Now observe the agenda-pushing, war-promoting lies please:
"Taliban grip adds risk to Afghan election plans" by Carlotta Gall, New York Times | April 12, 2009
Oh, Jew York Times again. We know where to file this report (flush)!
So HOW MANY FALSE-FLAG ATTACKS are our "Al-CIA-Duh" agents going to carry out? Or will they hold back so the MSM can declare the elections a success?
KABUL, Afghanistan - Inside the office of the Afghan interior minister is a map showing that nearly half the country is a danger zone. Ten of Afghanistan's 364 districts are colored black, meaning they are under Taliban control, and 156 are colored to indicate high risk.
The map raises a difficult question: How, in such an environment, can Afghanistan hold countrywide presidential elections on Aug. 20? The election, plus votes for provincial council seats, has become a prime focus of discussion, according to Richard C. Holbrooke, the special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who visited Kabul a week ago today.
Taliban insurgents have such a strong grip that even with the anticipated arrival of an additional 30,000 American troops this year, the elections will not take place in some areas, several Western and Afghan officials in Kabul said.
The recently appointed interior minister, Hanif Atmar, readily acknowledges the herculean challenge of getting his underpaid, poorly trained police force in shape to provide security for the elections, though additional NATO troops and the added American forces will be there to help.
While election officials say voter registration has been successful, people in the south say Afghans, including Taliban members, were motivated to register less by any real interest in voting than by the fact that voter cards would ease their travel through government checkpoints.
Whether the Taliban will try to sabotage the vote is not yet clear.
But the MSM will shovel whatever cover story the government issues.
Diplomats say President Hamid Karzai remains the strongest contender, not least because the opposition is divided and may split any vote against him. Karzai's opponents, though, say public dissatisfaction may be enough to dislodge him, if the election is fair.
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So NOTHING about the ACTUAL WAR, 'eh, Globe?
"U.S. military concedes Afghan civilian casualties
KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The U.S. military has conceded that a raid this week by troops under its command in Afghanistan killed a group of civilians who were defending their home, not militants as it had earlier reported....
Nice how the Zionist, Muslim-hating AmeriKan MSM fails to follow up, huh?
Investigations showed that during an operation by U.S. and Afghan forces in the southeastern province of Khost late on Wednesday, a local family near the target location had opened fire on the troops, the military said in a statement late on Thursday.
"The combined forces returned fire, killing two males, two females and wounding two females. There are reports of an infant also killed," the statement said. "Coalition and Afghan forces do not believe that this family was involved with militant activities and that they were defending their home against an unknown threat," it added.
UNKNOWN THREAT? Pfffft!!!!
A Reuters witness at the village after the raid saw the body of a seven-day-old boy who died during the raid. International aid group Care said in a statement that one of the victims was a female teacher working in a school it supports. It said the four others killed were members of her family, including two children. One was a student in her class....
I thought only "Taliban" killed schoolteachers and students.
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No wonder you guys are tanking, Globe!!!!!
You never see this in the Boston Globe either:
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