Tag Archives: afghanistan

International, U.S.

World War 3: Day 6 Afghan riots, Karzai welcomes anti-U.S. protests, demands U.S. officials be put on trial, more children killed by U.S. led forces

“We strongly condemn the burning of the Holy Qur’an by the Americans and welcome the protests!”-Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan

Despite the U.S. media reporting Karzai calling for calm, on February 26, 2012, the President of Afghanistan said he supports the current anti-U.S. demonstrations.  He, and other Afghan officials, are demanding the prosecution of those responsible for burning dozens of Qur’ans at Bagram Airfield.

Arrogant U.S. Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, told Afghan officials it was their responsibility to protect U.S. troops.  How many times have Afghan officials asked the U.S. to protect their civilians!

Also on the sixth day of riots, in Kunduz Province Afghans threw a grenade that wounded seven U.S. troops.

In Kapisa Province, French forces bombed and killed at least three civilians, two of which were children. This is the second time this month that French forces targeted children!

In Samangan Province, as many as 4,000 Afghans attacked local police stations, and a U.S. base.

 

International, U.S.

World War 3: Iranian general calls for Muslims to burn down the White House

“Nothing but burning the White House can relieve the wound of us, the Muslims, caused by the burning of Qur’an…”-Mohammad Reza Naqdi, Brigadier General of Basij (volunteer) force

February 25, 2012, the top officer of Iran’s Basij (volunteer/reserve) forces called on Muslims to get vengeance for the burning of Qur’ans by burning down the U.S. White House.

He also said that Muslims can no longer accept words as satisfactory apologies, because the U.S. repeatedly commits acts of desecrations: “Their apology can be accepted only by hanging their commanders, hanging their commanders means an apology.”

International, U.S.

World War 3: U.S. NATO forces withdraw from Kabul, Afghans say 4 U.S. officers killed, Afghans rampaging

“Now an ordinary American working in Afghanistan today doesn’t know whether he should expect a bullet from Afghan Taliban or from an Afghan policeman whom he might have trained earlier.”-Ahmed Quraishi, analyst

USMC General John Allen says U.S. led military advisers are being withdrawn from the Interior Ministry, and other government locations “for obvious force protection reasons”.

“Taliban” websites have praised the February 25 killings of four U.S. officers.  U.S. media reported two officers killed, or that two were U.S. officers.

Reports now say it was an Afghan police officer that killed the four U.S./NATO officers.

In eastern Afghanistan, hundreds of people tried to attack the governor’s office in Laghman province.  In Logar province shootings broke out between protestors and security forces.

 

International, U.S.

World War 3: More Afghan troops join in attacks on U.S. led forces, two U.S. officers killed, attack UN compound, U.S. officials fearful of riots in the United States

February 25, 2012, day five of riots and two U.S. officers were killed after a firefight between Afghan government forces and U.S. forces, inside the Afghan Interior Ministry.

One of the U.S. officers was a Colonel, the other a Major. One report says they were shot in the head.  The Interior Ministry compound was filled with hundreds of personnel at the time.

Initial reports said an Afghan government soldier, or police officer, shot and killed the U.S. officers, vengeance for the dozens of Qur’ans burned by U.S. forces at Bagram Airfield.  Other reports say they’re was actually a firefight between Afghan government troops and U.S. troops.

This makes the second time, since the riots began, that two U.S. military personnel were killed by Afghan government forces.

Afghans also tried to storm a UN humanitarian aid compound, but were held back by Afghan police.  At least three people were killed, 47 wounded.

Meanwhile, U.S. officials have been busy visiting Mosques in the United States: “This is an issue we know is of concern, not only to Afghans, but to other Muslims around the world, including in the United States. We want to send a strong signal to the American Muslim community that we deplore what happened and apologize for it.”-George Little, Pentagon

Like I’ve posted before; we’ve heard that excuse how many times now?

International, U.S.

World War 3: Afghans force German troops to withdraw, German base will be closed

Heading into day five of Afghan riots, and German troops were forced to withdraw and shut down their base.

German forces announced they closed their Talokan base, in northern Afghanistan, several weeks earlier than planned because of the riots over the U.S. burning of Qur’ans.

Germany controls the Regional Command North, in Afghanistan.  They said more than 2,000 Afghans are rioting in various cities in their area of operation.

 

International, Opinion, U.S.

Arrogant Ignorant Right Wing Republican Nut Jobs say Afghanistan owes the U.S. an apology!

“Obama apologizes for inadvertent Koran burning; now the US trained & protected Afghan Army can apologize for killing our soldiers yesterday.”-Sarah Palin

“It is Hamid Karzai who owes the American people an apology, not the other way around.”-Newt Gingrich

Fact: Not one Afghan has ever been directly linked to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States!!!

Fact: The United States drew first blood when it invaded Afghanistan in 2001!!!

Fact: The United States, and its allies, have “murdered” hundreds of thousands of Afghans since 2001!!!

Fact: U.S. forces have committed acts of desecration (in violation of the UCMJ) from day one of invading Afghanistan!!!

Fact: The United States is behind covert acts of Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in Afghanistan!!!

The United States will not last long enough to be able to apologize enough to the innocent Afghan people!

I do agree with part of a statement made by Newt Gingrich: “...we should say good bye and good luck, we don’t need to be here risking our lives and wasting our money…”

International, U.S.

World War 3: Afghans storm U.S. Consulate, destroy 20 NATO supply trucks. Lebanon’s Hezbolla blames Israel for U.S. policies

Day four of Afghan riots over the U.S. burnings of dozens of Qur’ans, and USMC General John Allen is pleading for calm: “I call on everyone…to exercise patience and restraint as we continue to gather the facts surrounding Sunday night’s incident.”

In western Afghanistan people stormed the U.S. consultative, at least seven were killed and 50 wounded.

In the province of Khost 20 NATO fuel tankers were attacked and burned.

At least 36 Afghans have been confirmed killed in the past four days of rioting.

“We should search for the Israeli mentality that stands behind various practices in the world. Take for example the burning of Qur’ans.”-Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, Lebanon’s Hezbollah

International, U.S.

World War 3: New phase of Afghan War; Genocide in the Name of Fighting Terrorism. Hundreds of families displaced everyday, hundreds of children frozen to death! National ID cards new weapon for Ethnic Cleansing!

“We saw letters issued by the provincial government of Herat that said, effectively, don’t direct any assistance specifically to displaced people. The theory is that since they don’t want to either encourage them to stay or even acknowledge that displacement is a problem they’re going to pretend that it doesn’t exist.”-Michael Bochenek, Amnesty International

Not being reported by most of the main stream U.S. media is what looks like a new phase in the so called U.S. war on terror in Afghanistan: Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing, specifically by targeting children.

The New York Times has published a report, concerning the growing number of cases of children freezing to death, and being targeted by U.S. led forces.

The Washington Post has also written about the increased forced displacement, and articles about the increased killing of children by U.S. led forces.

For years the Brookings Institution has been reporting on the increasing number of people being forcibly displaced in Afghanistan.

Also, Amnesty International has recently reported that as many as 400 people, per day, are being forced from their homes into refugee (concentration?) camps.  As of the middle of February, 2012, there were an estimated 500,000 people in these camps.

It’s in those camps that children are freezing to death. The camps do not have any basic necessities.  The U.S. backed Afghan government says it’s necessary because of the continued U.S. led war with “Taliban”, and natural disasters.

Amnesty says many of the Afghans being affected include those who returned to Afghanistan after the U.S. “liberated” the country from the Taliban.  Ten years later, those who returned say they were better off in Pakistani refugee camps!

The U.S. supported Afghan government officials deny there is a problem. They label returning refugees as “economic migrants”.

The camps for economic migrants are where hundreds of children have frozen to death this winter.  According to the British Telegraph, at least 40 people, mostly children, froze to death just in the past four weeks!

“They may be refused enrollment or threatened with expulsion if they can not produce a national identification card, a document that most Afghans do not have…”-Amnesty International

One program started by the U.S. supported Afghan government, is a national identification (ID) card (similar to what some lawmakers in the U.S. want for Americans).  If you don’t have the ID card you don’t get any help, your children are not even allowed to attend school (wasn’t that one of the reasons for getting rid of the Taliban, so that kids could go to school?).

“Economic migrants” are not issued ID cards, unless they have other forms of documentation.  Now realize that most Afghans who live outside major cites, as well as those people who fled the civil wars in the 1990s, have no “documentation”.

“In the typical scenario, a group of men arrives, claiming to own the land and telling the families they must leave.”-Amnesty International

If you don’t have this Afghan national ID, you can be kicked out of your home (similar to what Israelis have been doing to Palestinians) and placed in the so called refugee camps. In these camps people are even being denied food because they can not “prove” they are Afghans!

A New York Times article said that U.S. supported Afghan government officials refuse to recognize the increasing number of deaths because those who died did not have proper ID!!!

Where’s all the international aid? Most of the supplies coming into the camps are coming from locals! But, they are not enough.  Nader Nafey, a local businessman, brought food for 200 people at the Charahi Qambar camp.  The problem is that there is more than 900 people in the camp!

“Private Afghan businessmen, as well as companies like Roshan, a mobile telephone carrier, and Ariana Television, through their charitable arms, have visited both of the worst-hit camps in recent days, handing out aid, including food, firewood and cash payments.”-New York Times

Amnesty International says the billions of dollars in international aid, is deliberately being blocked from the camps, by the U.S. supported Afghan government. 

New York Times investigators have interviewed U.S. supported Afghan officials, who blame it all on the refugees.  They make the outrageous claim that the undocumented economic migrants sold off all their food, and even rented out their government supplied apartments, to risk death living in the unheated tents of the refugee camps!!!

This is taking place while killings of Afghan children, by U.S. led forces, is also increasing.

“Seven boys under 14 and an 18-year-old were killed in the attack….They were herding sheep less than half a mile from their homes when the bombing happened.”-New York Times

U.S./NATO/ISAF officials consider herding sheep suspicious: “We were engaging a group of armed men that we observed engaging in unusual behavior.”-Lieutenant Colonial Jimmie E. Cummings

“Suddenly some airplanes came and dropped bombs on the children and killed my son, my two nephews and some other children from our village. When we went there we saw the children in pieces, some missing legs, some missing arms, only the heads and face could be recognized, nothing else.”-Abdul Zahid, local police officer

Recently French NATO/ISAF forces admitted killing the seven boys, and the 18 year old. The French say they had information that the boys were Taliban gun smugglers! (an excuse used thousands of times by U.S. led forces)

Here’s another typical explanation given by U.S. led forces: “These were young Afghans. They were adult-sized, athletic, strong, walking perfectly in the valley. I have no doubt that they were carrying weapons.”

Locals basically say ‘no shit sherlock, we all carry guns, this is Afghanistan where we all have the right bear arms!’  That’s right all you right wingers in the U.S., the right to have weapons is more respected in Afghanistan (even if the U.S. supported government is against it) than in the hypocritical United States!  The problem is that U.S. led forces in Afghanistan target anyone seen carrying a weapon, no mater how young.

“Afghan children, women and men continue to be killed in this war in ever-increasing numbers. For much too long Afghan civilians have paid the highest price of war.”-Ján Kubiš, United Nations Special Representative for the Secretary-General

On February 4, 2012, the United Nations published a report, which said there was a 192% increase in the number of civilians killed, in the last six months of 2011!  The report also said civilian deaths have been increasing every year!

The report blames the yearly increases not only on freedom fighters, but on U.S. supported pro-government forces: “Among the tactics of Pro-Government Forces, aerial attacks caused the greatest number of Afghan civilian deaths in 2011…”

The fact that year after year civilians are increasingly killed or driven into death camps, implies only one thing; an official policy of Genocide.

While many ethnic groups are targeted, the majority are Pashtuns.  The Pashtuns just happen to be the majority of Afghans, and make up the majority of “Taliban”.

This looks more and more like an official U.S. policy to eradicate the dominant Pashtuns, through genocidal ethnic cleansing.  Don’t forget, not one Afghan has ever been directly linked to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States!!!

 

 

 

 

International, U.S.

World War 3: Riots continue in Afghanistan, Taliban take advantage and go on Offensive, 20 Afghans killed, 2 U.S. troops killed, Obama makes empty apology

U.S. media reporting that an Afghan soldier has killed two U.S. troops, vengeance for the burning of dozens of Qur’ans.  It’s not the first, second or third time U.S. led forces have committed acts of desecration (in violation of the UCMJ) in Afghanistan.

At least 20 Afghans have been killed, as a direct result of the riots.  One of those killed was an Afghan government solider. It’s not clear if the soldier was taking part in suppressing the riots, or take part in the riots.

A militia/freedom fighter group (U.S. media calls all Afghan freedom fighters “Taliban”) issued a statement calling for all out attacks on all foreign troops and bases.  At one base U.S. forces were shot at, resulting in two U.S. troops injured.

U.S. President Barack Obama sent a written apology to Afghan President Karzai.  When you realize how many times the U.S. has apologized to Afghanistan, for killing civilians and acts of desecration, it becomes clear those apologies are hollow.

 

International, U.S.

World War 3: Afghans killed, anti-U.S. protests spreading, U.S. bomb girls religious school, U.S. targeting children, U.S. Embassy in lockdown

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul is in lockdown: “The Embassy is on lockdown; all travel suspended. Please, everyone, be safe out there.”-Embassy Twitter announcement

For a second day, anti-U.S. riots continue in Afghanistan, over the burning of dozens of Qur’ans. A hospital in Kabul says more than 19 Afghans have been shot by U.S. led forces, nine have been killed.

Reports say the number of Afghans rioting outside Bagram are in the thousands.

Hundreds of Afghans are converging on Camp Phoenix, a U.S. base on the main highway linking Kabul with Jalalabad.  Thousands of people are rioting in Jalalabad.

“This morning a school was attacked by a NATO helicopter. Nine children, all girls, and the school’s janitor have been injured. Some of the girls were discharged after receiving treatment but about five of them are still in the hospital.”-Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, Nangarhar provincial government

Also, the U.S. has bombed a religious school for girls in eastern Afghanistan.  At least nine students are wounded, along with the school janitor.  Local Afghan officials say the girls school was targeted by NATO helicopters.  ISAF officials say they are investigating, but do not know of any officially sanctioned military action in that area.

This makes the second time, in February, that Afghan children were targeted by U.S. led forces.  On February 8, eight children were killed by U.S. led airstrikes as they were herding sheep!