10 January - Destruction billed as Reconstruction

Office of the Press Secretary

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction Submits Resignation

The President has received the resignation of retired Major General Arnold Fields as the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR).
Shortly after being appointed SIGAR in June of 2008, General Fields established offices in Washington, DC and Afghanistan and assembled a staff of more than 120 committed professionals. His team has helped lead the effort to provide comprehensive and independent oversight of fiscal initiatives in Afghanistan. Under General Fields’ tenure, SIGAR produced numerous critical reports that have improved reconstruction efforts, and helped insure that U.S.-funded programs are achieving their objectives.
General Fields’ hard work and steadfast determination have established SIGAR as a critical oversight agency. By accepting the offer to become the SIGAR in 2008, He continued a long and distinguished career of public service. For more than 40 years, General Fields has been committed to securing our national defense. As he moves on to new challenges, he can do so confident in the knowledge that the President and the American people owe him a debt of gratitude for his courage, leadership, and selfless service to our nation.
SIGAR has a fundamental role in protecting the vital interests of the United States. Going forward, we will continue to work through SIGAR and with Congress to ensure that U.S. programs in Afghanistan effectively and efficiently achieve their objectives.

US general: Deal with tribe in Taliban bastion | The Daily Caller ...

2 Jan 2011 ... KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The leaders of the largest tribe in a Taliban stronghold in ... development and reconstruction aid will follow. ... NPR misleads on the bonus CEO Vivian Schiller lost over Juan Williams' firing ...
dailycaller.com/.../senator-proposes-permanent-us-bases-in-afghanistan/

No White House action on Afghanistan oversight; McCaskill irate ...

27 Dec 2010 ... Congress to White House: Fire Afghan Official. NEW START ... of billions of dollars in Afghanistan reconstruction contracts managed by both the ... General's (IG) offices for them to review, multiple Senate aides said. ...
thecable.foreignpolicy.com/.../no_white_house_action_on_afghanistan_

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Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and US Policy

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and recently fired Attorney General Abd al Jabbar Sabit (Pashtun); ..... donor Afghan Reconstruction Trust Fund, ARTF account. Those aid figures, for ...

fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/108306.pdf

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Space Program of Afghanistan / Afghanistani Space Agency

2004 March - Afghanistan secures $8.2bn (£4.5bn) in aid over three years. 2004 September - Rocket fired at helicopter carrying President Karzai misses its ... London pledge more than $10bn (£5.7bn) in reconstruction aid over five years. ...
www.hudsonfla.com/aafghanistan.htm

Billions in Afghanistan aid dollars unaccounted for: audit | Raw Story

28 Oct 2010 ... The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said 17.7 ... I think she got fired or drummed out of her department. ...
www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/.../billions-afghan-aid-unaccounted-audit/ - Cached

Under fire from Congress, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction steps down  HT  Treehugger

Auditor of Afghan spending sacks aides  Jan 4

Taliban Grab Share of Afghan Reconstruction Aid

Taliban Grab Share of Afghan Reconstruction Aid. By Fetrat Zerak. FARAH, Afghanistan, March 23, 2009 (ENS) - Mirahmad has a very important job to do: he is ...
www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2009/2009-03-23-02.html

CBC News In Depth: Afghanistan

Aid workers under fire. Involving military personnel in the delivery of aid and reconstruction is a centrepiece of international efforts in Afghanistan, ...
www.cbc.ca/news/background/afghanistan/aidagencies.html

Afghanistan News August 26, 2003

26 Aug 2003 ... Aid workers say that reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan have been .....On Aug 1, U.S. soldiers mistakenly fired on a taxi carrying three ...
www.afghanistannewscenter.com/news/.../aug262003.html

A new Rand Corporation study examining American "nation building" efforts beginning with postwar Germany found that while there were 18.6 peacekeepers per thousand people in Bosnia and 20 in Kosovo, the 4,800 international peacekeeping force in Kabul amounts to 0.18 peacekeepers per thousand Afghans. Even including the 11,500 mostly American combat troops here, the statistic is well under one peacekeeper per thousand Afghans.

Per capita external assistance for the first two years of conflict in Bosnia was $1,390 and in Kosovo $814, the study found. In Afghanistan, it is $52.

U.S. troops, Afghan police sweep through Taliban stronghold  May 23, 2010

Operation Kokaran was named for the neighborhood where the Taliban have assassinated government officials and built infiltration routes. The U.S. goal is to clear out insurgents, build up local governance and bring in reconstruction projects.

Hours later, insurgents launched a rocket, mortar and ground attack on the main base used by foreign troops, at Kandahar's air field a few miles east of Kokaran. Explosions wounded several troops and civilian workers, said Capt. Scott Costen, a North Atlantic Treaty Organization spokesman at the base. Costen said he could not provide details on the attack, the number of wounded or any insurgent casualties.
But the attack seemed similar to an insurgent assault Wednesday on the sprawling U.S. base at Bagram, north of Kabul.

The U.S. strategy is based on the "clear, hold and build" model first used by American forces in Iraq and most recently in the Afghan city of Marja, in Helmand province, west of Kandahar.
U.S. troops in February largely cleared Marja of insurgents after heavy fighting. But they have struggled to keep the Taliban from reestablishing control, and a functioning local government has not emerged.

Terrorism - Afghanistan: Re-emergence of a State

21 Dec 2001 ... Unlike other areas of Asia, Afghanistan escaped the waves of 18th and ....The overall mechanism for controlling reconstruction aid features ...
www.cdi.org/terrorism/reemergence.cfm

Fired Gen. Stan McChrystal's Personal Post-War Reconstruction Plan ...

12 Sep 2010 ... Fired Gen. Stan McChrystal's Personal Post-War Reconstruction Plan ...Stan McChrystal, the four-star Army general booted from command of the Afghan war .... As a special ops "snake eater," McChrystal and his key aides ...
swampland.blogs.time.com/.../fired-gen-stan-mcchrystals-personal-post-war-reconstruction-plan/ - Cached

The Matrix of Death: (Im)Precision of U.S Bombing and the (Under ...

6 Oct 2008 ... My totals reconstructed from disaggregated on the Afghan Victim Memorial..... Bari Gul added, “None of our friends fired on the Americans ...
www.rawa.org/.../the-imprecision-ofus-bombing-and-the-under-valuation-of-an-afghan-life.html 

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Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy

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U.S. and International Aid to Afghanistan and Development Issues . ... InternationalReconstruction Pledges/National Development Strategy . ..... The mujahedin weaponry included U.S.-supplied portable shoulder-fired anti-aircraft ...
www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL30588.pdf - Similar

Reports: Afghan security policy threatens aid projects - World ...

21 Oct 2010 ... Huge reconstruction projects in Afghanistan are in danger of shutting ... A civilian was shot dead after police fired at thousands of the ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../world_news-south_and_central_asia/ 

UN Refuses to Participate in "Militarization of Humanitarian Aid ...

17 Feb 2010 ... Regarding Jim's Afghan reconstruction, I think the UN's reaction is understandable. I too would rather see us using forms of aid that didn't ...
my.firedoglake.com/.../un-refuses-to-participate-in-militarization-of-humanitarian-aid-in-marjeh-reconstruction/

Death Made In America

This is American reconstruction of Afghanistan. Life for Ordinary People ... The billions of dollars of development aid did not benefit ordinary Afghans. ... The US forces fired at the men standing in their way, killing six of them. ...
www.rense.com/general70/deathmde.htm

Afghan Civilians killed by U.S/NATO Actions since 2006

9 Oct 2008... by the more than ten-to-one ratio of military to reconstruction aid since 2002....... My totals reconstructed from disaggregated on the Afghan Victim ..... Bari Gul added, “None of our friends fired on the Americans ...
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10506

Tribal Politics - Welcome to Vanguard Canada

In New Orleans, we spent about $10 billion to rebuild the levees; over the first five years,reconstruction aid in Afghanistan was about $5 billion. ...
www.vanguardcanada.com/AfghanTribalPoliticsJohnson

With us or against us? NGO neutrality on the line

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After 9/11, the act of providing relief and reconstruction aid has assumed a ... With 9/11 this all changed; early on in the Afghanistan recovery effort, .... Jim Lobe, 'NGOs in the US FiringLine', Inter Press Service, 14 June 2003. ...
www.odihpn.org/report.asp?id=2578

Iraq and Afghanistan: Dual Fronts (Closed) | The Agonist

5 Jan 2009 ... It used the system it set up to dispense reconstruction aid to both .... by friendly fire in the six years of war in Iraq and Afghanistan ...
agonist.org/editor/20090105/iraq_and_afghanistan_dual_fronts

China and Afghanistan's Aynak Copper Mine

The coal-fired power plant built near the copper field will produce more than the mine needs.... in Afghanistan's reconstruction providing very limited aid and assistance. ... I thoughtAfghanistan needed reconstruction immediately, ...
hubpages.com/.../China-and-Afghanistans-Aynak-Copper-Mine

US Congress trims foreign aid budget, boosts defense

4 Mar 2005 ... The plan chops funds for reconstruction in Afghanistan, ... including thereconstruction of Kabul airport, a hydropower and gas-fired power ...
il.china-embassy.org/eng/xwdt/t185965.htm

Bill Summary & Status - 108th Congress (2003 - 2004) - S.1689 ...

30 Sep 2003 ... 301) Amends the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002 to increase from $300 .... and (2) provide robust amounts of reconstruction aid to Iraq during the ... against the threat of shoulder-fired missiles are deployed, ...
thomas.loc.gov › THOMAS Home › Bills, Resolutions

The Noble Savage 2.0: June 2007

Some Afghan legislators have criticized the way aid money has been ... said: "Out of every US dollar spent by donors on Afghanistan 's reconstruction 80 ...
misterbeastly.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html

Canadian Department of National Defence Adds More Mercedes G ...

By contrast, the U.S. has pledged $900 million to Afghanistan for reconstruction aid. ... The new allotment of 357 G Wagons will replace Cougar direct fire ...

www.automobile.com/canadian-department-of-national-defence-adds-more-mercedes-g-wagons-to-armed-forces.html

BBC NEWS | Business | Iraq 'facing corruption threat'

16 Mar 2005 ... The reconstruction of post-war Iraq is in danger of becoming "the biggest corruption scandal in history", Transparency International has ...
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4353491.stm

Gulf Times – Qatar's top-selling English daily newspaper - Americas

Five charged over Iraq reconstruction scandal ... and private citizens to steal money intended for contracts to rebuild Iraq after the American invasion ...
www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no..

Op-Ed: Iraq Reconstruction Contracts, A Scandal for the Ages

5 Sep 2007 ... In what may be the worst waste of American taxpayers' money and complete disregard for the reconstruction of Iraq, contracts awarded to ...
www.digitaljournal.com/article/223888

Iraq: One of the Greatest Financial Scandals of All Time

3 Jan 2011 ... Iraq: One of the Greatest Financial Scandals of All Time .... To supervise thereconstruction of the Iraqi health service, the Pentagon ...
www.truth-out.org/docs_2006/032106a.shtml

Iraq: There Is Oil-for-Reconstruction Scandal Too

9 Feb 2005 ... Iraq: There Is Oil-for-Reconstruction Scandal Too George Monbiot, The Guardian. The Republican senators who have devoted their careers to ...
archive.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article...

Somalia's Reconstruction: an Opportunity to Create a Responsive ...

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8 May 2002 ... The article highlights the role of information in Somalia's reconstruction. It then reviews the state of the information infrastructure in ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1057231796900041

State Building and Post Conflict Reconstruction in Somalia

Introduction This paper outlines a partial approach in support of the transitional support strategy for post conflict reconstruction and recovery in Somalia ...
www.allacademic.com/meta/p178499_index.html

African Union mulls Somalia reconstruction roadmap | Ethiopia news

24 Jan 2008 ... Publication date: Thu, 2008-01-24 19:00 Article: Despite its frustrating attempts to restore calm and sanity in bedevilled Somalia, ...
www.kilil5.com/news/14939_african-union-mulls-somalia-reco

SOMALIA: EUROPE'S ROLE IN POST-CONFLICT RECONSTRUCTIONAND REFUGEE ...

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Repatriation of refugees and national reconstruction of Somalia will require huge financial, logistical and human resources not available to the states ...
www.fmreview.org/textOnlyContent/FMR/23/13.htm

Amazon.com: Somalia: State Collapse, Multilateral Intervention ...

Amazon.com: Somalia: State Collapse, Multilateral Intervention, and Strategies for PoliticalReconstruction (Brookings Occasional Papers) (9780815753513): ...
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Oxfam criticises Haiti reconstruction effort - RTÉ News

6 Jan 2011 ... A new report from aid agency Oxfam says reconstruction work has barely begun in Haiti following the country's catastrophic earthquake a year ...
www.rte.ie/news/2011/0106/haiti.html

Limits to Large-Scale Reconstruction in Honduras

1 Nov 2007 ... Limits to Large-Scale Reconstruction IN HONDURAS: Land Development for LOW-INCOME HOUSING in Inadequately Functioning Land Markets ...
www.globalurban.org/GUDMag07Vol3Iss1/Pearce-Oroz.htm

Gender and Post-Disaster Reconstruction: The Case of Hurricane ...

Its effects were greatest in two of the poorest countries in the region, Honduras and Nicaragua. Although the hurricane itself was a naturally-occurring ...
sheltercentre.org/.../gender-and-post-disaster-reconstruction-case-hurricane-mitch-honduras-and-nicaragua

Alshahid Network » Kenya offers support to Haiti reconstruction

3 Jun 2010 ... Punta Cana (Alshahid) – The government of Kenya has pledged to aid the earthquake-ravaged Haiti in its reconstruction, kenya's deputy Prime ...
english.alshahid.net/archives/7410

Kenya: Budget Looks to Reconstruction

12 Jun 2008 ... Kenya's Finance minister Amos Wako has listed tough new measures to streamline operations of road contractors and stock brokers as part of a ...
ndn.nigeriadailynews.com/?a=9587

Kenya is committed to post conflict reconstruction in Southern Sudan

27 Jan 2010 ... Kenya is committed to post conflict reconstruction in Southern Sudan. President Mwai Kibaki has today affirmed Kenya 's commitment to the ...
www.statehousekenya.go.ke/news/jan2010/2010270101.htm

REFLECTIONS ON CONFLICT SENSITIVE RECOVERY,RECONSTRUCTION AND ...

27 Mar 2008 ... In view of the realities of this destruction, reconstruction in Kenya shall succeed only if it takes various national and local level models ...
rescuekenya.wordpress.com/.../reflections-on-conflict-sensitive-recovery-reconstruction-and-resettlement/ 

United Nations Peacekeeping

Born at the time when the Cold War rivalries frequently paralyzed the Security Council, UN peacekeeping goals were primarily limited to maintaining ceasefires and stabilizing situations on the ground, so that efforts could be made at the political level to resolve the conflict by peaceful means.  Those missions consisted of military observers and lightly armed troops with monitoring, reporting and confidence-building roles in support of ceasefires and limited peace agreements.

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• 08/01/2011 UN envoy urges DR Congo authorities to probe recent allegations of mass rapes

Peace-keeping guidelines set out by Security Council

UN Chronicle, Sept, 1994