February 8, 2008
European Council on Foreign Relations
Abstract:
U.S Defence Secretary Robert M. Gates has issued a warning that NATO is becoming a “two-tier alliance”, with some allies willing to fight and die while others, predominately continental Europeans, remain combat-shy. The big issue is NATO’s mission in Afghanistan, which, while at some 40,000 troops is struggling to contain the Taliban insurgency. But how do the numbers look? Out of the 41,700 troops in ISAF, the U.S has by far the greatest number of troops in ISAF with 15,038 followed by the UK (7,753), Germany (3,155), Italy (2,358), Canada (1,730), and the Netherlands (1,512)....
July 17, 2007
Decima Research
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A new Canadian Press-Decima Research poll shows: Two out of every three Canadians (67%) feel the number of casualties that Canada has suffered in Afghanistan has been unacceptably high while 25% say that it is acceptable given the progress we are making and the importance of the mission.
June 4, 2007
Track Impunity Always
Abstract:
Khadr was born on September 19, 1986 in Toronto, Canada. In 1990, Khadr and his family moved from Canada to Peshawar, Pakistan.
In summer 2002, Omar Khadr allegedly received approximately one month of private al Qaeda basic training consisting in the use of rocket propelled grenades, rifles, pistols, hand grenades and explosives. He is said to have conducted surveillance and reconnaissance against the U.S. military.
Khadr is also said to have received one month of land mine training and to have joined a group of al Qaeda operatives, to have converted land mines to improvised explosive devices and to have planted them in the ground where, based on previous surveillance, U.S. troops were expected to be traveling.
On July 27, 2002, Khadr and other Al Qaeda members allegedly engaged U.S. soldiers when the latter surrounded their compound. During the firefight, Khadr is said to have thrown a grenade killing Sergeant First Class Christopher Speer....
May 29, 2007
Government of Canada // Canadian International Development Agency
Abstract:
Factsheet summarizing Canadian development assistance to Afghanistan for 2006-7.
April 27, 2007
Government of Canada // Department of National Defence
Abstract:
This arrangement establishes procedures in the event of a transfer, from the custody of the Canadian Forces to the custody of any detention facility operated by the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan of any detainee in the temporary custody of the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan.