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US troops accused of burning copies of the Koran
"The incident that sparked the unrest allegedly occurred on October 15, during a routine patrol by US forces near Khwajagan village. An American tank hit a mine, say villagers, and soldiers began a house-to-house search for insurgents. Not finding anyone, they allegedly burned copies of the Koran they found in one of the houses they had raided.
"The soldiers went to Khwaja Fazlurahman's house," said Khwaja Qandol, a resident of the village. "There were only women there at the time. When they did not find anybody, they took six copies of the Koran from the bookcase and burned them in the center of the room."
According to Qandol, the women complained to the rest of the villagers, who went to the house and saw the burned Korans.
This version of events is strongly disputed by US forces, who hint that the Taliban may have staged the incident to provoke anti-American sentiment among the population."
Yes, it was the Taliban, no, it was hooligans, no, it was drug addicts.
The military has lied so often, so egregiously, so consistently, that I automatically assume they lie whenever their spokestooges open their fetid pieholes.
Think Tillman.
We have to remember that this happens every time there's a hated occupation.
The people who we should term patriots fighting a foreign occupation blend into the friendly general populace, and when the occupying forces get successfully attacked and can't find the local fighters, they take it out on anybody and anything they find.
Think My Lai.
"The incident that sparked the unrest allegedly occurred on October 15, during a routine patrol by US forces near Khwajagan village. An American tank hit a mine, say villagers, and soldiers began a house-to-house search for insurgents. Not finding anyone, they allegedly burned copies of the Koran they found in one of the houses they had raided.
"The soldiers went to Khwaja Fazlurahman's house," said Khwaja Qandol, a resident of the village. "There were only women there at the time. When they did not find anybody, they took six copies of the Koran from the bookcase and burned them in the center of the room."
According to Qandol, the women complained to the rest of the villagers, who went to the house and saw the burned Korans.
This version of events is strongly disputed by US forces, who hint that the Taliban may have staged the incident to provoke anti-American sentiment among the population."
Yes, it was the Taliban, no, it was hooligans, no, it was drug addicts.
The military has lied so often, so egregiously, so consistently, that I automatically assume they lie whenever their spokestooges open their fetid pieholes.
Think Tillman.
We have to remember that this happens every time there's a hated occupation.
The people who we should term patriots fighting a foreign occupation blend into the friendly general populace, and when the occupying forces get successfully attacked and can't find the local fighters, they take it out on anybody and anything they find.
Think My Lai.
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