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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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27 Oct 2005 01:55:35 PM |
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More Christian atrocities |
We Burn Corpses, Don't We?
War Crimes in Afghanistan
By Erid Ruder
10/26/05 "Counterpunch" -- -- Shocking images from Afghanistan have again
exposed the racist barbarism of the U.S. "war on terror."
Last week, U.S. soldiers were caught on videotape burning the bodies of two
dead Taliban fighters--something forbidden under Islamic law--in Gonbaz, a
village in southern Afghanistan.
After the bodies had been defiled, U.S. psychological operations
specialists
used loudspeakers to taunt local villagers, in an attempt to draw out other
Taliban supporters. "Attention, Taliban, you are all cowardly dogs," blared
the loudspeakers, after calling out several religious leaders by name.
"You allowed your fighters to be laid down facing west and burned. You are
too scared to come down and retrieve their bodies. This just proves you are
the lady boys we always believed you to be...You attack and run away like
women. You call yourself Talibs, but you are a disgrace to the Muslim
religion, and you bring shame upon your family. Come and fight like men
instead of the cowardly dogs you are."
The taunts--according to Stephen Dupont, the Australian freelance
journalist
embedded with the soldiers, who captured the incident on video--were
designed to infuriate. "They used that as psychological warfare, I guess
you'd call it," said Dupont of the October 1 incident. "They deliberately
wanted to incite that much anger from the Taliban so the Taliban could
attack them...That's the only way they can find them."
The images provoked outrage in Afghanistan and throughout the Muslim world.
"The burning of these bodies is an offense to Muslims everywhere," said
cleric Said Mohammed Omar. "It makes no difference that they were Taliban."
Abdul Qayum, a senior cleric in Kandahar, said, "During the past
quarter-century of war, I have never heard of anyone burning dead bodies.
The Americans claim to be here to bring peace, but what are we supposed to
think about this?"
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai tried to help his Pentagon puppet
masters contain the damage by dismissing the incident, saying that
sometimes
"soldiers make mistakes." But this latest revelation shows that the
atrocities committed by the U.S. military--from the torture at Abu Ghraib
and Guantánamo to the murderous siege of the Iraqi city of Falluja--aren't
"mistakes." They're policy.
In the U.S., the media has generally connected the desecration of the two
bodies in Afghanistan with the defiling of the Koran by U.S. interrogators
earlier this year. But every report also said that Newsweek retracted that
story about the Koran--even though the magazine's retraction was limited to
admitting that a government report didn't reveal the abuse, not that the
incident never occurred.
And the U.S. government has confirmed other atrocities committed in
Afghanistan--like the case of a 22-year-old taxi driver named Dilawar who
died with his wrists chained to the top of his cell at Bagram Air Base
after
being tortured for nearly four days by U.S. interrogators.
The videotape comes at a bad time for the Bush administration for two
reasons.
One, the administration is seeking to scuttle or at least blunt legislation
before Congress that would ban the use of torture by U.S. troops--on the
grounds that this would "tie the hands of interrogators." Supporters of the
legislation now have fresh ammunition to make the case that guidelines are
necessary, if for no other reason than to give the impression that the U.S.
cares about human rights.
And two, the Bush administration is struggling to maintain its assertion
that the U.S. occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq are on track.
Even before this video came to light, news from Afghanistan suggests the
opposite is true. During 2005, for example, 86 U.S. soldiers were killed in
Afghanistan--compared to 55 killed between the beginning of the U.S.
operation to oust the Taliban in October 2001 and the end of 2002.
The illicit drug trade--largely ended under the Taliban--has flourished
under the U.S. occupation, with opium production now accounting for 60
percent of the economy, by one estimate.
The massive scale of the drug trade is both an embarrassment for the
administration, as well as a strategic dilemma. "You can't have a
nation-building policy on the one hand and a policy to kill off a major
sector of the economy on the other," said Afghanistan expert Barnett Rubin.
"There is no sign of a comprehensive development strategy...to build an
economy that is legal," Rubin added.
During the last four years, the U.S. has spent $5 billion--roughly equal to
Afghanistan's annual gross domestic product--to prop up the Karzai
government, but to little effect.
Karzai won re-election last October by appealing to voters' fears of the
warlords who now control huge swaths of the country, but after he was back
in office, he brought several of the most ruthless warlords into his
cabinet. Then, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad endorsed the
decision, saying six months ago that the "decision to give a role
to...regional strongmen is a wise policy."
For the people of Afghanistan, fed up with U.S. atrocities and support for
regional warlords, there's growing talk of ejecting U.S. troops--just as
the
former USSR's military was kicked out in 1989 after a decade of occupation.
"Their future will be like the Russians," said Zahidullah, a resident of
Kabul.
Eric Ruder writes for the Socialist Worker.
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| User: "Chris" |
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| Title: Re: More Christian atrocities |
29 Oct 2005 06:47:10 PM |
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Hello,
Yes, yet another atrocity. The human race has no understanding or concept
of living in peace with each other and tolerating another philosphophy. The
animal calling himself the "clever handed ape" is the cruellest most evil
animal in the whole of gods creation. And the most cunning killer in the
whole forest. A wolf is a better friend than a man.
I have been told I must join "us". I hav yet to discover who "they" are but
in involved working from 8 till 6 in a job of their choice at the pay they
decide and spent in the way they want. And then they say it is a free
democracy. As additional incentives friends of mine have been maimed or
killed and a lady friend believed to be my wife has been brain damaged and
now performs nude in a provocative sex display and is alledged to be gang
raped from time to time.
And a friend I taught mathematics has also been brain damaged and workes as
a cleaner and a prostitute.
That is how civilised and nice the western world is.
These brain damaged people are trained to mechanically obey simple
instructions nude if pretty enough and are easily available for sex.
These undead people are available for nothing as pets. Their keeper has to
sign documents as a carer to ensure their bodies are not harmed.
I'm actually wondering if the lady I speak of will be put in my house
sometime as a gift. It is likely there will be no conversation of any
interest and she will not be clever enough to go shopping.
Yet another whole lot of christian atrocities, by the hundred.
Chris.
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