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Pakistan’s tribal leaders began their biggest meeting since the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in
2001 and removed the Taliban from power, to discuss a strategy to end support for militants.
L'Etat Major de la 3ème brigade mécanisée de Limoges, le cÅ“ur et
le cerveau de la relève française en Afghanistan, a reçu vendredi le feu vert
officiel pour être déployé le mois prochain à l'est de Kaboul, dans la
province de Kapissa et de Surobi. Cet Etat-Major, composé de 450 hommes et femmes, a
passé les derniers contrôles grandeur réelle au camp de Mailly dans l'Aube, en
présence d'officiers américains et afghans. Depuis le 1er novembre, la force
française sur place en effet est sous commandement US.
Catherine Ashton, la ministre des affaires étrangères de l’Union, soucieuse
de montrer qu’elle avait bien
reçu le message des ministres de la Défense après avoir séché
leur réunion informelle de Palma de Majorque, s’était ralliée à
l’idée de créer un véritable conseil des ministres de la
Défense. En effet, jusqu’à présent, ces derniers se
réunissaient uniquement de temps à autre dans le cadre d’un Conseil des
ministres des Affaires dit « jumbo » et n’avaient donc pas de
véritable autonomie.
Il est désormais acquis que lors du prochain conseil « jumbo », le
26 avril à Luxembourg, les ministres des Affaires étrangères voteront
(à la majorité qualifiée) la création d’une nouvelle formation
du Conseil des ministres, le Conseil des ministres de la Défense, ce qui marque un
progrès fondamental dans la mise en place d’une Europe de la défense. Pour
mesurer le chemin parcouru, il faut rappeler que le 17 novembre dernier, Javier Solana, le
prédécesseur de Lady Ashton, peu suspect d’euroscepticisme, avait jugé
la création d’un tel Conseil « trop difficile »...
Autre point important :
le nouvel « envoyé spécial » de l’Union en
Afghanistan, l’ancien ministre des affaires étrangères lituanien, Vygaudas
Usackas, va désormais cumuler sa fonction, celle d’ambassadeur de l’Union sur
place (pour l’instant occupée par un fonctionnaire de la Commission, H. Krestschmer)
et celle de représentant de la présidence tournante de l’Union... Cette triple
casquette va clarifier les responsabilités européennes sur un théâtre
d’opérations majeur.
samedi 20 mars 2010 à 15h Lieu :Saint MichelPlace Saint Michel Métro Saint Michel
Rassemblement "Rompons le Silence sur les Guerres Néolibérales" Les Américains
Contre la Guerre - France organisent un rassemblement le 20 mars de 15h à 17h à La
Fontaine St. Michel Troupes étasuniennes en tête, les forces de l' OTAN sont
actuellement engagées dans des guerres offensives contre les peuples d'Afghanistan, d'Irak
et du Pakistan. En février, 2010 quinze mille soldats USA/OTAN se sont engagés dans
une (...) - Infos
locales / Conflits
armés/guerres, mini-calendrier
Le commandement militaire américain envisage d'envoyer 2.500 soldats en renfort dans
le nord de l'Afghanistan afin de lutter contre les talibans, montés en puissance dans cette
région longtemps restée assez calme, a indiqué vendredi un responsable de
défense.
· Green Zone security man killed two colleagues
· War horrors played part in behaviour, family claims
The parents of a former British soldier who is facing the death penalty in Iraq for the killing
of two colleagues said today that horrific experiences on active service had destabilised his
behaviour.
If found guilty of murdering Paul McGuigan, 37, of Peebles, Scotland, and Darren Hoare, 37, from
Australia, the former Royal Fusilier could be executed. The next hearing is on 7 April.
His stepmother Liz and father Eric met officials from the Ministry of Justice and the Foreign
Office in London today to press the British government to become more involved in the case. The
couple are hoping their lawyers will be able to persuade the families of the dead men to ask the
Iraqi court for clemency.
Fitzsimons had seen terrible atrocities in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq, said his stepmother.
"He was most affected by a young boy who brought them bread in their camp. One day the boy's
severed body was found in the water supply," she said. He had been killed by Serbs for
collaborating with the British.
"That played a huge part in the mental illness he suffered. He has post-traumatic stress disorder
very badly."
While serving with a private security company in Iraq, the vehicle in front of Fitzsimons was hit
by an explosion. "The plastic doors of the truck sealed shut in the heat and one of his team was
stuck inside," said Clive Stafford Smith, director of the legal organisation Repreive, which is
helping the family.
"His friend screamed for Danny to get him out but Danny could not break the window as it was
bulletproof glass. He was forced to watch his friend burn inside the truck, unable to help."
Fitzsimons has given a detailed account, published in the Guardian today, of the violence in the
contractor's residential quarters in the secure Green Zone that led to the killings. He admitted
that his recollection was at points "blotchy" because of heavy drinking and claimed that McGuigan
and Hoare had been harassing him through the evening.
Tariq Harb, the Iraqi lawyer representing Fitzsimons in Bahghad, said he had asked lawyers for
the other families to consider withdrawing their claims.
McGuigan's family disputes Fitzsimons's version of events, insisting that McGuigan's body showed
no sign of injuries from earlier fighting.
"The British postmortem clearly states that other than the horrific gunshot wounds, there were no
marks on Paul to indicate that there had been any fighting," his family said.
Erstmals hat der frühere Uno-Sondergesandte für Afghanistan Gespräche mit
Taliban-Führern bestätigt - und zugleich den Abbruch der Kontakte beklagt. Kai Eide
machte dafür Pakistan verantwortlich: Das Land habe mit seiner Offensive gegen die
Aufständischen diplomatische Bemühungen untergraben.
Indeed, 90 percent of the world’s wheat has little or no protection against the Ug99 race of
P. graminis. If nothing is done to slow the pathogen, famines could soon become the norm
— from the Red Sea to the Mongolian steppe
— as Ug99 annihilates a crop that provides a third of our calories.
China and India, the world’s biggest wheat consumers, will once again face the threat of mass
starvation, especially among their rural poor. The situation will be particularly grim in Pakistan
and Afghanistan, two nations that rely heavily on wheat for sustenance and are in no position to
bear added woe. Their fragile governments may not be able to survive the onslaught of Ug99 and its
attendant turmoil. The pathogen has already been detected in Iran and may now be
headed for South Asia’s most important breadbasket, the Punjab, which nourishes hundreds of
millions of Indians and Pakistanis. What’s more, Ug99 could easily make the transoceanic leap
to the United States. All it would take is for a single spore, barely bigger than a red blood cell,
to latch onto the shirt of an oblivious traveler
Soldiers who saved lives under fire and the officers who commanded British forces last year, during
their bloodiest summer in Afghanistan, were among 160 men and women who were today recognised for
their courage.
Le Conseil des ministres restreint a décidé vendredi matin de prolonger jusque fin
2011 la présence militaire belge en Afghanistan, avec un maximum de 626 hommes et
d’envoyer 28 instructeurs supplémentaires.
The visionary who first saw the age of "netwar" coming warns that the U.S. military is getting it
wrong all over again. Here's his plan to make conflict cheaper, smaller, and smarter.
Every day, the U.S. military spends $1.75 billion, much of it on big ships, big guns, and big
battalions that are not only not needed to win the wars of the present, but are sure to be the
wrong approach to waging the wars of the future. In this, the ninth year of the first
great conflict between nations and networks, America's armed forces have failed, as militaries so
often do, to adapt sufficiently to changed conditions, finding out the hard way that their enemies
often remain a step ahead. The U.S. military floundered for years in Iraq, then proved itself
unable to grasp the point, in both Iraq and Afghanistan, that old-school surges of ground troops do
not offer enduring solutions to new-style conflicts with networked adversaries.
La capture d'une douzaine de chefs talibans afghans au Pakistan a mis un coup d'arrêt aux
négociations entre la milice islamiste et les émissaires de l'ONU, selon l'ancien
représentant spécial de l'organisation en Afghanistan.
Above, a "food indemnity form" for takeaway food at a hotel in Dubai. Tweeted by CNN International
correspondent Atia Awabi, who is based in Afghanistan....
"When they cut off my nose and ears, I passed out." Bibi Aisha, 19, of Afghanistan, who was
punished by the Taliban for "shaming" her in-laws when she ran away to escape torturous domestic
abuse. Her father promised her hand in marriage to her abusive husband when she was 8. (CNN blogs,
via Kristie LuStout)...
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Dependence (International Crisis Group) ANGOLA The Oil Factor in Sino–Angolan
Relations at the Start of the 21st Century (South African Institute of International Affairs)
ARCTIQUE Strategic Importance of the Arctic in U.S. Policy (Senate, USA) ASIE The Mekong : river
under threat (Lowry Institute) BANGLADESH The Threat from Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh
(International Crisis Group) CHILI Conjugando estrategia nacional y política local en
seguridad : el caso de Chile (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) CHINE The Strategic
Challenge of Chinese Organisations (UK Defence Academy) In Search of Legitimacy in
Post-revolutionary China : Bringing Ideology and Governance Back (German Institute of Global and
Area Studies) DEFENSE Transnational Insurgencies and the Escalation of Regional Conflict : Lessons
for Iraq and Afghanistan Arsenal's End ? American Power and the Global Defense Industry (Center for
a New American (...)
Follow coverage of Coventry University’s event ‘Afghanistan – are we embedding
the truth’ in the liveblog below from 1pm – 4pm. The discussion will examine coverage
of Afghanistan in the news and wider media with correspondents in Kabul. There’s more details
at this link of the line-up, which includes Channel 4’s Alex Thomson and Kevin Marsh
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ABKHAZIE Abkhazia : Deepening
Dependence (International Crisis Group) ANGOLA The Oil Factor in Sino–Angolan
Relations at the Start of the 21st Century (South African Institute of International Affairs)
ARCTIQUE Strategic Importance of the Arctic in U.S. Policy (Senate, USA) ASIE The Mekong : river
under threat (Lowry Institute) BANGLADESH The Threat from Jamaat-ul Mujahideen Bangladesh
(International Crisis Group) CHILI Conjugando estrategia nacional y política local en
seguridad : el caso de Chile (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) CHINE The Strategic
Challenge of Chinese Organisations (UK Defence Academy) In Search of Legitimacy in
Post-revolutionary China : Bringing Ideology and Governance Back (German Institute of Global and
Area Studies) DEFENSE Transnational Insurgencies and the Escalation of Regional Conflict : Lessons
for Iraq and Afghanistan Arsenal's End ? American Power and the Global Defense Industry (Center for
a New American (...)
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