Afghans Petition the Dutch to Stay
26 March 2010
Afghans Petition the Dutch to Stay, Radio Netherlands, 26 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Afghans in the Uruzgan province have asked the Dutch not to leave their province by presenting them with a petition. In a document given to Radio Netherlands Worldwide, the Afghans praise the Dutch for building and restoring 'bridges, schools and medical centers'. As far as RNW knows, this is the first time Afghans have used this way of asking foreign...
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Email Drags Merkel into Kunduz Affair
26 March 2010
Email Drags Merkel into Kunduz Affair, The Local, 25 March 2010
EXCERPT: "Chancellor Angela Merkel's office was told within hours of the Kunduz air strike that civilians had been killed, despite the government's insistence for days afterwards that only Taliban fighters had died, a report said Thursday. Bringing Merkel under direct pressure for the first time in the affair, news magazine Der Spiegel has cited an email sent by the Federal...
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Afghans Routinely Executed Detainees: Soldier
26 March 2010
Afghans Routinely Executed Detainees: Soldier, CBC News, 25 March 2010
EXCERPT: "A Canadian soldier has alleged that Afghan authorities routinely executed detainees his unit handed over to them, newly released documents show. The stack of records released Thursday by the federal government also said detainees at a Kandahar prison told Foreign Affairs and Corrections Canada officials on a site tour that they had been tortured. And...
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Military Restructures Afghanistan Police Contract
26 March 2010
, The Washington Independent, 25 March 2010
EXCERPT: "An obscure Army contracting office with ties to the private security firm Blackwater has formally lost control of a lucrative contract to train Afghan police, the Pentagon and U.S. military officials in Afghanistan confirmed to TWI. The office, known as the Counter-Narcoterrorism Technology Program Office or CNTPO, came under criticism...
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