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Over 1,000 Afghan ArmySoldiers Killed In Six Months:Steps Should Be Taken To

Reduce Corruption In A Bid To

Encourage Afghan SecurityForces Not To Flee


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An Increase In Afghan TroopsEscaping From Their Duties As

Compared To Last YearThe Militants Are In A BetterPosition

January 25 2013 By Sayed Jawad, Khaama Press [Excerpts]

According to reports at least 1,100 Afghan national army soldiers have been killed duringthe last six months.

Philip Hammond said the statistics shows an increase in Afghan army casualties and

Afghan troops escaping from their duties as compared to last year.

Gen. Richard Barrons said roadside improvised explosive device (IED) attacks are themain motive behind increasing casualties of the Afghan security forces.

Afghan government officials last year also confirmed that over 80% of the Afghansecurity forces casualties are due to roadside improvised explosive device explosions.

In the meantime the British Gen. Richard Barrons said lack of proper logistics and healthcare program are also main reasons behind growing Afghan security forces casualties.

He also said Afghan security forces fleeing from their duties also increased by 3.1% in

October last year.

Gen. Richard Barrons insisted that Afghan security forces should have properleadership, better wage roll and food, and also further steps should be taken to reducecorruption in a bid to encourage Afghan security forces not to flee from their duties.

Also British defense minister Philip Hammond pointed towards the recent attacks bymilitants in capital Kabul and warned that the militants are in a better position.

AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS

Michigan Sgt. Dies Of Afghan Wounds

January 23, 2013 U.S. Department of Defense News Release No. 036-13


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Sgt. Mark H. Schoonhoven, 38, of Plainwell, Mich., died Jan. 20, at Brooke ArmyMedical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas from wounds suffered when enemy forcesattacked his unit with an improvised explosive device on Dec. 15, 2012 in Kabul,

Afghanistan.

He was assigned to the 32nd Transportation Company, 43rd Sustainment Brigade, 4th

Infantry Division, Fort Carson, Colo.

Hampton Soldier Killed In Afghanistan

Defense Department

January 19, 2013 By Hugh Lessig, Daily Press

Sgt. David J. Chambers of Hampton returned from his first combat tour in Afghanistanwith injuries to his ear and shoulder. That didnt stop him from going back a secondtime.

"He felt like the Army was his family," said his mother, Julie Mason Chambers. When heleft for Afghanistan again in November, he told her, "Im leaving one family to go toanother."

Chambers, 25, was killed Wednesday he came across an improvised explosive device

during a foot patrol in the Panjwai district, Kandahar province. The district is considereda Taliban stronghold.

The 2005 Kecoughtan High School graduate was based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord inWashington state. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 4thStryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division.

Chambers had tried college after high school, but it really didnt suit him, his mother said.He entered the Army in May 2009 and thats where he "found his way," she said.


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After completing basic and advanced training at Fort Benning, Ga., he served inAfghanistan from June 2010 to May 2011 with the 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker CavalryRegiment. At the time, he was based in Germany.

In October 2011, he arrived at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. There, he continued to work

hard and train.

"He made sergeant," his mother said. "Dave felt a responsibility he had men underhim now, and he had to keep them alive."

A stellar high school student, he was a happy-go-lucky guy who liked bowling andspending time on the computer. But he was serious about warfighting, and his motherknew he had seen some horrific things.

"He never tried to worry us," she said. "And the military trained him very hard and verygood."

His awards and decorations include a Purple Heart from wounds received during his firstdeployment, plus the Army Achievement Medal with 3rd oak leaf cluster; Meritorious UnitCommendation; Army Good Conduct Medal; National Defense Service Medal;

Afghanistan Campaign Medal with 1 campaign star; Global War on Terrorism ServiceMedal; NCO Professional Development Ribbon; Army Service Ribbon; OverseasService Ribbon; NATO medal; Combat Infantryman Badge; and Drivers Badge.

In his brief military career, his education included two years of college credit andcompletion of the Warrior Leader Course.

"I just want people to know he was a good soldier," his mother said.

Decorated Army Sergeant From ChesterKilled In Afghanistan


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January 12, 2013 BY BRANDON SHULLEETA, Richmond Times-Dispatch

A decorated 28-year-old Army sergeant from Chester died in Afghanistan on Thursdaywhen his unit was attacked, an Army spokesman said.

Sgt. Aaron X. Wittman was patrolling by vehicle when he was shot and killed by small-

arms fire, said Kevin M. Larson of the Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia.

Wittman, a graduate of The Citadel, was in his second deployment in Afghanistan andhad previously been awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star medals, Larson saidFriday.

Wittman died in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan, according to the U.S.Department of Defense. He was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 1stBrigade Combat Team and 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart.

His brother, Nick Wittman, 31, of Quantico, said Aaron Wittman was a guy who gotalong with everybody.

He just lived every minute of his life. He loved fishing. He loved crabbing, NickWittman said, adding that the sergeant was very outgoing and had many friends.

His brother said Aaron Wittman was passionate about his military service and adamantthat the soldiers he oversaw received top-notch training and preparation. Im proud ofhim, and Im proud of his service, Nick Wittman said.

Larson said he was unable to provide specifics about the combat encounter.

3 Georgian Soldiers Wounded InAfghanistan

25 January 2013 by N. Kirtskhalia, Trend

Three Georgian soldiers wounded in Afghanistan. As the Ministry of Defense of Georgiatold Trend, Corporal Erekle Kharshiladze and Sergeant Iago Kakulia were injured inTaliban attack on Georgian patrol.

The two soldiers were slightly injured and their condition is stable. Both were taken tohospital in Landstuhl in Germany.

Private Guram Chomakhidze blown up on a mine while on patrol. He was seriouslyinjured and taken to Bastion hospital. His condition is stable at this time.

After stabilization of the health Chomakhidze will also be sent to Germany for treatment.

Georgian contingent in Afghanistan has 1600 people. The main part of Georgian troopsare in Helmand province.


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During the mission, Georgia has lost 20 people killed and more than 90 injured.

POLITICIANS REFUSE TO HALT THEBLOODSHED

THE TROOPS HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THEWAR

Resistance Action:Local Counter-Terrorism Chief And 9

Police Killed In Kunduz

[Graphic: flickr.com/photos]

25 January, 2013 PakTribune & January 26, 2013 Associated Press & By RFE/RLsRadio Free Afghanistan

Kunduz: Ten police officers, including the local counter-terrorism chief, were killed in abombing in northern Afghanistan on Saturday.

Shortly after 5 p.m. (1230 GMT) a man driving a motorbike detonated a large bomb at abusy roundabout in the north city of Kunduz near a group of police officers, provincialpolice chief spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hussaini said.

Five other police officers were wounded in the bombing.

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The Explosive Device Was Planted Near A Police Ring Of Steel

January 24 2013 By Mirwais Adeel, Khaama Press

A relatively heavy explosion rocked northern Balkh province of Afghanistan on Thursdayevening. The incident took place in central Mazar-e-Sharif city at Darwaza-e-Jamhuriarea near the city shrine, provincial security commandment and central bank.


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Provincial security chief spokesman Sher Jan Durani said the explosive device wasplanted near a police ring of steel by the militants and went off while an Afghan policeofficer got closer to the stall.

Mr. Durani further added that the police officer became suspicious of the explosive

device and the blast took place after the device was thrown away by the officer.

He said the police officer was injured following the blast and has been taken to thehospital for treatment.

In the meantime local residents said the area was shaked by a relatively heavyexplosion which was followed by gun fire however police sources said that the firing tookplace to control the situation in the area.

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Officials in the eastern Afghan province of Ghazni say a policeman was killed in an

attack.

Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, the deputy provincial governor, told RFE/RL that the bomberdetonated his explosive vest on January 26 near a police post in the Qale Sabaz area,killing one police officer.

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HERAT: Two border police personnel were killed and two women sustained injuries in aroadside bombing in Nimroz province on Thursday.

An IED ripped through a border police vehicle in Zaranj City, capital of Nimroz, the

provincial deputy police chief Abdul Rahim Chaghansori told AIP.

Two borders policemen were killed while two women passing nearby were injured in theblast, he added.

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Afghan And Foreign CombinedForce Raided House


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Wife Of Muhammad Naeem WasGunned Down

Two Children Of Mullah MuhammadNaeem Were Also InjuredThe Combined Force Did Not Find Any

Armed Opponents

25 January, 2013 PakTribune

KABUL: A woman was killed and two minors were injured when the Afghan and foreigncombined force raided house of a local council chairman in Tagab district of Kapisa

province in the wee hours of Thursday.

Following tip-offs that some armed opponents were hiding in the house of Tagab districtlocal council chairman, Mullah Muhammad Naeem, the Afghan and foreign combinedforce raided his house in Anarjo village near the district headquarters, the Tagabgovernor Abdul Qudoos Safi told the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP).

Wife of Muhammad Naeem was gunned down when she resisted search of the house,he added.

The combined force did not find any armed opponents during search of the area, Safimaintained.

Meanwhile, an area resident told the AIP that the combined force shot dead the womanwhen she tried to get her husband released from the combined force. He said thecombined force wanted to arrest Mullah Muhammad Naeem but set him free after killinghis wife.

The troops arrested and took away a neighbour of Mullah Muhammad Naeem, hemaintained.

Another area resident told the AIP that two children of Mullah Muhammad Naeem werealso injured in the raid.

Such kind of attacks by combined forces have increased recently, causing casualties toTaliban and civilians.

The Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the AIP that their fighters were not inthe house, and that those who suffered casualties in the attack were civilians.


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The U.S. Military Has BlacklistedAfghanistans Largest Private Airline,

Alleging It Is Smuggling BulkQuantities Of Opium On CivilianFlights To Tajikistan

The U.S. Action Underlines How DeeplyThe Drug Trade Is Entrenched In

Afghanistan

January 25, 2013 by MARIA ABI-HABIB, Wall Street Journal [Excerpts]

KABULThe U.S. military has blacklisted Afghanistans largest private airline, alleging itis smuggling "bulk" quantities of opium on civilian flights to Tajikistan, a corridor throughwhich the drugs reach the rest of the world.

Kam Air was barred this month from receiving U.S. military contracts by U.S. CentralCommand chief Marine Gen. James Mattis, according to U.S. military officials.

"I totally deny the allegations," the airlines president and founder, Zamari Kamgar, saidafter being told of the U.S. decision. It would be impossible to fly drugs out of thecountry as the airline is subject to thorough security checks at Afghan airports, he said,adding that the allegations were likely a conspiracy perpetrated by his competitors.


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The move underscores growing concerns among Western officials that the drug trade in

Afghanistan is not only resurgent, but is also taking an increasingly open role in thecountrys economy. In the past month, Kam Air has engaged in talks to merge with

Afghanistans state-owned flag carrier, Ariana Afghan Airlines, both sides have said. Thedeal could see the Afghan carrier absorb Ram Airs debts, say people familiar with it.

Mr. Kamgar said he expects the Kam Air-Ariana deal to go through and that hismanagement team would take over the combined entity, which he said would plan toopen direct routes to U.S. and European airports. A spokesman for AfghanistansTransportation Ministry, which runs Ariana, said he was "not aware of the smuggling ofdrugs by Kam Air" and wasnt aware of the U.S. investigation.

The U.S. action underlines how deeply the drug trade is entrenched in Afghanistan,which the United Nations has said provides more than 90% of the worlds illicit opiates.While the U.S. and allies from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have fiercelyengaged the Taliban over the past 11 years, the coalition has failed to cut away at theopium trade that helps finance the insurgency.

Opium cultivation spread in recent years to provinces once considered "poppy free."

While blight and poor weather in recent years have cut into Afghanistans opium andheroin exports, poppy cultivation rose 18% in 2012 from the previous year, according tothe U.N.s Office on Drugs and Crime.

"Export earnings from Afghan opiates may be worth $2.4 billionequivalent to 15%" ofgross domestic product, the UNODC said in a report last year.

"The corruption, crime and impunity the narcotic problem causes on the society,governance and more specifically, families and individuals, is not only devastating for

Afghanistan but equally to many of the surrounding countries," said Jean-Luc Lemahieu,the Afghanistan representative of the UNODC.

The latest move follows two separate U.S. investigations, reported last year byThe Wall Street Journal, into allegations that the U.S.-funded Afghan Air Forcewas smuggling drugs and weapons around the country. Kabul denied thoseallegations.

The investigations, led by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and themilitary coalition, have stalled because of lack of cooperation from Afghanauthorities, according to U.S. officials.

Kam Air operates a fleet of some 16 planes, including Boeing 767 and 747 aircraft andAntonov cargo planes.

The task force believes that domestic passenger routes have been used to ferry opiumaround the country, according to a U.S. official in Kabul. But the investigation is focusedon Central Asia, the official said. "Kam Air is flying out bulk quantities of opium," theofficial said.


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Kam Air flies cargo to many destinations. But its only scheduled Central Asianpassenger route is between Kabul and Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan.

The poorest former Soviet republic, Tajikistan suffers from political instability and porousborders.

High-level government protection for drug smugglers has made the country a traffickingroute for Afghan opium to reach the world, Western law-enforcement officials have said.

Kam Airs Mr. Kamgar said the company has provided logistic services to the U.S.-ledcoalition in Afghanistan but said he couldnt immediately characterize the scope of thebusiness.

The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan currently has no contracts with the airline, though ithas been on its list of authorized cargo carriers, an official said.

MILITARY NEWS

Chaos, Stupidity And EmpiresFalling Out Plague French

Military In Mali:

French Government ComplainsObama Regime First Promised

And Then Refused Badly NeededAssistance:

Its Not Worth The Trouble To Bring

In Planes Full Of Troops If They DontHave Food, Water, Mosquito Nets, All

That, Said Another French Major


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The French Dispatched A Delegation ToBamako With Cash To Buy 300

Mattresses

Another senior U.S. official defended Washingtons level of support for theFrench, calling it a "tough love" approach.

The message to France and other European allies, this official said, was thatWashington wont foot the bill as global policeman at a time when Europeanpowers are cutting defense investments.

January 23, 2013 By ADAM ENTOUS and JULIAN E. BARNES in Washington andDREW HINSHAW in Bamako, Mali, Wall Street Journal [Excerpts]

Frances attack on Islamic extremists in Mali this month is exposing major strains in the

Western worlds security strategy.

As the French assault gained steam in West Africa, France sought help from its alliesonly to find that the U.S. and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization states eitherwerent ready or couldnt offer much.

Canada and the U.K. quickly ponied up three cargo planes, two of which brokedown en route.

The Biggest Breakdown, However, Played Out Between The U.S. AndFrance

By far the biggest breakdown, however, played out between the U.S. and France,as Washington sent what Paris saw as mixed messages about U.S. levels ofcommitment to taking on an al Qaeda affiliate in Mali before and after the Frenchattack began.

French officials involved in planning the Mali campaign say they had expected quick,robust U.S. military support based on comments by Pentagon officials in a series ofprivate meetings, including one last October in Paris about how to tame violence inNorth and West Africa.

According to French officials in attendance, the message that day from MichaelSheehan, the Pentagons point man for special operations, seemed clear: Stop thegroup known as AQIMal Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreband its allies from creating adesert safe haven.

NATO officials at the meetings also say U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panettasmessage to France and other allies on the sidelines of a NATO summit last fallwas that the Pentagon would do "whatever it takes" to help with an intervention inMali against AQIM.


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Senior U.S. defense officials dispute those accounts, saying Washingtonsmessages to France may have been "lost in translation."

During the meetings, the U.S. officials said, neither Mr. Panetta nor Mr. Sheehandirectly urged France to use force and didnt promise specific support.

National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said the White House wants tospeed the transition from the current French campaign to one led by African forces, "sothat its sustainable over the long term."

Another senior U.S. official defended Washingtons level of support for the French,calling it a "tough love" approach.

The message to France and other European allies, this official said, was thatWashington wont foot the bill as global policeman at a time when European powers arecutting defense investments.

Moreover, U.S. defense officials said France shouldnt be surprised by theAmerican response given the unilateral nature of the operation they launched.

"We werent consulted. We were informed when they went in. This isnt acombined operation," the senior U.S. defense official said.

French officials say they consulted their American counterparts.

One senior French official sized up the feeling in Paris after the White House balked atPariss request for air tankers to refuel French fighters over Mali.

"We are doing the job without you," the official said.

The White House did agree, however, to provide several cargo planes for a few weeks.

It initially asked France to reimburse the costs, though the U.S. later backed down onthat. The White House is still considering providing air tankers for refueling, officials say,as well as more advanced surveillance aircraft that could aid French targeting.

The War-Weary U.S. Is Reluctant To Intervene, While Other Countries,Particularly In Debt-Ridden Europe, Are Less Able To Do So

The war-weary U.S. is reluctant to intervene, while other countries, particularly in

debt-ridden Europe, are less able to do so.

The tension is a dramatic example of a growing trans-Atlantic disconnect.

On the one hand, the U.S. complains about European allies unwillingness to spend ondefense, citing Libya in 2011 when, lacking adequate ammunition supplies, drones andtankers, they turned to Washington.


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Meanwhile, some allies complain that U.S. policy in Afghanistan, Pakistan andelsewhere is driven by American interests and priorities.

France launched its Mali offensive on Jan. 11. Within a week, Paris flew about 2,000soldiers to its former colony with a mission: reclaim two tiny farming towns that al Qaedaand its allies in Mali had swarmed days earlier. By the 10th day, Paris had expanded

that mission to include land assaults on towns nestled in the prickly desert occupied byIslamist gunmen.

Logistical problems arose quickly. France made urgent requests for cargo planes, airrefueling tankers and a surge of sophisticated American surveillance aircraft to monitorrebel communications and movements.

As the U.S. deliberated over how to respond, Britain offered the temporary use of two C-17 cargo planes. One of the planes experienced mechanical problems and wasgrounded in France, British officials said.

The Canadian Royal Air Force contributed one of its C-17s, for an initial period of one

week, but it suffered a "generator issue" and was also grounded, according to aspokesman for Canadas Minister of National Defence. Officials say the U.K. andCanada quickly found other planes to replace the ones that broke down. Denmark andBelgium are also providing help with transport, French officials say.

The French Also Shipped Bottled Water To Mali Before Soldiers FinallyFound A Vendor In Bamako

On Jan. 14, the missions fourth day, a French detachment arrived in Bamako,Malis capital, without mosquito nets and spent four nights battling the swarmingpests.

Cargo space is limited, French officials said, and some things were overlookedinitially because of the rushed nature of the operation. The French also shippedbottled water to Mali before soldiers finally found a vendor in Bamako.

Skeptical of the need for a big U.S. role, the White House so far has authorized the AirForce to ferry a mechanized infantry battalion of about 800 French troops to Bamako.

The U.S. hasnt responded to the request for air refueling tankers needed by the Frenchair force to keep up the pace of attack sorties in support of ground troops.

A senior U.S. official also said the French should have known that "when you start using

military force, those are presidential decisions, not DOD decisions," referring to theDepartment of Defense.

Obama administration officials who question the need for more U.S. involvementin Mali say France has unique advantages operating there. Mali is a former Frenchcolony, and France has extensive intelligence networks there as well as long-standing military-to-military relations.


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The French perception of mixed U.S. messages was compounded by what they view asother perceived slights.

For instance, the White House nixed plans for a day trip by Mr. Panetta to Paris this pastSunday, NATO officials said, as part of a tour of other European capitals. Officialsworried the visit might raise expectations about Washingtons level of military support in

Mali at a time the White House is trying to extricate the U.S. from the war in Afghanistan,NATO officials said.

French options for help from European allies or NATO are limited because of budgetwoes across the continent. "The allies will do their best, but they are keeping supportminimal at the moment because of the many questions of how long the mission will beand how deep it goes. It is a very complex crisis," said Heather Conley, the EuropeProgram Director for the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

NATO is giving only limited help because of the "political, psychological trauma ofAfghanistan," she added. "There is reluctance to go into a conflict without a clearexit strategy."

French military capabilities, however, are uneven.

The country has developed advanced fighter planes.

But its air refueling tankers are old and, in some cases, in disrepair, hence therequest for U.S. help.

Washingtons reluctance has prompted the French to appeal to other allies,including the Canadians, this time for air tankers, NATO officials said.

In the 2011 NATO air campaign against Libya that ousted Moammar Gadhafi from

power, the mission relied heavily on the U.S. for refueling planes and armed drones.That effort was supported by European countries including France. But Libya was arelatively easy lift, compared with Mali. The front line was basically Europes backyarda short flight across the Mediterranean from bases in Italy, Germany and Spain.

Togo Dispatched 145 Troops. They Needed To Borrow The Presidents Jet,Which Seats Only 45. "Theyre 145 Here, But They Dont Have A Vehicle"

Getting to Mali is trickier.

The vast nation is landlocked, its capital days of travel time from the nearest port.

Reaching Timbuktu is famously difficult: the desert heart of al Qaedas insurgency isprotected by hundreds of miles of rocks and dunes in every direction.

It took a recent convoy of French forces three days to get to Bamako from theclosest major port in the Ivory Coast.

Alternatives under review include Malis railroad, which France already built oncein1924and today would need to rebuild.


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There is also the twisted, muddy Niger River, which the French floated down to conquerMali in the first place, fighting on foot and on horseback, 130 years ago.

The logistical bottlenecks are mounting as African armies prepare to deploy up to 5,000troops under a United Nations mandate to reinforce the French.

Last week, the tiny country of Togo dispatched 145 troops. It took two days andfour separate flights for the troops to arrive, because they needed to borrow thepresidents jet, which seats only 45.

"Theyre 145 here, but they dont have a vehicle," said a French major in Mali, whoidentified himself only by his first name, Eric, per French army protocol.

"Its Not Worth The Trouble To Bring In Planes Full Of Troops If They DontHave Food, Water, Mosquito Nets, All That"

On the back lot of Bamakos airport, France is struggling to build a war machine capableof liberating a country twice its area.

"Its not worth the trouble to bring in planes full of troops if they dont have food,water, mosquito nets, all that," said another French major, who identified himselfby his first name, Renaud.

One recent Thursday in Bamako, 400 French soldiers walked off a plane, but aFrench major who identified himself as Didier said there were only 100 open beds.So the French dispatched a delegation to Bamako with cash to buy 300mattresses.

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ANNIVERSARIES

January 26, 1784:Prophetic Anniversary:


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Ben Franklin Says The Imperial Eagle IsA Thieving Piece Of Shit

Carl Bunin Peace History January 21-27

Benjamin Franklin, noting the bald eagle was a bird of bad moral character wholived by sharping and robbing, expressed regret it had been selected to be theU.S. national symbol. In fact, Franklin was critical of the bald eagle for its habit ofscavenging for food and stealing from other birds.

You may have seen him perched on some dead tree, where, too lazy to fish forhimself, he watches the labor of the fishing-hawk, and when that diligent bird hasat length taken a fish, and is bearing it to its nest for the support of his mate andyoung ones, the bald eagle pursues him and takes it from him, Franklin said.

January 27, 1969:A Strike For Liberation


In Detroit, African-American auto workers, known as the Eldon Avenue Axle PlantRevolutionary Union Movement, led a wildcat strike against racism and poor workingconditions at Chrysler.

Since the 1967 Detroit riots, African American workers had organized groups in several

Detroit auto plants criticizing both the auto companies and the UAW leadership. Thesegroups combined Black-Power nationalism and workplace militancy, and temporarilyshut down more than a dozen inner-city plants.

The most well-known of these groups was the Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement, orDRUM. They criticized both the seniority system and grievance procedures as racist.Veterans of this movement went on to lead many of the same local unions.


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January 27, 1847:Citizens Defeat Slavehunters


Since 1832, Michigan had had an active antislavery society.

Quakers in Cass County, Laura Haviland in Adrian and former slave Sojourner Truth in

Battle Creek were only a few of the many Michiganians who worked on the UndergroundRailroadan informal network that assisted escaping slaves.

Southern concern over the Underground Railroad will lead Congress to pass a morestringent Fugitive Slave Law in 1850. In 1854 opposition to the extension of slaveryprompted Michiganians to meet in nearby Jackson to organize the Republican Party.

Several hundred citizens of Marshall, Michigan, helped former slaves escape toCanada rather than be returned to their owner by bounty hunters. AdamCrosswhite and his family, escaped Kentucky slaves, were tracked to theabolitionist town of Marshall by Francis Troutman and others.

Both black and white residents detained the bounty hunters and threatened themwith tar and feathers.

While Troutman was being charged with assault and fined $100, the Crosswhites fled toCanada. Back in Kentucky, the slavemaster stirred up intense excitement aboutabolitionist mobs in Michigan.


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OCCUPATION PALESTINE

Fifteen Year Old Saleh Elamareen Shot InThe Head By An Israeli Soldier In Aida

Refugee Camp

January 23, 2013 International Solidarity Movement

Bethlehem, Occupied Palestine

On Friday January 18th at approximately 3.20 pm, fifteen year old Saleh Elamareen wasshot in the head by an Israeli soldier in Aida refugee camp, Bethlehem. TodayWednesday 23 January he was pronounced dead.

Salah Elamareen was outside the Lajee Refugee Centre when he was shot through theleft forehead. The Centre lies some distance from the wall itself.

At the time of the shooting eyewitnesses have said that protests were not

happening, and that the people of Aida were simply watching the soldiers fromafar. This is supported by video documentation of the incident, which shows agroup of youth carrying Elamareen after he was shot.

Two of the doctors who treated Elamareen did not rule out previous rumours that he wasshot with a dumdum bullet, due to the fragmentation of the bullet within his head.

Another doctor has claimed it was definitely a dumdum bullet in his opinion.


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Dumdum bullets expand after impact and are designed to cause maximum damage andpain. Due to the brutality of these bullets they are illegal under international law.

Article 8 at the Review Conference of the Rome Statute in Kampala made the use ofexpanding bullets in non-international armed conflict a war crime. The HagueConvention also prohibits there use in international warfare. If the doctors are correct

and a dumdum bullet was in-fact used, this would be another serious violation ofinternational laws and standards by Israel.

The head of the department under which he was treated at the government hospital saidhe was hit with the bullet in the left frontal section of the head, around the eye, causinglarge intracranial hemorrhaging. A number of doctors who looked at the patientconcluded that the bullet exploded in the brain. The CT scan shows the shrapnel insidehis skull. The entry wound shows significant impact to the skull, and there is no exitwound.

A Young Palestinian Woman Was ShotAnd Killed Today By Israeli Occupation

Forces Riding In A Civilian Car

Women and children watch the funeral of Lubna Hanash in Bethlehem,Jan. 23. (Reuters/Ammar Awad)

01/23/2013 by Ali Abunimah, electronicIntifada.net [Excerpts]

Lubna Hanash, a young Palestinian woman, was shot and killed today by Israeli

occupation forces riding in a civilian car near Arroub refugee camp which is on the roadbetween Bethlehem and Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank.

Hanash was a fourth-year political science student at Al-Quds University, according toAl-Quds newspaper, and had been visiting her sister in Arroub camp.

Reuters reported:


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Witnesses said Lubna Hanash and her companions were walking to al-Arroub Collegewhen men in Israeli military uniforms travelling in a civilian car shot at the group.

Maan news agency, which gave Hanashs age as 22, said:

Witnesses told Maan that Israeli soldiers traveling in a civilian car opened fire at a

group of people at the entrance to al-Arrub refugee camp south of Bethlehem.

Lubna Munir Hanash, 22, was shot in the head and died from her injuries, medics said.

Suad Yusuf Jaara was shot in the hand and transported to Ahli hospital in Hebron.

Witnesses told Maan that after the shooting Israeli soldiers prevented an ambulancefrom arriving at the scene for around 10 minutes.

Locals said there were no clashes in the area at the time.

However, local sources reported that clashes broke out between Israeli occupation

forces and youths near Arroub refugee camp following the passage of Lubnas body.

Israeli occupation forces claimed according to Maan that soldiers were attackedby Palestinians who hurled multiple firebombs at them while they were travelingnear al-Arrub. Soldiers returned fire and the circumstances of the incident arecurrently being reviewed.

However such Israeli claims are routinely made to justify arbitrary killings ofPalestinians and almost never result in credible investigations.

In December, Muhammad al-Salaymeh, a Hebron teen, was shot dead on his 17thbirthday in unexplained circumstances. Claims by the Israeli soldier who shot

him that Muhammad had brandished a weapon and taken another soldier hostage,were proven false by video of the incident.

Earlier on Wednesday, a Palestinian child, 15-year-old Salih al-Amarin, died of gunshotwounds inflicted by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem last week.

Maan added that last Tuesday, 17-year-old Samir Ahmad Abdul-Rahim was the fourthPalestinian shot dead by Israeli forces in less than a week.

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Witness Reports Israeli Soldier KilledLubna Munir Hanash In Cold Blood


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She And Her Late Friend Were The OnlyOnes In The Area, Walking Around And

Enjoying The Scenery

Suad Jaara was shot in the hand by an Israeli soldier who killed her friend Lubna al-Hanash near Hebron on Jan. 23. (MaanImages)

24/01/2013 Maan News Agency

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"I saw an Israeli soldier on the main road firing gunshots haphazardly, so I put myleft hand on Lubnas back, and grabbed her to try and run backward. A gunshot

hit my hand, and I shouted as I ran.

"I thought Lubna was running behind me until I reached the security guards of Al-ArrubCollege who took me to a clinic in the camp before an ambulance arrived and took me tohospital."

This, says Suad Jaara, 28, is what she witnessed Wednesday afternoon when Israeliofficers near al-Arrub refugee camp shot her and her friend Lubna al-Hanash. Lubna, 22,died hours later.

Speaking to Maan, Jaara said Thursday that she and Lubna were walking on thecampus of Al-Arrub College about 100 meters from the main road when they came

under fire.

"An Israeli soldier was shooting from his rifle while a white car was parked on theroadside. There was nobody in the area except Lubna and I. He was a criminal ...yes, a criminal who opened fired at us in cold blood killing Lubna and injuringme.


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Jaaras testimony contradicts claims by the Israeli armys chief of centralcommand on Channel 10 Wednesday evening that the woman was trying to hurl aMolotov cocktail at an Israeli vehicle.

An army spokeswoman also told Maan on Wednesday that "soldiers wereattacked by Palestinians who hurled multiple firebombs at them while they were

traveling near al-Arrub. Soldiers returned fire and the circumstances of theincident are currently being reviewed."

But Jaara says she and her late friend were the only ones in the area, walkingaround and enjoying the scenery.

"Lubna arrived two days ago to visit her sister, who is married to my brother. She hadheard about Al-Arrub College and she wanted to visit it. I accompanied her to campusand she admired the area because its in a charming natural landscape. When wedecided to leave campus, a criminal fired at us and Lubna died a martyr."

Jaara is an employee at the Ministry of Prisoners Affairs. Her brother Jihad was a

gunman in Fatahs al-Aqsa Brigades in the Bethlehem area. He was deported to Irelandafter the Nativity Church siege in 2002.

[To check out what life is like under a murderous military occupation commandedby foreign terrorists, go to: www.rafahtoday.org The occupied nation is Palestine.The foreign terrorists call themselves Israeli.]

DANGER: POLITICIANS AT WORK


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United Nations Providing Money

To The Tyrant Assad:Funds Go To The Ministry Of Health,Which Is Used By The Criminal

Regime To Permit That Public AndPrivate Hospitals Become Torture

Places

United Nations Staff Continue ToConduct Business As Usual In ShakingHands And Taking Photos With Those

Same Authorities

January 23, 2013 Local Coordination Committees of Syria, Uruknet

In the face of the escalation of violence by the Syrian authorities over more than twenty

two months, the main organs of the United Nations, including the General Assembly,and the Human Rights Council, have repeatedly expressed grave concerns over thecontinued use of heavy weapons by the Syrian authorities, the use of violence by theSyrian authorities against its population, and the failure by the Syrian government toprotect its population.

They have incessantly condemned in the strongest terms the continued, grave andsystematic gross human rights violations by the Syrian authorities, such as arbitraryexecutions, excessive use of force and the persecution and killing of protesters andhuman rights defenders, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment of detainees, including children.

Despite these condemnations, many United Nations agencies, involved in theHumanitarian Assistance Response Plan for Syria for the first six months of 2013,evaluated the financial requirements in response to the humanitarian crisis inSyria to be more than 519 million USD, to be disbursed through the provision ofsupport to the Syrian authorities.

In particular the Response Plan identified a number of Syrian authorities, who shall berecipients of humanitarian assistance.


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Such authorities include the Ministry of Health, which is used by the criminalregime to permit that public and private hospitals become torture places, indenying health treatment to civilian and in harassing doctors, including bycreating black lists of doctors to be disbarred and whose properties to beconfiscated, just because they discharge their professional duties in dispensingtreatment to those injured by the violence of the regime.

The Response Plan also identifies the Ministry of Education, which is used by thecriminal regime to permit public and private schools to be bombarded by the regime, orbecome detention centers where the most horrible atrocities are taking place by thecriminal regime.

The Response Plan also identifies the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as recipient of funds,whose resources are fully mobilized to cover-up human rights violations, war crimes andcrimes against humanity that are committed by the Syrian authorities.

Many from the public functionary corps working in such government bodiescourageously resist, when they can, but in vain, regime abuses of their institutions.

And they all know that all aid received by such government bodies, would either bestolen and diverted by the regime for private gain, or selectively distributed to places andpeople which are not needy, thereby exacerbating the human tragedy for hundreds ofSyrian towns in real need.

In Syria there is a catastrophe unfolding by action of the Syrian authorities. The SyrianPeople are traumatized by those authorities, with which the United Nations agenciesintend to coordinate for humanitarian assistance.

It is particularly bewildering for the ordinary Syrian, whose life and livelihood have beenchattered, that whilst the United Nations is cognizant of the terrorizing role of the Syrian

authorities, they continue to conduct business as usual in shaking hands and takingphotos with those same authorities, which are, by action and omission, responsible forthe inhuman conditions that Syria now lives in.

The action of the United Nations is an affront to the hundreds of thousands of Syrianchildren who cannot go to school, or to hospital for treatment because of actions of theSyrian authorities.

The Local Coordination Committees regrets this basic misjudgment of the UnitedNations, when the human tragedy has reached this appalling condition, by action of thepublic authorities which have no independence. The Local Coordination Committeescall for a response against this step in our massive peaceful demonstrations next Friday.

They further call for peaceful sit-ins to be organized overseas, so that the United Nationsreconsider this much regrettable step.

Glory to our Revolution and mercy to our Martyrs

LCC


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CLASS WAR REPORTS

The Future Confronts The Past:Tens Of Thousands Of Egyptians

Rally Against Mousy Morsi:Molotov Cocktails, Rocks, Teargas AndGunfire Marked The Second Anniversary

Of The Egyptian Revolution


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Protesters opposing Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi demonstrate at Tahrir Square

in Cairo January 25, 2013.(Reuters / Amr Dalsh)

An Egyptian protester shouts ant-President Morsi slogans as anti-riot forces block theentrance to the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)


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Young Egyptian protesters look through a crack in a barrier towards security forces, asskirmishes break out, near Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 25, 2013. Egyptianopposition protesters are gathering in Cairos Tahrir Square to mark the secondanniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubaraks autocratic regime. (APPhoto/Thomas Hartwell)


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A boy in front of riot police and barbed wire at the presidential palace in Cairo January25, 2013. Hundreds of youths fought Egyptian police in Cairo on Friday on the secondanniversary of the revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak who protesters accuse of ridingroughshod over the new democracy. Opponents of Mursi and his Muslim Brotherhoodallies began massing in Cairos Tahrir Square to revive the demands of a revolution theysay has been betrayed by Islamists. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Egyptian protesters dismantle the security wall erected by security in Tahrir Square onJanuary 25, 2013 (AFP Photo / Mohammed Abed)


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Egyptian protester uses a slingshot against with riot police near Tahrir Square, Cairo,Egypt, Jan. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

26 January, 2013 TV-Novosti & Wall Street Journal [Excerpts]

More than 450 people have been injured and at least nine have been killed in two daysof street clashes across Egypt as tens of thousands protest against President MohamedMorsi and his party.

Troops have been deployed in the city of Suez amid violence.

Molotov cocktails, rocks, teargas and gunfire marked the second anniversary of theEgyptian revolution.

Earlier Saturday, Egyptian police used teargas to disperse crowds of angrydemonstrators near the Interior Ministry headquarters in Cairo. Several policemen wentto the top of an old building to fire tear gas and hurl stones at demonstrators.

Dozens of protesters stood on top of the concrete wall separating Tahrir Square andSheikh Rehan Square to hurl stones at officers, Egypt Independent reported.

A reported 456 people have been wounded since the start of violent clashes in Cairo,Alexandria and Suez, Reuters says citing Egyptian officials.

At least nine people are said to have been killed in clashes across the country. Eight ofthe dead, including a policeman, were shot dead in Suez, and another was shot andkilled in the city of Ismailia, medics said.


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Suez saw some of the worst clashes between police and protesters, who set ablaze agovernment building that once housed the citys local government.

Troops have been deployed to the city and tanks are in the streets, RTs Bel Trewreports.

Street battles continue between security forces and protesters in Tahrir Square, BelTrew reported from Cairo.

In Cairo, groups of people have been engaging in fights, firing birdshot and hurlingMolotov cocktails at each other during the day, Ahram Online reports. There also hasbeen the sound of heavy gunfire.

Some of the thousands protesters marching for Tahrir were reportedly attacked by menthrowing rocks and glass near the bureau of the Muslim Brotherhoods official websiteIkhwan Online.

While protesters blame the attacks on Brotherhood men, the Islamist group claims

numerous attempts to raid their offices, Ahram Online says.

In Alexandria hundreds of demonstrators took part in a march, while the city courtbuilding remained the center of protest activity. rowds of protesters approached thegovernorate headquarters and engaged in violent clashes with the police.

Protesters broke up the pavements and threw rocks. Ahram online reported sounds ofgunfire and what appeared to be snipers on the rooftops of nearby buildings. Police havebeen ordered to deal with protesters firmly after a number of attempts to storm thecourt building were reported, Ahram Online added citing a police source.

The protesters continue to demand the overthrow of the regime embodied by chants

such as Escalation, escalation! A revolution all over again!

Relatives of Egyptian revolutionary icon Khaled Said, the young man brutally beaten todeath by the police in 2010, also joined Fridays protests.

I want justice and order; I want to get rid of the Muslim Brotherhood. I am not happywith anything that happened over the past six months; they were worse than Mubaraks30 years, Saids sister told Ahram Online.

Voicing Egyptian protesters frustration with the elections, as well as the MuslimBrotherhood-shaped constitution and government, she said they have disregarded theinterest of Egyptians and only went after their own.

We are beyond the point of dialogue now, they have separated people through theirjudgmental discourse, Saids sister added.

Muslim Brotherhood made a dirty deal with the military behind the backs of the majorityof the population and theyre going against the interest of a secular state, which themajority of the Egyptian people want, author and geopolitical analyst William Engdahltold RT.


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According to Engdahl, while Muslim Brotherhood is the best organized force in thecountry, they are so preoccupied with this Sharia agenda, this islamization, creatingthis state which de facto is emerging to be an Islamic fascist regime that they neglectedthe real functioning of economy and let it remain in shambles.

Theres only one party that will decide the future of Egypt, and thats the people of Egypt,

editor of Al-Quds newspaper, Khaled El Shami, told RT.

El Shami believes that Morsi, along with Muslim Brotherhood have no say in whatshappening in Egypt today as theyve already disregarded the main goals of revolution:dignity, freedom, social justice.

Early Friday morning saw heavy clashes between youths and police in Cairo. Theprotesters were throwing petrol bombs and firecrackers. Police retaliated with plumes ofteargas.

Reports say police set several tents on Tahrir square ablaze using incendiary bombsthrown by protesters.

Protesters accuse Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood of failing to comply with thepurposes of the revolution. They demand greater democracy, claiming that Morsis partyhas usurped power.

On Monday three people were killed and a dozen more injured in clashes that eruptedafter a bystander was hit by a bullet fired by police chasing a suspected drug dealer inthe north of Cairo.

On the same day activists in another Egyptian city, Alexandria, were sprayed withteargas as police tried to disperse the crowds waiting outside the court where severalpolice officers are standing trial for the killing of civilians during the 2011 uprising.

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A Metro Depot In Athens Has BeenStormed By Up To 300 Riot Police To

Break Up A Sit In By Striking StaffThe Capitals Underground LinesRemained Shut For The Ninth Day

The underground remained shut for a ninth day as most workers continued a strikeagainst wage cuts [GALLO/GETTY]

[Thanks to Alan Stolzer, Military Resistance Organization, who sent this in.]

25 Jan 2013 AlJazeera

A metro depot in Athens has been stormed by up to 300 riot police to break up a sit in bystriking staff in the Greek capital.

The raid took place at about 0200 GMT on Friday morning and at least 10 workers weredetained and then released, an official said on condition of anonymity.

The capitals underground lines remained shut for the ninth day as most workerscontinued a strike against wage cuts.


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Prime Minister Antonis Samarass government has taken a hard line on the strikedespite criticism from the smallest party in his three-party government.

"When labour action is judged illegal and abusive, the law has to be implemented,"government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou told state television.

Police told the AFP news agency that the strikers had occupied the premises onThursday.

Their demonstration was staged to oppose government plans to reduce their pay in linewith wages in the broader public sector.

The governments cuts are part of the countrys massive EU-IMF loan bailout.

Hundreds of unionists gathered outside the metro depot after the police raid in support ofthe strike. They reacted by calling for a general transport standstill on Friday.

The government said strikers had shown contempt for court rulings that had declared the

metro strike illegal earlier this week.

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