Carlotta Gall
"[Karzai's] opponents want Parliament to control the printing of money, the creation of a constitutional court, three vice presidents rather than one, a ban on top officials holding dual citizenship or having a foreign spouse, more power devolved to provincial councils, and for Uzbek and Turkmen language rights in their ethnic regions." [more]
Despite the raid's failure, "the American military is pressing ahead with its objectives ... announcing Monday that it had 2,000 soldiers out on its biggest operation ever against elements of the Taliban and Al Qaeda across a wide swath of the country." [more]
"Afghans and Pakistanis who were detained for many months by the American military at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba before being released without charges are describing the conditions as so desperate that some captives tried to kill themselves." [more]
"At least 16 people, including women and children, were killed when their bus exploded on a bridge just outside the southern city of Kandahar, in an attack that the local police attributed to the Taliban or other rebel forces." [more]
"Hundreds of Qaeda fighters and Taliban supporters are planning to intensify their attacks on Afghan territory if war breaks out in Iraq, interviews with three visitors from Pakistani tribal area indicate." [more]
"Some Defense Ministry commandos, who have been responsible for the president's security since his arrival in the capital in December, admitted that they were unhappy about the takeover by Americans because it would make the president appear even more in the American pocket. 'Whose president will he be if he is not guarded by Afghan soldiers?' one commando asked." [more]
"Women and children lay dead and wounded in and around one big house where they had been gathered for an engagement party, torn apart by cannon fire from the American attack plane, an AC-130 gunship. Survivors said they were gathering up the bodies, picking up limbs and body parts from the streets and adjoining orchard, and carrying the wounded to the village mosque, when the soldiers arrived." [more]
"In northwestern Afghanistan, tens of thousands of people are on the move, in search of food and greater security. Many had already endured three years of drought and the upheavals of years of war. But when the United States began bombing their country, they abandoned their villages and headed for refugee camps near the city of Herat, swelling the camps to perhaps 200,000 today. Yet the poorest and hungriest still cling to their homes, unable to afford the trip to the camps." [more]
"Dozens of Taliban prisoners died after surrendering to Northern Alliance forces, asphyxiated in the shipping containers used to transport them to prison, witnesses say.
Faced with transporting thousands of potentially dangerous prisoners even while a prisoner uprising in the Qala Jangi fort near Mazar-i-Sharif was under way, the Northern Alliance packed many of the detained into the sealed shipping containers for the journey from Kunduz." [more]
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(Reuters, Dec 18)
"Federal prison officers in Brooklyn physically and verbally abused immigrants detained after the Sept. 11 attacks, slamming them against the wall and painfully twisting their arms and hands, the U.S. Justice Department's inspector general said on Thursday." [more]
(STAFF, DEBKAfile, Dec 14)
"Saddam was seized, possibly with the connivance of his own men, and held in that hole in Adwar for three weeks or more, which would have accounted for his appearance and condition. Meanwhile, his captors bargained for the $25m prize the Americans promised for information leading to his capture alive or dead." [more]
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