Posts Tagged ‘afghanistan’
Wikileaks – What’s the Duke of York done now?
Half a day on from Wikileaks’ latest barrage and there’s still no update on one of the juiciest stories that we were promised details on. The Guardian, who has had access to all the leaks, is still keeping mum about some inappropriate remarks made by a member of the British Royal Family.
Although he has plenty of rivals in the foot in mouth league tables in the house of Windsor it is widely predicted that the Royal being referred to is in fact Prince Andrew – or Airmiles Andy as he is known these days thanks to his love of the old foreign jaunt.
Andy has plenty of form in this area too previously taking the US govt to task for not listening to British views on Iraq – a move which breaks royal protocol over what dukes can and can’t say about foreign governments.
So what do you think he has done now? Had a go at the Americans over Afghanistan? Suggested that a few of our former colonies, like the US and Ireland, might be better off being ruled by HM govt? Come on Wikikleaks and The Guardian, let’s have it.
Posted: 29th, November 2010 | In: Royal Family | Comment
Afghanistan Time To Go Demo: In Photos And Acronyms
ANOTHER weekend of demonstrations in London and with it the birth of another acronym for the media to conjure with. The British Muslim Initiative (BMI) is in central London as part in the Afghanistan: Time to Go demonstration. Joining them are CND and STWC (Stop The War Coalition). There were lots of banners and placards demanding “PEACE”. Do the peaceful march and shout? Or is PEACE another acronym (People Expect Acronyms Cleverly Explained)…
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Posted: 20th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Soldier Who Refused To Return To Afghanistan Hands Back Medals
JOE Glenton is the now ex-soldier who was jailed for nine months refusing to return to Afghanistan. He had fled to Asia and Australia.
Today he handed in his veteran’s medal to 10 Downing Street in London.
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Posted: 19th, November 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (18)
Without Medals For Afghanistan Soldiers Like Matt Croucher We’d Never See Them
THERE is war going on. While the Kafkaesque drones build by Tony Blair’s authoritarian stare arrest and set about ruining the life of Paul Chambers – read this – Lance Corporal Matt Croucher picked up a George Cross for his work in Afghanistan.
In February 2008, Croucher accidentally activated a trip wired grenade. Matt threw himself on the grenade saving the lives of 3 of his Comrades.
Other featured in our gallery are: Corporal Ricky Furgusson, Sergeant Karl Ley, Rifleman Peter Matthews, 21, and Rifleman Reece Terry.
It’s easy to forget them and the other soldiers. We only see them when they get a medal or meet a celebrity…
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Posted: 24th, September 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
The Argyll Sutherland Highlanders Prepare For Afghanistan And The Media Hangs On Celebrity Pastor Terry Jones’s Every Word: Photos
THE Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Scotland, are making ready to head to Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Pastor Terry Jones makes his big statement – and the media tunes in. All of it. No news bulletin is complete without mention of this moment’s biggest D-list celebrity.
It’s all entertainment, viewers. Will the man with the handlebar moustache from Hicksville US of A burn the Koran and start a global war on the telly? Will the TV news feature footage of excitable gurning loons burning Old Glory? Will people die in a radio-controlled war?
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Dr Karen Woo Was Murdered For Being A Christian: Photos And News Round-Up
KAREN Woo was murdered by the Taliban in Afghanistan in a placed called Badakhshan. The 36-year-old surgeon had been working in Nuristan.
She is on the front page the Express, Mirror, Mail, Independent, Times, Telegraph and the Observer. Only Robbie Williams’ wedding prevents Woo’s face appearing on all the papers’ front pages. She is British and photogenic.
She is the NoTW’s “beautiful British surgeon”.
She died with nine others, including six Americans, two Afghans and a German. Their bodies were found stripped of valuables.
The gunmen spared an Afghan driver, who recited verses from the Islamic holy book Quran as he begged for his life.
Dr Woo had been working with Christian charity called the International Assistance Mission (IAM). The charity offers eye care to people living in remote villages. Her Christianity is relevant to her death.
What do we know about AM. Its website says:
IAM is an international charitable, non-profit, Christian organisation, serving the people of Afghanistan, through capacity building in the sectors of Health and Economic Development.
IAM’s core values are:
Dependency on God
Love for All
Teamwork
Accountability
Learning
Quality Work
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Posted: 8th, August 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (5)
Afghanistan Police Smoking Hash For Peace: Operation BlowBack Video
THOSE leaked documents from Afghanistan never said anything about the marijuana and how Afghani police are forced to smoke it through rudimentary bongs. The hazy blue lione has recived a $27 billion international investment.
Wikileaks Gives Lazy Journalists Biased History Of War In Afghanistan: Pictures
US Sergeant Ryan Glover, tells al Jazeera’s Clayton Swisher.
“I wouldn’t say I feel threatened. But they act silly, just like anybody who smokes weed. They just act ridiculous. It’s hard to get them to focus. They won’t stay quiet. They’ve just got the giggles.”
How can you keep the peace if everyone is giggling? Sheesh!
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Wikileaks Gives Lazy Journalists Biased History Of War In Afghanistan: Pictures
NEWS of the War in Afghanistan comes in the form of 90,000 documents leaked by the Wikileaks website. It’s news of the war between January 2004 and December 2009, as told by US military to Us military. The Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel all lead with the leak.
Why did Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange target these organs? What of the sites’ biases? Interesting and clever to get the mainstream media on side – and with all those corporate lawyers and high visibility should things turn nasty. The full story needs to be invesitgated.
Wikileaks understands this – and it understands that journalists have gotten lazy. Why investigate the difficult story of a distant war – and all that need to talk to actual soldiers and experience it first hand – when you can just publish a load of hand delivered info on the web from your armchair?
Why The Pentagon Is Hunting Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Over Bradley Manning
And what of the shocks?
Well, there are the “black ops” soldiers who seek out the Taliban to kill without trial. There are more civilian deaths than many might have thought because the Taliban are trying to kill local police and have increased their use of road-side bombs.
Wikileaks And Julian Assange Caught In Bias Storm Over Reuter’s Iraqi Journalists ‘Slaughter’
The Guardian:
92,201 internal records of actions by the US military in Afghanistanbetween January 2004 and December 2009 – threat reports from intelligence agencies, plans and accounts of coalition operations, descriptions of enemy attacks and roadside bombs, records of meetings with local politicians, most of them classified secret.
US national security adviser Gen James Jones claims the leak “could put the lives of Americans and our partners at risk, and threaten our national security”.
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Taliban Trains Army Of Monkeys To Fire Kalashnikovs At US Soldiers
FORGET the nuclear pigeons and the exploding breasts, and know that the Taliban have trained a millions monkeys to wage bloddy war on the West.
The Taliban have trained monkeys to use the Kalashnikov rifle, Bren light machine gun and trench mortars. And lest they kill just anyone, the Taliban have taught the monkeys how to identify and attack soldiers wearing U.S. military uniforms.
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Posted: 11th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (6)
Gen Stanley McChrystal Scapegoats Obama And The Politicans
IN the closing stages of the film, A Bridge Too Far, we saw Generals Urqhart and Browning starting to distance themselves from what was then evident as a military disaster, with Browning uttering the immortal words: “I always felt we tried to go a bridge too far.”
There seems to me to be something of this with Gen Stanley McChrystal and his interview with Rolling Stone magazine. With the man admitting that everything said was on the record, and the magazine checking back with the General’s aides before using the quotes, we have on the face of it an example of a senior soldier committing professional suicide.
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Posted: 23rd, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comments (9)
Barack Obama, David Cameron And The Mystery Of Robert Green’s Slick Gloves: Pictures
DAVID Cameron might consider himself fortunate there is war on. He gets to stand among the troops at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province and look hard.
And tough Dave’s been on the phone to Barack Obama to remind him that soaking Robert Green’s gloves in BP oil was an inspired ploy and left everyone feeling equal and happy.
England V USA: One Green Disaster After Another Green Disaster
Dave and Barry then, apparently, had a chat on the phone, although we think such calls should take place on a party line and give us all chance to listen in. Downing Street then issued a press release:
World Cup: England v USA Death Blog (Pictures)
“President Obama said to the prime minister that BP was a multinational global company and that frustrations about the oil spill had nothing to do with national identity. The prime minister stressed the economic importance of BP to the UK, US and other countries. The president made it clear that he had no interest in undermining BP’s value.”
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Posted: 13th, June 2010 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
In Pictures: The 11 Light Brigade Storm Parliament
“SOLDIERS COME HOME ALIVE.” So reads the banner strung between two trees on Parliament Square. We looked on as troops from 11 Light Brigade attended a reception at the House of Commons after recently returning from Afghanistan. Come the revolution…
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In Pictures: David Beckham In Afghanistan
DAVID Beckham went to see the lads in Camp Bastion, Helmand Province. He’s joined the Gunners. And by the looks of the pictures, he fits in. Is this a glimpse at the post-football future for Becks – a mascot for lost causes. First the England World Cup bid, now this. Can Day-vid lead the Labour Party? Will he put all his money in the euro?
If it is, it works. and judging by the way he handles the gun, it looks like his time in LA has not been a total waste.
It’s hard not to like David Beckham…
Posted: 22nd, May 2010 | In: Sports | Comments (31)
Pictures: With Impeccable Timing The Jamie Janes Inquest Begins
WITH impeccable timing, soldiers from the Grenadier Guards arrive at Brighton County Court for the inquest into the death of Guardsman Jamie Janes, 20, who was fatally wounded while on a foot patrol near Nad e-Ali district centre in Helmand, Afghanistan, on October 5 last year. It was Guardsman Janes, 20, of 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, whose death sparked a furore after Gordon Brown misspelt his name in a letter of condolence to his mother, Jacqui Janes. The row became a tabloid spat in which Jon Gaunt waded in – with laughable results. An election looms. Do your duty…
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The Sun Joins Gordon Brown In Disrespecting Jacqui Janes By Calling Her Jacqui Jones
Jon Gaunt Compounds The Sun’s Misery Over The Jacqui Janes Debacle
Anjem Choudary In Line For Jon Gaunt’s Sun Column: Wootton Bassett Awaits
‘Hate Mail Cleric’ Anjem Choudary On Big Brother And Being Gordon Brown’s Letter Writing Czar
Young Major Nidal Hasan Fronts Afghanistan Poster Campaign?
BILLBOARDS in Afghanistan are easy to find – although finding a building to put one on might be trickier. In Kabul, the locals are not yet buying McDonald’s but they the subject of US marketing campaign to promote “A New Afghanistan”. One sentimental advert asks: “Suicide bomber or doctor?” That question to you Major Hasan? Sheesh! Why do they insist of given you pigeonholing your talents?
Spotter Ad Age and Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan
In Pictures: X-Ray Of Live Ammo In Afghan Soldier’s Head
THIS is a picture of a two-inch long live round of ammunition lodged in the head of living Afghan soldier. The US Air Force image stems from work by Radiologist Lt Col Anthony Terreri. He explained the patient and discovered that the shrapnel was in fact a 14.5mm unexploded round. Says he:
“I saw that it was not solid metal on the inside. I then looked at the scout image and could see there was an air gap on one end and what looked almost like the tip of a tube of lipstick at the end and decided this didn’t look quite right.”
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Posted: 12th, April 2010 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True | Comment
In Pictures: Gordon Brown’s Knife Crime Campaign Fails In Afghanistan
ON the day Gordon Brown lent his giant clunking fist to ‘Count Me In Together We Can Stop Knife Crime‘, a drive to stamp out youth knife crime, the Taliban were handing over weapons to the Afghan government in Herat, west of Kabul. And not one knife was surrendered. Not. One. Gordon Brown would doubtless be dismayed by this. In other war news: In Pictures: 15000 Bikers Ride For Afghan Troops In Wootton Bassett:
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A former member of Taliban look at weapons during a ceremony to hand them over to the Afghan government in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 14, 2010. Thirty Taliban militants joined the peace process Sunday and delivered their weapons and ammunition to the Regional Peace and Reconciliation Commission-Western Afghanistan in Herat province. Photo by ParsPix/ABACAPRESS.COM
Afghanis Rush To Join Taliban To Claim Money In Restart Scheme
THE War on the Taliban will be won on the Field of Bribes. The Independent leads with the headline: “The new Afghan plan: buy off Taliban.” Right now hundreds and thousands of Afghanis are contemplating joining the Taliban to qualify for the restart scheme.
Suicide belts are expensive, you know. So too are bombs and petrol to get to the enemies camp. Being a suicide bomber is not cheap.
- * Are you having trouble finding the money to flee to the West?
- * Are you looking to buy bigger guns?
- * Are you interersted in better fertilizers to grow better smack to export to the decadent West?
Here’s how. It cannot fail.
Britain and the US are backing a new strategy to buy off “soft” supporters of the Taliban in a radical attempt to end nine years of war in Afghanistan.
What about the hard supporters, the ones who may see the soft targets as, well, soft targets and take their money?
More than 60 delegations, from Colombia to Australia, will gather in Lancaster House this morning to draw up an exit strategy from Afghanistan. Much of it is based on reintegrating the Taleban rank and file, wooing the Taleban leadership and gradually handing security to the Afghan Army and police. The conference is expected to agree a $500 million (£310 million), five-year fund for President Karzai to “buy off” insurgents who are not ideologically committed to destroying the West.
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Posted: 28th, January 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
In Pictures: The Black Watch Third Battalion Arrive Home In Forfar
THE soldiers from The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion are marching through streets of Forfar, Angus. They march to say thank you to those who supported them during its recent seven-month tour of Afghanistan. They march to remind themselves that they are home. They march to remind us that a war is being fought. They marsh becsue that is what soldeier do…
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David Cameron In Afghanistan Is Grabba Ma Selling Houses, In Pictures
MORE on David Cameron’s visit to Afghanistan. Like Prince Charles, every picture of David Cameron screams out for a speech bubble. Cameron is a man ideally suited to captions. Who can but look at this picture of Dave in a jumper and jeans combo his grandpa bequeathed him and not imagine what the squaddies behind are thinking? More photos are emerging of Dave wandering aimlessly in Afghanistan in an estate agent’s suit, a Grabber Ma given the shiny-cheeked appearance of being alive. Enjoy all these photos and do offer up your captions – picture number 6 is fabulous.
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PHOTO MUST NOT BE PUBLISHED BEFORE EMBARGOED TIME DUE TO SECURITY REASONS EMBARGOED TO 1800 FRIDAY DECEMBER 4 Conservative Party leader David Cameron meets British soldiers at the Task Force Helmand HQ in Lashkar Gah where he met military chiefs and visited a wheatseed distribution Centre helping local farmers out of poppy production.
Posted: 5th, December 2009 | In: Politicians | Comment (1)
Afghani Poppy Day Smuggler Captured At Heathrow
A GIANT man made out of poppies stands in the Terminal 5 departures at Heathrow Airport in Middlesex to promote the British Legion’s Poppy appeal.
Do you know him? He was spotted leaving a plane from Kabul, Afghanistan…
Nasa Invites British To Test New Bomb On Moon
Forty years on from the first moon landing, British scientists find a way to bomb it…
NEIL Armstrong described the moon’s surface as “fine and powdery”. Buzz Aldrin, the man who came second, said the moon exhibited signs of “magnificent desolation”.
Forty years on, Nasa is still working out what to do with the moon, it’s big discovery; and has only now decided to bomb it.
When Anorak first heard the news that Nasa scientists will be “bombing” the Moon with two spacecraft, we supposed the moon had been earmarked as a zone in which to test weapons destined for the desolate sands of Iraq and Afghanistan.
But Nasa says the bombing run is an attempt to locate ice-water in the Cabeus south polar region, identified by a team from the University of Durham team as a site with high concentrations of hydrogen.
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Posted: 9th, October 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)
Private Kevin Elliott’s Funeral Dress
PRIVATE Kevin Elliott, 24, of the Black Watch, arrives at Barnhill Cemetery in Dundee. He died on duty in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on August 31.
His best friend dressed in a bright green dress and pink leg warmers to honour an agreement that the two of them had made should one of them die.
Dress and T-shirts have become a way to mourn the dead, and remember.
Anorak looks:
Posted: 17th, September 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (4)
Terrorists Train For Suicide By Blowing Each Other Up, Video
IN this video from Afghanistan, terrorists train for a suicide mission by blowing each other up: Caught on Tape: Terrorists Blow Themselves Up While U.S. Gunship Holds Fire:
Remember him:
Spotter: Tim Blair, source Breitbart TV
Posted: 15th, September 2009 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Jaycee Lee Dugard Lived In Britain
JAYCEE Lee Dugard – Anorak’s look at Jaycee Dugard in the news: With Baby P, Madeleine McCann, Shannon Matthews, 9/11, Afghanistan, War on Terror, Mumbai Massacre, the Asian tsunami and Sue Carroll…
Lest you think the story of Jaycee Dugard is not relevant to you, dear Britisher, that you are just gawping at suffering and sensation, Sue Carroll sets you straight, and engages in a rich game of Tabolid Bingo. See how many stories you can spot being linked to Our Jaycee:
Daily Mirror: “Who’s to say there isn’t a Jaycee Lee Dugard in Britain?”
How ironic that during Jaycee’s incarceration the world has witnessed terrorist atrocities, disasters and war but missed completely the cruelty inflicted on an innocent little girl locked away in a paedophile’s suburban backyard.
9/11. Mumbai. Tsunami. Iraq. Bing…. Wait for it. Sue Carroll has more:
We know enough about the death of Baby P to recognise no stone must be left unturned when a child’s life is in question.
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Posted: 2nd, September 2009 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comment
