Human rights update from Afghanistan:
A family of four, including two children, have been killed in an overnight raid by international troops in Afghanistan, a police official and witnesses have said.
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Iraq and the United States are still “far apart” on the issue of immunity for American troops.
Meanwhile, American officials are “worried” about Nouri al-Maliki.
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Human rights news just coming from Afghanistan: An Afghan police chief has “accused German soldiers of killing two children and a woman in Kunduz after opening fire on a civilian car that didn’t slow down at a checkpoint”.
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Unnamed US officials have rejected reports that up to 90 Afghan civilians may have died in a controversial airstrike on a village. The US puts the figure at five civilian deaths. This contradicts accounts of the incident by the UN and other independent Afghan human rights organisations.
Related: Hamid Karzai condemns civilian deaths.
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US Army’s dodgy Arabic translations.
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“Jurors wept and embraced” a former marine, Jose Luis Nazario Jr, after finding him not guilty guilty of all criminal charges, including voluntary manslaughter, in the killings of unarmed Iraqi detainees.
The case against the marine rested on the accounts of two of his former squad members, who were found in contempt of court for refusing to testify.
Jurist’s Paper Chase has a lot more.
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American Neo-Nazi gangs are ‘infiltrating the US military’.
(Via Lenin’s Tomb.)
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The map below shows US military presence worldwide, which has been produced by Mother Jones. It is an interactive map — make sure you zoom in.
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Human rights update from Afghanistan: The United States says an airstrike which may have killed over 80 civilians was “legitimate”.
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Hamid Karzai has condemned the deaths of civilians who were killed by “unilateral operations” carried out by US airstrikes. This isn’t the first time Karzai has publicly responded to civilians death from American airstikes. Last year Karzai told 60 Minutes:
The US have deny killing civilians, and even the White House has intervened to pass comment on the incident. The only problem is there is little reason to believe what the US has to say about civilian deaths from its operations.
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US boasts of laser weapon’s ‘plausible deniability’.
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Blackwater protected Barack Obama in Afghanistan.
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The growing power of fundamentalist evangelical Christianity in the U.S. military.
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The latest news on human rights from Afghanistan: Canadian soldiers opened fire on a speeding vehicle after its driver ignored repeated warnings not to approach a military convoy Sunday, killing two young children.
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More human rights news from Afghanistan: British troops in southern Afghanistan have killed four civilians after a vehicle failed to stop at a checkpoint.
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An update on human rights in Afghanistan: U.S.-led coalition troops have have killed eight Afghan civilians in an air strike in the western province of Farah during a raid against suspected militants, the U.S. military said.
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British soldiers are accused of forcing a boy of 14 to carry out an act of oral sex on a fellow male prisoner in Iraq.
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Human rights: A US air strike in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, an Afghan government investigating team says.
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Pakistani Harvard student Samad Khurram makes waves by refusing academic award from US Ambassador.
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Pakistan seems to have said “No, thanks!” to the appointment of the former commander of Gitmo to the top U.S. military post in Pakistan. And one has to ask, what was the Pentagon thinking?
