A retired Danish psychologist has opted to pay a fine of DKK 45,000 (EUR 6,054) rather than reveal to a court what a former client told her about the abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan.
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Military psychologist to keep Afghan abuse secrets
Posted on 17 February 2012.
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Military taught how to climb trees
Posted on 28 November 2011.
Swedish soldiers are to be taught how to shimmy up trees in the proper fashion in case they need to salvage unmanned drones caught in canopies.
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Former Iceland FM takes up Afghanistan UN job
Posted on 17 October 2011.
Iceland’s former foreign minister, Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir, is on her way to Afghanistan to take up a United Nations position.
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Afghanistan ambassador food blog leaves bad taste
Posted on 27 June 2011.
The Norwegian ambassador to Afghanistan has stirred up a storm of controversy by writing in a Foreign Ministry blog about his efforts to train his cook in Kabul to make him fancy French food.
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Soldier’s death prompts Afghanistan doubts
Posted on 24 February 2011.
Politicians and military officials voiced their concerns about Finland’s role in Afghanistan this week as the body of a soldier killed in a car bomb attack arrived back on home soil.
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Military saw Afghan abuse pics in 2005, says officer
Posted on 23 September 2010.
A Danish officer says the military has been sitting on pictures showing the abuse of Afghani prisoners by American soldiers for five years. According to reports on the information provided to the Parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee by defence minister Gitte Lillelund-Bech, the senior army official said he viewed the “Abu Ghraib-like” images on a CD [...]
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Wikileaks does not intend to stop release of secret Afghan war files
Posted on 09 August 2010.
Spokesmen from the whistleblowing website Wikileaks say they will publish more classified documents despite orders from the American authorities not to. Wikileaks has been the centre of a great deal of media attention since it published secret American military documents about the war in Afghanistan.
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Wikileaks told to hand over remaining Afghan documents
Posted on 05 August 2010.
The American Department of Defence today issued an order for Wikileaks to hand over the rest of the secret documents it says it has yet to publish about the war in Afghanistan.
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