Canada Backs Talks Between Karzai and Taliban
03 June 2009
'Canada Backs Talks Between Karzai and Taliban', The Globe and Mail, 3 June 2009
EXCERPT: "Canada says it supports peace talks under way between President Hamid Karzai's Afghan government and representatives of the Taliban and other insurgent groups, but cautions they will have to accept the Kabul government's authority. Neither Canadian nor U.S. officials are involved in the talks in the United Arab Emirates,...
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US Finds Mistakes In Deadly Afghan Airstrikes
03 June 2009
'US Finds Mistakes In Deadly Afghan Airstrikes', Reuters, 3 June 2009
EXCERPT: "A U.S. military investigation has uncovered mistakes in air strikes that killed dozens of civilians in western Afghanistan last month, according to a U.S. military official. The official confirmed a report in The New York Times on Wednesday that said the civilian death toll would probably have been reduced if U.S. air crews and ground troops had...
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Locals Wary Of US-Afghan Patrol Program
03 June 2009
'Locals Wary of US-Afghan Patrol Program', NPR, 3 June 2009
EXCERPT: "Afghanistan's Nerkh district, an hour's drive west of Kabul, looks like a tranquil paradise, with snowcapped mountains, lush orchards and humble homes enclosed inside mud walls. But looks can be deceiving in this district in Wardak province. Gunbattles are common in the area, and on Monday, four U.S. soldiers were killed and five others wounded...
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US Objects To UN Report On Military Killings
03 June 2009
'', The Associated Press, 3 June 2009
EXCERPT: "The Obama administration charged Wednesday that a U.N. investigator violated his mandate by accusing the U.S. of failing to properly investigate allegations of unlawful killings by American forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. Philip Alston, the U.N. Human Rights Council's investigator on extrajudicial executions, claimed that while some...
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