German spying on aid organization in Afghanistan


This is a video from Germany: people demonstrated there in February 2010 to get the German troops out of Afghanistan.

From Der Spiegel in Germany:

OUTRAGE OVER SURVEILLANCE OPERATION

Germany Spied on Aid Organization in Afghanistan

Germany’s foreign intelligence agency has said it spied on the office of a German food aid organization in Afghanistan to glean information on the country’s security situation and on possible terror attacks. The agency is threatening legal action and has called for a government inquiry.

Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), spent years spying on an office of a German aid organization in Afghanistan. The BND has informed the group, Deutsche Welthungerhilfe or German Agro Action, that it monitored the e-mail traffic of Afghanistan NGO Safety Office (ANSO), an agency run by Welthungerhilfe, between October 2005 and April 2008. …

Intriguingly, during the period in question, Welthungerhilfe was run by Ingeborg Schäuble, the wife of German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble.

Insurgent attacks on NATO trucks highlight US military crisis in Afghanistan: here.

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  1. Sat Dec 6, 5:37 pm ET

    KANDAHAR (AFP) – Four Taliban militants were killed and at least four civilians injured on Saturday as international forces bombed two houses in southern Afghanistan after a patrol was attacked, officals said. …

    In this bombing, four women were also wounded.

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