ExclusiveDEFENCE SAYS TALIBAN DIDN’T MAKE CRANK CALLBy Sasha Uzunovcopyright 2009 Australian soldiers serving in Afghanistan have been warned as a security measure not leave personal mail, postcards or any other correspondence or emails unsecured or not properly disposed of after it was allegedly falling into the hands of the Taliban terrorists, and used in psychological […]
MEDIA END CHEERLEADING OF DEFENCE MINISTERby Sasha Uzunov It was a case of the Australian media finally laying down their pom-poms and ending the cheerleading routine in reporting how tough the Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon was in his war with his own Defence Department. What civilians cannot understand is the Defence Department is a universe […]
i-Phone loving ex-Taliban Leader Mullah Zaeef in Kabul. Photo copyright Sasha Uzunov 2007. Apple i-Phone loving Afghan Mullah who once condemned David Hicks. Here’s a quirky story about an ex-Taliban leader Mullah Zaeef who loves his Apple iPhone that ran in the AP wire on March 3, 2009. I had the good fortune to interview […]
Above: Wily Afghan General Abdul Rashid Dostum (left) pictured with Canadian journalist Scott Taylor in 2007. Dostum claims he can put together a 5,000 strong army and clean out the Taliban but is being stopped by NATO from doing so. Australian freelance photo journalist Sasha Uzunov in local Afghan attire meets charismatic and unorthodox American […]
Sasha Uzunov dressed in native Afghan clothes behind the camera taping Mullah Zaeef. On the right is Canadian journalist David Pugliese, also in native dress. (Photo by Scott Taylor) DAVID HICKS MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE by Sasha Uzunov David Hicks, the Australian convicted of supporting terrorism in Afghanistan, has been in the news again. […]
photo credit: ADF “FAILED” NELSON-HOWARD DOCTRINE ON AFGHANISTAN?By Sasha Uzunovcopyright 2008 The political and military fallout of the Taliban ambush attack on Australian soldiers in Afghanistan can be traced back to the failure of 2006 Nelson-Howard doctrine on the Afghanistan war. Nine Australian Special Forces soldiers in Afghanistan were recently wounded in some of the […]
LETS NOT JUMP ON ABU GHRAIB BANDWAGONBy Sasha UzunovCopyright 2008 A report in today’s The Australian newspaper by Mark Dodd has revealed that Australian soldiers are detaining Afghan Taliban suspects in dog pens, which are culturally insensitive. Before we jump on the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prisoner scandal bandwagon here, let us get all the facts […]
TIME TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOXBy Sasha Uzunovcopyright 2008 The Australian Army’s new Chief, Lieutenant General Ken Gillespie, has recently called for a dramatic change in the way our army fights in a modern and complicated world. This is long overdue, but we will have to wait and see if that ever materialises or just […]
