Obama Covers Up A Dozen My Lais
Were 3,000 Afghans Murdered As U.S. Troops Stood By? by Ted Rall
NEW YORK--"I've asked my national security team to...collect the facts," President Obama told CNN. Then, he said, "we'll probably make a decision in terms of how to approach it once we have all the facts together."
Probably.
Such was Obama's tepid reaction to a New York Times cover story about an alleged "mass killing of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners of war by the forces of an American-backed warlord during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan."
Obama sounds so reasonable. Doesn't he always? But his reaction to the massacre in the Dasht-i-Leili desert is nothing more than the latest case of his administration refusing to investigate a Bush-era war crime.
There are two things Obama doesn't want you to know about Dasht-i-Leili. First, the political class and U.S. state-controlled media have sat on this story for six to seven years. Second, U.S. troops are accused of participating in the atrocities, which involved 12 times as many murders as My Lai."
3000 Taleban were slaughtered
"It was awful," Irfan Azgar Ali, a survivor of the trip, told England's Guardian newspaper. "They crammed us into sealed shipping containers. We had no water for 20 hours. We banged on the side of the container. There was no air and it was very hot. There were 300 of us in my container. By the time we arrived in Sheberghan, only ten of us were alive."
One Afghan trucker, forced to drive one such container, says that the prisoners began to beg for air. Northern Alliance commanders "told us to stop the trucks, and we came down. After that, they shot into the containers [to make air holes]. Blood came pouring out. They were screaming inside." Another driver in the convoy estimates that an average of 150 to 160 people died in each container.
When the containers were unlocked at Sheberghan, the bodies of the dead tumbled out. A 12-man U.S. Fifth Special Forces Group unit, Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 595, guarded the prison's front gates and, according to witnesses, controlled the facility in the hopes of picking key prisoners for interrogation and possible transportation to Guantánamo Bay. (This is how Lindh was singled out.) "Everything was under the control of the American commanders," a Northern Alliance soldier tells Doran in the film. American troops searched the bodies for Al Qaeda identification cards. But, says another driver, "Some of [the prisoners] were alive. They were shot" while "maybe 30 or 40" American soldiers watched."
NEW YORK--"I've asked my national security team to...collect the facts," President Obama told CNN. Then, he said, "we'll probably make a decision in terms of how to approach it once we have all the facts together."
Probably.
Such was Obama's tepid reaction to a New York Times cover story about an alleged "mass killing of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners of war by the forces of an American-backed warlord during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan."
Obama sounds so reasonable. Doesn't he always? But his reaction to the massacre in the Dasht-i-Leili desert is nothing more than the latest case of his administration refusing to investigate a Bush-era war crime.
There are two things Obama doesn't want you to know about Dasht-i-Leili. First, the political class and U.S. state-controlled media have sat on this story for six to seven years. Second, U.S. troops are accused of participating in the atrocities, which involved 12 times as many murders as My Lai."
3000 Taleban were slaughtered
"It was awful," Irfan Azgar Ali, a survivor of the trip, told England's Guardian newspaper. "They crammed us into sealed shipping containers. We had no water for 20 hours. We banged on the side of the container. There was no air and it was very hot. There were 300 of us in my container. By the time we arrived in Sheberghan, only ten of us were alive."
One Afghan trucker, forced to drive one such container, says that the prisoners began to beg for air. Northern Alliance commanders "told us to stop the trucks, and we came down. After that, they shot into the containers [to make air holes]. Blood came pouring out. They were screaming inside." Another driver in the convoy estimates that an average of 150 to 160 people died in each container.
When the containers were unlocked at Sheberghan, the bodies of the dead tumbled out. A 12-man U.S. Fifth Special Forces Group unit, Operational Detachment Alpha (ODA) 595, guarded the prison's front gates and, according to witnesses, controlled the facility in the hopes of picking key prisoners for interrogation and possible transportation to Guantánamo Bay. (This is how Lindh was singled out.) "Everything was under the control of the American commanders," a Northern Alliance soldier tells Doran in the film. American troops searched the bodies for Al Qaeda identification cards. But, says another driver, "Some of [the prisoners] were alive. They were shot" while "maybe 30 or 40" American soldiers watched."
posted by nolocontendere at 8:37 PM
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Corporate government anyone?
Well, at least they have the policy continuity they've been seeking the past thirty years.
In the battle for earth's resources, there'll always be disposable people and 'collateral damage.'
I believe that the US officers and soldiers complicit in this massacre all nodded to the act because they absolutely bought and gulped down all the koolaid fed to them by the ministry of propaganda. The Taliban were the ultimate human-rights violators; they all deserved to be murdered.
That has been my conclusion from the beginning. The Taliban were working with AQ and AQ were responsible for 9/11 and both had committed countless other acts of murder. This is the koolaid they sold us and this is the koolaid so many westerners bought and consumed.
I did not, I never bought it.
Some westerners need a serious history lesson of Afghanistan, begining with the Soviet occupation in the 80s. True history, not more lies.
One thing in 9/11's aftermath stood out like a sore thumb, an obviously contrived and orchestrated bit of propaganda grandstanding that directly led to the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.
For several weeks every single time the criminals got face time in front of a camera they unanimously bellowed that the 9/11 patsies will be punished, along with those who harbor them.
They emphasized this over and over, drilling it into the mouthbreathers in preperation for the invasion of Pipelinistan, or Poppystan, take your pick. Of course nailing the supposed Black Tuesday masterminds immediately became irrelevant, although indiscriminate slaughter could be construed by dullards as trying.
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