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Aishwarya Airy and Kim Hjelmgaard Published 3:29 a.m. ET Nov. 20, 2019 | Updated 4:51 p.m. ET Nov. 20, 2019

In this Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017 file photo, A US military helicopter flies over the site of a suicide bomb that struck a NATO convoy in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan. In an "open letter" to U.S. President Donald Trump, Afghanistan's Taliban on Tuesday reiterated their call for a withdrawal of troops to end the protracted war.(Photo: STR, AP)

Two American service members were killed in a helicopter crash Wednesday in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said without providing further details.

The crash is under investigation but the military saidpreliminary reportsindicated the incidentwas not caused by enemy fire, despite aclaim from the Taliban that itshot down a helicopter in eastern Logar province, causing fatalities.

The deaths of the service membersbrings the number of U.S. combatfatalitiesthis year in Afghanistan to 19. Approximately 14,000 U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan, and 2,400 U.S. soldiers have died in the U.S.-led war since 2001.

The U.S. military statement saidthat in accordance with U.S. Department of Defense policy, the names of the service members killed in action would bewithheld until 24 hours after notification of their next of kin is complete.

A U.S. service member last died in Afghanistan on Sept. 16 and Wednesday's crash comes amid signsthe U.S.,Taliban and Afghan government aretrying to restart peace talks after President Donald Trump canceled them after aTaliban suicide-bomb attack in Kabul on Sept.5that killed a U.S.soldier and11 others.

Two Western hostages, one American and one Australian, were freed by the Taliban on Tuesdayafter more than three years in captivity. Their release was part ofa prisoner exchange that freedthree high-profile Taliban members from the militant organization's fearedHaqqani network, known for targeting civilians.

More: Bombs, missiles falling at record pace in long-running Afghanistan war

More: Taliban frees American, Australian hostages as part of prisoner swap

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Trump wantsthe majority of U.S. forces home from Afghanistan by next year and he has sought to bring together U.S. negotiators and representatives from the Taliban and the Afghan government. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has signaledthe White House views the prisoner exchange as agoodwill gesture from the Taliban that could pave the way for a revival of the peace talks.

These talks were scheduled to beheld in September at the U.S. Camp David presidential retreat, but collapsed after the Sept. 5. suicide-bomb attack.

In a tweet Wednesday, Trump suggested the peace talks might get back on track. "We join families of Kevin King & Tim Weeks in celebrating their release from Taliban captivity," the president wrote. "Lets hope this leads to more good things on the peace front like a ceasefire that will help end this long war," he added.

The Taliban often claims responsibility for attacks on U.S.-led forcesand spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid insisted in an interview it shot down the helicopter as "American invaders and their hirelings" raided Taliban posts. Mujahid addedit was not unusual for Taliban fighters to engage with U.S. and Afghan military forces even when there are peace talks, or potential ones, taking place. He also said that it was now the responsibility of the U.S. to make "peace arrangements possible."

Airy reported from Washington, D.C.; Hjelmgaard from London

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A hail of bullets rained down from the skies overhead, hitting the ground in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The rapid-fire artillery sounds filled my ears as I stood still underneath the small embassy awning.

Naively, I didnt know that bullets fired into the air could travel up to a mile high. Then, depending on the angle they were fired at and their aerodynamics, anyone hit in the embassy courtyard would be dead.

Standing in front of the embassy, I could feel the tightness in my quadriceps from the fear.

Teacher, one of my Afghan workshop participants shouted to me, dont stand in front of the embassy! Get to the bomb shelter! Were being attacked!

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It was lunchtime on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend in 2006. I was in Kabul for the third time, and it was my final day of the professional leadership development training I conducted before the holiday weekend.

Twenty-four Afghans successfully completed my two-week workshops. They were to receive a certificate of completion during a ceremony with an embassy official present.

To celebrate, we planned to have local cuisine together in an Army hooch (a temporary shelter), where the cuisine was served, have some cake, and play some Afghan music.

The successes of my previous two visits for training prompted the U.S. Embassy in Kabul to ask me to come back again to provide another series of workshops for the locally engaged staff, formerly referred to as Foreign Service nationals.

The workshops included basic and advanced communications skills training, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills. I also offered professional one-on-one or small group coaching for Afghans who needed extra help with how to understandand to get along withtheir American diplomat bosses.

My days at the embassy compound started with a 7 a.m. breakfast. I went early to see our U.S. troops coming in to eat after staying out all night in the mountains fighting the Taliban.

The men, most of them no more than 19 to 21 years of age, were dusty-looking, with tired faces. After eating and a few hours of shut-eye, the troops went back to fighting.

Sometimes, we engaged in small talk about what was happening back in the U.S. With total respect, Maam seemed to be every other word spoken to me, as often as the words please and thank you.

These men made up the majority of the International Security Assistance Force of aNATO-led security mission inAfghanistan, established by theU.N. Security Councilin December 2001 in response to the attacks on 9/11.

Afghan Allies With a Price on Their Heads

The Afghan men and women of the embassy and the U.S. Agency for International Development were considered traitors by the Taliban.

Each of my Afghan class participants who worked for the U.S. Embassy and USAID had bounties on their heads. Although they were the higher-paid Afghans working for our government, they exited the gates of the embassys sovereign U.S. soil at great risk that they could be killed.

To make matters worse, their families were added to the Talibans hit list as well. These men and women took a great chance believing in our country, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Afghanistans freedom and security.

Amid a pause in the gunfire, I quickly scurried across the courtyard to the tunnel that connected the U.S. Embassy to USAID and the living quarters. From a security perspective, it was built to sustain a significant mortar hit or a bomb blast. The tunnel was deep and wide enough to hold embassy and staff personnel.

When I entered, there was a young man in his early 20s barking out orders for a number of us to be quiet and listen.

He gave us commands on what we needed to do to, which included leaving the tunnel, which I originally entered for safety. In my mind, I exclaimed, I dont want to go back out into the line of fire again!

However, since my life and the lives of embassy personnel and other contractors were at stake and completely dependent on our U.S. troops, we shook our heads in agreement and obeyed.

At that point, you could hear more activity going on until another lull in the gunfire. The young man, now accompanied by other fully armed troops, quickly led us out of the tunnel and into the embassy to safety.

Gurkha warriors from Nepal were our partners and helped to guard our embassy. They were short, stout, serious men who were extremely loyal to the United States.

The young commander told one of the Gurkhas that if he saw unknown activity on embassy property to shoot to killno questions asked. In response, the Gurkha saluted in agreement.

Inside the embassy, we were split up, according to security clearance. Then-Ambassador Ronald E. Neumann, appointed by then-President George W. Bush, spoke fluent Dari to the Afghan staff who were also protected inside the embassy.

For four hours, there was fighting. Fifteen Afghans who attacked the embassy were killed.

Before the cellphone lines became jammed, I was able to get one quick call out to my parents to tell them we were being attacked. (I think the shock of the information I shared with them didnt register until much later.)

At the end of the fighting, I had a headache, felt lightheaded, and my body was limp, realizing what had just happened. I went to my hooch and fell asleep.

The next day was Saturday. I went to every service member I saw and felt compelled to thank them for saving us. I cried uncontrollably and could not keep a straight face. I also thanked the Gurkhas, who guarded the embassy doors, and cried again.

It was trauma I was experiencing, but it was also a gratefulness I couldnt explain.

I was overcome realizing the sacrifice these troops make because they zealously believe in what it is to be an American, to protect and serve, and to risk (and possibly give) their lives for our freedom and to fight against evil terrorists.

My Small Show of Thanks

There are nearly 19 million military veterans alive today. They fought and served honorably. These true heroes and heroines must always be deeply appreciated for their service and the lives they were prepared to risk, all for the ideal of American freedom and democracy.

Last month, I ran in the Army Ten-Miler road race for the second time, beginning at the Pentagon. Just prior to the start of the race, and after the national anthem, Black Hawkhelicopters flewoverhead. They stayed with all 35,0000 of us runners along the route. We all knew we were in the safest place on the planet.

I come from a family of military heroes, and I still get choked up remembering my experience in Kabul and how those of us who were there would not be here today were it not for them.

Taking part in the Army Ten-Milers is my small way of thanking the troops I will never meet for what they do for our country, our world, and what they did for me personally.

This article by Yvonne Davis first appeared at the Daily Signal.

Image: Reuters.

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By Jean Shaoul 22 November 2019

BBC TVs flagship Panorama programme has broadcast interviews and evidence revealing that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) repeatedly covered up war crimes committed by Britains armed forces during the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Panorama cited evidence surrounding the killing by UK troops of innocent and unarmed civilians that could in no way be described as accidental or collateral damage. The International Criminal Court (ICC) said it took the findings very seriously and would independently assess the evidence provided by Panorama.

The ICC has already concluded from a previous review in 2014 that there is credible evidence that British troops committed war crimes in Iraq, particularly surrounding the abuse of detainees, including murders by a soldier from the SAS special forces, as well as deaths in custody, beatings, torture and sexual abuse by members of the Black Watch. It was the first time the ICC had opened an inquiry into a Western state, with almost all ICC indictees being African heads of state or officials, while the United Statesnot a signatory to the Rome Statute that established the ICC in 2002and the other imperialist powers get off scot-free.

Allegations of mistreatment by British troops emerged in the years after the invasion of Iraq, including videos of soldiers carrying out wanton acts of cruelty. The case of Baha Mousa, a hotel worker in Basra who died after being tortured and beaten by troops while in custody in a British base in 2003, is the most well known. After six years of public campaigning, six soldiers finally appeared before a court martial, before being acquitted of wrongdoing. One soldier pleaded guilty and served just one year in jail. Most of the cases of alleged abuse and torture, which continue to mount, have never even reached a court hearing.

The Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT) was set up to investigate 3,405 war crimes allegedly committed by British troops during the occupation of Iraq between 2003 and 2009. Operation Northmoor, a smaller scale inquiry, received 675 allegations relating to Afghanistan. Both found evidence of widespread abuse and mistreatment at the hands of British forces. This included the killing of unarmed civilians and children.

The corporate media immediately went into action, branding the investigations as witch-hunts. Theresa Mays government closed down both investigations in 2017 without any prosecutions, using the excuse that Phil Shiner, a lawyer who had taken more than 1,000 cases to IHAT, had paid fixers in Iraq to find clients. May pledged, We will never againin any future conflictlet those activist, left-wing human rights lawyers harangue and harass the bravest of the brave.

But now the BBC, working with the Sunday Times, has uncovered new information about alleged killings in British custody and their coverup. It cited the case, investigated by IHAT, of the shooting of Raid al-Mosawi, an Iraqi policeman, in an alleyway as he left the family home by a British soldier on patrol in Basra in 2003. Within 24 hours, the soldiers commanding officer, Major Christopher Suss-Francksen, citing the evidence of an eyewitness, concluded that the shooting was lawful because the Iraqi police officer had fired first and the soldier had acted in self-defence.

After two years of inquiries that included interviewing 80 British soldiers, including the soldier who had supposedly witnessed the shooting, IHAT stated that the soldier flatly contradicted Suss-Franckens report. The soldier said he was not an eyewitness but had heard one shot and one shot only, suggesting that al-Mosawi had not fired at all. Other soldiers confirmed this.

The detectives concluded the soldier who shot al-Mosawi should be prosecuted for killing him and that Suss-Francksen should be charged with covering up what happened. No such prosecutions have taken place.

Panorama reported one investigator as saying that there had been dozens of allegations concerning the killing of unarmed civilians in Afghanistan, including by UK soldiers. While he conceded that civilians are killed in war, he said, Yes, there are accidents. But killing in cold blood is not part of normal warfare.

The two media organisations focused on the civilian police investigationsoverseen by the MoDopened after allegations of abuses emerged in civil court proceedings in London, where victims families were demanding redress. Their interviews with several unnamed former civilian police officers led the BBC and Sunday Times to conclude that government ministers and the MoD exerted political pressure to end the investigations to protect Britains reputation.

The investigators said, There was more and more pressure coming from the Ministry of Defence to get cases closed as quickly as possible. Another said that what happened was disgusting and that the families of victims were not getting justice. He asked, How can you hold your head up as a British person? Another said, The Ministry of Defence had no intention of prosecuting any soldier of whatever rank he was unless it was absolutely necessary, and they couldnt wriggle their way out of it.

The MoD also lodged a series of complaints against the lawyers bringing the civil suits against it. Commenting in the Sunday Times, Ken Macdonald, a former director of public prosecutions, said it is as though ministers feared the effects of justice. He added, All this may come home to roost. Now, as the ICC, set up to prosecute where individual nations too cowardly, incompetent or unwilling to bring their own citizens to justice turns its eyes towards us, we are forced to confront the unnerving possibility that one of those derelict nations might be our own.

Prime Minister Boris Johnsons spokesman dismissed the BBCs allegations of a coverup by the MoD of the armed forces crimes as untrue, while the MoD described them as unsubstantiated. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said that all of the allegations that had evidence have been looked at. Despite the lack of prosecutions, the government had got the right balance in ensuring spurious claims were not pursued.

The British generals and the MoD will fight tooth and nail against any attempt to be held to account.

Last May, Penny Mordaunt, defence secretary in Mays government, announced that the Tories would introduce legislation protecting British troops and veterans from investigation over actions on the battlefield abroad after 10 years, except in exceptional circumstances to prevent the repeated or unfair investigations that had followed operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is nothing but a carte blanche for future war crimes, including the mass murder of harmless and unarmed civilians. Freedom from prosecution for soldiers is a key plank in Johnsons general election manifesto.

The Panorama revelations make clear that the rampant abuse by the armed forces was not the result of a few bad apples. But the program had nothing to say about the broader implications of the MoDs coverup of criminality, other than pointing out that it was the soldiers on the ground who were not trained to maintain law and order, that were likely to carry the can for the senior staff that gave the orders.

The truth is that the criminality and abuse flow inexorably from the filthy and criminal nature of the operations led by British imperialism over the past decade and must inevitably start from the very top.

The illegal invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq have been based on the slaughter, maiming and terrorising of their populations and the destruction of their infrastructure for the geopolitical interests of the imperialist powers. UK forces, no less than their US counterparts, have played a full and bloody part in these despicable operations.

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The alleged bid by the British government and army to close down investigations into torture and murder in Iraq and Afghanistan appears to be the latest aspect of a widespread desire in the UK to forget all about these failed wars.Joining the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 is commonly blamed on Tony Blair, but there is little interest in the desperate situation into which British troops were plunged post-invasion, first in southern Iraq and then, three years later, in Helmand province in Afghanistan.

The gravity of the miscalculations in each case is not in doubt. Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, the British ambassador in Kabul at the time, wrote in his memoirs that the worst mistake made by the Foreign Office in the previous 30 years was the invasion of Iraq, and the second worst was its enthusiastic endorsement of Britains half-baked effort to occupy Helmand in 2006.

The allegation that war crimes were committed to be claimed in a BBC Panorama programme on Monday evening is in keeping with Britains dismal record in these conflicts.

The ICC has said it is considering opening an investigation into the claims, based on leaked documents. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said the allegations are unsubstantiated.

After the capture of Baghdad, the British army stayed in the south of Iraq, mostly in and around Basra, apparently under the impression that this would be quieter than the Sunni Arab provinces that had more strongly supported Saddam Hussein.

It swiftly became clear that, while the Shia population of the south was glad to be rid of Saddam, they were not about to accept a British occupation. An ominous sign of this came on 24 June 2003 when six British Royal Military Police were shot dead in a town called Majar al-Kabir near the city of Amara.

They died because they were advising local police at the same moment as British paratroopers were carrying out an aggressive patrol in another part of the same town and had had an exchange of fire in which several locals had died. The RMPs were killed soon afterwards in a revenge attack.

The incident sums up the fatal contradiction facing the British expeditionary force in Iraq. Their numbers and dispositions were suitable for a country in which most of the population was friendly, but if the opposite were true, as it certainly was, then the soldiers were vastly outnumbered and in danger. British officers used to annoy their American counterparts by claiming prior expertise in this type of warfare, drawing on British experience in Malaya and Northern Ireland. A captain in military intelligence stationed for a year in Basra later said that I kept trying to explain without success to my superiors that in Malaya and Northern Ireland we had local allies while in Basra we had none.

The weakness of the British position was exposed in detail by the Chilcot Report in 2016, but its findings were masked by the media obsession with finding a smoking gun that would prove the culpability of Tony Blairand by the shock result of the Brexit referendum that had taken place at the same time.

The report explains that by 2007 the British forces in Basra had run out of ideas and it was humiliating that the UK reached a position in which an agreement with a militia group [the Mahdi Army], which had been actively targeting UK forces, was considered the best option available.

According to Chilcot, the one consistent British strategy between 2003 and complete withdrawal in 2009 was to reduce the level of deployed forces and to do so without offending the US. The means of doing so was to redeploy the troops to Afghanistan, which was supposedly safer, but where they arrived just as the Taliban were restarting their guerrilla war and where 405 British troops were to be killed in the coming years.

Those who may have committed war crimes in these conflicts have been investigated, even if they were not prosecuted. It would be good if those responsible for these doomed military forays should also be held responsible for their actions.

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Heres the low down on all the reviews, ravings and rantings from the past month. Looking for somewhere new to dine this weekend? Start here

Afghan Kitchen (South Salt Lake)https://yaburnedit.net/f/afghan-kitchen-in-south-salt-lake

Amber Restaurant (South Salt Lake)https://www.southsaltlakejournal.com/2019/11/19/290834/amber-restaurant-is-back-with-even-fluffier-rolled-omelets

Bambara (SLC)https://www.saltlakemagazine.com/bambara-salt-lake-city/

Bam Bams BBQ (Orem)https://siftey.com/bam-bams-bbq_utah_restaurant-review/

Beirut Cafe (Murray)https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/food/2019/10/23/this-lebanese-restaurant/

Big Jake Burger (Ogden)https://www.standard.net/lifestyle/food/shakes-ice-cream-more-shakes-and-the-big-jake-burger/article_2813724f-6912-5c13-85c2-619668dabb10.html

Celeste (Murray)https://www.saltlakemagazine.com/paolo-celeste-salt-lake-city/

Changarro Loco (Ogden)https://www.standard.net/go/ogden-s-changarro-loco-offers-spicy-fruit-cups-big-meat/article_4f8da679-5f1a-5f70-b450-b372d92a1d3d.html

Courchevel (Park City)https://www.saltlakemagazine.com/courcheval-park-city/

Cuppa (Ogden)https://www.standard.net/go/cuppa-cafe-makes-cozy-home-in-ogden/article_73589718-0f2a-56f3-b643-7f6d8efd2cf7.html

Diversion Eatery (SLC)https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/food/2019/11/06/diversion-salt-lake-citys/

Foodie And Sweetie (SLC)https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/food/2019/11/19/salt-lake-citys-foodie/

Just Burgers (SLC)https://siftey.com/just-burgers_utah_restaurant-review/

Feldmans Deli (SLC)https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/deli-belly/Content?oid=14328466

Ginger Street (SLC)https://siftey.com/ginger-street_utah_restaurant-review/

Ginger Street (SLC)https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2019/10/30/dine-or-dash-ginger-street/

Mexiquense (Sandy)https://redneckfoodrambles.wordpress.com/2019/11/11/mexiquense-sandy-utah-another-visit/

Mystique Dining (West Jordan)https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/dinner-and-a-poe/Content?oid=14351330

Saola (Cottonwood Heights)https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/food/2019/10/10/pho-garlic-noodles/

Shooting Star Saloon (Huntsville)https://yaburnedit.net/f/hands-down-best-burger-in-utah-shooting-star-saloon

Simply Sushi (Various locations)https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/on-a-roll/Content?oid=14402830

Soys Sushi Bar And Grill (Murray)https://siftey.com/soys-sushu-bar_utah/

The Store (SLC)https://slceats.com/2019/10/19/the-store-opens-at-the-gateway/

The Tavernacle (SLC)https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/brunched-in-the-face/Content?oid=14433371

Tradition (SLC)https://www.slugmag.com/food-reviews/tradition-comfort-close-to-home/

Tradition (SLC)https://www.cityweekly.net/utah/slow-and-steady/Content?oid=14378170

Trolley Wing Company (SLC)https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/food/2019/11/13/salt-lake-citys-trolley/

Tin Angel Eccles (SLC)https://www.saltlakemagazine.com/tin-angel-eccles/

Tuk Tuks (West Valley City)https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/food/2019/11/08/tuk-tuks-west-valley/

Vessel Kitchen (Midvale)https://utahstories.com/2019/10/mission-accomplished-a-visit-to-vessel-kitchen/

Vuduu Pizza (St George)https://siftey.com/vuduu-pizza_utah_restaurant-review/

Wimpy And Fritz (Ogden)https://www.standard.net/lifestyle/food/new-taco-bar-wimpy-and-fritz-opens-inside-the-yes/article_9df26d7b-054e-5dd2-a8d7-e114c6bf519f.html

Adventuresome dininghttps://www.skiutah.com/blog/authors/yeti/dinner-and-then-some-adventure

Best date night dininghttps://utfoodie.com/?p=61

Funeral potato rounduphttps://www.cityweekly.net/utah/putting-the-fun-in-funeral/Content?oid=14464212

Latino dining in Utah Countyhttps://www.heraldextra.com/entertainment/dining/latino-owned-restaurants-bring-taste-of-homeland-to-utah-county/article_87fff17c-8b33-5efe-97dd-caa158fa6eea.html

City Creek Mall dininghttps://www.cityweekly.net/utah/mall-in-the-family/Content?oid=14217828

Pickling at restaurantshttps://www.saltlakemagazine.com/we-can-pickle-that/

SLCs best cheesesteaks ratedhttps://www.saltlakemagazine.com/salt-lakes-top-cheesesteaks/

Top 16 aprs ski spotshttps://www.skiutah.com/blog/authors/adam/the-best-apres-ski-joints-in-utah

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