Taliban Call for Joint Probe Into Afghan Civilian Deaths
16 August 2010
, AFP, 16 August 2010
EXCERPT: "The Taliban waging a vicious insurgency in Afghanistan have signalled a willingness to cooperate with international forces, the United Nations and rights groups to investigate civilian deaths. A committee 'should be formed to assess the very issue and conduct investigations into the civilian casualties across the country', the Taliban said...
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Karzai to Scrap Foreign Security Firms Within Four Months
16 August 2010
Karzai to Scrap Foreign Security Firms in Afghanistan Within Four Months, The Guardian, 16 August 2010
EXCERPT: "Afghanistan's giant private security industry, which guards everything from western embassies to Nato supply convoys, is set to be scrapped within four months under dramatic new plans from Hamid Karzai. According to Karzai's spokesman, the Afghan president is due to bring forward plans to dissolve all private security companies...
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Karzai Names Panel to Look Into Rising Ethnic Violence
16 August 2010
, The Washington Post, 15 August 2010
EXCERPT: "Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed a panel Saturday to investigate escalating ethnic violence that could hamper international military efforts to control a growing Taliban insurgency. The heightened concern stems from a dispute that began when members of the nomadic Kuchi tribe temporarily settled near a graveyard belonging to...
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NATO Strike Cited in Afghan Civilian Deaths
16 August 2010
, The New York Times, 14 August 2010
EXCERPT: "There is a 'fair chance' that a NATO jet inadvertently killed five Afghan civilians during a shootout with Taliban fighters in a village in southern Afghanistan earlier this week, an American official said Saturday. Some details were still unclear, but a local Afghan official and two witnesses said that the civilians were killed Thursday...
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