en dag i Afghanistan

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Detta är ingen fredsbevarande mission

Speaking in London after a meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Rice said, "I do think the alliance [NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization] is facing a real test here. Our populations need to understand this is not a peacekeeping mission but rather a long-term fight against extremists."

Källa: Asia Times 8 febr 2008

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Det pågående kriget

[...] De totala utgifterna för krigen i Irak och Afghanistan överstiger nu 1000 miljarder dollar och i juni blev Afghanistankriget det längsta krig som USA utkämpat. Det har nu pågått i 105 månader. Vietnamkriget pågick under 103 månader.

Källa: SvD 2010 08 17

lägesrapport Afghanistan 22 oktober 2008

Die hören sollen, sie hören nicht mehr,
Vernichtet ist das ganze Heer,
Mit dreizehntausend der Zug begann,
Einer kam heim aus Afghanistan.


Länk:

Endast en kom hem . . .

Good news feb 2009

In Afghanistan, "state institutions have been created, a Constitution adopted, a president was elected, and government was formed. All the necessary conditions are in place for the stable functioning of a government in Afghanistan," the statement said. The Kyrgyz government also cited growing popular discontent with the US military presence among its motivations for the closure. It also criticized US obstruction of the investigation into the fatal shooting in December 2006 of a Kyrgyz truck driver by a US serviceman during a security check at the entrance to the air base. Officials have not specified when the closure might take place, but the agreement under which the base was established in 2001 specifies that the United States must be given 180 days notice.

Kyrgyzstan moves to shut US air base

- an announcement 5 feb 2009

May 2010 Resentment over deaths
Joseph Breasseale, a military spokesman, told the AFP news agency that the military could not elaborate on the case or identities of those killed. "The investigation is in Afghanistan, not in the US, and the soldiers are currently in Afghanistan," Breasseale said.

Civilian deaths are a highly sensitive issuefor US and Nato forces in Afghanistan.

Last month, two women and a girl were killed after Nato troops opened fire on a car in the southern city of Kandahar. Two weeks before that, US troops opened fire on a bus in the same city, killing four civilians and sparking angry public protests.

There are more than 90,000 Nato soldiers from 40 nations in Afghanistan. They entered the country following a US invasion in 2001 to remove the Taliban from power. The Taliban were accused of harbouring al-Qaeda operatives.

Afghan officials say about 170 Afghan civilians were killed between the months of March and April this year alone, an increase of 33 per cent compared to the same period last year. Although UN figures show far more civilians are killed by the Taliban, deaths at the hands of foreigners spark wide resentment in the country and undermine international forces' attempts to weaken the Taliban by building trust among the population.