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Pitkä-Pekka haastoi ex-morsiamensa käräjille. Kuvapari

Another disastrous air strike that Nato could have done without. guardian

The Afghan village devastated by Nato strike on Taliban. guardian

Gordon Brown and Afghanistan: The futility of being earnest. guardian

Nyt saat kunnon selkäsaunan!

Kuvapari julkaistu aikaisemmin Nettisanomissa Pitkä-Matti nimellä perjantaina
2007-10-05.
Nimen vaihdos johtuu Jari Tervon tänään julkistetusta kirjasta Koljatti, jonka päähenkilö on nimeltään Pekka Lahnanen.

Pitkä-Pekka haastoi ex-morsiamensa käräjille: Nyt minulle riittää! Nyt saat kunnon selkäsaunan! Kuvapari julkaistu aikaisemmin Nettisanomissa Pitkä-Matti nimellä perjantaina 2007-10-05. http://www.nettisanomat.com/2007/10/05/etusivu.htm.

Nimen vaihdos johtuu Jari Tervon tänään julkistetusta kirjasta Koljatti, jonka päähenkilö on nimeltään Pekka Lahnanen. Nettisanomissa oli silloin 2007 seuraavat linkit:

Vanhanen jätti Susanin. Häähaaveet olivat liikaa pääministerille. Ilta-Sanomat. http://www.nettisanomat.com/2007/03/23/etusivu.html
"Statsministern svältfödd på sex". Älskarinnan skrev bok om sina dejter med politikern. Aftonbladet. http://www.nettisanomat.com/2007/03/23/etusivu.html#statsministern
Susan Kurosen kirjasta tutkintapyyntö. Iltalehti. - Satunnaisia löytöjä huussin perältä. Kuvakoelma. http://www.nettisanomat.com/2007/03/23/etusivu.html#susankurosen

News World news Nato
Another disastrous air strike that Nato could have done without
Killing of Afghan civilians poses bigger danger to the international mission than insurgents who were targeted Julian Borger, diplomatic editor guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 September 2009 12.53 BST

News World news Afghanistan
The Afghan village devastated by Nato strike on Taliban
Julian Borger and Jon Boone in Lashkar Gah guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 September 2009 23.46 BST

The two fuel tankers would have looked out of place, stuck by a river bank outside a small Afghan village. Local people came out to take a look and help carry makeshift containers with siphoned fuel inside from the stricken vehicles.That is when the Nato missiles struck, wiping out much of the village of Omar Kheil, and doing critical damage to US and Nato hopes of making a fresh start in Afghanistan.

Taliban militants had hijacked the two tankers on the main road out of Kunduz, in northern Afghanistan, and driven them to Omar Kheil, which is under their control, about 12 miles from the city. The hijacking, on Thursday night, was reported to the German Nato soldiers garrisoned nearby, who spotted the lorries this morning.

At some point the German commander called in an air strike to deal with the problem. Estimates differ as to how many people were killed in the fireball, but they range from a few score to more than a hundred. Moeen Marastial, a member of parliament from Kunduz, said: "Local people are telling me 130 people have been killed despite all the promises of Nato to do fewer bombardments and reduce civilian casualties. There will be a reaction to this. It is a very bad day for international forces in Afghanistan."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/04/afghan-village-devastated-nato-missiles

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Gordon Brown and Afghanistan: The futility of being earnest
Editorial The Guardian, Saturday 5 September 2009

Last year the Rand National Research Institute produced a revealing fact. A study of the 90 insurgencies that had taken place since 1945 found that it takes an average of 14 years to defeat insurgents once they are up and running. Gordon Brown has not got that long in Afghanistan. It is arguable whether any British prime minister or US president has got 14 more months of public support, given the rate at which it is haemorrhaging after two of the costliest months in British and US and Afghan lives; 50 British lives have been lost in the last four months alone.
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As in Iraq, the gap between public and private discourse among those running the war in Afghanistan appears to be growing. The undeclared US exit strategy looks like this: two more years spent maximising the military pressure on the Taliban, while everything is done to build up Afghan forces and cut deals with insurgents who agree to cut ties with al-Qaida; a loya jirga will be called to rewrite the constitution, which is a way of circumventing the claim that anyone who reconciles with Kabul will have to respect the constitution; and then the international effort will be scaled back from counter-insurgency into a counter-terrorist mission.

It would be a way of withdrawing with the mission of restoring the Afghan state unaccomplished, but avoiding a Soviet-style humiliation. If this is what is in US minds, it would be as well for the process to start now rather than in two years' time. The Taliban, we are told, have to be negotiated with from a position of strength. But two more years of this disastrous fight could see them stronger still. And the strength British and US leaders need to show is the strength of mind involved in realising how many of their original ambitions were misplaced.

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