That's what the Boston Globe wants us to think judging by the latest coverage from Iraq and Pakistan (and Yemen, for that matter).
What do you mean WHERE, Amurkn!?!?
"8 Afghan protesters left dead in riot; Crowd goaded by anti-US rumors" by Dexter Filkins, New York Times | January 13, 2010
Afghans rushed a wounded man to a hospital yesterday in Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province. The man was injured when protesters clashed with Afghan and foreign security forces. (Abdul Khaleq/Associated Press)
Related: 13 Afghan demonstrators killed by NATO
Villagers in southern Afghanistan have claimed that Afghan and Nato forces killed 13 demonstrators after a group of people took to the streets to protest the alleged desecration of the Quran. Haji Abdul Manan, one of the protesters, told the German Press Agency, DPA: "The people came out of their homes today to protest this action of foreign forces in a peaceful way, but the Afghan and international forces opened fire on us."
So they already undercounted the murdered, 'eh?
Watch how the AmeriKan MSM BUTCHERS this report like the troops butchered this crowd.
KABUL, Afghanistan - A volatile town in southern Afghanistan erupted yesterday as rumors spread that American servicemen had desecrated a Koran and defiled local women in a nearby village. Taliban provocateurs on the scene whipped up a crowd and goaded it to violence, local officials said.
Did they? Did they really, s*** *ew MSM?
And the PROPAGANDA only gets WORSE!!!!
When the riot was over, at least eight protesters were dead and about a dozen wounded, shot by Afghan intelligence officers. Much of the town of Garmsir blamed the Americans.
See how tricky they are? That's TECHNICALLY not a LIE, is it?
The episode, which US officers said they were investigating, highlighted how easily suspicions and resentment can flare out of control in an area as contested as the Helmand River Valley.
Thousands of US Marines and soldiers are moving into areas there that had previously stood as uncontested Taliban strongholds. In Kabul, US commanders denied that their servicemen had engaged in any offensive conduct. But the damage, it seemed, had been done.
The protest began when several thousand Afghans gathered in the central bazaar in Garmsir, after reports of abuse by US servicemen during a raid at a nearby village two nights before. Local officials said the protest was organized by the Taliban’s shadow governor for Garmsir, Mullah Mohammed Naim. “The Taliban were provoking the people,’’ Kamal Khan, Helmand Province’s deputy police chief, said in a telephone interview.
Sigh. Sick of shit slop prop, you know that!?
“They were telling the people that the Americans and their Afghan partners are killing innocent people, bombing their homes and destroying their mosques and also blaspheming their religion and culture.
Yeah, AND.... ?
“The Taliban were telling the people, ‘This is jihad; you should sacrifice yourselves.’ ’’
Whether you believe that or not, it does NOT CHANGE the TALIBAN TRUTH ABOVE! I'm sorry, AmeriKa, I know you hate hearing it; however, what they are reported to have said is EXACTLY what we have been doing there for NINE LONG YEARS!!!!!!
No witnesses to the disputed raid could be located; it took place Sunday night in the village of Darweshan.
Really? I have reports that did in this post!
So you DIDN'T EVEN BOTHER TO LOOK or ASK, did you, MS -- and you threw out that PoS line to cover your lying, stinking ass!?
US officers in Kabul said that Afghan soldiers conducted a nighttime operation in the village, with the Americans in support.
Yes, as we get to the END of the PIECE the TRUTH SLOWLY LEAKS OUT!
But they said that no shots had been fired and that no one had engaged in any inappropriate conduct.
First of all, what the hell kind of a raid was it then?
PFFFFFTT!
And the SECOND THING is that WHY WOULD I BELIEVE LIARS at this point?
The protesters in Garmsir began shouting “Death to America’’ and “Death to Kamal Khan’’ and overturned several cars. They set a school on fire. Then they stormed the local office of the National Directorate of Security.
YOU WOULD TO if they KILLED YOUR KIDS!!
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As the fighting in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province continues to pick up, US forces have killed 16 people described as “suspected militants” in a pair of drone strikes on opposite sides of the province.
The larger of the attacks came in the town of Now Zad, once described as a “ghost town” by NATO and declared “liberated” in a December invasion. The US Predator Drone fired a Hellfire missile into what officials are describing as a “crowd of suspects” killing 13 and wounding three.
Exactly what made the reportedly unarmed crowd a “crowd of suspects” is unclear, but Marines that attacked the town at roughly the same time claim to have found ammunition and a “Taliban torture cell.” US forces seemed quite pleased with the attack on the crowd, declaring “we caught them with their pants down.”
A smaller attack claimed three others, whom officials described as “armed fighters.” A separate incident in Helmand Province yesterday also claimed 13 civilians, when NATO and Afghan forces opened fire on protesters in Garmsir village."
Oh, so we have THREE DIFFERENT INCIDENTS and LOOK at what we got above, readers! Now I'm crying for the innocent dead souls and for us!!! THIS STINKS!!
Related: Weekend War Bookends
Right, and NOTHING ELSE on the BLACKWATER EXECUTIONS claimed air strike cover story, then reversed to investigation and dropped by my s** MSM!
Look at what the Zionist War Daily shovels instead:
KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban make Afghanistan’s opium business easy, offering credit, seeds, and fertilizer to farmers to grow the drugs that fuel the insurgency.
Oh, is that so?
"U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan -- once the world's largest producer -- since banning poppy cultivation last summer."
Beeebobeeebob, what!?
And LOOK WHO is PROTECTING and GUARDING the STUFF, helping Karzai's brother.
US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who wrapped up a three-day visit to Afghanistan yesterday, is determined to change that momentum by offering similar incentives to steer farmers away from the drug trade and toward grapes, wheat, and other legitimate crops.
“If the Taliban offer something, you have to be able to beat it with something else,’’ he said.
WTF is OUR AGRICULTURE SECRETARY doing in a WAR ZONE, AmeriKa?
WTF?
Just LOOKING AFTER the U.S. CROP, isn't he?
What a CROCK of S*** piece of PROPAGANDA!!!
Farmers say they make five times more money growing poppies than wheat from the same amount of land.
The United States has pushed agricultural reforms to the top of its nonsecurity agenda as part of President Obama’s increased focus on stabilizing the country. Vilsack, who was making his sixth visit to Afghanistan in his current job, acknowledged obstacles, including the lack of credit facilities and poor coordination between Afghanistan’s central government and 34 provinces.
In ONE YEAR!?
What is the CARBON FOOTPRINT on that anyway?
No wonder it is a BUMPER CROP this year!
The US administration has reversed a Bush-era policy of destroying poppy crops in Afghanistan in favor of promoting legal crops.
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But officials have said the tactic has done little to reduce the flow of drug money.
No crap, cui bono banks?
Vilsack defended the US efforts.
Look at the RECORD CROP!!!
He pointed to incentives offered last year in Helmand Province, which produces more than 50 percent of the world’s poppy. Farmers were offered wheat seeds and fertilizer at a reduced cost and the poppy crop was reduced by a third, he said, adding the initiative could be extended to nut trees and fruit and vegetable production.
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And I thought that s*** shoveling was bad?
FILE-- In this Jan. 6, 2010 file photo, a school boy, who was killed by an explosion is seen surrounded by relatives, as some chant anti U.S. and Afghan government slogans, in the back ground, in Rodad, Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan. The number of Afghan civilians who died in war-related violence last year soared to the highest annual level since the conflict began in 2001, the U.N. said Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, while deaths attributed to allied forces dropped nearly 30 percent, a key U.S. goal for winning over the Afghan people. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
Well, we are NEVER GOING TO DO IT THAT WAY!!!!
Yeah, but the Afghan people are loving us coming!!
Related: Afghans Welcoming Obama's Surge With Open Arms
Please remember those s*** poll #s; you will need them later!
I guess I'm just a silly old man because THERE GO THE WATERWORKS AGAIN!!!
God damn it I WANT THIS TO STOP RIGHT NOW!!
STOP KILLING THEIR BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please gather my tears and present them to Allah, Fatima -- Muslim tears or not!!
And may GOD DAMN my WAR CRIMINAL GOVERNMENT!!!
I'll be WAITING FOR THEM in HELL when I FEAST UPON THEIR INNARDS!!!!!!!!!
Now I am in NO MOOD to ANALYZE this SLOP!!!!
KABUL --Taliban suicide bombings and other attacks caused Afghan civilian deaths to soar last year to the highest annual level of the war, a U.N. report found Wednesday, while deaths attributed to allied troops dropped nearly 30 percent. Many Afghans now blame the violence on the Taliban rather than foreign forces.
I'm going to ENLARGE MSM TURD LOGS, 'kay?
A decline in NATO killings of civilians has become a key U.S. goal for winning over the Afghan people.
It's TOO LATE! THEY WANT US TO LEAVE and WE WANT OUR BOYS to COME HOME!!! This is SUCH VILE PROPAGANDA!!!
Just the fact that the POLL is getting a SECOND DAY of PROMOTION tells you all you need to know! And WHEN was the LAST TIME you saw a POLL of AMERICANS in the agenda-pushing s***ter?
Once it got past 57% AGAINST they STOPPED ASKING or LIED ABOUT IT!
Public outrage over rising death tolls prompted the top commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal last year to tighten the rules on the use of airstrikes and other weaponry if civilians are at risk.
And what with the AmeriKan MSM covering it all up.... !
The United Nations said....
The remainder could not be attributed to either side: civilians caught in the crossfire or killed by unexploded ordnance, according to the report.
It's ALL on the AGGRESSORS and THAT'S US, AmeriKa!!
NONE of this would be happening if WE WERE NOT THERE!!!
More than half the civilian deaths were a result of suicide attacks and other bombings as well as assassinations and executions -- despite an order last year by Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar to avoid endangering noncombatants.
I SMELL CIA, I SMELL BLACKWATER, I SMELL India's RAW, I SMELL ISI, I SMELL a LOT of SHIT!!!
The U.N. said Taliban attacks were mainly aimed at government or international forces but civilians can stumble into ambushes or be too close to a suicide bombing.
PFFFFFT!
Oh, btw, the PASTHUNS have NEVER had a HISTORY of SUICIDING -- until OUR CIA GUY TAUGHT 'EM HOW!!
"Haqqani.... credited with introducing suicide bombing to the region.... cultivated as a "unilateral" asset of the CIA and received tens of thousands of dollars in cash for his work.... He may have had a role in expediting the escape of Osama Bin Laden.... In July 2008, CIA officials confronted Pakistan officials with evidence of ties between Inter-Services Intelligence and Haqqani. Haqqani has been accused of involvement in the 2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul...."
Just like all the rest!
Afghans seen as supporting the government or the international community also were increasingly targeted. A survey commissioned by ABC News, the BBC and ARD German TV found....
Related: Afghans Welcoming Obama's Surge With Open Arms
GO AHEAD, go read it!
Is the 90% APPROVAL for the CORRUPT Karzai believable?
He couldn't even fake that many votes!
A NATO spokesman, Col. Wayne Shanks, credited the military's new restraint for the decline in the number of deaths blamed on pro-government forces....
Nevertheless, NATO airstrikes still killed 359 civilians in 2009....
No doubt a CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE!
Nevertheless!
Regardless
COME ON, hey!!!!
of which side is responsible for most of the carnage, many Afghans fear that the arrival of 37,000 new U.S. and NATO troops as part of President Barack Obama's surge will mean more fighting -- and more bloodshed -- this year.
But the POLL SAID they WANTED US TO COME by a 7 in 10 margin!!!!
Four U.S. troops and a French soldier were killed Wednesday in separate attacks, according to NATO and the French government.
Oh, yeah, the ACTUAL WAR, huh? Allies lost five?
"With the increase in troops, there will be more fighting and that will cause more civilian casualties," said Mohammad Shafiq, a 28-year-old student at Kabul University. "We are very concerned ... because each year the number of civilian casualties increases and there is no sign of a decrease."
And there is where my printed paper cut it!!
So what was left on the floor other than Afghan blood, Glob?
And MORE PHOTOS like the ONE ABOVE, sob!!!!!!!
The U.N. mission, which is in Afghanistan to support and bolster the Afghan government, compiles its figures based on reports from human rights teams that investigate casualty reports on the ground as well as figures provided by the Afghan independent human rights commission. The U.N. did not begin systematically documenting civilian casualties until 2007 -- six years after the war started with the U.S.-led invasion that toppled the Taliban regime.
Then I will deposit this report where it belongs -- in the "Al Qaeda.
Some Afghan human rights activists said the actual death toll was likely higher because many deaths go unreported, especially in Taliban-controlled areas where independent investigations are difficult.
Yes, so WE NEVER REALLY KNOW HOW MANY we have MURDERED -- and the MSM doesn't f***ing care or they would not be COVERING THIS UP!!!!
"Politicians and commanders have made many promises about protecting the population, but so far we have not seen the results," said Mudassir Rasuli, a spokesman for Afghan NGOs Against Civilian Casualties.
Mohammad Sharif, 25, said he feared there was no end in sight to the bloodshed.
"We have seen over the past eight years that the Taliban got stronger day by day," he said. "I don't think that all these foreign forces and Afghan forces will be able to defeat them in the near future."
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Can we PLEASE LEAVE NOW before MORE BEAUTIFUL AFGHAN KIDS end up in a COFFIN!!!!!!!!
Come to find out, the web picked up this:
"Taliban attacks caused jump in civilian deaths; UN report finds 28% fewer died due to coalition" by Dexter Filkins, New York Times | January 14, 2010
Oh, right, I'm going to believe lying mass-murderers, their globalist tool, and their media mouthpiece on this, right.
Talk about SELF-SERVING SLOP!!!!
KABUL - Last year was the most lethal for Afghan civilians since the US-led war began in late 2001, with the Taliban and other insurgent groups causing the vast majority of noncombatant deaths, according to a UN survey released yesterday.
The report said 2,412 civilians were killed in 2009, a jump of 14 percent over the previous year. Another 3,566 were wounded. The growing number of civilian deaths reflects the intensification of the Afghan war over the same period: US and NATO combat deaths jumped to 520 last year, from 295, and the Taliban are more active than at any point in the past eight years.
But the most striking aspect of the report was the shift in responsibility for the deaths of Afghan civilians....
SMELL SOMETHING, readers?
Air strikes are the main cause of civilian deaths by the coalition.... One of the worst of these occurred on Sept. 4, when German troops called in an air strike after militants hijacked a fuel convoy near the northern city of Kunduz. But the trucks had stalled in a riverbed, and local residents gathered around them. The bombing killed at least 72 civilians, the UN report said....
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American Apology Ameliorates Afghans
The Taliban’s leaders have also implored their fighters to minimize the harm to Afghan civilians. Last summer, the Taliban’s leader, Mullah Muhammad Omar, put out a directive to his troops, imploring them to try to win over civilians.
Related:
"Now stop and think here for a moment. All revolutions depend on public support. Revolutionaries try to first win the people before they take on the government. So, no revolutionary goes out and murders civilians in cold blood. Did Washington and his men just mow down a marketplace of their fellow colonials for the heck of it? No, they did not. Washington and the Founding Fathers knew that their revolution to build a new country needed the support of those who would live in that country. This is true for every revolution in history. Therefore, these acts of terror being blamed on the insurgency must all be fakes, committed by intelligence agencies working for the governments to be blamed on the insurgents in order to destroy public support for the revolution." -- Wake the Flock Up
It is what I say EVERY DAY!
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Yes, because they LIVE THERE!!
They are FAMILIES, FRIENDS, and NEIGHBORS and they wouldn't blow them up!
But we know who would, readers!
Also see: Pashtun History Lesson
The Mystery Man of the Taliban
