Just two days ago Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was publicly condemning the killing of five election workers by militants in the Herat Province, insisting that the security of such workers must be assured at all cost in the name of a “democratic future.” She insisted that those responsible “must be brought to justice.”
The attitude from the US was quite a bit different today, when NATO warplanes in the northern Takhar Province attacked a convoy of aid workers themselves, killing 10 of them and wounding a parliamentary candidate.
The killing was particularly inopportune for Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who had just arrived in Afghanistan in the wake of the strike to meet with President Hamid Karzai. Gates claimed during the conference that this was “the first I had heard that civilians have been killed,” but Karzai was visibly angry during much of the press conference and the killings appear to have risen tensions considerably.
NATO has been dramatically escalating the number of air strikes in Afghanistan and it seems to be coming with a similar increase in high profile civilian killings. NATO initially praised today’s attack as a “precision air strike” against a “known Taliban commander.” The district governor mocked the claim, noting that “a Taliban commander does not travel in a 100-vehicle convoy.”
NATO = NORTH AMERICAN TERRORIST ORGANIZATION
Exactly the truth.
Year 2020. NATO planes sprayed a convoy of 200 people with rockets and machine guns and amazingly no one has survived. This makes a total of innocently killed Afghanis ten million. President Karzai is not only angry and furious but really pissed off.
Karazai is responsible for this bloodshed..He is part of the conspiracy to occupy Afghanistan. His head will be severed when Americans withdraw sooner or later..He will have no place to go..American s are will know betraying their puppets..Remember the Shah of Iran..they didn't allow him to enter US after the CIA replaced him with the Khumeini.
Lemme see here what was it NATO's Foggy Rasmussen said? Oh right, "we're making progress in Afghaniscam." Ergo, progress in Afghaniscam is blasting 10 ELECTION workers smooth off'n the planet. Dang election workers must have been "terroristas" alright.
The U.S. and NATO haven't a clue as to what they're doing. Well except they've got the butchering civilians motif down pat.
"A precision air strike against a known Taliban commander." I wonder how many other "precision airstrikes" have been complete lies, where civilians were killed. This time it was a convoy with aid workers and a parliamentary candidate, so it was hard to sweep under the rug. Too many witnesses with media connections. Other times you just kill, and no one will dare step forward and tell the truth. If they do, you just say it is Taliban lies.
America used to be seen as a savior in the Middle East, because Americans were anti-imperialist, criticizing the European empires. The Arabs thought of the U.S. as their hope for freedom from the Ottomans, the French and the British. Then inexplicably, the U.S. funded and armed the Jewish Zionists as they invaded Palestine. The British and Americans stood back while Zionist terrorist organizations like the Irgun started killing civilians. They kept supporting the Zionists as they too 78 percent of Palestinian land, mowing down hundreds of villages.
The Arabs couldn't believe it. What was going on? Then deals were made. Puppet governments in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and other ex-colonies were given American and British support in exchange for one thing: making nice with Israel. (No, not oil. The Arabs were more than happy to sell their oil, that's what it's for.)
It has gone on that way. Saddam Hussein was the most loyal U.S. ally in the Gulf, invading Iran with U.S. backing and funding when Iran broke free from British control. Two million people died. Then Iraq gave money to the Palestinian resistance, e.g. the families of suicide bombers. So Iraq had to be invaded. But first sanctioned for 12 years – half a million children died from starvation.
In the mid-1990s the Zionist "neocons" called for invasions of Iran, Iraq and Syria. After 9/11 they got their excuse. The very NEXT DAY, Paul Wolfowitz argued for invading Iraq, a staunch enemy of al-Qaeda. A White House aide said that they had to invade Afghanistan first to show the American people they were going after al-Qaeda, who they claimed without evidence was behind the attacks.
Yes. Afghanistan, an entire country, was invaded as an excuse for another invasion. That is how far the Washington elite is willing to go to obey the Israeli lobby's wishes. That is the reason for the Afghanistan war. Remember, Colin Powell has admitted to lying to the UN about having secret documents showing that Usama bin Laden was behind 9/11. Afghanistan was invaded for lies. Those people in the convoy now, they died for nothing. The American mercenaries, "our troops," are dying for nothing.
Wait – not for nothing. They are dying because Iraq gave funding and diplomatic support to the Palestinian resistance, one of very few Arab countries to do so. For that the entire earth must suffer.
there all fuckin nut's why don't we just take all there weapons from them build a great big boxing ring give them some boxing cloves and let them go at it james j buggey
total clusterf*ck
Israel operates drone killings..I have no doubt.
mass killing of civillians is the way of occupations. The cover story changes but the killings don't. It's the european/american way of war.