A decade of war in Afghanistan has been marked with protests on the streets of London and elsewhere. During that time 382 of our service personnel have lost their lives. Some 262 have suffered injuries classified as “very serious”, and a further 272 have been “seriously injured”.
By Stephen Palmer – The world’s mass media has sided with the Taliban in blaming the violent murders of UN workers in Afghanistan on a United States pastor living nearly 8,000 miles away.
By David Hannam – Britain is preparing to send £85 million pounds of British taxpayers' money in foreign aid to Afghanistan as the Ministry of Defence announces another death of a British soldier.
Ministry of Defence chiefs have shelled out over £50 million hosting VIP parties since the beginning of the Afghanistan war, it has been revealed.
Sometimes you have to read between the lines. Perhaps you have wondered why we are sacrificing our troops in Afghanistan. It certainly hasn't benefited the Afghan people, who are ruled by the corrupt and unpopular President Karzai. He has presided over ruin and misery.
The House of Commons cross-parliamentary foreign affairs committee has called for direct talks with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan, making their original decision to go to war ten years ago into little more than an evil farce.
The Daily Mail has also now adopted the British National Party’s policy on foreign aid to India, only a few days after the Financial Times committed a similar act of plagiarism.
The sad news of the 350th causality — a soldier from 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, killed by a roadside bomb in Helmand yesterday — underlines once again the insanity of this costly and illegal war.
A new report before the European Parliament which admitted that there is no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan has demolished the “Political Classes’ lies” over that war, Nick Griffin MEP said yesterday.
The ConDem regime has announced that it is pushing ahead with massive defence cutbacks — which include the axing of almost 20,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen — just as the 345th British soldier has been killed in its illegal and immoral war in Afghanistan.