NATO keeps killing Afghan civilians

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From Reuters:

Air strike kills Afghan civilians – provincial official

Thu Dec 31, 2009 1:48pm IST

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – An air strike by foreign forces in Afghanistan‘s southern Helmand province on Wednesday killed civilians, although the number of victims is unknown, a spokesman for the provincial governor said. “A patrol of foreign troops came under Taliban ambush at 3 pm. After the ambush, planes came and bombed the area, which caused civilian casualties,” said Dawud Ahmadi, spokesman for the Helmand governor. He could not yet give further details.

Officials are still investigating how many people died in the attack in the outskirts of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, he added. …

A press officer for NATO-led forces declined immediate comment on the incident.

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Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald discusses US foreign policy, including the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, drone strikes on Pakistan, cruise missile attacks on Yemen, operations in Somalia, the ongoing operation in Iraq, and much more: here.

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2009 Deadliest Year for U.S. in Afghanistan: here.

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Canadian Conservative cover-up of torture scandal

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See also here.

Canadian press denounces Conservatives’ shutting down of parliament: here.

Demonstrations and rallies are being held in cities across Canada this Saturday to protest against the minority Conservative government’s two-month shutdown of parliament: here.

Harper’s assault on democracy: here.

War escalation in Yemen after failed bombing attempt?

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The extraordinary scale of the supposed intelligence breakdown surrounding the attempted terror bombing of a Northwest flight on Christmas Day should not be explained away as mere negligence or a “failure to connect the dots”: here.

Excellent demolition of Dick Cheney’s shameful attack on the president in the wake of the Detroit attempted attack: here.

Chris Floyd on Detroit attempted attack: here.

Overreaction to terror plot a bad move: here.

Yemen, Somalia, and Al Qaeda: here.

US presses Yemen to fight ‘extremists’: here.

Women in Yemen fight against social injustices: here.

While the Israeli and European press has reported that an Israeli-run security agency conducted the passenger screening that failed to detect the Christmas Day bomber, the American press has said nothing: here.