http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/stephen_grey en http://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2009/08/british-war-helmand-soldiers http://www.newstatesman.com/asia/2009/08/british-war-helmand-soldiers Thu, 13 Aug 2009 07:24:42 GMT Stephen Grey In 2001, British troops marched into Afghanistan on a mission to combat al-Qaeda and topple the Taliban. Eight years and thousands of ruined lives later, they remain mired in conflict, with no sign of a way out. What are our soldiers fighting and dying for? How long will they stay?

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2008/04/british-taliban-helmand-afghan http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2008/04/british-taliban-helmand-afghan Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT Stephen Grey Rethinking the war in Helmand has made the British army revise some of its basic assumptions. Working with "reconciled" Taliban commanders is part of that new strategy

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/12/guantanamo-files-prisoners http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2007/12/guantanamo-files-prisoners Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT Stephen Grey The Guantanamo Files: the Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison Andy Worthington Pluto Press, 352pp, £16.99

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2007/10/cia-rendition-torture-court http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2007/10/cia-rendition-torture-court Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:00:00 GMT Stephen Grey Observations on rendition

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200611200014 http://www.newstatesman.com/200611200014 Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:00:00 GMT Stephen Grey More than 7,000 prisoners have been captured in America's war on terror. Just 700 ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Between extraordinary rendition to foreign jails and disappearance into the CIA's "black sites", what happened to the rest?

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200602270044 http://www.newstatesman.com/200602270044 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:00:00 GMT Stephen Grey My Year In Iraq: the struggle to build a future of hope L Paul Bremer III Simon & Schuster, 417pp, £18.99 ISBN 0743273893

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200512190011 http://www.newstatesman.com/200512190011 Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:00:00 GMT Stephen Grey Eighteen months after Stephen Grey first described "extraordinary rendition" in these pages, he reflects on why the world finally woke to the story and adds a warning

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200510030006 http://www.newstatesman.com/200510030006 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT Stephen Grey British forces in the south of Iraq have ceded power to Islamic radical militias. The police recruits they have armed and trained are now their enemies

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200504110019 http://www.newstatesman.com/200504110019 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 12:00:00 GMT Stephen Grey Under US law, it is an offence to give any "aid or counsel" to groups such as Hamas or Hezbollah. But some westerners say it's time to talk to even the most militant Islamists

]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200501310010 http://www.newstatesman.com/200501310010 Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:00:00 GMT Stephen Grey Iraq elections - Stephen Grey argues that Britain has completely failed in Iraq and that if we keep taking over other countries, we need a revived Colonial Office to do the job properly

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