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Kabul or Beirut?(Insider Report)
Even as the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq morphs into a bigger, bloodier version of Israel's West Bank morass, Afghanistan threatens to recreate--on a larger scale--the ill-fated Lebanon mission of 1982-1984.
"NATO troops garrisoning Kabul are duplicating the role of U.S. Marines sent to Beirut in 1982," warned Canadian foreign affairs analyst Eric Margolis in the August 17th Toronto Sun. "Washington billed the Marines as 'peacekeepers' in Lebanon's bloody civil war. In reality, the Marines were sent to prop up the Israeli-dominated Christian Phalangist regime in its war against Syrian-backed Muslim groups. When 240 Marines were killed by a truck bomb, Americans were outraged their 'peacekeepers' had become a target. Americans--and the Marines--simply did not understand that they had been dropped in the middle of a civil war as full-fledged combatants."
Remarkably similar conditions prevail in Afghanistan today, insists Margolis. "The sole mission of NATO's Kabul garrison is propping up the U.S.-installed Afghan regime of Mohammed Karzai, an amiable but powerless figurehead and an old Central Intelligence Agency asset," he writes. (Note that Karzai is also on ...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek Hammer, Joshua Barry, John (Irish bishop) November 19, 2001 700+ words
...of opinion. If the Northern Alliance occupation of Mazar...months--using U.S. Marines along with Special...has asked for 3,000 Marines to join a 2,200...that, if left to the Northern Alliance, things could go to...
- NORTHERN ALLIANCE LEADER THROWS TALKS IN TURMOIL MEANWHILE, TALIBAN SURROUNDED...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) December 1, 2001 700+ words
...a force of U.S. Marines at an airstrip in a...Kandahar. Although Marine spokesmen did not give an exact number of Marine and Navy personnel there...battalion in the U.S. Marines usually numbers around...titular head of the Northern Alliance and the U.N.-recognized...
- TALIBAN BLOOD FLOWS IN THE STREETS; Northern Alliance go on killing spree in...
- Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) November 27, 2001 700+ words
...disgorged thousands of Northern Alliance fighters armed with...Razim, an adviser to Northern Alliance commander Rashid...were imprisoned. Northern Alliance General Daoud Khan...hundreds of American Marines were yesterday in...
- Northern Alliance targets Kandahar.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Miga, Andrew November 30, 2001 700+ words
...the wake of swift Northern Alliance advances, the Taliban...Afghanistan. Now, as the Northern Alliance advances on Kandahar...who distrust the Northern Alliance, made up of rival...situation in Kandahar. Marines have already established...
- NORTHERN ALLIANCE OPENS OFFENSIVE.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) October 8, 2001 700+ words
...military aid to the Northern Alliance, a 15,000-strong...occupation. The Northern Alliance presents a tricky...may be to use the Northern Alliance just to cause trouble...a retired U.S. Marine lieutenant general...
- WAR ON TERROR: LEADER'S WALKOUT: TALKS DEADLOCK; Northern Alliance in summit...
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) December 1, 2001 700+ words
...significant and even the Northern Alliance are playing it down...Bonn talks." But a Northern Alliance official said its...leaders warned the Northern Alliance to stay out of the...More than 1,000 US Marines have set up a base...
- Northern Alliance names 4 Afghan leaders.
- News wire article from: United Press International December 3, 2001 700+ words
...WASHINGTON, Dec 03, 2001 Northern Alliance negotiators named...a week now. The Northern Alliance and the ex-king...government while the Northern Alliance will hold onto the...estimated 1,000 Marines to the region to...
- Northern Alliance gives talks pledge not to monopolise power.
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) November 28, 2001 700+ words
...talks include the Northern Alliance, exiles backing...military successes, the Northern Alliance pledged it would...delegates met, US Marines went into combat...fighting between the Northern Alliance troops and pro...
