THE HANDSTAND

 FEB.-MARCH2011


message to the people of egypt from afghanistan

 

To the Workers, Youth, and People of Egypt

Posted on February 5, 2011 by admin



Dear comrades and friends

We salute your fearless struggle and uprising against the cruel regime of Mubarak and express our deep solidarity with the brave and heroic people of Egypt, who have stood up for their rights and freedom.

We have been seriously following the news and developments in your country and hope you further success and final victory. We condole with the martyred families and the victims of the wild behavior of the police of the regime. Your legitimate and brave struggle and revolution in Egypt have not only already inspired the Arab world but also other people around the globe.

We call on Mubarak and his parasitic team to leave power, and we call upon US and other imperialist countries to take their hands off Egypt and not support the brutal regimes in Egypt, Tunisia and other parts of the world.

The resistance in Afghanistan will surely contribute to the mass struggle in Africa and other parts of the world while the masters of the puppet regimes themselves have been suffering from dealing with their internal and external issues such the economic crisis and the war in Afghanistan. The 10-year war in Afghanistan completely proved their defeat and paves the way toward an awful future for them against the popular anti-occupation resistance.

We believe that if there is no support from the US and EU and other imperialist countries to the puppet and reactionary and parasitic regimes such as Mubarak and Karzai, the people of these countries would soon topple them.

- Long live Egypt people revolution!
- Down with Mubarak regime and its imperialist supporters!
- End war and occupation!
Nasir Loyand
Left Radical of Afghanistan (LRA)
February 3, 2011

http://www.ilcinfo.org/?p=10

 

Frb.23rd 2011 : Afghan security at worst state since Taliban: UN

Afp, Geneva: The security situation in Afghanistan has worsened to its lowest point since the toppling of the Taliban a decade ago and attacks on aid workers are at unprecedented levels, a UN envoy said yesterday. "From the humanitarian perspective, security is on everyone's minds," said Robert Watkins, the outgoing UN deputy special representive of the Secretary General for Afghanistan."It is fair to say that security in the country is at its lowest point since the departure of the Talibans," he added.
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=175320


118 drone raids killed only two top militants
February 23, 2011WASHINGTON:
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States launched 118 drone attacks in Pakistan last year, but managed to kill only two “most-wanted” terrorists, The Washington Post has reported. A Washington think-tank, New America Foundation, reported that US drone strikes soared from 33 in 2008 to 118 in 2010. The increase cost US taxpayers $118 million and managed to kill 581 militants.
But “the number of those militants noteworthy enough to appear on a US list of most-wanted terrorists: two,” it noted.

The New America Foundation, however, concluded that 12 “militant leaders” were killed by drone strikes in 2010, compared with 10 in 2008. “Even so, the data suggest that the ratio of senior terrorism suspects being killed is declining at a substantial rate” while the number of strikes multiplied, the Post observed. The newspaper noted, the CIA drone campaign, reportedly authorised by Islamabad covertly, hit foot-soldier types 94% of the time.
http://gulftoday.ae/portal/542adc82-6123-4ec7-b455-dff651dd46a9.aspx