In what is just the latest in a growing string of recent allegations of NATO forces killing civilians, local villagers in the Garmsir District, Helmand Province said they came out to protest against a reported raid in a nearby town when a NATO patrol arrived on the scene. The villagers say NATO forces opened fire on the crowd, killing at least 13 civilians and wounding dozens.
NATO officials denied the incident, but issued a perplexing statement that simultaneously insisted the forces didn’t fire a single shot while lauding them for opening fire on a sniper on the scene. The local police confirmed the killings, but speculated that the apparently unarmed protesters might have secretly been Taliban.
“The Taliban were provoking the people,” noted Helmand’s deputy police chief, insisting that protesters had overturned cars and raided a building belonging to an Afghan spy agency. The police insisted that it was actually Afghan forces that were with NATO who initially opened fire and that they were still looking into the identities of the slain.
In the town of Now Zad, also in the Helmand Province, US drones killed 13 other apparently unarmed people when they fired a Hellfire missile at what officials are calling a “crowd of suspects.”
The incident came just hours after US General Richard Mills insisted that the United States has claimed victory in the Helmand Province, and that the Taliban are “defeated.”
Sounds to me like this General was rolling in the local opium field. either that or he was smoking some happy weed.
If there are still people who don't know what the axes of evil: this and the killings im Iran makes it obvious, it is the USA and Israel using NATO partners. All dumbtalk about "Democracy" is only whitewash, there are no "Democracies" in that world!! There is no other reason for US and NATO troops being in Iraq of Afghanistan than the attempt of ruling the world by a Big Brother scheme!
In East Germany there once was a "Stasi" which was a small and very naive derivate of what we now have here with the so-called "Verfassungsschutz". Germans now know that voting will not free them from corrupt politicians, voting means nothing, no change. The same scoundrels will be in power again and again just the faces change a little bit. Judges are appointed by politicians and are eager to please them – there is NO real justice in German courts! And the same is probably true for all the other NATO countries, ruled by a bunch of corrupt bureaucrats who would never have achieved anything in their lives if they wouldn't have become politicians or judges.
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Between our terrorist training center in Guantanamo and our tactics "winning the hearts and minds" like killing unarmed Afghan demonstrators, the Us will be guaranteed an inexhaustible supply of jihadists that will last for a generation or more.
This senseless killing of civilians has got to stop.
The USA is turning the whole world into a "killing field"in the name of freedom and democracy.
God help our children.
No doubt the Taliban were also to blame here? That is what NATO friendly UN bureaucrats seem to say now.