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The death of Jan Mohammed Khan

Protecting Afghanistan's oil

The death of Jan Mohammed Khan gives us another opportunity to recommend Carmela Baranowskas’ brilliant “Taliban Country.”  The film shows US officers listening to Jan Mohammed Khan. The governor, talking to the US officers, says of one of the local boys who has just been apprehended by the joint US-Afghan force: “We’ll take him with us for a […]

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Afghanistan

Ahmed Wali Karzai and the rape of Afghanistan

NATO's heroin dealer in Kandahar - Ahmed Wali Karzai - dead

Ahmed Wali Karzai, the second biggest heroin dealer in the world and NATO’s top man in Kandahar (as reported by Craig Murray ) has been killed by his head of security, Sardar Mohammed, in an operation claimed by the Taliban. It says a lot about NATO ‘policy’ in Afghanistan that the death of this warlord is […]