Think of these three articles as a s*** sandwich: a turd with two pieces of CIA bread around it.
"Under Taliban deal, Afghan women fear loss of progress; Activists afraid that repression will return" by Karin Brulliard, Washington Post | April 11, 2010
Just remember who your source is, okay?
LAGHMAN, Afghanistan — The head-to-toe burqas that made women a faceless symbol of the Taliban’s violently repressive rule are no longer required here.
Yeah, dropping bombs on them and flattening villages is much better for them.
But many Afghan women say they still feel voiceless eight years into a war-torn democracy, and they point to government plans to forge peace with the Taliban as a prime example.
I'm sorry. I can't help but feel we have some controlled-feminist outfits here.
WhoTF would want to WRECK the PEACE considering what is happening there?
Whoever they are, they are NOT FOR WOMEN!
Gender activists say they have been pressing the administration of President Hamid Karzai for a part in any deal-making with Taliban fighters and leaders, which is scheduled to be finalized at a summit this month. Instead, they said, they have been met with a silence that they see as a dispiriting reminder of the limits of progress Afghan women have made since 2001.
And here we Americans have been told for years how we saved the Afghan women, blah, blah, blah. Honestly, readers, I am sick of the Muslim-hating, Zionist agenda.
The WAR HAS FAILED and it is TIME TO COME HOME!
“We have not been approached by the government — they never do,’’ said Samira Hamidi, country director of the Afghan Women’s Network, an umbrella group. “The belief is that women are not important,’’ she said, describing a mind-set that she said “has not been changed in the past eight years.’’
The Taliban’s repressive treatment of women helped galvanize international opposition in the 1990s, and by some measures democracy has revolutionized Afghan women’s lives. Their worry now is not about a Taliban takeover, Hamidi said, but that male leaders, behind closed doors and desperate for peace, might not force Taliban leaders to accept, however grudgingly, that women’s roles have changed.
Hard to when they live there.
Those concerns share roots with the misgivings voiced by many observers, including some US officials, about Afghan efforts to forge a settlement with the Taliban, whose leaders promote an Islamist ideology that seems wholly at odds with rights the Afghan Constitution guarantees....
As if AmeriKa had any interest in a constitution!
If they did they would be following their own.
In today’s Afghanistan, females make up one-quarter of Parliament, fill one-third of the nation’s classrooms, and even compete on “Afghan Idol.’’
Is that our idea of modernization?
Related: AmeriKan Justice Arrives in Afghanistan
Sigh.
But violence against women remains “endemic,’’ according to the State Department.
Yeah, thanks for bringing them a war based on lies, thank you.
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Avoid the buses in Afghanistan, ladies.
"Deadly US attack on Afghan bus sparks outrage; Troops’ fire kills 5 civilians, wounds 18" by Richard A. Oppel Jr., New York Times | April 13, 2010
Sort of an either/or, isn't it?
KABUL, Afghanistan — American troops raked a large passenger bus with gunfire near Kandahar yesterday morning, killing and wounding civilians and igniting angry anti-American demonstrations in a city where winning Afghan support is pivotal to the war effort.
Not going to win people over that way!
The American-led military command in Kabul called the killings a “tragic loss of life’’ and said that troops fired in the early-morning light not knowing that the vehicle was a passenger bus and believing that it posed a threat to a military convoy clearing bombs from a highway.
The shooting, which killed as many as 5 civilians and wounded 18, occurred on the eve of the most important offensive of the war.
Related: Taliban Screaming For a Stop
What, they just decided to barrel ahead, eh?
In coming weeks, thousands of American, NATO, and Afghan troops are expected to try to take control of the Kandahar region, the spiritual home of the Taliban. It was the latest case in which NATO or American forces fired on and killed civilians near a checkpoint or military convoy because they were perceived to have come too close or to be approaching too fast.
Yes, it happens ALL THE TIME but when you are an empire-supporting, occupation -adopting, war-promoting media you don't want to make a big deal of that. It would take the shone of the shi.... I mean, success of the effort.
Afterward, hundreds of demonstrators poured into the area around a bus station where the damaged bus was taken on the western outskirts of Kandahar. They blocked the road with burning tires for an hour and shouted, “Death to America’’ and “Death to infidels,’’ while condemning the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, according to people there.
Oh, I DO NOT THINK we WON ANY CONVERTS THERE!!
So HOW MUCH MASS-MURDERING FAILURE before you GET OUT, America?
The governor of Kandahar Province, Tooryalai Wesa, called for the commander of the military convoy that opened fire to be prosecuted under military law. “If you want to stop the bus, it should be shot in the tires,’’ Wesa said. “Why shoot the people inside?’’
Yeah, that is a GREAT POINT!!!
But there were disputes over details, including the number of dead, the relative positions of the convoys, and how the troops could not have understood that the vehicle was a passenger bus. It was also unclear whether the troops had first shot flares and warned the driver to stay back, as military rules typically require. NATO said they did.
Then they didn't. That is just the way one must read a newspaper these days.
More than 30 people have been killed and 80 wounded in convoy and checkpoint shootings since last summer, but not one of those killed was found to have been a threat, military officials say.
Then it is WAR CRIMINAL MURDER, isn't it?
The shooting near Kandahar occurred just after daybreak as the bus was taking scores of passengers to Nimruz Province, said Zalmy Ayoubi, a spokesman for Wesa. Two people who had been on the bus said that an American convoy 60 to 70 yards ahead opened fire as the bus began to pull to the side of the road to allow another military convoy to pass from behind.
Un-real!!!
They were ACTUALLY GETTING OUT of the WAY!!!!
The two convoys and the bus were on the main highway in the Zhari district, west of the city of Kandahar. The windows on one side of the bus were shot out.
What the rewritten, reedited, PoS cut for you webbers:
"An American convoy was ahead of us and another convoy was following us, and we were going to pull off the road, and suddenly the Americans opened fire," said Nida Muhammad, a passenger who suffered a shoulder wound.
"This bus wasn't like a suicide bomber, and we did not touch or come close to the convoy," he said. "It seems they are opening fire on civilians intentionally."
Yeah, WHY would you want to include an EYEWITNESS in the REPORT, right, NYT?
Then it is right back to the Muslim-hating propaganda:
"Afghan woman killed amid growing campaign of fear; Climate harsh for those working, going to school" by Kathy Gannon, Associated Press | April 14, 2010
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A gunman lying in wait shot and killed an 18-year-old woman as she left her job at a US-based development company yesterday, casting a spotlight on a stepped-up campaign of Taliban intimidation against women in this southern city where US troops plan a major operation in the coming weeks.
Yeah, and now we will just have to go in!!
Timing sure is strange coming off the bus attack, isn't it?
So WHO was EMPLOYING the GUNMAN?!
What government agency or private mercenary company deployed an asset?
We are NO LONGER FOOLED by this BS, MSM!!
Sorry.
Although there was no claim of responsibility and police said the motive for the attack was unclear, Taliban militants have been particularly harsh with women who work for foreign organizations or attend school. Bands of thugs are increasingly harassing women who want jobs, education, and their own style of clothing, women and aid workers say.
They just THROW THAT OUT THEIR and expect us to believe it!
Yeah, FORGET about the guns and BOMBS and MISSILES FLATTENING VILLAGES and sending women and children on the run!
They are better off without their ickey-pooh men anyway, right, 'murkn?
Besides, it is THEIR LAND, not OURS!
In yesterday’s attack, the gunman emerged from a hiding place and shot the woman, whose first name was Hossai, after she stepped out of her office building, said Deputy Police Chief Fazle Ahmed Shehzad. Hossai died at the hospital, and the assailant escaped.
Gee, RIGHT NEAR the western outpost, huh?
Any NOC CIA working the joint?
Hossai worked for Development Alternatives Inc., a Washington-based global consulting firm that “provides social and economic development solutions to business, government, and civil society in developing and transitioning countries,’’ according to its website.
Smells like CIA to me!!
Eight years after the 2001 US-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power, fear again dominates the lives of many young women and girls in the violent south, the stronghold of a revived Islamist insurgency that curbed women’s rights when it ruled most of the country.
What, the ladies hear the Predator drones above?
As for that "insurgency" that curbed women's rights:
"The U.S. government was well aware of the Taliban's reactionary program, yet it chose to back their rise to power in the mid-1990s. The creation of the Taliban was "actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA," according to Selig Harrison, an expert on U.S. relations with Asia. "The United States encouraged Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Taliban, certainly right up to their advance on Kabul," adds respected journalist Ahmed Rashid. When the Taliban took power, State Department spokesperson Glyn Davies said that he saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's plans to impose strict Islamic law, and Senator Hank Brown, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia, welcomed the new regime: "The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at last seems capable of developing a new government in Afghanistan." "The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis. There will be Aramco [the consortium of oil companies that controlled Saudi oil], pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that," said another U.S. diplomat in 1997."
Oh, that's a real kick to the lower groans, isn't it, ladies?
The TALIBAN was established under U.S. AUSPICES?
We can "LIVE WITH THAT?"
WOW, how about that, huh, Amurkn?
And HOW ABOUT YOUR NEWSPAPERS, 'eh?
Won't tell you the truth about anything.
“Every day the security situation gets worse and worse,’’ said Ehsanullah Ehsan, a clean-shaven man who has devoted the last 16 years to educating girls, first in the remote border regions of Pakistan and since 2002 in Kandahar.
Ehsan is head of the Afghan Canadian Community Center, which provides vocational training and schooling to men and women.
And here they are leaving.
Each day brings another story of threats against his female students, he says. While many of the threats come from the Taliban, others are from criminals and even police.
But BLAME TALIBAN NO MATTER WHAT, MSM!!
See why I am SICK of THEM, dear readers!?
Harassment of women is occurring against the backdrop of a general deterioration of law and order in Kandahar, a city of nearly a half million people. The aim of the upcoming operation by NATO and Afghan troops is to clear Kandahar of Taliban fighters, who threaten and intimidate those who do not follow their strict interpretation of Islam, and to bolster the local police force, which appears incapable of stopping petty crime, which is rampant in the city.
Yeah, the corruption issue went away pretty quickly, didn't it?
Related: Why Obama Went to Afghanistan
Oh, so it was JUST a COVER STORY, 'eh, MSM? Why that talk has gone away.
In the best of times, the lives of women in conservative Afghanistan are far more restricted than in the West, especially in rural areas where a woman’s place is considered to be in the home and beneath the burqa.
And now they have to worry about missiles and bombs raining down or the doors being kicked in by foreign forces.
Ever notice how all those censored and minimized incidents disappear down the MSM memory hole, readers, while we get full up on endless s*** like this?
Since the fall of the Taliban regime, however, women in urban areas like Kabul, Mazar-i-Sharif, and Jalalabad have more choices — with some in Parliament, government, and business.
Even in Kandahar, the major city of the ultraconservative south, women say restrictions eased in the first years after the Taliban were gone. But as the Islamist movement began to rebound in 2003, pressure on women to adhere to strict Islamist and Afghan traditions increased — with little protection from the ineffectual and corrupt Afghan police.
Ehsan told of one student whose family was warned by a shopkeeper to keep their daughters indoors and to let them leave only if they are wearing a burqa. “The shopkeeper knocked on her parents’ door and said, ‘If you let her go out with her face showing and something happens to her, you have been warned, and it will be her own fault,’ ’’ recalled Ehsan.
Sara, 34, said her family is demanding that she quit her $1,300-a-month job with an international organization because the risks are too great, even though her salary is about six times what a policeman in the city earns. She refused to allow her surname or employer to be identified because of fears for their safety.
Anyone see a problem there?
No wonder the place is awash in corruption.
That's where ALL the WAR LOOT is going!
Not to help women, that is obvious!
Ironically, Sara had been one of the few women allowed to work in Kandahar when the Taliban ruled. She taught at one of the handful of girls’ schools the Taliban permitted. The school trained nurses for the city’s Mir Wais Hospital.
What, when they were not (allegedly) burning them down!?
Did it look like this?
Tomas Munita for The New York Times Hameeda Sarfraz, in the dark burqa, teaches Islamic religious lessons to children in her village, about 50 miles north of Islamabad, Pakistan.
More like this, huh?
Students did their homework between classes at Afghan Canadian Center in Kandahar, Afghanistan yesterday. Thugs are increasingly harassing women who want an education. (Rahmat Gul/Associated Press)
Why are they outside?
Now Sara thinks her job as an office worker is just too dangerous.
She and other women interviewed at Afghan Canadian Community Center were largely skeptical that the coming NATO-Afghan offensive in Kandahar would succeed where eight years of military operations against the insurgents had largely failed to bring a lasting peace.
Related: Taliban Screaming For a Stop
Skepticism well-founded, I see!
“In eight years they have done nothing. How is it that they couldn’t find [the Taliban] with all their equipment? I heard they had equipment that could see people in a room but they can’t find the Taliban,’’ said Gila Bibi, a business management student. “Corruption is in every group, and every group is our enemy — the Taliban, the government, the police.’’
Oh, I am SO IMPRESSED by the INTELLIGENT AFGHAN GIRL!!!!
THEY KNOW, people!!
Btw, corruption less with Taliban; they think it is against God.
Hella Popal, a 20-year-old who studies English at the center and dreams of becoming a doctor, says she has been threatened but she doesn’t know whom to blame.
Saqina Sikanderi, a teenager taking online courses at the center, criticizes the government, NATO, and the Taliban.
“This situation is bad because we have corruption in our government and teachers don’t get paid enough. The police need more salary so they aren’t corrupt. But we still say they are better than the Taliban,’’ she said. “I am here. It is dangerous, but I am here and I am getting an education. I couldn’t before. The Taliban wanted women only to stay inside their home and get married.’’So she says!
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Maybe I should have titled this post ladies last:
"Fewer women are dying in childbirth; Afghanistan has highest rate, Italy lowest, study finds" by David Brown, Washington Post | April 15, 2010
WASHINGTON — The rate at which women die in childbirth or soon after delivery has fallen by about 40 percent since 1980, with dramatic reductions in the populous nations of India, China, Brazil, and Egypt.
Maternal mortality is a key gauge of a population’s health and wealth, as well as of women’s status....
The global rate in 2008 was 251 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births, according to a research team led by Christopher Murray at the University of Washington. The highest rate was in Afghanistan (1,575) and the lowest in Italy (4). The United States was 17, Canada 7, and Mexico 52.
I bet the WAR had something to do with it!
More than half of all maternal deaths (about 343,000 in 2008) occurred in only six countries, researchers found: India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo....
Yup, ALL GENERALLY PLAGUED by CONFLICT!
Except India.
WTF?
Maternal mortality tends to fall when income rises, when women have fewer children, or when they go to school longer.
Yeah, but WAR has nothing to do with it?
And please explain all those tribal elders that are older than dirt.
Maternal and child health — partly eclipsed by AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria in the past decade — is gaining on the global health agenda. It is a major part of the Obama administration’s Global Health Initiative....
Ceasing the missile runs would help health, 'bomber.
A group of public health specialists — joined by six government leaders in the United States for this week’s Nuclear Security Summit — will meet in New York this week to map a strategy for further reducing maternal and child mortality. They are two of the eight Millennium Development Goals established by the United Nations in 2000.
Like those globalist pukes care about the earth's kids!
If they did we wouldn't have all these problems.
They have had their decades of chances; they failed.
“We do not have silver bullets for achieving this,’’ said Flavia Bustreo, an Italian physician who directs a partnership, headquartered in Geneva, of 300 health organizations. Instead, she said, there is a menu of proven interventions that need to be implemented more widely....
I'm sorry, readers, but I no longer see help here.
After the swine flu swindle, I just see globalists wanting to get a needle in you for whatever nefarious reason.
Also see: Pakistan Getting Beat Down in AmeriKan MSM
Honestly, readers, I am SOOOOOO TIRED of the Muslim-hating Zionist propaganda passing itself off as "news."
