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Source: 2 killed in Afghanistan bombing were security contractors - CNN.com
"Two of the seven CIA officers killed Wednesday in a suspected terrorist attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan were contractors for Xe, a private security firm, a former intelligence official said Thursday."
An unwelcome present for Afghanistan / Features / Home - Morning Star
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The most recent poll of Afghans that I read, conducted by the BBC with ABC news, said that 44 per cent of Afghans wanted fewer foreign soldiers.
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Much of the NATO contribution is made by the private sector. Billions of dollars of "reconstruction" money has been funnelled through private contractors.
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t r u t h o u t | Obama's Af-Pak War Is Illegal
President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize nine days after he announced he would send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
Projected contractor surge in Afghanistan: Up to 56,000 - FederalTimes.com
President Barack Obama's 30,000-troop surge in Afghanistan could be accompanied by a contractor surge as high as 56,000, according to a Dec. 14 Congressional Research Service report.
US Silent About Taliban Guarantee Offer on al-Qaeda by Gareth Porter -- Antiwar.com
"The Barack Obama administration is refusing to acknowledge an offer by the leadership of the Taliban in early December to give "legal guarantees" that it will not allow Afghanistan to be used for attacks on other countries."
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The Taliban offer, included in a statement dated Dec. 4 and e-mailed to news
organizations the following day, said the organization has "no agenda
of meddling in the internal affairs of other countries and is ready to give
legal guarantees if foreign forces withdraw from Afghanistan." -
Despite repeated queries by IPS to State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley
and the National Security Council’s press office over the past week about whether
either Secretary Clinton or President Obama had been informed about the Taliban
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The War Democrats by Justin Raimondo -- Antiwar.com
"A recent op ed piece by Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Penn.), a former admiral, is typical of the Bushian "logic" which continues to dominate the making of American foreign policy in the age of Obama"
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No one wants to put more of our service members in harm’s way. No one wants
to be spending more of our resources abroad when there is so much to be done
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I would add: no one wants to kill thousands of Afghans for no good reason except
the Obama administration’s goal of proving its virility
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Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Inheriting Halliburton's Army | TomDispatch
"The notorious Blackwater Worldwide has officially rebranded itself Xe. According to a company memo, "Xe will be a one-stop shopping source for world class services in the fields of security, stability, aviation, training and logistics.""
Blackwater Guards Tied to Secret Raids by the C.I.A. - NYTimes.com
"Private security guards from Blackwater Worldwide participated in some of the C.I.A.’s most sensitive activities — clandestine raids with agency officers against people suspected of being insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan and the transporting of detainees"
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