Afghanilandia

There was a recent article in the Georgian Daily on Afghanistan that looked interesting. I can't find it online, but if I do I will post it here.

The Washington Post has a video, and an article out about the Winfield affair here in which Thomas Winfield reported that his platoon would go out and kill and dismember Afghan civilians as a game. The soldiers, after having killed a number of Afghans, are now being prosecuted.

An American airstrike kills seventy people in Afghanistan last night.

Drone strikes in Northwest Pakistan have stepped up hugely.

Julian Assange, the founder of wikileaks, has been completely acquitted of any charges of improper conduct in Sweden and is now free to leave. Mr. Assange is widely rumoured to be planning a release of documents to his website on the Iraq war.

Two French hostages in Afghanistan are in sound health.

The Afghan diaspora in Russia asks for help in voting in future elections in Afghanistan.

I just came across this article, about charitable donations to Afghanistan, whilst browsing the web.

A judge in America may review the drone attacks in Afghanistan.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that fourteen people were killed on Afghanistan's election day.

There are two new films out at the Toronto Film Festival about Afghanistan's neverending conflict, one from the Danes- the famed and long awaited Armadillo, and the other from a Polish director, a portrayal of a Taliban fighter who escapes from captivity and his fight to survive.

The Toronto Star's James Travers' writes on the Afghan detainee abuse affair.

Laura King writes in the Los Angeles Times about the Afghan election, adding that total numbers for how many people were killed is not known, and that one insurgent was killed as he was about to attack a polling station.

The United States of America's forces are currently pushing a massive offensive into rural Kandahar, reveal the Washington Post.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports an engagement between Afghan protestors and Australian forces here.