WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will maintain exclusive legal jurisdiction over American soldiers and contractors in Afghanistan after 2014 as part of a draft U.S.-Afghan security pact, congressional aides said Monday, providing details of an agreement that entails key concessions for each side.
The accord, which is to be presented to a gathering of Afghan tribal elders this week, satisfies Afghan President Hamid Karzai's demand for an end to controversial night raids by explicitly stating that U.S. forces will no longer be allowed to enter Afghan homes.
But it also exempts the U.S. government and companies from Afghan taxes and guarantees that Americans can't be tried in Afghan courts. Instead, U.S. authorities will prosecute instances of wrongdoing, according to aides who were shown copies of the deal.
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Anonymous2013-11-20 2:20
USA
Punishing Foreign War-Criminals, Protecting Their Own!
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Anonymous2013-11-20 2:29
What was the Afgan concession?
No more Rape nights?
Justice for All!!
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Anonymous2013-11-20 2:34
Off with his Balls!
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Anonymous2013-11-20 2:36
And you get to keep the taxes!!
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Anonymous2013-11-20 2:46
So why no Sousveillance?
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Anonymous2013-11-20 2:48
Google glass might actually be good for something?
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Anonymous2013-11-20 2:50
**If only we hadn't laced it with security holes...
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Anonymous2013-11-20 2:54
Bloody indians record their phone calls for training purposes...
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Anonymous2013-11-20 2:56
Because phone calls are Life and Death Situations!
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Anonymous2013-11-20 3:01
*Yes actual indians, when they ring, not all the time...
Unlike some people...
Afghan leaders meeting in Kabul this week should demand accountability for war crimes allegedly committed by US military forces in the country, said Amnesty International. [1]
The USA is expected to maintain more than 10,000 forces as well as civilian contractors and CIA operatives in the country. [2]
“The proposed bilateral security agreement offers Afghans a crucial opportunity to press for greater transparency and accountability for war crimes allegedly committed by US troops,” said Horia Mosadiq, Afghanistan Researcher at Amnesty International. [3]
“Despite the widespread allegations of violations of international humanitarian law by US troops in Afghanistan, the US authorities have only brought a handful of cases to trial.” [4]
Over the past 12 years in Afghanistan, Amnesty International has repeatedly raised concerns about alleged violations of international humanitarian law – including unlawful killings and torture – committed by all parties to the conflict. [5]
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Anonymous2013-11-20 7:13
Fancy a government doing Foreign Tax Evasion....
Shouldn't they know better?
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Anonymous2013-11-20 7:30
Seriously, if you aren't going to set a good example, maybe you should just leave the poor people alone...
12 years of war just so you can avoid a few taxes, really?
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Anonymous2013-11-20 7:44
Doesn't afganistan just do opium anyway..?
lol, the CIA, of course...
You'd think they'd be too chilled out for terrorism... it's not exactly meth xD
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Anonymous2013-11-20 7:49
lolol no i don't disagree that america could use it...
though generally, yeah i dunno... isn't weed less addictive..?
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Anonymous2013-11-20 7:53
Also, Washington D.C. is Washington District of Columbia?
When in Rome....
It all makes sense now.. =)
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Anonymous2013-11-20 7:58
Columbia is where cocaine comes from, right? ^^
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Anonymous2013-11-20 8:22
Actually, thinking about meth... They often have the signs of the full 'battle-trance' state... No Pain and No Fear.. Too bad they're just about always psychotic at the time from what i hear...
Do people still use drugs while at war? Is that ethical? I mean, maybe it was okay back in the trenches... You're most likely sitting in the centre of a civilian population, taking drugs that make you highly aggressive, and fighting people not that hide amongst the population, but live there...
What do you expect, them to all walk out into an empty field so you can shoot them? Why aren't you out in the empty field?
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Anonymous2013-11-20 8:27
You'd kill a lot less civilians...
Maybe these insurgents are just the pissed of family members of people you've done wrong by..?
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Anonymous2013-11-20 8:47
US Says ‘No Need’ to Apologize for Killing Afghan Civilians
"There is not a need for the United States to apologize to Afghanistan. Quite the contrary," Rice told CNN.
The Soviet war in Afghanistan lasted nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen, mostly composed of two alliances - the Peshawar Seven and the Tehran Eight. The Peshawar Seven insurgents received military training in neighboring Pakistan and China,[9] as well as weapons and billions of dollars from the United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and other countries.
The War in Afghanistan (2001–present) has caused the deaths of thousands of Afghan civilians directly from insurgent and foreign military action, as well as the deaths of possibly tens of thousands of Afghan civilians indirectly as a consequence of displacement, starvation, disease, exposure, lack of medical treatment, and crime resulting from the war. The war, launched by the United States as "Operation Enduring Freedom" in 2001, began with an initial air campaign that almost immediately prompted concerns over the number of Afghan civilians being killed[1] as well as international protests. With civilian deaths from airstrikes rising again in recent years,[2] the number of Afghan civilians being killed by foreign military operations has led to mounting tension between the foreign countries and the government of Afghanistan. In May 2007, President Hamid Karzai summoned foreign military commanders to warn them of the consequences of further Afghan civilian deaths.[3] The civilian losses are a continuation of the extremely high civilian losses experienced during the Soviet Afghan war in the 1980s, and the three periods of civil war following it: 1989–1992, 1992–1996, and 1996–2001.
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Anonymous2013-11-20 8:54
I think afghanistan has Endured your Freedom long enough...
You cry about one day of war, call it 911, when these people have had 34 years of your shit....
And your concerned about taxes..?
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Anonymous2013-11-20 9:01
thats twelve thousand four hundred and ten days...
of actual war...
not one day plus nine hundred and ten days of talking about how bad that one day was....
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Anonymous2013-11-20 9:06
Just doing calculations... If america was afghanistan; it would take thirty thousand, nine hundred and ten, Years, yes Years, to get over it....
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Anonymous2013-11-20 9:08
...And Counting..
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Anonymous2013-11-20 9:18
Lest we forget, the real war is war...
Not a picture on a tv..
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Anonymous2013-11-20 9:29
The ten-acre war... Shot from 30,000 angles..
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Anonymous2013-11-20 10:00
I never saw pilot-cam...
probably saving it for a rainy day..
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Anonymous2013-11-21 17:54
If you want to be understood, your title should read:
"I need a ROCKSTAR hacker"