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International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 29-30 July 2013: More proof Afghanistan is U.S./U.K. hot spot for gay sex! U.S. increases airstrikes! More proof the corruption is United States!

In Parwan Province, U.S. News & World Report stated that three USAF airmen were wounded in a explosion at Bagram airbase.  The airman are part of the 755th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron. The explosion ripped through the airmen’s outrageously expensive Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle.

In Paktia Province, reports that three villages were bombed by U.S./NATO airstrikes.  At least 65 people killed. NATO/ISAF said they were all Mujahideen.

The Afghan National Army (ANA) claim they’ve killed 140 Mujahideen in Logar, Paktia and Nangarhar provinces.  It was part of Operation Simurgh.  The Afghan Ministry of Defense says many of those killed were Pakistani.

In Logar and Kunar provinces reports of U.S. airstrikes.  At least 80 people killed.  Afghan government sources are saying the airstrikes are being called in to stop human wave attacks by Mujahideen.

Also in Logar Province, Pul-e-Alam, a U.S. Army Specialist was killed by indirect fire.  He was part of the 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division.  Mujahideen reported the bomb attack, but they claim five U.S. personnel were killed.

In Zabul Province, Shahjoi District, an explosion killed nine people and wounded 12 others.  The bomb was meant for the local Afghan National Police (ANP) commander, who was among those killed.

In Kandahar Province, Spin Boldak District, an explosion killed a woman and her two daughters.  In Panjwayi District, and explosion killed one woman.  Also, the sons of a police commander assassinated by Mujahideen, conducted a home invasion retaliation, killing a man and his two sons.  However, Mujahideen say the man and his sons were not involved in their assassination of the cop commander.

In Kunduz Province, Dashte Archi District, the villages of Haji Zarghoon and Haji Sarfaraz were subjected to Israeli home invasions by NATO/ANA troops.  Six people kidnapped.

In Laghman Province, four villagers were kidnapped by government officials, who’re now asking the village elders to pay a large amount of money for their freedom (25000 Afghani per kidnap victim).

An Afghan diplomat has been kidnapped in Pakistan’s Baluchistan Province.

According to U.S. military news sources, such as Marine Corps Times, Afghanistan has become the craigslist hot spot for homosexual sex!  That is a direct violation of the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), which forbids even heterosexual sex in combat zones!  This is just another revelation in the decline and fall of the morality of the United States.  Other news sources have reported on homosexual crimes being committed upon Afghan boys by U.S./NATO personnel.  Even the Canadian military has sealed their scandalous investigation into it!

The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) confirmed that U.S. tax dollars are going to Afghan contractors known to support Mujahideen.  SIGAR blamed the U.S. Army Suspension and Debarment Office, which refused to cancel 43 contracts linked to the Mujahideen.  “I am deeply troubled that the U.S. military can pursue, attack, and even kill terrorists and their supporters, but that some in the U.S. government believe we cannot prevent these same people from receiving a government contract.”-John Sopko, SIGAR

Also, SIGAR revealed that $47 million tax dollars went down the toilet in a USAID program called Stability in Key Areas Program.  SIGAR says it was a failure because there’s still no stability in Afghanistan.  SIGAR says it’s because not one dollar went to those who were supposed to get it: “…Although USAID had disbursed approximately $47 million for the four SIKA contracts as of March 31, 2013, none of the funds had gone to grants that fund community projects….”

So who got the $47 million?  DAI of Bethesda, Maryland, and AECOM of Los Angeles, California.

The Christian Science Monitor reporting that a dam being built by the taxpayers of India could mean war with Iran and Turkmenistan.  The Salma Dam could be complete by the end of 2014 (the same time U.S./NATO is to draw down). It blocks rivers that flow into Iran and Turkmenistan.  The dam will allow local Afghan farms to increase production and will generate electricity.

The U.S. Department of Defense admits that 2241 U.S. service members have died since the start of the War on Terror in Afghan.

Business/Economics, Technology, U.S.

Martial law U.S.A.: Think your smartphone data is secure? Silent Circle erases customer data due to fear of the NSA!

10 August 2013 (15:46 UTC-07 Tango)/03 Shawwal 1434/19 Mordad 1391/04 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

The following was posted by Silent Circle:

To Our Customers

We designed our phone, video, and text services (Silent Phone and Silent Text) to be completely end-to-end secure with all cryptography done on the clients and our exposure to your data to be nil. The reasons are obvious — the less of your information we have, the better it is for you and for us.

Silent Mail has thus always been something of a quandary for us. Email that uses standard Internet protocols cannot have the same security guarantees that real-time communications has. There are far too many leaks of information and metadata intrinsically in the email protocols themselves. Email as we know it with SMTP, POP3, and IMAP cannot be secure.

And yet, many people wanted it. Silent Mail has similar security guarantees to other secure email systems, and with full disclosure, we thought it would be valuable.

However, we have reconsidered this position. We’ve been thinking about this for some time, whether it was a good idea at all. Today, another secure email provider, Lavabit, shut down their system lest they “be complicit in crimes against the American people.” We see the writing the wall, and we have decided that it is best for us to shut down Silent Mail now. We have not received subpoenas, warrants, security letters, or anything else by any government, and this is why we are acting now.

We’ve been debating this for weeks, and had changes planned starting next Monday. We’d considered phasing the service out, continuing service for existing customers, and a variety of other things up until today. It is always better to be safe than sorry, and with your safety we decided that the worst decision is always no decision.

Silent Phone and Silent Text, along with their cousin Silent Eyes are end-to-end secure. We don’t have the encrypted data and we don’t collect metadata about your conversations. They’re continuing as they have been. We are still working on innovative ways to do truly secure communications. Silent Mail was a good idea at the time, and that time is past.

We apologize for any inconvenience, and hope you understand that if we dithered, it could be more inconvenient.

Business/Economics, Technology, U.S.

Martial Law U.S.A.: Think your secure email is secure? Lavabit shut down for refusing to comply with NSA!

10 August 2013 (15:34 UTC-07 Tango)/03 Shawwal 1434/19 Mordad 1391/04 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

The following was posted by the operator of a secure email service that was bullied by the U.S. government:

My Fellow Users,

I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit. After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations. I wish that I could legally share with you the events that led to my decision. I cannot. I feel you deserve to know what’s going on–the first amendment is supposed to guarantee me the freedom to speak out in situations like this. Unfortunately, Congress has passed laws that say otherwise. As things currently stand, I cannot share my experiences over the last six weeks, even though I have twice made the appropriate requests.

What’s going to happen now? We’ve already started preparing the paperwork needed to continue to fight for the Constitution in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. A favorable decision would allow me resurrect Lavabit as an American company.

This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States.

Sincerely,
Ladar Levison
Owner and Operator, Lavabit LLC

Defending the constitution is expensive! Help us by donating to the Lavabit Legal Defense Fund here.

International, U.S.

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 27-28 July 2013: New Zealand uses NSA to spy on Americans, through Five Eyes alliance! Reporting corruption gets a reporter almost beat to death in public!

In Helmand, Kunar and Paktia provinces, reports that 60 people killed by U.S./NATO air strikes.

In Helmand, provincial government officials say a NATO air strike killed Mujahideen returning from a battle in Nimroz Province, however, NATO/ISAF officials deny any airstrikes were launched in Helmand.  Also in Helmand, the U.K. Red Coats have been conducting secret operations in Sangin District.  According to Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials, the secret missions are targeting Mujahideen.  MoD says the Red Coats were sent back to Sangin at the request of Afghan National Army (ANA) officials.  Afghan government forces have been unable to take control of Sangin District.

In Ghazni Province, Qara Bagh District, Mujahideen assassinated the local Afghan National Police (ANP) boss, along with his three body guards.  A suicide bomber used a motorcycle bomb.  Three civilians were also killed, and seven people wounded.  Two U.S. soldiers were killed by explosion, after their vehicle was ambushed by Mujahideen.  They were with the 10th Transportation Battalion, 7th Sustainment Brigade.

In Uruzgan Province, Khas Uruzgan District, two tribal elders were assassinated, shot while working in the farm fields.

In Baghlan Province, Tapa-i-Shahidan District, the provincial security boss survived an assassination attempt.  His convoy was crossing a bridge when a bomb went off.  A civilian was killed, one cop wounded.  In Doshi District, Mujahideen ambushed a convoy of food supply trucks, destroying two reefers.

In Samangan Province, the governor, and his bodyguards, survived an assassination attempt.  A roadside bomb exploded as his vehicle passed.  A child was wounded.

In Kabul Province, the governor of Parwan Province publicly beat a journalist after tricking the reporter to a meeting at a restaurant in Kabul city.  The reporter was also threatened with death, because he had publicized the massive corruption of the Parwan government.  Also, in Sarobi District a U.S. Special Forces Group sergeant (from the Mississippi National Guard) was shot and killed by Mujahideen.

In Farah Province, an explosion killed as many as seven children.  Local government officials said the children were collecting scrap metal, and found what turned out to be a bomb from the civil war of the 1990s.

In Badakhshan Province, Warduj District, reports that government forces are burning the wheat crops of farmers who refuse to fight the Mujahideen. Several farm tractors destroyed and some families were driven from their homes.

In the United States, an ABC News/Washington Post survey said 67% of ‘mericans think the War on Terror in Afghanistan is a wasted effort.

In New Zealand, the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is denying reports that it used the U.S. NSA data mining operations (domestic spying) to spy on a reporter working for a U.S. news company in Afghanistan.  The reporter says the NZDF was collecting his phone contacts.  The reporter could have been targeted by the NZDF because he revealed the criminal treatment that Qiwi forces are dealing to prisoners in Afghanistan.  New Zealand is part of the secretive Five Eyes alliance.    The Five Eyes alliance is made up of United States, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and United Kingdom.  (obviously it’s a British empire thing)

Business/Economics, U.S.

Government Evil: Obama gives bogus reasons for privatizing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac! Obama forgets his Senate voting record!

07 August 2013 (12:20 UTC-07 Tango)/30 Ramadan 1434/16 Mordad 1391/01 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

“For too long, these companies were allowed to make big profits buying mortgages, knowing that if their bets went bad, taxpayers would be left holding the bag.”-Barack Obama, misleading a group of 2000 people in Arizona

What’s wrong with the above statement?  It suggests that Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) and Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) were bailed out by taxpayers because they’re pseudo-governmental agencies, and if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were fully privatize, taxpayers would be spared.  But wait, what about all those fully privatized banks that got bailed out by taxpayers?

Did you forget Bears Stearn?  That fully privatized company got bailed out by the government when it got into trouble with its mortgage securities, then sold to JP Morgan.

Did you forget Goldman Sachs?  That fully privatized company got ‘bailed out’ by the government’s TARP in 2008, even though the company reported big profits from mortgages in 2007!

Did you forget Citigroup?  This fully privatized company got into trouble with the subprime mortgage crisis (by the way, the crisis was created by the banks themselves) and ended up getting bailed out by the government!

Did you forget the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, meant to bail out fully privatized banks due to the mortgage crisis?  Obama voted for it as a Senator!

Did you forget AIG?  Barack Obama, himself, voted for a taxpayer bailout of the fully privatized company as a Senator, even though he knew the company was ripping people off: “How do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat?” 

Did you forget Bank of America (BoA)?  This fully privatized company got $25 billion in TARP bail out money in 2008, and another $20 billion in TARP money in January 2009, then another $5.2 billion in March 2009!   The last government bail out was snuck through AIG to BoA.  In 2010, BoA agreed to pay a $137 million fine for defrauding schools, hospitals, and dozens of state and local government organizations.  In 2012, BoA was accused of running a scam called Hustle or High Speed Swim Lane.  The scam cost U.S. taxpayers more than $1 billion because BoA sold fraudulent mortgages to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac!  Arizona‘s attorney general says BoA “repeatedly has deceived” mortgagors!   August 2013, U.S. Justice Department and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accuse BoA of investor fraud in the sale of $850 million of residential mortgage backed securities!

And Obama wants to sell off Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, because he thinks they’re a threat to taxpayers?!

By the way, Freddie Mac just posted a $5 billion profit for its second quarter this year!

Oh, the other bogus reason Obama gave is that the housing market has recovered.  Wrong!  He stated that home prices are going up. Correct.  Several surveys show that home prices are up because of house flippers.  That’s a cutesie phrase for home speculators.  They buy up a house with the expectation that they can sell six months to a couple of years later at a profit.  That is not a sign of a true housing recovery.  When you get a big increase in families buying homes to live in for 20+ years, that’s a sign of recovery, and that is not happening.  (in fact many families trying to buy homes are reporting being out bid by house flippers)

International, U.S.

World War 3, False Flag Op?: Military coup in Yemen? President orders increased security! It’s about the oil!

07 August 2013 (02:40 UTC-07 Tango)/30 Ramadan 1434/16 Mordad 1391/01 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

The U.S. puppet President of Yemen, Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi, held an emergency Supreme Security Committee meeting.  He ordered his minions to increase security across the country.

It’s been revealed that on Friday, 02 August 2013, soldiers from the Reserve Forces attacked guards at the Presidential Compound.  Seven guards were wounded.  About 200 former soldiers of the now dissolved Republican Guard were also protesting outside the compound.  That’s according to official government sources, however, one of the protestors said they were regular soldiers, not former Republican Guards: “We are regular soldiers. We demand a raise in our salaries and the annual Ramadan bonuses we used to receive during the time of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.”-Mohammed Yahia Nasser

The protesting soldiers said if their demands were not met they would return fully armed.

The BBC reports that the Yemeni government has placed armored vehicles around foreign missions, government offices and the airport.  An unnamed Yemeni security official said there is a plot to destroy Yemen’s oil industry by blowing up pipelines and ports.  As part of the plan, al Qaeda soldiers are going to dress like government soldiers.

The BBC also reports they have info that U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) are preparing for action in Yemen.

 

International, U.S.

World War 3, U.S. Economic Front: Job losses & store closings 07-08 June 2013. Holy crap, one school district fires thousands! God hates Indiana!

In Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia School District firing 3783 employees!!!  The district’s “doomsday budget” is short $304 million USD: “The layoff notices that will be issued today are nothing less than catastrophic….”-William Hite, Superintendant

Also, near Penn State the Don Memo Mexican Restaurant closed in Upper Darby.  The owners said they had a problem with the new rent: “We tried to work on a new lease but we couldn’t get a good deal on the rent.”-Leo Saavedra

In Michigan, about 45 teachers at the Benton Harbor High School were laid off.   School district officials admitted they were replacing the experienced teachers with cheaper new hires.  The Krazie Kritterz pet store closed in Cheboygan.  The owner had been arrested for not having health certificates for the animals she sold. Charges were dropped but city animal control officials, and private animal rights groups, said the animals were not being cared for and many were sick.  And Fantasy Costume (and dry cleaning) in Battle Creek closed down.  The owner blamed it on declining customers.  And what automotive industry recovery?  General Motors to close its Romulus engine factory.  560 people out-o-work!  The factory is being re-tooled to make a new V-6 engine.

The Christian God can’t stop the closing of 12 churches in Indiana!  The Batesville Catholic Deanery has ordered that churches will be consolidated to save money.  What was that Jesus said about the want of money?

In Decatur, Illinois, Long Creek Vineyards went out-o-business.

In Ohio, Ingels Radio Shack closed in Middleport.   And the Rocking U Restaurant closed in Findlay.  The property owner said the restaurant owner lost his rights to use the building.

The Barking Dog restaurant bankrupt in New York.  The restaurant that allows dogs, is owed money by a hotel client.  The restaurant provided room service for the hotel, but about nine months ago filed a federal court action against the hotel for misappropriation of funds.  The New York Post laid off 13 photogs.  And KeyBank laid off 24 employees as part of their ongoing consolidation of offices.

The Emporium Gallery shut down in Mystic, Connecticut.  The People’s United Bank closed its 118 years old office building in Norwich. The bank is doing like so many others; consolidating offices.

In Georgia, textile maker Propex Operating Company closing its Nashville factory.  Its being blamed on declining orders by the military.

Wisconsin based lawn care equipment maker, Ariens Company, closing a small factory in Alabama.  17 people unemployed.

After 100 years, New York based Climax Packaging company closing its Saint Joseph, Missouri factory.  60 people unemployed.  Company officials had been trying to sell the box factory, but could find no buyers.

The Taverna Opa restaurant bankrupt in Florida.  Specifically the one in the Dolphin Mall.  They are swimming in debt.  And home insurance company HomeServe USA laid off 160 people in Miami!

In Kentucky 110 people lost their jobs with Arch Coal!  Company officials blame the crashing coal market.

Texas based National Envelope warned of bankruptcy and the closing of factories.  National Envelope was founded in 1952, and is one of the World’s largest producer of envelopes.

In California, the operator of the San Onofre nuke plant admitted it is a disaster, and is shutting it down.  The decision by Southern California Edison will affect 1500 employees!  And Ralph’s shut down more grocery stores. This time two in Long Beach.  Ralph’s is owned by Kroger, the same company that owns Fred Meyers and Smiths here in Idaho.  In Mountain View, the city’s last video rental store, Videoscope, closed down.  The owners don’t blame competition, they blame the property owner for jacking up the rent.

In Washington, Boeing laid off 939 employees in Puget Sound!  Apparently these are in addition to the thousands that will be laid off over the next three years?

The U.S. Department of Labor (DoL) doesn’t count the hundreds of layoffs involving less than 50 people each, in its mass layoff reports. It also doesn’t count all the little ‘mom & pop’ businesses that shut down.

 

U.S.

Government Evil: More proof the United States is the land of corruption, city officials arrested in Florida!

07 August 2013 (22:31 UTC-07 Tango 06 August 2013)/30 Ramadan 1434/16 Mordad 1391/01 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

The FBI has arrested at least four officials in Florida, two mayors (one mayor is also a city attorney) and two lobbyists.  The mayors have conveniently Mafia sounding names.

The mayor of Sweetwater and the mayor of Miami Lakes were arrested and charged with conspiring to commit extortion, after allegedly accepting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks.  The investigation started nearly two years ago.

The extortion scheme involved FBI agents posing as Chicago, Illinois, businessmen.

The vice mayor of Miami Lakes said the mayor “….doesn’t seem like the type of person who is driven by greed and money. He lives a plain lifestyle. He lives in a small townhouse and drove an old car…”

One Miami Lakes resident was not surprised:  “There have always been suspicions, but I am assuming the FBI has more concrete evidence.”

According to local reports most people of Sweetwater seemed surprised.

It should be pointed out that this was a classic FBI sting, in other words the whole thing was set up by the federal government.  The mayors and lobbyists did not instigate it.

Business/Economics, Idaho, U.S.

Idaho Falls company needs your support to bring Pocatello’s Hoku polysilicon factory back from the dead!

07 August 2013/30 Ramadan 1434/16 Mordad 1391/01 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711

The following was sent to me by the President of Arco Hills Silica Company:

I am a participant in a company that is considering strongly to purchase the Hoku Property and Plant for the purpose of continuing the operation of the plant (with some major improvements-the real problem with this plant is that because of poor management the plant was not competitive ($40.00 plus per kilo). This plant can be modified and placed into production where it would be making a profit at $20.00 per kilo. There are major changes that need to be done, but with the completion of our funding, those changes can and will be done, thereby saving 200 jobs in the Pocatello area and by additional features and similar industries that are willing to come to Idaho to gain access to the Silica and Silica-related products that would add several hundred other new jobs to the community. This will also bring back some major manufacturing that in the past was shipped to China an other third-world nations because of cheap labor. The real problem was that the United State Business Leaders forgot how important it is for this country to maintain a “manufacturing base” here in the United States by being creative and competitive by using technology to compete. Instead to earn the “quick buck” from the benefit of cheap labor, the majority of companies sold their souls (and all their technology secrets) to China and other countries that offered cheap labor. I am convinced we can be friends with China and can still be competitive. That is why our company, Arco Hills Silica Company (an Idaho Mining Company that owns deposits of over 20 billion tons of some of the purest silica in the world) is joining with Francis Kreais of JCF Funding from Henderson, Nevada (702) 994-1102 to attempt to prevent the Hoku factory from being sold to be dismantled and scrapped by it prior operating company. We know what has to be done to decrease the costs to make Hoku competitive and are presently seeking to make an offer to the Bankruptcy Court to pursue that opportunity. IF THERE ARE OTHERS OUT THERE WHO BELIEVE THAT THE UNITED STATES NEEDS TO RETURN TO BEING A MANUFACTURING COUNTRY WHO USES TECHNOLOGY TO COMBAT CHEAP THIRD WORLD COMPANY’S CHEAP LABOR, AND IS WILL[ing] TO SUPPORT AND ASSIST IN THIS CAUSE, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME OR FRANCIS KREAIS OF JCF FUNDING ([email protected]) AND LET’S GET OUR HEADS OUT OF OUR ” ***** ” AND START MAKING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WHAT IS SHOULD AND COULD BE WITH A STRONG TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED COMPETITIVE MANUFACTURING BASE.[!]

‘THANKS FOR LETTING ME “SPEAK MY PIECE” AND AT LEAST MAKE A RALLYING CRY TO ATTEMPT TO SAVE A NATION THAT OUR CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT HAVE GIVEN UP ON.”

SINCERELY,
GORDON W. JENKINS, PRESIDENT
ARCO HILLS SILICA COMPANY
TELEPHONE; (208) 589-6503
Email: [email protected]

International

World War 3, Asian Front-Afghanistan, 25-26 July 2013: More proof the United States is behind the corruption! More Afghans sacrificed for the U.S. & U.K.!

In Helmand Province, the Afghan National Army (ANA) reported that in the past four months of fighting for the evil United States and British empire, 500 ANA soldiers sacrificed their lives for the Red, White and Blue!  ANA officials say that is a dramatic increase from the same time the year before.  And Mujahideen report the successful conclusion to a ten days long battle with Afghan government forces, in Sangin District.  They claim to have killed 83 government personnel, wounded 45, and destroyed 23 vehicles.  Two Mujahideen killed, five wounded.  Also, in Musa Kala District reports that pro-U.S. forces conducted an Israeli style home invasion in Kisi village. One person killed, one kidnapped.

In Nuristan Province, two people killed by U.S. drone strike.

In Paktia Province, reports that three civilians killed, five wounded, when mortar rounds landed on a village during battles between Mujahideen and ANA forces.

In Kunar Province, Manugi District, reports that ANA forces retaliated for a Mujahideen attack by shooting randomly into a village.  At least 11 people wounded.  The night before, ANA forces fired mortar rounds during a Mujahideen attack, some of those mortar rounds landed on the village, wounding eight people.  Mujahideen claim they’ve killed 27 ANA and Afghan National Police (ANP) personnel in a day long battle.

In Kunduz Province, Kunduz city, an explosion killed at least one person and wounded three.  Local government officials say it was caused by a car bomb.

In Jawzjan Province, Aqcha District, two people killed, ten wounded by explosion.  Local government officials say a handcart was left near a cop car.  It was a bomb.

In Samangan Province, Mujahideen claim they blew up the car carrying the governor.  The governor was wounded, four of his bodyguards were killed.

The ANA and ANP have launched Operation Simurgh in Logar and Nangarhar provinces.  ANA officials say they are trying to stop Mujahideen from controlling four provinces along the Kabul-Nangarhar Highway.  ANA reports two of their soldiers killed.

In Zabul Province, Shahjoi District, local government officials claim Mujahideen kidnapped 12 cops.  Mujahideen say they captured the cops in a battle.

In Badakhshan Province, Baharak village, a woman (who graduated from Kabul University by the way) has been exiled for writing and publishing her first book of Iranian love poetry.

The U.S. Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released more proof the U.S. is behind corruption in Afghanistan.  This time it involves the U.S. backed court system.  John Sopko discovered there is almost no oversight of tens of millions of U.S. tax dollars used to fund the Justice Training Transition Program.  Also, Sopko discovered more evidence that the U.S. is behind the skyrocketing illegal drug trade.  He found that the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs is not pushing for the creation of Afghan laws to fight corruption and illegal drugs!   ‘Training’ of the U.S. created Afghan justice system has been handled by U.S. and European contractors, who do little yet get paid tens of millions of dollars.  The latest contractor, International Development Law Organization, denies SIGAR’s accusations.

By the way, the latest SIGAR report also says that in the past three months alone, $2 billion in U.S. tax dollars have been wasted!