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Taking the CIA to court over drone attacks

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An international group has called on the US to acknowledge the number of civilians killed by drone attacks in north-west Pakistan and tribesman are taking the CIA to court over allegations that US drone strikes killed their relatives. The BBC’s Aleem Maqbool talks with Lisa Mullins about the drone attacks in Pakistan’s tribal region. Download MP3
Globalsecurity.org: Pakistan’s anger at U.S. drone strikes growing

New insights into America’s drone war

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The Wikileaks cables shed some light on the politics of the US drone war in Pakistan. Jeb Sharp gives us an update on drones and their implications in American warfare. Download MP3

Wired.com: Everybody wants drones
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Kandahar supply lines

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The US military operation in Kandahar is currently focusing on a district to the north, called Arghandab. Arghandab holds the key to controlling the northern roads coming into Kandahar, the area once posed a serious challenge to Soviet military planners, and now NATO troops. Ben Gilbert was in the district last month with troops from the 82nd airborne division. (Photo: Ben Gilbert) Download MP3

• Multimedia: Ben Gilbert’s photos from Arghandab
• BBC map: foreign troops in Afghanistan
• Military base close to the front
• US strategy in Afghanistan

American headlines abroad

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The WikiLeaks story has been grabbing headlines – nationally and internationally – this week. So has Arizona’s controversial immigration law after a federal judge put key parts of the measure on ice. For more on how these stories are being covered beyond US borders we turn to Stephan Bachenheimer, US correspondent for Germany’s Deutsche Welle, and to Angela Kocherga, who covers Mexico and the border for KHOU TV in Texas. Download MP3

• The Wikileaks files and government transparency
• Pakistanis mostly unconcerned over Wikileaks
• Interview with Mexico’s foreign minister Patrica Espinosa

Pakistanis mostly unconcerned over Wikileaks

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Pakistan has strongly denied claims in leaked US military records that its intelligence agency, the ISI, backed the Taliban in the war in Afghanistan. Many Pakistanis seem unconcerned about those claims – it seems, they have come to expect that the ISI and other agencies are meddling in Afghanistan, so the Wikileaks revelations have not come as a huge surprise. Fahad Desmukh reports. (Peshawar flickr image: Azfar.2010) Download MP3

• BBC coverage
• The Wikileaks files and government transparency
• FAQ: Foreign forces in Afghanistan

The Wikileaks files and government transparency

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New details, including reports on Osama Bin Laden dating from 2006, have emerged from 90,000 US military files leaked to the Wikileaks website. The details come as the Pentagon investigates who leaked the classified documents, in an act the White House says could harm national security.The World’s Alex Gallafent examines how the release of US military documents by Wikileaks raises questions about government transparency, security and responsibility. Download MP3

• Noah Schacthman’s Danger Room blog
• BBC coverage
• Washington condemns Afghanistan leaks
• New York Times: ‘The War Logs’

Washington condemns Afghanistan leaks

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The United States has condemned as “irresponsible” the leak of 90,000 military records, saying publication could threaten national security. The documents released by the Wikileaks website include details of killings of Afghan civilians unreported until now. The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange (pictured), said he had no reason to doubt the reliability of the reports. The World’s Alex Gallafent reports. Download MP3

• BBC coverage
• Selection of the secret dispatches
• Wikileaks founder: ‘This is the story of the war’
• What is Wikileaks?
• New York Times: ‘The War Logs’

U.S. strategy in Afghanistan

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The leaked documents outline a growing insurgency and an under-resourced US-led campaign. The documentation ends in December 2009, when President Obama announced a new strategy to try to shift the tide of the war. The much advertised Kandahar campaign is a key part of that new strategy and it’s beginning to take shape. Ben Gilbert recently got a tour with one of the architects of the campaign. (photo: Ben Gilbert) Download MP3

• Multimedia: See Ben Gilbert’s photo slideshow from Kandahar
• Staking out a corner of Taliban country
• The surge in Afghanistan

Staking out a corner of Taliban country

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Travel with us to a military base in Southern Afghanistan. It used to be controlled by the Taliban. Now US Marines hold the fort but the Taliban are on every side. The World’s Ben Gilbert spent some time with the Marines at Patrol Base Chris in Marjah (Photo: Ben Gilbert) Download MP3

• Multimedia: See Ben Gilbert’s photo slideshow from Marjah
• The surge in Afghanistan
• Infrastructure for Afghanistan offensive

The drone war in Pakistan

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The Taliban in Pakistan have told the BBC that attacks by US drone aircraft are having an effect on Taliban activities in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. Marco Werman talks with BBC’s Islamabad Bureau chief Haroon Rashid to learn more. Download MP3

• BBC: Mapping U.S. drone and Islamic militant attacks
• America’s third war
• Video: U.S. drone attacks increase

Conference endorses Afghan security handover

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A major conference on Afghanistan has endorsed President Hamid Karzai’s goal that Afghan forces should lead security operations across the country by 2014. Karzai renewed his call for Afghan control over security during the one-day conference in Kabul, attended by representatives from 70 countries. Laura Lynch reports. Download MP3

• BBC coverage
• Working outside Afghan security bubble

Clinton visits Pakistan and Afghanistan

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Kabul where she’s taking part in a major international conference on Afghanistan. Earlier Mrs Clinton called on Pakistan to take further, specific actions against militant networks. We speak with the BBC’s Kim Ghattas in Islamabad. Download MP3

• BBC coverage

Kandahar trauma unit

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that casualties will increase as the US led NATO force in Afghanistan conducts a major offensive in the southern province of Kandahar this summer and fall. June has been the deadliest month for international forces since the war in Afghanistan began in 2001. Nowhere is the violence more apparent than at the trauma ward at Kandahar Airfield.  Ben Gilbert reports. Download MP3 (flickr image of Spin Boldak medevac: lafrancevi)

• The surge in Afghanistan
• BBC coverage

US Afghanistan commander fired

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The top US military commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, has been dismissed by President Barack Obama after he criticized leading administration officials. He had earlier agreed with Mr Obama that his statements in Rolling Stone magazine showed “poor judgement”. News that General McChrystal was standing down came after he met Mr Obama at the White House. He will be succeeded by General David Petraeus, US officials say. Jeb Sharp talks with Scott Wilson, White House Reporter for the Washington Post. Download MP3

• BBC coverage
• McChrystal summoned over article
• Rolling Stone: “The Runaway General”