combat veteran suffer PTSD from war; the military suggesting their problems were pre-existing and not a result of combat.

Sunday, at least 16 Afghan civilians were gunned down by a rogue U.S. Army soldier Sunday, who reportedly carried out the attack on an Afghan village after dark using night vision goggles.

Geneva: The Tangled Web Of Many Deceptions

“This accursed shortsighted statecraft…” Heinrich von Kleist (Prinz Friedrich)
The Rajapaksas are the prime architects of Sri Lanka’s Geneva malaise.

(COLOMBO Sri Lanka Guardian) - The US-backed Resolution on Sri Lanka does not urge Colombo to implement the Darusman Report (or recommendations by some international human rights group).

The Resolution merely urges the Rajapaksa administration to make a time-bound (as distinct from an eternally open-ended) commitment to implement the recommendations of its own LLRC.