US NATO Afghanistan massacres continue
The dead body of a local civilian lies in a civilian vehicle after he was killed by a US NATO attack by rocket in the southern Helmand
Residents of Baba Ji area, who brought the body to Lashkargah, capital city, say nine people were killed in the US-NATO attack |
People, who brought bodies of their slain relatives to Lashkargah, said the dead included three children and six men. They died as a mortar shell landed in the fields covered with maize crop, said the locals.
Haji Shah Muhammad, a tribal elder from Babaji area on the outskirts of the provincial capital, told Pajhwok Afghan News the victims were busy collecting the harvest.
"I lost four members of my family. They included my three sons and a son-in-law working in the fields" said another elder Syed Gul. The foreigners were intentionally targeting civilians, said Nisar Ahmad, a third resident of the area.
Nisar said Taliban were patrolling on motorbikes in the area in broad daylight but the foreign troops did not take any action against them.
Relatives of the victims also staged a protest demonstration against the foreign troops. They chanted slogans against the NATO troops and demanded their withdrawal from the country. They also asked for probe into the civilian casualties.
Press office of the NATO-led ISAF in Lashkargah confirmed the attack, but said only militants, planting bombs to target the local and Afghan troops, were killed.
Officials at the press office rejected locals' claim regarding civilian casualties. At the same time, they said investigations would be conducted into the incident.
Daud Ahmadi, spokesman for the provincial governor, also said only militants were killed in the overnight attack.
The civilian casualties in Helmand reported just a day after the killing of five British soldiers by an Afghan policeman in the province. The policeman managed to flee the scene.
In the eastern Nuristan province, three minor girls and two boys died in blast caused by an unexploded mortar shell.
Provincial Governor Jamaluddin Badar said the explosion took place in Bargimatal district. He said two more boys suffered injuries. They were rushed to hospital where their condition is stated to be stable. |
Child villager massacred by US NATO Afghanistan
The body of a teenager killed by a rocket attack of the NATO-led soldiers lies in a vehicle after the residents of Babaji brought the body to the provincial capital, Lashkargah, as a protest against the massacre of nine non-combatant civilians.
Residents of Baba Ji area, who brought the body to Lashkargah, capital city, say nine people were killed in the US-NATO attack |
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“I was absolutely stunned,” says the British ambassador, who thought that he served a moral country that, along with its American ally, had moral integrity.
I had an email from a young woman this week.
She was looking for photos of massacres that had been committed in Iraq, especially the early attack by the US and the UK on that country.
I directed her to this page:
http://thewe.cc/weplanet/news/
europe/uk_terror_state/
downing_street_memo.htm
and then with some warning about the horror of the images, to this page:
http://thewe.cc/weplanet/news/
americas/us/
war_crimes_fallujah.html
The young woman replied:
I am trying to absorb this as best that I can.
It's the mothers and children who I weep for and these are also the ones that our soldiers cannot come to terms with seeing mutilated and dead and knowing they are responsible.
But I wonder if the "enemy" soldiers who blend in with these innocent souls and get behind them during battles feel any responsibility?
American soldiers are trained to get out in front of women and children and protect them, not hide behind them.
I'm speaking of honorable soldiers, I do understand that not all of our soldiers carry this honor.
But they are supposed to.
They've told me during my research that the enemy soldiers follow no rules of war and just to make it home alive themselves they've
had to fire upon crowds of innocent people to flush the enemy out.
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I replied.
When you are defending your homeland, the enemy is those who have come to occupy your land and who are ordering you to do their wishes.
It is very difficult for someone who is inculcated with 24 hours of brain-washing from TV, radio, movies, magazines, everything you pick up or
watch to get a clear picture of reality.
Thoughts even are not your own.
Thoughts are constantly being programmed in certain terms.
This is often done with little awareness by those who are preaching their own version of a 'demon' reality — the media and politicians.
I am not a religious person but evil does exist; it exists in the minds of humans and it is encouraged by minds that are outside, by other human minds and by non-human minds.
Obviously I cannot portray the scope of this, it is too vast, but the seeds of evil inside us grow and manifest when given the opportunity as takes place in such an occupation war.
Perhaps it is best to ask, if I were a soldier in an occupied country, and I had the choice to fire upon a crowd of people knowing there were 'enemies' in that crowd who were attempting to kill me, should I fire on that group.
My answer would be I should hi-tail out of there as quickly as possible.
I would not fire upon a group of people.
I should get out of the country that I had no business to be in, and I should let those who live in the that piece of land determine their own destiny.
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I would wish no other for myself.
Now we of course are talking about much more horrendous crimes that are taking place in the US, and other countries building munitions.
All of the scientists, all of the manufacturing plants and people in these plants who build these horrible weapons must accept responsibility for each and every person who is killed and injured from the process of their work.
That is how the evil is spread.
The young woman replied:
Thank you for your responses.
When I started my research I had no idea at the vast amounts of corruption that it would reveal.
... I stand by the soldiers of my homeland because these are my brothers, sons, cousins and so on.
I know they all want to come home and not because they are war weary and homesick but because they know they were sent there on a lie.
A second email came from the young woman before I responded:
Just to clarify.
I completely agree that people and countries should be allowed to determine their own version of happiness and peace without fear of
violence from anyone.
We often live by the phrase "To whom much is given, much is expected."
Then our military goes into a country with the belief that they are doing the right thing and helping people who cannot help themselves.
But there are corrupt leaders who use those honorable motives for their own goals not caring of who they hurt in the process.
No good came ever come from evil no matter how well intended.
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I replied:
The military do not believe, or go into other countries for that which you state, my dear.
Part of the conditioning you have been indoctrinated with.
The military only wish to kill and to overpower.
Nothing more.
The young woman replied:
I can see that we are of a different mindset as to who is to blame for these tragedies.
Although I know that mistakes are made and people go bad and break the law, I know that as a whole the American
people are honorable and decent.
I am an American and damn proud of it.
It is time to end this conversation.
Thank you for your thoughts.
There was no reply from me.
I refer people to all the war pages on this site, but especially to these pages:
http://thewe.cc/weplanet/news/
americas/us/war_crimes_fallujah.html
http://thewe.cc/weplanet/asia/
afghanistan/afghanistan_2.html
http://thewe.cc/weplanet/news/
depleted_uranium_iraq_afghanistan_balkans.html
It has come to my attention that the US military are heavily using depleted uranium in Afghanistan, as they have in Iraq, and Gaza, Palestine.
It has also come to my attention that the US military are now using microwave bombs in Afghanistan — where a bomb explodes, microwaves all in the
vicinity to death.
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The sickness of Humans escapes even me at times!
Who wishes to delve into depravity that a mind can enter when it is directed by Illuminati and the disgusting murderers who obey: the controlled military, the politicians, media managers and owners!
Kewe
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Big Lie Effectiveness9-11 International Global Elite Strategy |
Adolph Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf:
All this was inspired by the principle — which is quite true in itself — that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility.
Because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily.
And thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.
It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.
Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.
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Touches body of boy killed by U.S-led troops in Kabul
His dead brother lies next to him
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Remains of homes after US UK CANADA NATO cowardly attack
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The Afghan resisters, in their turn, should write "Jaurès, wake up, they've gone crazy" on the walls of the French barracks in Kabul.
Jean Jaurès was the French socialist leader that dared to say NO to the sacred union for the war in 1914 and who paid for it with his life.
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An Afghan woman shouts hatred against the US
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Now according to the puppet Karzai, 89 people have been killed, not the 76 the media first announced.
Aljazeera has since amended this mass killing by US forces as more than 100 people, most of them children
Karzai who ever since the Americans brought him to Afghanistan has been protesting — Oh! this time he sacked a General and a Major!
American? English? Both are killers of children within the last two weeks
Of course Karzai doesn't fire the Amerikan criminals who commanded the killing and pressed the buttons for the bombs, have them jailed for war crimes
It is an Afghan General and an Afghan major he fires — not for killing the children, but for 'neglecting their duties and concealing the facts'
Is there an expletive I could use!
There does seem to be someone who has some backbone
Little luck it will get him
Afghanistan's religious affairs minister, Nematullah Shahrani:
"We went to the area and found out that the bombardment was very heavy.
Lots of houses have been destroyed and more than 90 non-combatants including women, children and elders have died.
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Perhaps I should have mentionedKarzai is enjoying the last day of the China Olympic gamesAttends the closing ceremony
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August 24, 2008 An Afghan homeless boy sleeps on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan
August 24, 2008
You think your life should be extinguished with a missile, kid?
That would be one way to get rid of you wouldn't it!
You think Karzai cares about you!
Karzai cares about the Amerikans!
They let him go to the Olympic games in a big jet!
Then the Amerikans and British can play with their missiles and bombs!
They can kill a hundred of you at one go!
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Don't worry about the men, women, elders, kids, Karzai!
They're already dead
When was it? Yesterday! Day before that the kids got clobbered!
You know!
The American missile bomb out of the sky while they were playing!
Dead!
Dead now!
Over a hundred people killed Aljazeera is reporting
Is there some disconnect here!
You think your people might see this!
Have you become as insane as Brown, Cheney, Obama, McCain, Bush and the rest back here trying to take the planet into oblivion
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Cowardly British and Amerikan forces abetted by German, Norwegian, French and other western nations Occupying a country none of these should be in Continue to kill children by missiles 30 people in Helmand, |
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I tell you their is no excuse for this action
You supervisors who command this, you men and woman who press the buttons, you men and women who fly on the planes and assist in these killings:
You life is over for doing this
You life on this planet ends the moment that you kill those you do not see
I guarantee you from the moment you allow your mind and body to command and perform this heinous task of killing, you are a walking zombie
This is my promise to you
No excuse!
You have no excuse!
You who press these button, who fly these planes killing people you cannot see, you are workers for evil
There is no explanation!
There is no excuse!
You are war criminals!
You are murderers
And the dumbed-down fools sheltering in their homes in Britain and America, untouched by the missiles and bombs that they work to pay for?
In every way, the life of British and American people, all those who allow and accept this death, in mind, in action, life for you also is ending
Those of you killing in these foreign lands, you must go back where you came from
You must stop
For your nations, for the very survival of your nations you must stop
Your armies and military must return back to your lands
A spiritual law is working here
A law that is exact
That does not deviate
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Afghanistan hit by record number of bombs
Bruce Rolfsen, Air Force Times
July 19, 2008
Air Force and allied warplanes are dropping a record number of bombs on Afghanistan targets.
For the first half of 2008, aircraft dropped 1,853 bombs — more than they released during all of 2006 and more than half of 2007’s total — 3,572 bombs. |
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What you would never guess is that "carelessness" meant a deliberate U.S. policy of waging the war on terror from the air.
Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Media Services
July 21, 2008
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"Civilian casualties have been a continuing issue in Afghanistan, and President Karzai has rebuked American and NATO forces for what he has called carelessness in their military operations."
This is the genteel, bloodless language of geopolitics, spoken by the Gray Lady and the heads of state and makers of policy whom she serves.
You wouldn't know that "carelessness" referred to killing a bride (and twenty-some guests) on her wedding day, except that the observation comes at the end of the New York Times' account of our July 6 bombing of an Afghani wedding, which followed a Fourth of July missile strike in that country — look at the fireworks, Mom! — that killed 15 innocent civilians.
Careless superpower indeed.
Careless murdering superpower indeed
What you would never guess is that "carelessness" meant a deliberate U.S. policy of waging the war on terror from the air.
But that has been our policy all along, from "shock and awe" and "mission accomplished" to "the surge is working."
It is undebated, unreported, unquestioned, this policy conceived with the vacuous single-mindedness of serial killers.
The death it has caused has not been calculated and is perhaps incalculable, especially when you factor in the time-bomb effects of depleted uranium and other deadly substances that bombing spreads both locally and around the world.
To my mind, nothing, not even the torture we practice at Guantanamo and throughout the war on terror gulag, exemplifies the disconnect between U.S. policy and the American people like the sanitized horror of the air war.
When the Nazis dropped 50 tons of explosives on the Spanish city of Guernica in 1937, the world called it barbaric.
Today, such a pummeling of some hapless Third World region is routine, transformed by an embedded and co-opted media into "humdrum ordinariness," as Tom Engelhardt has pointed out.
Colin Powell had Picasso's "Guernica" covered up
(You'll recall, of course, that Colin Powell, when he lied before the U.N. General Assembly about Iraqi WMD shortly before we invaded, had the tapestry reproduction of Picasso's "Guernica" covered up to avoid any awkward triggering of conscience.)
That we have lost control of our government, money-dominated and obsessed with secrecy as it is, is less surprising to me than the extent to which we have lost our watchdog media, which can't even rouse itself awake long enough to spot the patterns in its own routine coverage of the war.
Shall we take a stroll down Memory Lane?
"Ooh, that's gotta hurt," I recall a colleague of mine saying back in mid-March of '03, as the invasion got under way and the shock-and-awe campaign played nonstop on the tube.
They found one boy's body on the roof of that house
The relentless air assault on Baghdad killed untold Iraqis but utterly failed in its intended purpose of "decapitating" the Saddam Hussein regime, killing not a single high government official.
In April 2003, we got word that Hussein and his two sons were meeting in a building in the Mansur district of Baghdad.
Within 45 minutes, we flattened the building with four high explosive bombs, creating a crater 40 feet deep and killing an unknown number of people, but not Hussein or his sons.
"They found one boy's body on the roof of that house over there," an Iraqi later told a reporter.
"I heard that the father went out for ice cream and wouldn't let his children come with him.
"When we came back, they were dead.
"He must be dying of grief."
Shortly before Christmas 2003, USA Today, in a rare instance of independent war coverage, published the results of its four-month investigation of cluster bomb usage in the first months of the war.
10,800 cluster weapons; their British allies used almost 2,200
"Although U.S. forces sought to limit what they call 'collateral damage' in the Iraq campaign, they defied international criticism and used nearly 10,800 cluster weapons; their British allies used almost 2,200," reporter Paul Wiseman wrote.
Describing the "steel rain" that devastated the central Iraq city of Al Hillah, he noted that images of the aftermath, "including footage of a baby torn in half, were so gruesome that Western television networks refused to air them."
Back to Afghanistan, where Taliban-hunting with bombs and missiles has been commonplace.
University of New Hampshire professor Marc Herold, who monitored the early phases of the war, wrote in 2002 that "the documented high level of civilian casualties" is caused by "the apparent willingness of U.S. military strategists to fire missiles into, and drop bombs upon, heavily populated areas of Afghanistan."
Seven children died
One example, from about a year ago: We bombed a school in eastern Afghanistan; seven children died.
A Pentagon spokesman explained: "If we knew that there were children inside the building, there was no way that that air strike would have occurred."
We can't wage war without a wide moral latitude.
The public has limited capacity for collateral damage even in the abstract, and none at all for actual details, such as babies torn in half by cluster bombs.
But this is the war on terror, [See comment below — TheWE.cc] which we will never win [We cannot win something that never was — TheWE.cc] until we face the truth about what we're doing and stop doing it.
Forever.
For Ever
Robert Koehler, an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist, is an editor at Tribune Media Services and nationally syndicated writer.
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Resistance to US, UK, Bombing Resistance is response to foreign occupation Will stop once troops withdraw |
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"No Mercy": Annals of the Afghan Liberation
Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque
Britain's arch-conservative Sunday Telegraph continues to be a source of some of the most revealing reports about George W. Bush's "War on Terror."
May 1, 2007
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In its unquenchably pro-war pages, where the news section is just as skewed as the reliably rabid editorials, the ST regularly — albeit inadvertently — gives us a glimpse of the true face of the Terror War behind the painted masks of piety worn in Washington and London.
We highlighted an example of this a few months ago, when the paper ran what was meant to be a panting, gushing paean to a super-duper Anglo-American unit in Iraq — and unwittingly revealed the criminal heart of a very dirty "dirty war" being run by the Bush-Blair coalition in the conquered land.
(See Ulster on the Euphrates.)
Whose ultimate aim is nothing more than the aggrandizement of a predatory elite
Now the ST has struck again, with another rah-rah piece that peels back some of the drapery obscuring the grisly realities of the "good war" in Afghanistan: US Aircrews Show Taliban No Mercy.
The Tory story's political intent is two-fold: to portray the Blair government as a bunch of wussies in its prosecution of the Afghan war, and to exalt the Bush way of dealing with the dusky races, so redolent of the much-lamented Empire in its prime.
But the piece goes beyond the interesting interplay of politics and journalism to a much darker, deeper truth: the degradation of the human spirit in war.
This is true in every conflict, of course, even the most limited and justified; but in unending campaigns of conquest and domination like the Terror War, whose ultimate aim is nothing more than the aggrandizement of a predatory elite, the brutalization and coarsening of the forces involved is all the greater.
And we can see that in this Telegraph story, which is meant to show American soldiers at their strutting, manly best, but is instead a sad indictment of the Bush Imperium's all-pervading moral rot.
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The burden of the piece is this: British forces in the hotly disputed Helmand province were not "ruthless enough in finishing off their targets" when going after the Taliban.
They too often refrained from instant, massive retaliation in fear of killing civilians.
But now the Americans have come down to show them how it's done, with the "uncompromising use of air power" and orders to "show no mercy" against suspected Taliban fighters.
The centerpiece of the story is an attack by Apache helicopter gunships on a boatload of men crossing a Helmand river.
Even though the copter crew "didn't have hostile intent or a positive ID from the ground commander," Special Ops told them "that although they could not themselves see the men on the boat, they must be the Taliban who had [earlier] attacked them."
And so the Apaches swung in low and opened up with 30mm cannons on the Afghans, who had by this time scrambled to shore.
You just see a big dust cloud where the person used to be
1st Lt. Jack Denton, 26, described it for the Telegraph:
"You can see the person but you can't see the features of his face.
The 30mm explode when they hit and kick up smoke and dust.
You just see a big dust cloud where the person used to be."
One particular dust cloud caught Lt. Denton's attention:
Soul-less men with glazed-over eyes
PPS: Another contractor just called me — I guess my 15 minutes of fame isn't quite over yet — and this one started telling me some really scary stories about a mysterious place called "Area 51" where trained-killer special-ops forces hunker down in between "jobs".
And he REALLY scared me as he described soul-less men with glazed-over eyes who lived like those hordes of evil bad guys from The Lord of the Rings — just waiting to be let out of their cages.
[The above left over from an earlier piece — decided to leave it in — Kewe TheWE.cc
The attack was "typical of a new, aggressive, approach adopted by American forces in southern Afghanistan and particularly in Helmand," said the ST.
"Aircrews say they have been told to show no mercy, but to press home their advantage until all their targets have been destroyed."
For a moment, the ST reporter, Gethin Chamberlain, makes a brief feint in the direction of actual journalism, by bringing up a slight caveat about the "no mercy" missions:
The attack, and four other missions against suspected Taliban compounds, are clearly effective, but the stakes are high.
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"No Mercy": Annals of the Afghan Liberation
Chris Floyd, Empire Burlesque
Deliberately muddled syntax that leaves the impression that only some few "dozens" of civilians have been killed by Anglo-American air attacks in Afghanistan and Iraq, when in fact that number runs into the thousands
May 1, 2007
Even here, of course, Gethin does yeoman service for the Terror War cause, with some perhaps deliberately muddled syntax that leaves the impression that only some few "dozens" of civilians have been killed by Anglo-American air attacks in Afghanistan and Iraq, when in fact that number runs into the thousands.
Because after all, what are a few dozen innocent lives here or there when you are putting whole countries on the right path? As that old breaker of nations, Josef Stalin, used to say: "When wood is chopped, chips fly."
In any case, such womanish scruples do not trouble the Telegraph's no-mercy Americans:
Capt. Staley [commander of Lt. Denton's Apache] said he had no qualms about pressing home such attacks until no one was left standing and claimed that American pilots were more effective than their British Apache counterparts, who he said flew higher and were less ruthless in finishing off their targets.
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The American Mukhabarat has undertaken another project, this one with the clear support of Iran
A prime example of that "extreme aggression" so prized by the Telegraph and by Capt. Staley in the Pentagon and Oval Office was on display in Afghanistan just last month, in Nangarhar province, as David J. Morris reports in Salon.com (America's Dangerous Trigger Finger):
According to an investigation by an Afghan human rights group released on April 14, the Marines, who said they came under small-arms fire after the bombing, went on a rampage, shooting at vehicles and pedestrians along 10 miles of road.
At least 12 civilians were killed and another 35 were injured, including one infant and three elderly men.
A 16-year-old girl, newly married and carrying a bundle of grass to her family's farmhouse, was shot in the back.
A 75-year-old man was shot so many times that his son had trouble recognizing him when he reached the scene.
A few hours after the shootings, the Marines returned to the primary site of the carnage, cordoned it off, and allegedly began removing evidence that it had occurred.
Seven journalists representing multiple media outlets complained that the Marines confiscated their equipment and forcibly deleted photographs taken by Afghans working for the Associated Press...One journalist said he was told, "Delete the photos or we'll delete you."
After conducting an initial inquiry into the matter, the American military command in Afghanistan found no evidence that the Marines had come under small-arms fire after the bombing.
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But the spiritual degradation does not only show in blatant atrocities like the Nangarhar rampage
Perhaps these Marines too had been ordered to "show no mercy, but to press home their advantage until all their targets have been destroyed" — even if, as in the Apache attack in Helmland, they "didn't have hostile intent or positive ID from the ground commander" before their "uncompromising use" of firepower.
Perhaps if they hadn't turned that 16-year-old girl into a dust cloud — or had been quicker in destroying the evidence — they could have claimed that all the dust clouds were Taliban, and gotten a laudatory write-up in the Sunday Telegraph.
But the spiritual degradation does not only show in blatant atrocities like the Nangarhar rampage (or the Haditha rampage in Iraq, or the slaughter of the innocents in Ishaqi).
It has permeated the minds of ordinary soldiers carrying out their ordinary duties — if anything can said to be "ordinary" about Bush's intervention in Afghanistan's long-running civil war on the side of a coalition of war criminals, drug barons, warlords and woman-hating religious fanatics, that is.
You die, you die, you die
Witness the Telegraph story's closing words, from young Lt. Denton.
The passage is obviously meant to be a bit of gung-ho G.I. bravado of World War II vintage, the kind of line you might hear in an old movie from a cheerful, apple-cheeked, tough-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold dogface played by, say, Ronald Reagan:
But for now, the American airmen are not losing any sleep over [the threat of being shot down].
"When you are on top of the enemy you look, shoot and it's, 'You die, you die, you die'," Lt Denton said.
"The odds are on our side.
I really enjoy it.
I told my wife, if I could come home every night then this would be the perfect job."
"You die, you die, you die....You can see the person but you can't see the features of his face...You just see a big dust cloud where the person used to be...I really enjoy it...I really enjoy it....You just see a big dust cloud...I really enjoy it...you die, you die...you can't see his face...you die...I really enjoy it."
Even in a justified or unavoidable war, the thought of killing another human being — the thought that we, the common human family, have sunk to such a low point, yet again — should be a matter of deepest tragedy, of enduring regret.
It is a terrible thing to have to do, even when compelled by the most extreme necessity.
Yet the Terror War is leeching the terror out of this dreadful act.
Because the Terror War has no deeper meaning — no real purpose beyond loot and power for a few — it devalues and degrades everything it touches.
To kill a human being is nothing more than stirring up a bit of dust; it's easy — "the odds are on our side" — it's fun, "I really enjoy it."
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A directive that echoes almost precisely the instructions given by another "war leader" to his armies as they stood poised to launch a war of aggression based on false pretenses, some 68 years ago
This is the ethos of the War on Terror (on every side of this hydra-headed conflict): "No mercy." "Extreme aggression." "Uncompromising force."
And this is the dictum with which Bush now sends his troops into battle — a directive that echoes almost precisely the instructions given by another "war leader" to his armies as they stood poised to launch a war of aggression based on false pretenses, some 68 years ago:
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Four generations of a family killed by new US attack
Nine people including women and young children have been killed in a bombing attack by US forces in Kapisa province.
The news comes shortly after US forces are accused of killing 10 village people on Sunday in Nangarhar province.
Journalists have stated that US troops confiscated their photos and video footage of the aftermath of the violence.
Kapisa province deputy governor Daud Hashimi said the nine dead civilians included five women and three children.
He said the raid was carried out by Nato forces.
Nato have denied any involvement.
A US military statement said US-led NATO forces had 'dropped two 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) bombs' during an air attack on village people in Kapisa.
Village people say that the NATO US coalition forces bombed the mud-brick home, killing nine members of the same extended family.
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President Hamid Karzai condemned US NATO killing on Sunday in which US forces fired indiscriminately at civilians in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
Eight Afghan village people were killed by US forces, 35 village people were injured.
Reporters say that as the Americans left the scene along a busy highway, US forces fired on the village vehicles.
Thousands of local people took to the streets on Sunday protesting what had happened.
The puppet Afghan authorities in Kabul have stated that they have launched an 'investigation' into the circumstances of the US attack.
The Associated Press news agency has complained to the US military over journalists saying US soldiers deleted footage of the aftermath of the Nangarhar violence.
Freelance journalists working for the Associated Press in the eastern province of Nangarhar stated that troops erased photos and video they had taken.
This video captured the attack including showing a vehicle in which three people were shot dead.
US military defended forced deleting of images, arguing publication could have compromised the 'investigation'
Below an Afghan man cries as he shouts anti-American slogans after twelve Afghans were killed and more than wounded in an attack by US NATO forces in Barikaw in Nangarhar province.
U.S. Marines who shot their way out of a suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan last month violated international humanitarian law by using excessive and indiscriminate force that left more than 12 civilians dead, a report released Saturday April 14, 2007, said.
Following the March 4 attack in Nangarhar province, when an explosives-rigged minivan crashed into its convoy, members of the Marine unit shot at vehicles and pedestrians in six locations on a 16-kilometer (10-mile) stretch of road, according to a report by Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission.
US Marines expressly threatened journalists, one cameraman reporting he was told to delete the photographs or we will delete you.
More than 40 Afghan civilians have reported being killed or wounded.
US occupying force Major General Frank Kearney, head of Special Operations Command Central stated there was no evidence that the marine special operations platoon came under small-arms fire after the bombing.
'We have testimony from marines that is in conflict with unanimous testimony from civilians at the sites.'
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We said we'd be different from the Americans who were bombing and strafing villages, then behaved exactly like them....
All those people whose homes have been destroyed and sons killed are going to turn against the British.
It's a pretty clear equation — if people are losing homes and poppy fields, they will go and fight.
I certainly would.
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Editors, journalists, and readers are urged to use correct and objective references to the Afghani Taliban resistance fighters as such.
Not the other derogatory conflict terminology used by NATO occupation forces and their corporate media outlets, such as guerilla, terrorist, militant, extremist, and insurgent group.
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The only way for the troops to survive is to increase the level of violence so more people get killed.
It’s pretty shocking and not something I want to be part of.
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US air strike kills 17 Civilians
The air strike by US forces in eastern Afghanistan last week killed 17 people in Afghanistan including women and children, a provincial governor has said.
The US military stated US planes bombed Chechal village as part of a search for four missing US special forces servicemen.
Assadullah Wafa, governor of Konar province, said the bombing was a 'mistake' and called for a US inquiry.
July 4, 2005
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He was a young boy
He alleges that a detainee at the Asadabad base died after not being given enough water in hot weather over a four-day period.
"He was a young boy, he was strong and he spent three days in the detainee facilities. At that time, it was a mud room with no window."
"I told the guard he had died and he said, 'no he's just acting'.
"But when he checked the guy, he found he was dead.
"They told all the people he'd had a heart attack."
When the BBC put these allegations to the spokesman for the US military in Afghanistan, Col Jim Yonts, he said he did not know if "those things exactly happened", but he had no information to suggest they had.
When asked whether sleep, food or water deprivation or the use of stress positions was permitted, he said he could not discuss the details of an interrogation.
"All I can say is we do not condone the mistreatment of detainees and, as you have seen, we've taken appropriate action when allegations have proved true."
On the specific question of withholding water as a punishment, he said: "Whether or not they're provided with food and water, the key point is we treat them humanely, based on humane law."
He also said it had to be remembered who was in detention.
"They're not normal criminals. They're enemy combatants based on their actions against the Afghan people or US service members."
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We're going to kill you unless you confess"They said, 'don't sit back on your heels, don't look to the side'.
They were beating me, telling me bad things.
They ordered me to stay kneeling until the morning. I was three nights without sleep and then the last night, I had to kneel until morning."
Jannat Gul says he was punched and kicked. At one point, he says, he was told to lie down.
"They picked me up by my neck and said, 'we're going to kill you unless you confess what you did'."
As he describes his experiences, a couple of phrases in English are scattered among the Persian — "put your arms up" is one. The other is, "shut the **** up".
"I'm a farmer," says Jannat Gul, showing his calloused hands.
"I'm not a member of al-Qaeda. Ask the Americans why I was held for 16 months. When they released me, they just said, 'we're very sorry'. That's all they said. If there is such a thing as human rights, I want to ask for my rights."
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| September 29th, 2006 Bring out the nails to be hammered into the coffin of the fast approaching death of the dream of American Empire which has started to wane badly in its staging outposts of Afghanistan and Iraq. Bring out the nails. Bring out the nails because in Afghanistan, the first Neo-colony of the American Neo-Conservatives, the Taliban are on the rise a la the fabled phoenix rising from the ashes and where they once again control most parts of southern Afghanistan openly setting up shadow administrations there and where the coalition forces are getting a beating of their lives from the rag tag Taliban and where the whining and griping among the coalition forces over their looming defeat is increasing with each passing day and where on the Pakistani side too, the supremo General Musharraf has beaten a hasty retreat from the bordering Waziristan rather than trying to reinforce failure. Bring out the nails. Afghan wars serious only when over Bring out the nails because, drunk with delusions of grandeur and self-adulation, the Empire seekers made a bad choice in Afghanistan as the launching pad of their dream by ignoring the warning of Sir Olaf Caroe, the last British governor of North West Frontier Province of bordering Pakistan, who said: “Unlike other wars, Afghan wars become serious only when they are over.” Bring out the nails. Bring out the nails because the Empire seekers failed to understand, and still do not, that it is not the Taliban phenomenon that is writing the epitaph on the grave of their Empire building dream, that being a mere label, but it is the Pathan culture that is responsible for their imminent demise and which they failed to study enough and of which the British knew only too well but chose not to inform their gullible partners. Bring out the nails. Pathan loyalty Bring out the nails because the Empire seekers tried to defeat with brawn what should have been conquered with brain and did not realize that though the Afghan Pathans’ loyalty to Islam is severe, their culture often seems to supersede Islamic convention and that the rise and fall of Taliban was but one brief twist of history in this rugged part of the world and that Taliban or no Taliban, resisting foreign occupation of their land is a way of life for them and that after the exit of the Soviets from Afghanistan, the Taliban experience could hold their interest for only as long and that if there were no foreign occupiers soon enough, the Pathans would have had to invent some to go on with their way of life. Bring out the nails. Bring out the nails because the Empire seekers did not comprehend that the Afghan Pathans may have been subdued for brief spans of history but have invariably bounced back on their enemies with renewed strength and malice, that they are renowned as equally for their loyalty to friends as for their fierce blood feuds and hatred of enemies. Bring out the nails. Patience as great as mighty Hindukush Bring out the nails because the Empire seekers refused to learn from history that in their blood feuds only, the Afghan Pathan’s patience is known to be as great as their mighty Hindukush, that they are one of the most resistant tribal peoples on earth having withstood the military might of Alexander the Great, Mogul Emperors, the Soviets, and the British in the past and that considering death as not too high a price to pay for their honor is a part of their culture. Bring out the nails. Bring out the nails because the Empire seekers ignored the wisdom passed on to them from other Europeans since the days of Alexander that Afghanistan is a vast expanse of desolate plains and untamed mountains, ferocious warriors, uncompromising Islam, vicious tribal rivalries, and a political complexity that entwines bloodlines, chivalry, religion, and history into an eerie unfathomable mix making it a land of great mystery that should have been left alone to find its own natural stability. Bring out the nails. Defeating the sandal footed resistance fighters? Bring out the nails because in Iraq too rigor mortis has almost set into the corpse of the Empire building dream with a sense of finality that was never there in the past four years of occupation of that unfortunate country and that success in Iraq now no more means defeating the sandal footed resistance fighters but holding long enough for something or someone to come relieve the bogged down, war-weary, and de-humanized American troops in the trouble spots. Bring out the nails. Bring out the nails because the recently declassified National Intelligence Estimate is now calling Iraq as the ‘cause celebre’ not for resisters to American occupation but for ‘terrorists’ and that this deliberate attempt to confuse the two is likely to cost the Empire seekers dearer and dearer with each passing day. Bring out the nails. 4 attacks an hour on US forces Bring out the nails because veteran Washington reporter Bob Woodward tells Mike Wallace in an interview to be broadcast this Sunday, Oct. 1, at 7 p.m. ET/PT that the Bush administration has not told the truth regarding the level of violence, especially against U.S. troops, in Iraq and that attacks against coalition troops are getting to the point now “where there are eight, nine-hundred attacks a week. That’s more than 100 a day. That is four an hour attacking our forces,” and that a key intelligence report predicts the insurgency will only grow worse next year. Bring out the nails. Bring out the nails because according to Woodward in that same interview, the president and vice president have started to often consult with Henry Kissinger, that war criminal and author of the Cambodian Bombing campaign that contributed so significantly to the civil war there, who thinks that in Iraq ‘victory is the only meaningful exit strategy’ and who believes that ‘the problem in Vietnam was we lost our will.’ Bring out the nails. Bring out the nails to hammer into the coffin of the Empire dream but keep a silver bullet handy to prevent the escape of the monster from its eternal grave. Bring out the nails. |
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Afghanistan — Drug use, Torture, Poppy cultivation, Opium Terror esperts and torture |
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Afghanistan hit by record number of bombs
Bruce Rolfsen, Air Force Times
July 19, 2008
Air Force and allied warplanes are dropping a record number of bombs on Afghanistan targets.
For the first half of 2008, aircraft dropped 1,853 bombs — more than they released during all of 2006 and more than half of 2007’s total — 3,572 bombs. |
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Danish scientist Niels Harrit on nano-thermite in the WTC dust
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Niels Harrit, you and eight other researchers conclude in this article that it was nano-thermite that caused these buildings to collapse. |
ITALIAN SAYS 9-11 SOLVED
It’s common knowledge, he reveals
CIA — Mossad behind terror attacks By the Staff of American Free Press
Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga, who revealed the existence of Operation Gladio, has told Italy’s oldest and most widely read newspaper that the 9-11 terrorist attacks were run by the CIA and Mossad, and that this was common knowledge among global intelligence agencies.
In what translates awkwardly into English, Cossiga told the newspaper Corriere della Sera:
“All the [intelligence services] of America and Europe… know well that the disastrous attack has been planned and realized from the Mossad, with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part … in Iraq [and] Afghanistan.”
Cossiga was elected president of the Italian Senate in July 1983 before winning a landslide election to become president of the country in 1985, and he remained until 1992.
Cossiga’s tendency to be outspoken upset the Italian political establishment, and he was forced to resign after revealing the existence of, and his part in setting up, Operation Gladio.
This was a rogue intelligence network under NATO auspices that carried out bombings across Europe in the 1960s, 1970s and ’80s.
Gladio’s specialty was to carry out what they termed 'false flag' operations — terror attacks that were blamed on their domestic and geopolitical opposition.
In March 2001, Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated, in sworn testimony:
“You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game.
The reason was quite simple: to force … the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security.”
Cossiga first expressed his doubts about 9-11 in 2001, and is quoted by 9-11 researcher Webster Tarpley saying:
“The mastermind of the attack must have been a sophisticated mind, provided with ample means not only to recruit fanatic kamikazes, but also highly specialized personnel.
I add one thing: it could not be accomplished without infiltrations in the radar and flight security personnel.”
Coming from a widely respected former head of state, Cossiga’s assertion that the 9-11 attacks were an inside job and that this is common knowledge among global intelligence agencies is illuminating.
It is one more eye-opening confirmation that has not been mentioned by America’s propaganda machine in print or on TV.
Nevertheless, because of his experience and status in the world, Cossiga cannot be discounted as a crackpot.
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Published on Monday, July 4, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
by Sheldon Drobny Justice O'Connor's decision in Bush v. Gore led to the current Bush administration's execution of war crimes and atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places in the Middle East that are as egregious as those committed by the Third Reich and other evil governments in human history. The lesson is clear. Those people who may be honorable and distinguished in their chosen profession should always make decisions based upon good rather than evil no matter where their nominal allegiances may rest. Justice O'Connor was quoted to have said something to the affect that she abhorred the thought of Bush losing the 2000 election to Gore. She was known to have wanted to retire after the 2000 election for same reason she is now retiring. She wanted to spend more time with her sick husband. Unfortunately, she tarnished her distinguished career with the deciding vote in Bush v. Gore by going along with the partisan majority of the Court to interfere with a democratic election that she and the majority feared would be lost in an honest recount. She dishonored herself and the Supreme Court by succumbing to party allegiances and not The Constitution to which she swore to uphold. And the constitutional argument she and the majority used to justify their decision was the Equal Protection Clause. The Equal Protection Clause was the ultimate basis for the decision, but the majority essentially admitted (what was obvious in any event) that it was not basing its conclusion on any general view of what equal protection requires. The decision in Bush v Gore was not dictated by the law in any sense—either the law found through research, or the law as reflected in the kind of intuitive sense that comes from immersion in the legal culture. The Equal Protection clause is generally used in matters concerning civil rights.
The majority ignored their basic conservative views supporting federalism and states' rights in order to justify their decision.
History will haunt these justices down for their utter lack of justice and the hypocrisy associated with this decision.
Sheldon Drobny is Co-founder of Air America Radio.
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The United States will stand with Israel now and forever.
Now and forever.
29 July 2007
Israel hails US military aid rise
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has confirmed that the United States is planning a significant increase in military and government aid to Israel.
The package would amount to more than US $30bn increase.
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