Monthly Archives: June 2010

Shackled: the former British army officer jailed in Kabul

June 20, 2010 · by · in Afghanistan · Leave a comment

The Sunday Times The windowless cell was bare apart from a single bed. The prisoner, a former British Army officer, shuffled through the door, his hands and legs bound in chains that clanged against the metal bars. His Afghan guards had stripped him of his possessions, leaving him with little more than a bar of […]

Pakistan puppet masters guide the Taliban

June 13, 2010 · by · in Afghanistan, Pakistan · Leave a comment

The Sunday Times THE Taliban commander waited at the ramshackle border crossing while Pakistani police wielding assault rifles stopped and searched the line of cars and trucks travelling into Afghanistan. Some of the trucks carried smuggled goods — DVD players, car stereos, television sets, generators, children’s toys. But the load smuggled by Taliban fighter Qari […]