UK Afghanistan Newswire Archive
Occupied Afghanistan: The attack on the British Council in Kabul
21-08-2011 15:09
The attack on the British Council in Kabul on 19th August, resulting in twelve deaths and many injuries, further underlined how unwelcome the occupiers are, in a country in which they should never have been in the first place. Further tragedies, heaped on tragedies, also illustrated how out of touch those both on the ground in country - and those in high places abroad are. The day of the attack was both the Sabbath (Friday) and national holiday marking the 92nd anniversary of Afghanistan's independence from Britain in 1919 and of course, the 19th: 19 -1919.
Solidarity with Afghanistan War Refusenik Michael Lyons - Colchester Prison
11-08-2011 14:00
YOUTUBE Speaking Outside Colchester Military Prison - Ciaron O'Reilly from Giuseppe Conlon House/ Catholic Worker, Naomi from "UK Friends of Bradley Manning", Katrina recites a poem, Ben Griffin Afghanistan/Iraq combt veteran "Veterans for Peace", Jill Harris Michael Lyon's mother, Fr. Martin Newell Giuseppe Conlon House , Giorgio Riva Payday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxazNPBw8oo
XE's Raymond Davis, Afghanistan, Libya, opening shots of World War III?
05-03-2011 01:59
This week's discussion was about the deepening military conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan. The new military government in Egypt and nascent civil war in Libya.
Obama’s reign of terror in Afghanistan
05-01-2011 01:53
2010 was the bloodiest year of the now nine-year conflict in Afghanistan and the tribal border regions of Pakistan. Under the command of General David Petraeus, a massively expanded US and NATO force is waging a campaign of extermination against various ethnic Pashtun and Taliban-linked insurgent movements that have not accepted the foreign invasion of their country.Afghanistan: Global NATO’s first ground war in its tenth year
11-10-2010 18:42
Afghanistan 9 years, Reading Names of the Dead, London - Pictures
08-10-2010 12:52
Afghanistan Anniversary Vigil
04-10-2010 10:15
End the War in Afghanistan / Remember the Dead9am - 6pm, Thursday 7 October
Whitehall (opposite Downing Street)
Naming The Dead: End The War in Afghanistan
18-09-2010 09:55
Central London event to mark the anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan with Maya Evans (JNV) and Susan Clarkson - some risk of arrest.Afghanistan: NATO's ten-year war in South Asia
01-09-2010 15:58
The conflict represents the longest continuous combat operations in the history of the United States and Afghanistan alike. With the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for the only time in its existence activating its Article 5 mutual military assistance clause in September 2001 and thus entering the Afghan fray, European nations that had not been at war since the Second World War are now engaged in an endless combat mission.
There are 150,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, 120,000 of them under the command of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Military personnel from over a quarter of the 192 members of the United Nations. They include soldiers from almost every European country, several Asia-Pacific states, and nations in the Americas and the Middle East.
Wikileaks-FALLOUT FROM THE COLD WAR IN AFGHANISTAN
29-07-2010 10:42
The Wikileaks documents published this week proved US helicopters, drones and warplanes had been shot down by surface-to-air heat-seeking missiles and not, as military spokesmen kept claiming, by artillery and ground fire.Obviously no one in the Pentagon was eager to recall the Cold War against the Soviets when the Americans shipped hundreds of the shoulder-held Stingers to the Afghan
The Afghanistan documents and the struggle against war
29-07-2010 08:05
The public release of the 92,000 secret documents on the Afghanistan war by WikiLeaks, together with the reaction of the media and the official establishment, has immense political implications for the antiwar struggle in the US and internationally.Afghanistan casualty rate highest of war
26-07-2010 23:24
Eight months after the Obama administration announced a “surge” of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to crush the Taliban-led insurgency, the rate of US and allied casualties has soared to the highest level of the nearly nine-year war and is beginning to match the bloodiest stages of the occupation of Iraq.Trail of Tears for Afghanistan – London to Colchester Peace Walk - An account
06-07-2010 11:17
"The war is worth waging":Afghanistan's vast reserves of minerals and naturalgas
17-06-2010 12:17
AFGHANISTAN: WHY THE TROOPS SHOULD COME HOME
17-06-2010 11:52
Cambridge Stop the War Coalition are holding a public meeting onAfghanistan with:
Karla Ellis (Military Families against the War)
Judith Orr (Stop the War Coalition national officer)
on Friday 18th June at 7.30 pm in the Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane,
Cambridge.
NATO In Afghanistan: World War In One Country
14-05-2010 17:05
It is also a testing range for new 21st century weapons and combat systems intended for future use around the world.
General Election Hustings: AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ & PALESTINE - WHERE DO YOU STAND?
08-04-2010 11:14
Details in briefDate: Wednesday 14th April 2010
Time: Meeting to start 7.45 pm
Location: Friends Meeting House,12 Jesus Lane, Cambridge, CB5 8BA.
Afghanistan: Has the war been lost there and at home?
24-02-2010 12:33
Cambridge Stop the War Coalition are holding a public meeting and AGM on Tuesday 2nd March at 7.30 pm in Bramwell Lounge, Cambridge University Sports and Social Club, Mill Lane, Cambridge.24.10.09 - Troops Out Of Afghanistan National Demonstration
25-10-2009 14:08
Escalation of US NATO War in Afghanistan: The Risks of Regional Conflagration
17-10-2009 09:20
If McChrystal gains the additional 60,000 American troops he's requested and NATO provides several thousand more, combined Western military forces in Afghanistan could number some 180,000. With control of former Soviet airbases in the nation in addition to air fields in Central Asia, Iraq, the South Caucasus, Turkey and the Black Sea nations of Bulgaria and Romania, Washington and its allies could be poised for military operations against Iran far more ambitious than any discussed or rumored before.The expansion of the South Asian war into Pakistan also allows the West to employ that nation for future attacks against Iran.
