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Kandahar

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    Sgt. Robert Bales, Accused Massacre Shooter, Finally Meets His Media-Savy Seattle Attorney

    Having riled military officials with his media tactics even before he's seen his client, Seattle attorney John Henry Browne flew off to Kansas yesterday where today he tells us he'll finally meet Staff Sgt. Robert Bales of Joint Base Lewis McChord, arrested for murdering 16 villagers in Afghanistan. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2012

    A One-Man Kill Team: Lewis-McChord Sergeant Massacres at Least 16 Civilians in Afghan Village

    While it is still dealing with a sergeant who slaughtered his fellow troops in Iraq, and only months after completing the prosecution of a sergeant who led his "kill team" on missions to murder Afghan civilians, Joint Base Lewis McChord is now preparing to handle its most tragic case of a sergeant o ... More >>

  • News

    February 8, 2012

    Updated: The War Dead Since Sept. 21, 2011

    While it is still dealing with a sergeant who slaughtered his fellow troops in Iraq, and only months after completing the prosecution of a sergeant who led his "kill team" on missions to murder Afghan civilians, Joint Base Lewis McChord is now preparing to handle its most tragic case of a sergeant o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 26, 2011

    Pfc. Andrew Holmes, Member of Fort Lewis "Kill Team" Stryker Brigade, Receives Seven-Year Sentence for Murder

    Pfc. Andrew Holmes​Army prosecutors convicted a third member of the infamous Fort Lewis-based "Kill Team" Stryker Brigade last week when Pfc. Andrew Holmes pleaded guilty to charges that he murdered an unarmed Afghan teenager in a poppy field outside of Kandahar in January 2010, and later poss ... More >>

  • News

    September 21, 2011

    Afghanistan 2001-2011

    Pfc. Andrew Holmes​Army prosecutors convicted a third member of the infamous Fort Lewis-based "Kill Team" Stryker Brigade last week when Pfc. Andrew Holmes pleaded guilty to charges that he murdered an unarmed Afghan teenager in a poppy field outside of Kandahar in January 2010, and later poss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Sgt. Darren Jones, Stryker "Kill Team" Member, Faces Court Martial For Attacking Whistleblower

    Image source​A soldier with the last name Stoner complained to his superiors about members of his platoon using his room to smoke hash. That ironic twist of fate one day in May of last year in southern Afghanistan is what ultimately led to Sgt. Darren Jones' court martial, which begins today a ... More >>

  • News

    April 13, 2011

    Brandon Barrett's War

    The Army didn't tell anyone about a disturbed AWOL soldier until it was too late.

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Lewis-McChord 'Kill Team' Photos Published by Der Spiegel; Army Bracing for Afghan Backlash

    Abu Ghraib​A reaction worse than to the photos of Abu Ghraib? That's how the impact of the trophy photographs taken by the Joint Base Lewis-McChord "Kill Team" is being described. The German magazine Der Spiegel today published three of what it says are as many as 4,000 pics and vids taken by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2010

    Cpl. Sean Collins, Sgt. Jason Peto, Bring State's SW Asia War Toll to More Than 30 This Year

    Collins​Christmas is just something you have to get through for the friends and families of Army Cpl. Sean M. Collins, 25, of Yelm, and Marine Sgt. Jason D. Peto, 31, of Vancouver, who were just added to SW's Facing Our Losses pages, the only full accounting of Washington's Southwest Asia war ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    Andrew Holmes, Lewis-McChord Soldier in Thrill Kill Case, Barred From Using Photos of Dead Afghans

    ​It can easily be argued that once the U.S. military admits that there are photos or videos of stupid shit their soldiers did that they don't want you to see, eventually you get to see them (see: Abu Ghraib, helicopter attack). So when Army prosecutors barred alleged thrill kill soldier Pfc. A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    Brandon Barrett's Brother Says Army Knew He Was Dangerous

    ​When a Salt Lake City police officer heard a knock on his cruiser's window on a sunny afternoon in August, he had no idea what he was about to go up against. But according to the brother of Brandon Barrett, the AWOL Joint Base Lewis-McChord solider shot and killed in the middle one of the Uta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Military to Boot Fast Food from Afghan Bases, Return Soldiers to 21st Century

    ​There's been a lot of reporting over the past few days on U.S. and NATO efforts to boot various fast food restaurants from the big military bases in Afghanistan. According to the Christian Science Monitor, "[Kandahar Air Base] in southern Afghanistan is NATO's largest in the country and the m ... More >>

  • Arts

    January 13, 2010

    The Weekly Wire: The Week’s Recommended Events

    ​There's been a lot of reporting over the past few days on U.S. and NATO efforts to boot various fast food restaurants from the big military bases in Afghanistan. According to the Christian Science Monitor, "[Kandahar Air Base] in southern Afghanistan is NATO's largest in the country and the m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2009

    New Music: K'naan Releases Troubadour -- Performs in Seattle March 10

    K'naan Troubadour (A&M Octone) The UN projects that in 2009, a third of Somalia's total population will be dependent on humanitarian aid--this, in a country that has no central government, where the most viable economic vocation is piracy. Enter K'naan. Having fled civil war in Mogadishu in 199 ... More >>

  • Film

    December 26, 2007

    The 10 Best (Overlooked) Films of 2007

    K'naan Troubadour (A&M Octone) The UN projects that in 2009, a third of Somalia's total population will be dependent on humanitarian aid--this, in a country that has no central government, where the most viable economic vocation is piracy. Enter K'naan. Having fled civil war in Mogadishu in 199 ... More >>

  • Film

    May 24, 2006

    This Week's SIFF Picks

    K'naan Troubadour (A&M Octone) The UN projects that in 2009, a third of Somalia's total population will be dependent on humanitarian aid--this, in a country that has no central government, where the most viable economic vocation is piracy. Enter K'naan. Having fled civil war in Mogadishu in 199 ... More >>

  • Arts

    March 9, 2005

    March. 9-15, 2005

    K'naan Troubadour (A&M Octone) The UN projects that in 2009, a third of Somalia's total population will be dependent on humanitarian aid--this, in a country that has no central government, where the most viable economic vocation is piracy. Enter K'naan. Having fled civil war in Mogadishu in 199 ... More >>

  • Film

    February 18, 2004

    This Week's Attractions

    K'naan Troubadour (A&M Octone) The UN projects that in 2009, a third of Somalia's total population will be dependent on humanitarian aid--this, in a country that has no central government, where the most viable economic vocation is piracy. Enter K'naan. Having fled civil war in Mogadishu in 199 ... More >>

  • News

    December 17, 2003

    Facing Our Losses - Afghanistan

    Washington's toll in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the War on Terror.

  • Film

    April 16, 2003

    The Singing Detective

    Washington's toll in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the War on Terror.

  • Film

    January 1, 2003

    Weighty Picks

    My oh-so-cheerful 10 best films of 2002.

  • Film

    December 18, 2002

    Love and Mortar

    A simple, powerful tale of adolescents in Iran.

  • Film

    May 29, 2002

    SIFF News

    Week 2: Grow up.

  • Film

    May 15, 2002

    SIFF 2002 Films: A-J

    Week 2: Grow up.

  • Film

    February 13, 2002

    Close-up

    Week 2: Grow up.

  • Film

    January 9, 2002

    The searchers

    Mission of mercy reveals ugly, beautiful truths.

  • Film

    January 2, 2002

    2001'S 10 Best

    Year-end tally strives to resist Oscar®-marketing juggernaut.

  • Film

    December 19, 2001

    Coming attractions

    What other movies to expect in early '02.

  • News

    December 5, 2001

    Blue Glow, Warm Hearts

    Christmas specials for our war-struck times.

  • News

    November 14, 2001

    Strange board fellows

    From Unocal to United for Seattle's Jack Creighton—with the Taliban between.

  • Film

    October 17, 2001

    Mayhem and mercy

    New action heroes for a new kind of war.

  • News

    October 10, 2001

    The first casualty

    New action heroes for a new kind of war.

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