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04.07.2006 Uruknet 7 US-led offensive in southern Afghanistan kills hundreds - Despite US claims
that the operation is only targeting Taliban fighters, it is clear that ordinary
villagers face bombings and hostile attacks. The Pentagon routinely
describes all victims of military operations as Taliban, even if they turn out to
be women and children
09.07.2006 Guardian 7 Behind the rising death toll of British soldiers in Afghanistan is a shadowy
group known as 'the junta'. Now the coalition has them in its sights ...
Jalaluddin Haqqani, Mullah Mohammed Omar and Mullah Mohammed
Dadullah Akhund
10.07.2006 Guardian 7 Nearly 900 extra military personnel will be deployed to Afghanistan in the
wake of the deaths of six British soldiers in the past month
11.07.2006 Berlingske 7 De britiske og danske soldater, som er sendt til det sydlige Afghanistan er
havnet i en hvepserede ... man har undervurderet Taleban-militsens styrke ...
Store dele af det sydlige Afghanistan har ikke været under nogen regerings
effektive kontrol siden før den sovjetiske invasion i 1979
15.07.2006 BBC 7 Much of the town's market of 150 shops has been reduced to rubble and
there are deep craters where the bombs struck [without warning]... Witnesses
say there were >50 civilian deaths and injuries but UK forces said there was
no evidence of any
18.07.2006 BAZ 7 Taliban-Milizen haben trotz der anhaltenden Offensive der Koalitionstruppen
in der südafghanischen Unruheprovinz Helmand einen Distrikt erobert
16.08.2006 Yahoo 7 Afghan opium cultivation hits a record
17.08.2006 Canada.com 7 The clandestine negotiations, led by Afghan authorities but involving NATO
intermediaries, were being held as hundreds of Taliban fighters amassed
within two kilometres of a Canadian outpost west of Kandahar - the last
military leader to conquer Afghanistan was Alexander the Great
20.08.2006 BAZ 7 Bei Gefechten mit afghanischen und NATO- geführten Schutztruppen ISAF
sind im Süden Afghanistans über 70 Taliban getötet worden
20.08.2006 Independent 7 "The Taliban came and asked us for food. Then the army came and
demanded to know why we were feeding the Taliban. We fed the army too.
It's our tradition; when someone comes and asks for food, we give it to them.
Now it's better that only the Taliban control the area"
02.09.2006 Yahoo 7 UN: Opium cultivation in Afghanistan is spiraling out of control, rising 59% 06 to
produce a record 6,100 tons — ~1/3 > the world's drug users consume
03.09.2006 Guardian 7 British troops suffer their worst military disaster in the war on terror with an air
crash [14 killed] which the MoD says was an accident
05.09.2006 Berlingske 7 130 danske soldater fører an i NATOs krig mod Taleban i Afghanistan
07.09.2006 X 7 REBELS 'CONTROL HALF OF AFGHANISTAN'
12.09.2006 Times 7 Some of America‘s closest Nato allies have abandoned Washington on the
key battleground of the War on Terror, the bloody struggle against Islamic
militants for control of southern Afghanistan - Germany, Italy, Spain and
Turkey ignore request for reinforcements
16.09.2006 Guardian 7 Taliban rise again - Kandahar under threat, war raging in two provinces
19.09.2006 X 7 Taliban movement is "taking back Afghanistan" and now controls that
nation‘s southern half
21.09.2006 Bloomberg 7 U.S. Will Hunt Bin Laden in Pakistan If Necessary, Bush Says - Musharraf
said his gov. would oppose any US action in Pakistan
22.09.2006 Guardian 7 Bush adm. threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" after the
September 11 attacks if the country did not cooperate with America's war on
Afghanistan ... President Musharraf describes US threat as "very rude"
23.09.2006 Uruknet 7 body counts re-appeared in Afghanistan, much the same way opium poppies reappeared
after America's claim to victory over the Taleban (who had suppressed
opium). The bodies are supposed to be Taleban, but who can tell whether a dead
villager is Taleban? {―dead = militant‖ (3 years upwards)}
24.09.2006 Globalresearch 7 in a bitter irony, US military presence has served to restore rather than
eradicate the drug trade ... geopolitical and military control over the drug
routes is as strategic as oil and oil pipelines
28.09.2006 X 7 Australia's military presence in Afghanistan is needed for at least another 10
years to eradicate the forces of terror, but the nation's senior defence
commander says the war is winnable - in "likening the scale of the war to
Vietnam", has Chief Marshal Houston completely forgotten how that conflict
ended?