Alternative View 2006 - for john schou

What Really Happened Jan_06.xls Seite 121
31.07.2005 7 Afghanistan, Pakistan & India
08.01.2006 AOL News 7 Pakistan has protested to the U.S. military in Afghanistan over firing at a
Pakistani village near the Afghan border that killed eight people, the Fo-reign
Ministry said Monday
14.01.2006 NY Times 7 An American airstrike carried out on a village in the Bajaur tribal region of
northwest Pakistan was aimed at al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda's second-incommand
… As many as 17 people were killed … Pakistan has not granted
American forces in Afghanistan the right to cross the border, even in pursuit
of militants
16.01.2006 Independant 7 18 civilians are believed to have died, including six children … Zawahiri had
been invited to a dinner … may have survived an American air strike in
Pakistan because he did not turn up … The CIA is known to operate its own
Predator drones, but their operations are classified
16.01.2006 X 7 CNN informed that the mighty US military had killed 18 civilians in Paki-stan
due to "bad intelligence" in the ongoing "war on terror". As an ally in this "war
on terror", Pakistani leaders were justifiably upset ... Yet in this instance, the
Pakistanis will be lucky to receive an apology
16.01.2006 Uruknet 7 (… Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, also has the uncanny ability to elude capture).
Thus, not unlike Orwell‘s Emmanuel Goldstein, both al-Zarqawi and al-
Zawahiri live another day to serve as bogeymen (and, like Goldstein, we are
never sure they actually exist)
19.01.2006 BAZ 7 Bei dem tödlichen US-Luftangriff auf ein pakistanisches Dorf in der Nähe der
Grenze zu Afghanistan [sind drei führenden Al Qaida-Vertreter getötet
worden, darunter] ein führender Bombenbauer des Terrornetzes Al Qaida...
Kopfgeld 5 Millionen $
21.01.2006 Bellaciao 7 US Troops told to ignore Opium Crop that is now more than 1/2 Afghan GDP -
Once best known for opium, Afghanistan … it‘s the world‘s largest producer
and exporter of heroin - When the Taliban was on control of Afghanistan,
opium production had been shut down almost completely
25.01.2006 X 7 ahead of the IAEA meeting on Iran issue, the US made it clear that if India did not
vote against Tehran's nuclear programme, the fallout on the Indo-US nuclear deal in
the Congress would be "devastating" and the initiative will "die"
28.01.2006 X 7 India distanced itself from US-led calls to isolate Iran at next week‘s meeting
of the IAEA after controversial remarks on the issue by Washington‘s envoy
to Delhi enraged the nation as seldom seen before
21.02.2006 BAZ 7 Ein US-Gericht hat den Vater des kanadischen Guantánamo-Häftlings Omar Khadr
zur Zahlung von insgesamt 102,6 Mio. verurteilt. Das Geld sollen die Witwe eines in
Afghanistan gefallenen US-Soldaten und ein beim selben Angriff verletzter Soldat
erhalten. [Der] damals 15-Jähriger die beiden US-Soldaten .. mit einer Granate
angegriffen
23.02.2006 X 7 Afghanistan has "huge problems" and NATO troops will be in the country for
years, the commander of Canada's forces in Afghanistan told
03.03.2006 Telepolis 7 Mit der Zusage einer engen atomaren Zusammenarbeit hat US-Präsident
George W. Bush bei seinem ersten Indien-Besuch die Politik der Annäherung
zu Neu Delhi fortgeführt und Indien mit der strategischen Partnerschaft
faktisch als Atommacht anerkannt
04.03.2006 India Times 7 In a blunt rejection of Pakistan's demand for a civilian nuclear deal on the
lines he clinched with India, .. Bush said the 2 countries had different needs
and different histories
24.03.2006 BAZ 7 Im Fall des wegen seines Übertritts zum Christentum angeklagten Afghanen
Abdul Rahman hat der afghanische Präsident Hamid Karsai am Freitag eine
Hinrichtung ausgeschlossen
28.03.2006 BAZ 7 Der in Afghanistan von der Todesstrafe bedrohte Christ Abdul Rahman hat
nach Angaben der UN um Asyl im Ausland gebeten {motive?}
05.04.2006 Reuters 7 Afghanistan: "The number of mine victims ranges from 70 to 100 each month, down
from an estimated 150 to 300 per month in 2002‖ ... With no official statistics,
authorities believe that 1.5 million people have either been killed or maimed in mine
explosions over the past 25 years of war and civil strife
03.05.2006 Raw Story 7 Building on a winter campaign of suicide bombings and assassinations and
the knowledge that U.S. troops are leaving, the Taliban appear to be moving
their insurgency into a new phase, flooding the rural areas of southern
Afghanistan with weapons and men