"the escalating war in Afghanistan is not going to run itself."
Maybe we should let it.
"better off letting Afghans be Afghans"
Oh, I AGREE with that!!!!
Then maybe this wouldn't happen!
"Americans, Briton killed in Afghanistan; 4 fighters are first US combat deaths of 2010 in country" by Associated Press | January 5, 2010
Yeah, and it is going to get a hell of a lot worse, America!
KABUL, Afghanistan - A roadside bombing killed four US service members - the first American combat deaths of the year in Afghanistan - and a British soldier died during a foot patrol elsewhere in the volatile south of the country, officials said yesterday.
A statement from NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said the explosion that killed the US service members took place Sunday in the south, but did not give further details on the location or the victims’ branch of service.... The deaths are the first US fatalities from hostile action in Afghanistan this year. One US service member died of noncombat causes so far in 2010.
Translation: He killed himself.
And let's face it, it is ALL COMBAT RELATED!
WTF do you think they are doing over there?
The British soldier died while on foot patrol Sunday in Helmand province, the British Ministry of Defense said. The Afghan Defense Ministry said its soldiers killed 10 Taliban fighters in battles Sunday in northern Kunduz province’s Imam Sahib district, which borders Tajikistan. One soldier was wounded in the clash....
So how is that earthquake clean-up coming, Glob?
Just wondering if the Glob left anything on the cutting room floor:
"Afghan attacks kill 4 US troops, British soldier" by Jim Heintz, Associated Press Writer | January 4, 2010
KABUL -- Also Monday, NATO said a joint Afghan-international force discovered a huge cache of marijuana and turned it over to police for destruction.
That STINKS MORE than the WEED!!
I thought it was opium, not pot?
Well, since NATO and the U.S. are GUARDING POPPY FIELDS and DRUG SHIPMENTS that FILL BANK COFFERS, I guess they would know where to look!
Yup, just FOLLOW YOUR NOSE, readers!
NATO said the cache contained up to 28,000 cubic feet (800 cubic meters) of marijuana -- the equivalent of about seven standard semitrailers.
NO EFFIN' WAY! That is a LOT of STINKY WEED, hey!!
As the U.S. and other Western nations have tried to help Afghanistan stamp out its poppy fields -- the country is the world's leading opium producer -- an increasing number of farmers have turned to marijuana, which is receiving less attention from authorities....
They ALWAYS have an EXCUSE for EVERYTHING, don't they?
Related: The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: Karzai's Kin
Haven't heard much about him, have you?
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Actually, I was looking for the actual war, not propaganda, Glob.
Then they have to do an old switcheroo again?
PRINT COPY:
An Afghan shopkeeper is seen through the hole in his shop's wall after an explosion in Khost, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. At least 13 people were injured in the explosion. Police were investigating the cause of the blast. (AP Photo/Nashanuddin Khan)
These are the toughest of all photographs. To see the lovely Afghans lives blown apart (literally) over a lie.
"Afghan blast kills 4 children, wounds US soldiers" by Rahim Faiez, Associated Press Writer | January 6, 2010
KABUL --An explosion tore through a group of children gathered around foreign soldiers visiting a U.S.-funded road project Wednesday, killing four kids and a policeman and wounding scores, including at least three American troops, officials said.
The Afghan Interior Ministry said in a statement that the blast in Nangrahar province in Afghanistan's east occurred when a passing police vehicle hit a mine. The ministry called it a terrorist act, implying the mine had been planted by insurgents.
Of course, it could have been planted by the SOVIET UNION, AmeriKa, or OUR ALLIES over the LAST 30 YEARS, but.... it was the "terrorists."
Adjman Pardes, chief of the province's health department.... told The Associated Press that 81 people, the vast majority of them schoolchildren, were wounded.... The blast occurred at about 10 a.m., as children were heading home from school; many Afghan elementary schools work on three shifts a day, with the first beginning in the early morning. Children frequently cluster around troop contingents, excited by curiosity and the hopes of receiving small treats.
In a separate attack in the province, four Afghan policeman were killed when a remote-controlled bomb blew up their vehicle in the Khagyani district, Abdulzai said.
Also Wednesday, at least 15 people were injured in an explosion at a market in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan, said provincial acting governor Tahr Khan Sabari. The blast occurred outside a shop in Khost city selling cellular telephones and music cassettes; the Taliban oppose most forms of secular music and Sabari speculated the insurgents chose the shop as a target for that reason.
Yeah, so ipso-facto it was "Taliban."
I don't think they would do it!
The deaths of civilians, especially children, are an increasingly sensitive issue in the Afghanistan conflict.
Americans, WOULD IT NOT BE for YOU?!!!!!!
Actually, maybe not; you SURE SEEM WILLING to KEEP SENDING THEM BACK!!!
On Wednesday, the independent human rights watchdog group Afghanistan Rights Monitor said more than 1,050 children under 18 died last year in war-related incidents.
And how many from famine, flood, drugs, and other "non-war-related" items?
Because THEY are ALL I CARE ABOUT!!!! The INNOCENT VICTIMS of LIES!!!!!
The group said about two-thirds of the young victims died at the hand of insurgents, including several murdered on suspicion of spying.
Well, hey, spies are crawling around all over the place, haven't you heard?
But it also criticized Afghan and international forces, pointing particularly to the alleged deaths of eight children in an operation involving foreign troops last month in Kunar province. NATO claims those killed in the operation were insurgents, but ARM said in a statement that it appeared to be a "crime against civilian people."
Yes, a MONSTROUS WAR CRIME that is being COVERED UP!!!!
FLASHBACKS:
"US forces reportedly kill 10 Afghan civilians; Karzai promises investigation into apparent airstrike" by Laura King, Los Angeles Times | December 29, 2009
KABUL - An Afghan provincial governor said yesterday that an apparent US airstrike killed 10 Afghan civilians, and an immediate investigation was ordered by President Hamid Karzai, who has criticized such incidents. If the reports are borne out, it would be the most serious instance in months of Western forces mistakenly killing Afghan civilians....
I think the issue of it being a "mistake" are LONG GONE, folks!
The alleged killings took place Sunday in a remote area of Kunar Province, in Afghanistan’s northeast. Tribal elders in the district of Narang first reported the deaths, and the Associated Press quoted provincial police as saying that eight of those killed were children....
It is NEVER ALLEGED SUICIDER or INSURGENT, is it?
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"Afghanistan sets spring elections; Decision defies West’s pressure to reform rules" by Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times | December 30, 2009
KABUL, Afghanistan - In a separate development yesterday, Karzai sent a government team to investigate reports that 10 civilians, including eight students, were killed in fighting Sunday involving foreign troops in Kunar Province, in the northeast of the country.
Yeah, SCRUB UP that U.S. AIRSTRIKE, you DOG SHIT PIECE of PRESS!!!!!
Related: Afghans burn Obama effigy over civilian deaths
Hey, just like they USED TO DO to GEORGE W. BUSH!
Yup, the New York Times MISSED THAT, too!!!!!!
Maybe the New York Times was right' maybe it wasn't an airstrike.
"Western troops accused of executing 10 Afghan civilians, including children
American-led troops were accused yesterday of dragging innocent children from their beds and shooting them during a night raid that left ten people dead.
No wonder the NYT said killed in fighting.
So the air strike was a better sounding cover story for this WAR CRIMINAL ATROCITY, huh?
"If, in fact, US and NATO soldiers are dragging kids from their beds to kill them in cold blood, our policy in in Afghanistan has become absolute insanity, writ large. You do not win the hearts and minds of the country, smarting under your military occupation, by killing their children in cold blood." -- Wake the Flock Up
"8 Americans, 5 Canadians dead in Afghan attacks" by Deb Riechmann, Associated Press Writer | December 30, 2009
KABUL --Separately on Wednesday, NATO questioned Afghan reports that international troops killed 10 civilians, including schoolchildren, in a weekend attack that prompted hundreds of angry Afghan protesters to burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama and chant "death" to America.
Oh, so NOW my NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, etc, LIED TO ME?
Oh, the UNREPENTANT SHAME of MASS-MURDERING WAR CRIMINALS now saying it NEVER HAPPENED in my WAR CRIMINAL WAR DAILY!!
The head of an investigative team appointed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai told The Associated Press by telephone that eight students between the ages of 12 and 14 were among the dead discovered in a village house in a remote section of Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan. NATO said in a statement released late Wednesday night that while there was no direct evidence to substantiate the claims, the international force had requested and welcomed a joint investigation to reach an "impartial and accurate determination" of what happened in the attack.
Translation: IT HAPPENED!!!
As for the CALL for EVIDENCE, one LOOKS at those TOWERS DROPPING STRAIGHT DOWN, etc, and wonders WHAT the FUCK NATO is TALKING ABOUT?
Conflicting accounts of what occurred during fighting in Kunar's Narang district prompted an emotional outcry over civilian deaths, one of the most sensitive issues for international troops fighting the more than eight-year-old war....
Yeah, good thing we don't have politicians yanking our emotions around and telling lies to invade and occupy nations after a false flag attack. We are so much better than the Afghans and those we have destroyed.
Several hundred Afghans demonstrated in the capital of Kabul and in the eastern city of Jalalabad where the likeness of Obama, adorned with a small American flag, burned on a pole held above demonstrators.
Also see: Pity the Poor CIA
Why they were doing that:
Subhanullah s/o Farooq, student of class 10 in Narang High School.
Atiqullah s/o Farooq, student of class 9 in Narang High School.
Villagers and relatives and parents of the victims are mourning. The woman seen in the photo is mother of three of the victims.
Villagers prepare graves for the civilians killed by US Special Forces in Narang district.
Any effort to prevent such an inquiry, or to cover up a war crime, would be a war crime in itself.
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Oh, I am ALWAYS AMAZED at the TREMENDOUS COLOR -- even through my rotten tears!!!!
(Blog editor needs to stop for a few minutes now, dammit!)
The ONLY THING MORE MONSTROUS is adding INSULT to INJURY with this cavalier comment:
Aside from outright killings of children,
Sigh. The AmeriKan MSM is hopeless.
the insurgents are endangering countless others by "widespread and systematic attacks on aid workers, humanitarian convoys and facilities (that) deprived thousands of children from lifesaving services such as food aid and immunization against deadly diseases," ARM said.
It is NOT the "insurgents" that are DRAGGING KIDS OUT of their BEDS and EXECUTING THEM!!!!
Yeah, that is replaced -- once again(?) -- on the web with.... you guessed it!
"Details emerge on CIA base attacker; Afghan blast kills 4 youths" by Stephen Farrell, New York Times | January 7, 2010
Relatives carried the body of a boy killed in a blast yesterday in Afghanistan. The government said the explosion occurred when a passing police vehicle hit a planted mine. (Rahmat Gul/Associated Press)
I'm seeing too much of that, and it is only going to get worse.
Damn you, Obama!
Afghan govt. demands arrest of US "death squad" who handcuffed, executed 8 children. US refuses
Kai Eide, UN Representative to Afghanistan confirmed the Afghan government’s investigative conclusions that US troops handcuffed and then executed eight students enrolled in grades 6 through 10 in a night raid on December 27, 2009. The US military and NATO responded the troops involved were non-official. The most likely source of para-military “non-official” troops in Afghanistan is Blackwater/Xe....
Un-flipping-real!
Related: Operation Iraq: Blessed Blackwater
