23 January 2013
In Paktika province a U.S./NATO drone crashed. International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is investigating the cause. Mujahideen say they shot down the expensive remote piloted aircraft in the Surki Ghara area of Jani Khel district.
In Nangarhar Province, reports that a U.S./NATO airstrike targeted a house, killing three people and wounding two.
A Polish/NATO Elite Special Forces Unit soldier was shot to death during an ambush in the province of Ghazni. Other Polish troops were wounded. ISAF simply said: “An International Security Assistance Force service member died following an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan today.”
In Herat Province, a suicide bomber attacked a police convoy. He blew himself up as he rode his bicycle into the convoy. Eight cops are wounded.
The World Bank is granting Afghanistan another $250 million USD! It’s part of a rural rehabilitation and development program that many Afghans say isn’t happening. While the World Bank is the one giving the money to Afghanistan, that money is actually coming from “donor” countries, like the United States.
22 January 2013
In Uruzgan Province, reports saying at least three Special Operations Task Group Diggers (Australian troops) were wounded. The SOTG was conducting search & destroy missions. They were wounded in separate incidents, which included firefights and a SOTG patrol being ambushed.
In Nuristan Province, local government officials said two U.S./NATO drone strikes have killed dozens of people. Local government officials say the drone strikes were called in against Mujahideen, and estimate that 35 were killed or wounded.
President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation into torture in Afghan controlled prisons. This after a United Nations report said torture was rampant.
Amnesty International says at least 17 Afghans (11 of them children) have died in concentration camps during the month of January. They said the deaths were due to the living conditions made worse by the freezing weather: “…the inadequate co-ordination of winter assistance to hundreds of thousands of people living in displacement camps across the country.”-Polly Truscott
Afghanistan is now a member of the Better Than Cash Alliance. It is an electronics payment service founded by U.S. AID (your tax dollars at work), the Ford Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Citi Bank and several other elitist pro-one world government groups. Is this the start of a true one world banking system?
21 January 2013
To go along with Afghanistan’s new membership in what could be a new international banking system, the Afghan Telecommunication and Information Technology Ministry will begin issuing electronic identification cards in March. Afghans will be required to register for the cards starting in February. At some point Afghans who do not have the cards can be refused any social services help, or even be considered illegal immigrants and detained.
In Kabul, Mujahideen attacked a U.S. sponsored police training camp. Kabul police say five Mujahideen were killed. Also, three cops were killed, and at least six cops and seven civilians were wounded.
In Kunduz Province, reports that an overnight U.S./NATO drone strike killed two people.