Statement of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan on International Women’s Day, March 8, 2010

February 2010: Local warlords in Ghor province in Western Afghanistan publicly flogged two Afghan women

Emancipation of Afghan women not attainable as long as the occupation, Taliban and “National Front” criminals are not sacked!

Today, on the 8th of March, Afghan women are mourning for the gang-rape of Bashiras and Saimas, for being flogged by most lowed elements, for being auctioned in open market and for their young daughters who put an end to their miserable lives by self-immolation. But the perpetrators of all these crimes are forgiven; therefore they enjoy complete immunity, are still holding their official positions and tightening it through plundering our people and country.

Rupert Hamer killed in bed by Taliban strike in Nawa, Afghanistan

LONDON – An explosion in southern Afghanistan killed a British journalist, a U.S. Marine and an Afghan soldier…
The Sunday Mirror’s defense correspondent Rupert Hamer, 39, and photographer Philip Coburn, 43, were accompanying a U.S. Marine patrol Saturday when the vehicle … was hit by a makeshift bomb in Nawa…

Hammam Khalil Abu Mallal al-Balawi aka Hammam Khalil Mohammed aka Abu Dujana al-Khorasani outsmarted the CIA

CIA bomber struck moments before pat-down search
By R. Jeffrey Smith, Joby Warrick and Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 9, 2010; 10:38 AM

The Jordanian doctor arrived in a red station wagon that came directly from Pakistan and sped through checkpoints at a CIA base in Afghanistan before stopping abruptly at an improvised interrogation center. Outside stood one of the CIA’s top experts on al-Qaeda, ready to greet the doctor and hear him describe a way to kill Ayman al-Zawahiri, the organization’s number two and a man long at the top of U.S. target lists.

Hammam Khalil Abu Mallal al-Balawi aka Hammam Khalil Mohammed aka Abu Dujana al-Khorasani, the Taliban double agent

Abu Dujana al-Khorasani photo?

CIA bomber ‘was Jordan informant’

The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA agents [and a Jordanian agent Sharif Ali bin Zeid] in Afghanistan was a Jordanian informant, US media reports say.

He is said to have been a doctor recruited by Jordan’s intelligence service to infiltrate al-Qaeda.

He is believed to have been working undercover in eastern Afghanistan for weeks before detonating a bomb at Forward Operating Base Chapman.

The attack was the worst against US intelligence officials since the US embassy in Beirut was bombed in 1983.

Taliban turned CIA informant into double agent & suicide bomber

Exclusive: CIA Attacker Driven in From Pakistan
Suicide Bomber Was a Regular CIA Informant, Had Been to Chapman Base Multiple Times
By ALEEM AGHA and NICK SCHIFRIN

KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 2, 2010—
The suicide bomber who killed at least six Central Intelligence Agency officers in a base along the Afghan-Pakistan border on Wednesday was a regular CIA informant who had visited the same base multiple times ….

7 CIA agents & 5 Canadians taken out by Taliban strike in Afghanistan

Aljazeera: Seven American CIA agents and five Canadian soldiers have been killed in two separate attacks in Afghanistan, officials say.
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on the Americans, carried out at a US base in the eastern province of Khost, saying that the attacker was an officer in the Afghan army.

Ban Ki-moon welcomes Obama’s strategy to kill more Afghans

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed the new U.S. strategy in the war in Afghanistan and vowed that the United Nations would help to ensure a successful transfer of responsibility to Afghans.
President Barack Obama announced a 30,000-strong U.S. troop increase for the Afghan war on Tuesday.

Barack Obama’s thanksgiving message to Afghanistan & the world

Barack Obama's thanksgiving message to Afghanistan and the world

Violence against Afghan, Pakistani women escalates in 2009

RAWA: Mother of Saima, a 14-year-old girl victim of gang-rape in Northern Afghanistan. She told to an Afghan TV Channel on November 24, 2009, that the warlords not only raped her daughter but also imprisoned her husband and son when they publicized the issue and asked for justice.

Hamid Karzai’s Acceptance Speech

November 3, 2009
Transcript: Hamid Karzai’s Acceptance Speech
A rough translation by The New York Times of Afhgan President Hamid Karzai’s acceptance speech.

How the Afghan Election Was Rigged – By Peter W. Galbraith

No one will ever know how Afghans voted in their country’s presidential elections on Aug. 20, 2009. Seven weeks after the polling, the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) is still trying to separate fraudulent tallies from ballots. In some provinces, many more votes were counted than were cast. E.U. election monitors characterize 1.5 million votes as suspect, which would include up to one-third of the votes cast for incumbent President Hamid Karzai. Once fraud occurs on the scale of what took place in Afghanistan, it is impossible to untangle.