Selected articles appearing in UK newspapers Tuesday 13th March 2012
Mar 13th, 2012 by l.seddon
Daily Telegraph
Cost of refitting Royal Navy aircraft carrier trebles
Thomas Harding
US President Barack Obama: the US will not rush for an exit from Afghanistan
Afghanistan shootings: diplomats in Kabul are already discussing a doomsday scenario [Comments]
Rob Crilly
Prince Harry banned from the pub and told to concentrate on Apache training
American soldiers are losing the plot in Afghanistan [Comments]
Con Coughlin
US soldier who killed villagers should be put on trial in Afghanistan, parliament demands
Afghan teenager recounts horror of US soldier killing his family
David Cameron: we must stick to the plan in Afghanistan
Afghanistan shooting: Barack Obama must let Afghans see that justice is done [Comments]
David Blair
UK ‘is resolute in its purpose in Afghanistan’
Hundreds take to streets to protest at killing of 16 Afghan civilians
US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghans could be executed, says Leon Panetta
Afghanistan massacre: soldier was stationed at ‘troubled base’
Afghanistan shooting: live
Barney Henderson
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/9139876/Afghanistan-shooting-live.html
Afghan recalls moment US soldier crept into his house and shot his family
Ben Farmer and Raf Sanchez
Australian ’special forces gathering intelligence in Africa
Cobham’s Thrane & Thrane bid rebuffed
Emily Gosden
Financial Times
Obama firm on Afghan timetable
George Parker,James Blitz & Geoff Dyer
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/86c8adaa-6c72-11e1-bd0c-00144feab49a.html#axzz1ozCREQT1
Cost fears cause MoD rethink on fighter jets
Carola Hoyos
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6f38d5e0-6b12-11e1-9781-00144feab49a.html#axzz1ozCREQT1
Flights of fancy:How the project spiralled out of control [Please scroll down]
Kiran Stacey
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6f38d5e0-6b12-11e1-9781-00144feab49a.html#axzz1ozCREQT1
WTO affirms ruling on illegal Boeing subsidies
James Politi & Joshua Chaffin
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c64f802e-6c69-11e1-bd0c-00144feab49a.html#axzz1ozCREQT1
Kabul demands local trial for US gunman
Matthew Green
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d6fcafe8-6c67-11e1-b00f-00144feab49a.html#axzz1ozCREQT1
Staying the course in Afghanistan [Leading Article]
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a41a4606-6c5a-11e1-bd0c-00144feab49a.html#axzz1ozCREQT1
Big oil groups join scramble for east Africa [Re:piracy]
Guy Chazan
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/285a1e0c-6164-11e1-94fa-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1ozCREQT1
Suspected insurgents fire on Afghan delegation
Reuters
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5baf6aac-6ce8-11e1-a7c7-00144feab49a.html#axzz1ozCREQT1
Afghan killings deepen Karzai’s dilemma
Matthew Green
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7bb92746-6c5e-11e1-bd0c-00144feab49a.html#axzz1ozCREQT1
Guardian
Obama and Cameron set to end troops’ lead combat role in Afghanistan
Nicholas Watt and Nick Hopkins
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/13/cameron-obama-afghanistan-troop-withdrawl
United States and Great Britain: an essential relationship
Barack Obama and David Cameron
Taliban fire at delegates visiting Afghan massacre site
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/13/taliban-fire-delegates-visiting-massacre-site
Afghanistan killings: gunman hunted families as if they were military targets
Emma Graham-Harrison
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/12/afghanistan-killings-us-gunman-rampage
Afghan shooting will not affect 2014 security handover, says US
Ben Quinn
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/12/afghanistan-shooting-white-house-response
Death penalty possible punishment for Afghan killings
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/13/death-penalty-afghan-killings-leon-panetta
Lewis-McChord in spotlight following US soldier’s attack on Afghan civilians
Ryan Devereaux
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/12/lewis-mcchord-us-soldier-attack
Afghans protest over massacre by US soldier
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/13/afghans-protest-over-massacre-us-soldier
Taliban vow revenge for US soldier’s attack on Afghans
Emma Graham-Harrison
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/12/taliban-vow-revenge-afghan-attack
Afghanistan and the soldiers without a safety catch
Giles Fraser
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/12/afghanistan-men-without-safety-catch
Afghanistan conflict: a question of legitimacy, rhetoric and regret [Letters]
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/12/afghanistan-legitimacy-rhetoric-regret
Four in ten Americans believe the US will attack Iran this year
[Comments]
Chris McGreal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iran-blog/2012/mar/13/iran-usa
It is Israel’s fears, not a nuclear Iran, that we must tame
David Grossman
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/12/israel-fears-nuclear-iran-tame-netanyahu
Olympics 2012 security: welcome to lockdown London
Stephen Graham
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/mar/12/london-olympics-security-lockdown-london
Independent
Obama and Cameron to discuss Afghanistan
Andrew Woodcock
Afghanistan
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letters/letters-afghanistan-7563252.html
Witness tells of rogue soldier’s killing spree as Afghan tensions rise
Lianne Gutcher
Students protest over US soldier Kandahar shootings
‘A base on the brink’: where the trail to Afghan tragedy began
Guy Adams
Eyewitness: Marines show no mercy for tortured souls
Terri Judd
Afghan civilian deaths spark calls for US exit
Ahmad Nadem and Ahmad Haroon
Growing fear of reprisals after US soldier kills 16 civilians in 3am shooting spree
Lianne Gutcher
Afghanistan top of the agenda for Cameron’s trip to Washington
Nigel Morris
Times
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Allies look to speed up Afghan exit next year
Roland Watson,Michael Evans & Alexandra Frean
on Page 1 & 6
No Cut And Run [Leading Article]
on Page 2
Soldier held over death
on Page 4
He walked into the night.When he came back,16 people lay dead
Michael Evans
on Page 6 & 7
Real cost to the West could be a collapse of confidence [Comments]
Richard Beeston
on Page 7
Boy survivor tells how killer taunted women
Jeremy Kelly
on Page 7
It’s unavoidable:we must talk to the Taleban [Opinions]
David Miliband
on Page 22
Mossad chief:strike on Iran is stupidest thing I’ve ever heard
Sheera Frenkel
on Page 28
The ticking time bomb inside those who survive
Deborah Haynes
on Page 5 of Times Modern
GKN
Martin Waller
on Page 43
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