September 11 Aftermath
US air strikes kill hundreds of Afghan civilians
By Kate Randall, December 4, 2001
US bombing raids continue to pound Kandahar, as tribal and other opposition forces move towards the last stronghold of Taliban fighters in the southern Afghan city. The US has nearly doubled the numbe...
Russian airlift to Afghanistan highlights underlying US-Europe tensions
By Peter Symonds, December 3, 2001
The sudden arrival of 12 Russian military cargo aircraft at Bagram airfield just north of Kabul last week has underscored the intense behind-the-scenes rivalry now underway between the US and other ma...
Letters on US war in Afghanistan
November 30, 2001
Below we post a selection of recent letters to the WSWS.
After US massacre of Taliban POWs: the stench of death and more media lies
By Jerry White, November 29, 2001
Journalists and International Red Cross representatives reported a horrific scene of carnage Wednesday as they entered the prison compound near Mazar-i-Sharif, where up to 800 foreign Taliban prisoner...
Major powers pull the strings at Bonn talks on Afghanistan
By Peter Symonds, November 29, 2001
The UN-sponsored talks on the political future of Afghanistan opened on Tuesday in the Petersberg Castle, a luxury hotel just outside the German city of Bonn. The meeting was opened with due pomp and ...
US atrocity against Taliban POWs: Whatever happened to the Geneva Convention?
By Jerry White, November 28, 2001
Despite the silence in the American media and the lies from Bush administration officials, there is growing international outrage over the systematic massacre of hundreds of Taliban prisoners of war i...
US war crime in Afghanistan: Hundreds of prisoners of war slaughtered at Mazar-i-Sharif
By the Editorial Board, November 27, 2001
The killing of as many as 800 captured Taliban prisoners Sunday in Mazar-i-Sharif is a war crime for which the American government and military, right up to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Presi...
Letters on war in Afghanistan and attack on civil liberties
November 27, 2001
Below we post a selection of recent letters to the WSWS
Letters on "US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11"
November 24, 2001
Below we post a selection of recent letters on Patrick Martin’s “US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11”.
Afghanistan: US sets stage for a massacre in Kunduz
By Peter Symonds, November 22, 2001
The conditions are being established for a slaughter at Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan. Up to 20,000 Taliban fighters, including several thousand of the Taliban’s foreign supporters, are trappe...
Why the US bombed al-Jazeera’s TV station in Kabul
By Steve James, November 21, 2001
Just before the Northern Alliance marched into Kabul on Monday November 12, US armed forces dropped a 500-pound bomb on the studios of the popular Arab satellite TV station al-Jazeera (the Peninsula)....
America’s "killing hour": a revealing comment in the Wall Street Journal
By Joseph Kay, November 21, 2001
An opinion piece in the November 13 Wall Street Journal (“As Taliban Falter, We Must Show No Restraint”) reveals the thinking of the most militaristic and fascistic-minded sections of the ...
