September 11 Aftermath
Anglo-American tensions over Afghanistan and Iraq
By Chris Marsden, December 13, 2001
Britain’s foreign policy is in a state of utter confusion. This week it appeared that Prime Minister Tony Blair had achieved a small victory, when US Secretary of State Colin Powell visited Numb...
Letters on the US massacre of POWs in Afghanistan
December 12, 2001
Below we post a selection of recent letters on the US massacre of POWs in Afghanistan.
Journalist Robert Fisk beaten by Afghan refugees
By Julie Hyland, December 12, 2001
Veteran British journalist Robert Fisk, who writes for the Independent newspaper, was attacked and beaten by Afghan refugees in Pakistan last weekend.
Kandahar: the Taliban’s last stronghold in Afghanistan falls
By Peter Symonds, December 11, 2001
The Taliban have abandoned their last remaining stronghold in southern Afghanistan in a deal brokered by the country’s interim prime minister Hamid Karzai. Last Friday militia groups from rival ...
US war crime at Mazar-i-Sharif prison: new videotape evidence
By Patrick Martin, December 11, 2001
The American media has been focused for the last several days on reports from the Bush administration that it has in its possession a videotape of Osama bin Laden allegedly taking responsibility for t...
Why Britain should be indicted for war crimes: The SAS role in the Qala-i-Janghi massacre
By Mike Ingram, December 10, 2001
The Labour government has refused Amnesty International’s demand for an inquiry into the massacre of hundreds of Taliban prisoners at the Qala-i-Janghi fortress in late November.
Letters in response to "Anti-Americanism: the ‘anti-imperialism’ of fools"
December 10, 2001
Dear David North and David Walsh,
Once again on the New York Times and Bush’s police-state measures
By David Walsh, December 10, 2001
The New York Times returned to the question of the Bush administration’s police-state measures in an editorial December 2 (“War and the Constitution”).
UN unveils a quasi-colonial regime for Afghanistan
By Peter Symonds, December 8, 2001
After nine days of backroom haggling in the Petersberg hotel near Bonn, the UN conference on Afghanistan produced an outcome on Wednesday: the announcement of an interim administration of hand-picked ...
As major powers jockey over aid
Millions of Afghanis lack food, shelter and medicine
By James Conachy, December 7, 2001
Nine weeks of US bombing and the seizure of much of the country by the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance has put large sections of the Afghani population at risk from starvation, exposure and disease. Wi...
The Geneva Convention and the US massacre of POWs in Afghanistan
By WSWS Editorial Board, December 7, 2001
On December 1 the last of some 80 survivors of the US-British-Northern Alliance assault on the Qala-i-Janghi prison fortress outside Mazar-i-Sharif emerged from their underground hideouts and surrende...
Letters on the massacre of Taliban POWs
December 5, 2001
Below we post a selection of recent letters on the massacre of Taliban prisoners of war near Mazar-i-Sharif.
