US Claims Kinder Prison, Swifter Justice for Detainees in Afghanistan
19 January 2011
Kinder Prison, Swifter Justice for US Detainees in Afghanistan, The Boston Globe, 18 January 2011
EXCERPT: "[...] Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, US forces have detained thousands of suspected enemy combatants without trial in facilities such as Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, Abu Ghraib in Iraq, and Bagram in Afghanistan. US officials say the detentions prevent attacks, but critics charge that innocent people have been unfairly held for...
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Canada's Special Forces Command "Encouraged" War Crimes: Soldier
19 January 2011
JTF2 Command '"Encouraged" War Crimes, Soldier Alleges, CBC News, 18 January 2011
EXCERPT: "A member of Canada's elite special forces unit says he felt his peers were being "encouraged" by the Canadian Forces chain of command to commit war crimes in Afghanistan, according to new documents obtained by CBC News. The documents from the military ombudsman's office show the member of the covert unit Joint Task...
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Known German-Moroccan Al-Qaeda Fighter Believed Killed near Bagram
19 January 2011
German Jihadists: Al-Qaida Fighter from Bonn Believed Dead, Spiegel Online, 19 January 2011
EXCERPT: "In the fall of 2009, Bekkay Harrach, an extremist from Bonn, threatened on behalf of al-Qaida to launch terrorist attacks in Germany. It now appears that he has been killed in Afghanistan. The terror group IMU announced his death this week. A well-known jihadist of German-Moroccan origin raised in the city of Bonn is believed to have...
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Roadside Bomb Kills 13 Civilians in E. Afghanistan
19 January 2011
Roadside Bomb Kill 13 Civilians in E. Afghanistan, BBC News, 19 January 2011
EXCERPT: "A roadside bomb has killed 13 civilians in eastern Afghanistan, government officials said. The interior ministry said in a statement that the vehicle, a motorised rickshaw, was hit in the morning. The dead include women and children. The attack took place in Khoshamand district in Paktika province. It is not known who carried out the attack, but the...
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Afghan Official Expects Court to Void Election
19 January 2011
, The New York Times, 18 January 2011
EXCERPT: "Afghanistan's attorney general expressed hope on Tuesday that a special court appointed by the president to look into election fraud would throw out the results of the country's parliamentary elections, and predicted that the court would delay this week's planned inauguration of a new Parliament. Speaking in an interview, Mohammed Ishaq Aloko,...
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Acid Attack Puts Afghan Journalist in Hospital
19 January 2011
Acid Attack Puts Afghan Journalist in Hospital, AlertNet, 19 January 2011
EXCERPT: "A veteran Afghan journalist was in hospital after an acid attack on the streets of Kabul, which may have been politically motivated, officials said on Wednesday. Abdul Razaq Mamon, a presenter, commentator and author, was left with burns to his hands and face after acid was thrown at him while he was returning home. The head of Kabul's criminal investigation...
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