27 Aug
United States Wars, News and Casualties
United States Wars, News and Casualties
NYT: War Without End, Read Article>>
In the Vietnam era, stories like this and television reporting on the war contributed to the end of the Vietnam War in a time frame of much less than 17 years.
As deployment of the last 17 years only came to a sub set of young people, and TV and news rarely covered the searing violence of war, eschewing such content for minor content (Kardashians, Tweets, outrageous behavior), the daily violence and futility went “off stage”.
One is invited to read the daily post, “United States Wars, News and Casualties” and then watch the daily news on the U.S. TV Media.
The absence of U.S. War News is atrocious.
We need this daily report of our wars in our face………..Daily.
The McGlynn
Damn The Criminals,Bush,Cheney,Rice,Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Powell and Blair from England.
How many Iraqis have died as a result of the invasion 15 years ago? Some credible estimates put the number at more than one million. You can read that sentence again.
The invasion of Iraq is often spoken of in our country as a “blunder,” or even a “colossal mistake.” It was a crime.
Those who perpetrated it are still at large. Some of them have even been rehabilitated thanks to the horrors of a mostly amnesiac citizenry.
We condemned children to death, some after many days of writhing in pain on bloodstained mats, without pain relievers. Some died quickly, wasted by missing arms and legs, crushed heads. As the fluids ran out of their bodies, they appeared like withered, spoiled fruits. They could have lived, certainly should have lived – and laughed and danced, and run and played- but instead they were brutally murdered. Yes, murdered!
The war ended for those children, but it has never ended for survivors who carry memories of them. Likewise, the effects of the U.S. bombings continue, immeasurably and indefensibly.
The McGlynn
War News
28 militants killed in Ghazni airstrikes
By Khaama Press on 27 Aug 2018 3:07pm .
At least twenty eight militants were killed during the airstrikes conducted in southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan, the Afghan Military said.
According to the 203rd Thunder Corps of the Afghan Military in the Southeast, at least twenty eight militants were killed during the airstrikes conducted in the vicinity of Moqor and Gilan districts.
The 203rd Thunder Corps in a statement said at least eight militants also sustained injuries during the airstrikes.
The airstrikes were carried out in Pardal, Asghar, and Jahangir area of Gilan district, the statement said, adding that three vehicles including a Ranger type vehicle previously captured by the militants were also destroyed.
The statement also added that the Explosives Ordnance Disposal team of the Afghan military also discovered ad two improvised explosives devices from Qazi Qala area in the provincial capital of the province.
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Militants suffer casualties during clashes with the Afghan forces in Kunar
By Khaama Press on 27 Aug 2018 9:36am.
A clash took place between the Afghan forces and the anti-government armed militants in eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan, leaving at least four militants dead.
The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the incident took place on Saturday in the vicinity of Shegal district.
The source further added that the Afghan force responded to the militants attack in Shinkorak area using heavy and light weapons.
According to the Silab Corps, at least two militants were killed during the clashes and two others sustained injuries.
The security situation in eastern Kunar province has started to deteriorate sharply during the recent months amid growing insurgency activities by the Taliban and ISIS militants.
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ALJ: Yemen’s cancer crisis amid war
It is becoming increasing difficult to get potentially life-saving treatment to 35,000 cancer patients in Yemen, with 11,000 new cases each year, as the ongoing conflict nears its four-year mark.
While the United Nations is warning of the potential of a third cholera outbreak in Yemen, the almost four-year-long war is taking its toll on cancer patients.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that around 35,000 people have cancer in Yemen, with 11,000 new patients diagnosed each year. Many of them are children.
But in a place where the economy and the infrastructure have collapsed, it is difficult to get the life-saving treatment people so desperately need.
NYT: Gunmen Kill 2 in Attack on Afghan-Tajik Border
MOSCOW — Security officials in Tajikistan say that two people have been killed and one injured after men stormed the border from Afghanistan.
Tajik Border Guards said in a statement on Monday that they are looking for a group of 10 to 12 armed men who crossed the Panj River separating the country from Afghanistan on Sunday. The men, armed with a hand-held grenade launcher and automatic rifles opened fire on three forest rangers, killing two of them and injuring one.
Tajikistan has a long, porous border with Afghanistan, and the area across the Panj is currently under Taliban control.
The incident comes a week before Moscow hosts a Taliban delegation for Afghanistan talks.
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NYT: Airstrike Near Tajikistan Border Kills Taliban, Afghans Say
MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan — An airstrike killed six Taliban insurgents along the border of Tajikistan and Afghanistan, an area where cross-border attacks are rare, Afghan officials said on Monday.
The officials said the strike was carried out on Sunday by Tajikistan’s Air Force. Tajik forestry officials surrounded and attacked a group of Taliban drug smugglers who had crossed the border and were just inside Tajik territory, according to Ahmad Jawad Hijri, a spokesman for the governor of Takhar Province in northern Afghanistan.
Two forestry officials were killed in the confrontation, he said, and the Tajik Air Force then responded with the strike, which killed six Taliban insurgents.
But that account seemed to conflict with what is known about Tajikistan’s capabilities. The country has a tiny air force that is not known to include armed jets, according to World Air Forces 2017, an aerospace industry publication.
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NYT: US Strike Kills Islamic State Commander in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — A U.S. strike over the weekend killed a senior Islamic State commander in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan and U.S. officials said Monday.
The strike in Nangarhar province killed Abu Sayeed Orakzai, a senior leader in the extremist group, according to Shah Hussain Martazawi, deputy spokesman for the Afghan presidency. He said the operation showed the government’s “determination to fight terrorism.”
Lt. Col. Martin O’Donnell, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said American forces launched a counterterrorism strike in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday that targeted a “senior leader of a designated terrorist organization.” He did not provide further details.
“These efforts target the real enemies of Afghanistan, the same enemies who threaten America,” he said.
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GUARD: Opinion Assad’s Syria recorded its own atrocities. The world can’t ignore them
The regime photographed the corpses of over 6,700 people it murdered in detention. Its crimes must not go unpunished
The McGlynn: Video provided by Human Rights Watch
“If the Dead Could Speak” reveals some of the human stories behind the more than 28,000 photos of deaths in government custody that were smuggled out of Syria and first came to public attention in January 2014.
Imagine your son or daughter was arrested. And you heard nothing about them for years. Until one day, thousands of photographs of dead bodies were published – corpses of people who had died in custody. You start looking through them one by one, sick to your stomach wondering if the next photograph you click on is of your loved one. But as you go through them, you realise many of the corpses are so severely emaciated, mutilated, some with their eyes missing, that you’d find it hard to recognise even yourself in that state.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of Syrian families have done just that – looked through the so-called Caesar photographs – images of over 6,700 people (originally reported as 11,000) who apparently died in Syrian regime custody. A defector, codenamed Caesar, claimed he smuggled the photographs out of Syria and, astonishingly, that they had been taken by the regime itself as part of its record-keeping. Chillingly, each corpse has a number, alongside the number of a regime detention facility. No names, just numbers.
In May 2014, in part motivated by these images, the UN security council debated a draft resolution to refer Syria to the international criminal court. Thirteen of its 15 members voted for the resolution, but it was vetoed by Russia and China. The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, has consistently questioned the authenticity of the photographs, and when confronted with one of the horrific images by reporter Michael Isikoff in a Yahoo News interview last year, the president referred to them as “fake news”, and asked: “Who verified the pictures?”
New evidence suggests his own regime verified the pictures. War crimes investigators have recently uncovered documents they say provide corroboration of the Caesar photographs by the regime itself – as Nicola Cutcher and I revealed on Channel 4 News this month. Investigators at the Commission for International Justice and Accountability (many of them veterans of the international criminal court and the tribunal for the former Yugoslavia) discovered the evidence among hundreds of thousands of records abandoned by the Syrian regime when it lost control of areas to opposition forces.
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REU: Driven from home, White Helmet rescuers start over in north Syria
AZAZ, Syria (Reuters) – Syrian rescue worker Samir Salim found his mother’s body under their collapsed house, but there was no time for a funeral.
Syrian rescue worker Samir Salim shows his wounded back during an interview with Reuters in Azaz,
“We buried her and went back to work. There were a lot of people under the rubble,” he said. Months later, he can no longer even visit her grave.
When Syrian government forces clawed back his eastern Ghouta hometown, near the capital Damascus, Salim followed hundreds of thousands of others who had fled to the northwest under rebel surrender deals.
Now, he and “White Helmet” workers driven from different parts of Syria have come together in the rebel-controlled town of Azaz to try to rebuild their lives near the Turkish border.
Their work has changed drastically: with no warplanes cruising overhead, they help the opposition authorities put out fires, clean the streets, and plant trees.
Azaz falls within a de facto buffer zone which Turkey has carved out since 2016. The northwest corner remains Syria’s last major insurgent stronghold and is now in President Bashar al-Assad’s crosshairs.
The White Helmets have often said they worried about reprisals as government forces defeated rebel enclaves with Russian and Iranian help.
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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve.
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Taylor J. Galvin, 34, from Spokane, Washington, died Aug. 20, 2018, in Baghdad, Iraq, as a result of injuries sustained when his helicopter crashed in Sinjar, Ninevah Province, Iraq. The incident is under investigation.
Galvin was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.
Staff Sgt. Reymund Rarogal Transfiguracion, 36, from Waikoloa, Hawaii, died Aug. 12, 2018, of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near him while he was conducting combat patrol operations in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The incident is under investigation.
Transfiguracion was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne), Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.
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