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  • Release Colvin's e-mails 27 Nov 2009 07:16 GMT
    ... turned over to Afghan forces by Canadian soldiers were routinely tortured, we won't know the ... brass including the now retired chief of defence staff, Rick Hillier. The diplomat's testimony carried ... vast majority of prisoners taken by our troops, the retired general says, were combatants -- ...

  • Euro: Military buys two planes from Israel 27 Nov 2009 07:15 GMT
    ... be used. They are to protect Czech troops deployed within foreign missions. The aircraft were produced ... his visit to Prague in October. The Defence Ministry recently also bought six U.S. remote-controlled miniature ... been used by the militaries in Australia, Canada, France, Israel and the United States, among ...

  • Afghan Whistleblower Mistaken: Ex-boss 27 Nov 2009 07:06 GMT
    ... Richard Colvin, who testified last week that Canada's policy of prisoner transfers in 2006 and ... an observation to speculation." Canada has 2,700 troops in the southern city of Kandahar on ... If true, this would have been a war crime. The generals also said there had been ...

  • The gap between warning and action 27 Nov 2009 06:37 GMT
    ... nswers on Afghans detainees are still hard to ... top generals were not prepared to be alarmed. The spirited defence by Mr. Hillier, the ... staff, of the commendable work of Canadian soldiers in 2006 was merited; his dismissal of ...

  • U.S. Is Seeking 10,000 Troops From Its Allies for Afghan War (Yesterday) 27 Nov 2009 06:32 GMT
    ... U.S. Is Seeking 10,000 Troops From Its Allies for Afghan War By ... allies have expressed reluctance to send more soldiers because of the Afghan war's growing unpopularity ... recent elections and trainers for the Afghan Army and the police. And it remains unclear ...

  • 10,000 extra NATO troops seen unlikely 27 Nov 2009 05:52 GMT
    ... U.S. expectation of an additional 10,000 NATO troops in under its new strategy is unrealistic, ... of declining public support for the Afghan war. The London Times said NATO is scheduled to ... 3,750-man force will not be increased, while Canada and the Netherlands are considering withdrawing their ...

  • U.S. Is Seeking 10,000 Troops From Its Allies 27 Nov 2009 05:51 GMT
    ... French soldiers returning to an outpost after a recent ... to the military's request for 40,000 additional troops without relying totally on the already stretched ... recent elections and trainers for the Afghan Army and the police. And it remains unclear ...

  • Cold war mentality 27 Nov 2009 05:34 GMT
    ... Cuba's armed forces launched three days of intense military ... thinking about how President Obama will pursue war in Afghanistan - not Cuba. But the ... than five years. The exact number of troops involved are not known, but past exercises ...

  • Fog of war clouded Afghan torture fears 27 Nov 2009 05:19 GMT
    ... struggling with the chaos of a new war in Kandahar against an unexpectedly fierce insurgency ... warned repeatedly that prisoners taken by Canadian soldiers faced abuse in Afghan jails, and that ... government to grapple with the problem. Canadian troops began moving into Kandahar in December, 2005, ...

  • German military chief sacked over airstrike 27 Nov 2009 05:13 GMT
    ... in German hands at a time when then-Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung was insisting that ... fearing they could be used to attack troops. Thirty civilians and 69 armed Taliban died in the strike, according to ...

  • Richard Colvin's claim that detainees transferred by Canadians to Afghan prisons were likely tortured is true and an "open secret" in her country, former Afghan MP Malalai Joya said. 27 Nov 2009 05:11 GMT
    ... Last Updated: Thursday, November 26, 2009 | 11:25 AM ... that all prisoners handed over by Canadian soldiers to Afghan authorities were likely subsequently abused ... "mafia" organization. "Democracy will never come by war … we need an invasion of schools, ...

  • Phill Kline Thanks giving -- a Christian message 27 Nov 2009 05:11 GMT
    ... This morning I am again amazed at the glory ... this day and in this time, however; war rages in parts of the world, Christians ... time of Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation, the Union Army was still more than 61,000 casualties away ...

  • Taliban rules out talks with Karzai 27 Nov 2009 04:31 GMT
    ... Last Updated; Thursday, November 26, 2009 U.S. Soldiers from the Able Troop 3-71 Cavalry Squadron ... NATO countries are preparing to send additional troops to aid the Karzai government. KABUL - ... a higher death rate than the nation's army. Bolstering Afghanistan's police force, which is underpaid ...

  • Canadian ex-official: Afghan prison claims known... 27 Nov 2009 04:31 GMT
    ... officials indicating that captives taken by Canadian troops and handed over to Afghan authorities were ... months in 2006 to warn the Canadian army in Kandahar about what was happening to ... embassy in Washington. Canada has about 2,800 soldiers in the volatile southern Afghan city of ...

  • Cuba military exercise guards against US invasio... 27 Nov 2009 04:31 GMT
    ... this photo taken Wednesday, Nov.18, 2009, Cuba's army soldiers prepare for military exercises at an undisclosed ... than five years. The exact number of troops involved are not known, but past exercises ...


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