North Atlantic Treaty Organization

7th Nov- "A NATO airstrike has killed at least seven members of the Afghan security forces in the western province of Badghis on Friday"

6th Nov-"The NATO-led force in Afghanistan issued a statement on Friday saying that that two of its troops went missing on Wednesday while on a routine supply mission".

4th Nov - 'A "rogue" policeman from Afghanistan has shot down and killed five British soldiers in the Helmand province of South Afghanistan today'

This is the best way to fight a war ............

A Taleban commander and two senior Afghan officials confirmed yesterday that Italian forces paid protection money to prevent attacks on their troops.

The payment of protection money was revealed after the death of ten French soldiers in August 2008 at the hands of large Taleban force in Sarobi. French forces had taken over the district from Italian troops, but were unaware of secret Italian payments to local commanders to stop attacks on their forces and consequently misjudged local threat levels.

What times were those ... right?
A generation,whose history begins, hopefully with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

- We are the last generation that learned to play in the street, we are the first we've played video games, seen cartoons in color and went to amusement parks

- We were the last to record songs of the radio on cassettes and we are the pioneers of walkmans and chatrooms

- We have been labeled Generation X, and we had to swallow Saved by the Bell and Beverly Hills 90210 ...

- We will always remember events from before we were born, as if we had not experienced anything historic.

- We have learned what terrorism is, we saw the Berlin Wall fell and a drunk Boris Yelsin grabbing his secretary ass

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At first light last Friday, in the Chardarah district of Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan, the villagers gathered around the twisted wreckage of two fuel tankers that had been hit by a Nato airstrike. They picked their way through a heap of almost a hundred charred bodies and mangled limbs which were mixed with ash, mud and the melted plastic of jerry cans, looking for their brothers, sons and cousins. They called out their names but received no answers. By this time, everyone was dead.

Are the fault lines beginning to develop ????

America’s senior commander in Afghanistan rebuked his German subordinate on Monday as the Nato allies exchanged recriminations over an air strike that claimed at least 54 lives.

German troops in Kunduz province summoned a US F-15 jet to destroy two fuel tankers, which had allegedly been hijacked by Taliban insurgents.

When the fighter dropped two 500lb bombs, the explosions ignited the cargo of liquid fuel, causing a fireball that engulfed a crowd of people.

Scores of Afghans had apparently gathered around the tankers to siphon petrol – and between 54 and 70 are thought to have died. At a stroke, German troops were responsible for more deaths than at any other time since the Second World War.

Once again we support a corrupt president just to further our own ends... However, this time, people are beginning to question.................................

An international summit on the future of Afghanistan was Gordon Brown’s answer last night as the clamour for an exit strategy from the conflict grew louder. With President Karzai ready to claim outright victory in Afghanistan’s flawed elections, the Prime Minister announced his plans for the meeting, which could take place this year in either London or Kabul.

How much longer can we prop up a puppet preident ??

Widespread and systematic fraud during the Afghan presidential elections has tarnished the legitimacy of any future government and undermined the Nato campaign there, Western and Afghan officials have admitted.

There have been more than 2,500 complaints about the August 20 vote, 691 of them involving serious charges of vote rigging, meaning that they could affect the overall outcome of the election.

One international election observer, who asked not to be named, said: “The pattern is of systematic and widespread fraud, which really does call into question the legitimacy of the election. This is large scale and it is across the country.”

DOHA: The Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Special Envoy, Ambassador at Large Vasile Sofineteli recently visited Qatar to boost relations between the two countries and with other Gulf countries.

“I am promoting the ideas of partnership. We invite Qatari businessmen to look into the Romanian market, where they will find a lot of opportunities and they can be assured of our full support”, said Sofineteli.

A Taliban video posted to a Web site shows held captive.
The soldier is shown in the 28-minute video with his head shaved and the start of a beard. He is sitting and dressed in a nondescript, gray outfit. Early in the video, one of his captors holds the soldier's dog tag up to the camera. His name and ID number are clearly visible. He is shown eating at one point and sitting on a bed.
The soldier said the date is July 14. He says he was captured when he lagged behind on a patrol. He is interviewed in English by his captors, and he is asked his views on the war, which he calls extremely hard, his desire to learn more about Islam and the morale of American soldiers, which he said was