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Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation – April 9, 2010

-To follow up on the story we reported on the program last week
regarding the NATO assault and killings of a wedding party in Pakita
Province, Afghanistan on Febuary 12, 2010. The story was uncovered by
the London Times and not only exposed the NATO killings of Afghani
civilians, but also how NATO had knowingly lied to cover up its
actions. Original investigations by the London Times “suggested that
NATO’s claims were either willfully false or, at best, misleading.” 

-Further verifications by Afghani investigators as reported this week
by the London Times have also indicated that "US special forces
soldiers dug bullets out of their victims’ bodies in the bloody
aftermath of (the) botched night raid, then washed the wounds with
alcohol before lying to their superiors about what happened"

-The Times also reported that "NATO admitted responsibility for all the deaths
for the first time on (Sunday night)."

-Just to give you, the listener, some insight as to how the North
American meanstream media coverage of the events in Afghanistan attempt
to manipulate your understanding of what is going on and alter your
preceptions of the truth, compare the investigative journalism of the
London Times with the CNN coverage of the same event on February 12,
2010 that reported the deaths of the 3 civilian women and 2 Afghani
government officials were "honour killings" and insinuated that it was
the families of the victims themselves or even the taliban who were
responsible.

-Granted, the CNN report did appear only hours after the incident
occured, but this misinformation is STILL posted on the CNN website two
months later. 

-It becomes clearer and clearer as the misinformation in the
meanstream media is exposed that these media outlets are no longer
reliable sources for credible information about the situation in
Afghanistan. 

-We hope you, the listener, accepted our challenge last week, and
analyzed how the meanstream media covered Afghani President Hamid
Karzai's sarcastic remarks that he was considering joining the taliban.
These comments, made off the cuff and taken out of context by every
meanstream media outlet from Yellowknife to Key West, were used to
demonize the Afghani government and as an excuse not to report on the
cause of the frustration that led Karzai to make such a remark. The
continued killing of Afghani civilians by NATO and foreign coalition
forces has actually rendered the taliban a viable alternative for
Afghani civilians to safeguard the welfare of Afghani people. That is
the legacy of what 8 years of NATO and foreign occupation has done to
the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan.

-Thousands marched in the streets of Germany this past week to protest
against the invasion and continued occupation of Afghanistan. There
were 30 organized rallies at locations across the country to call for
an immediate and complete troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Over 1000
people marched in Munich and about 2000 more people marched in
different towns and cities across Germany. The protest movement, which
is celebrating 50 years of Easter demonstrations this year, is also
calling for a world free of nuclear weapons and an end to German arms
exports. This demonstrates the point that we have made clearly on the
FMA over the past weeks that there is an undeniable link between the
opposition to the "imperialism" and empire the countries occupying
Afghanistan seek to maintain and the global movement of the true
international community towards prioritizing people and humanity over
war and conquest. 

-In the United States, there have been protests and marches that have
not stopped opposing the occupation of both Iraq and Afghanistan. In
late March, there was a protest, against the wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan, that began with a noon rally in Lafayette Park across the
street from the White House and followed with a march.

Brian Becker, national coordinator of the antiwar ANSWER Coalition,
which called for the demonstration, said: "There is growing a body of
sentiment in the country . . . that opposes the expanding war in
Afghanistan, the continued occupation of Afghanistan, the continued
occupation of Iraq."

Maggie Pondolfino, a representative of Military Families Speak Out,
said: "I'm the proud mother of an active-duty infantry soldier. . . .
We love and support our troops. And it is because we do that we will
vocally show our opposition whenever our government sends them to
ill-advised, immoral, unwinnable wars."

-Here in Canada, we will continue our look at how this government is
handling the accusations and stigma of war crimes guilt that hangs over
the head of every Canadian because of the actions of this government
and its security forces.
 

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/19-7

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7087637.ece

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/02/12/afghanistan.bodies/index.html

http://www.rebelnews.org/politics/europe/203899-german-easter-rallies-decry-afghanistan-killings

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1/ What have you learned from studying the released government documents?

2/ Will Canadians get a full public inquiry into the Afghan Detainee Situation?

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2.What does this mean for the US and their ocupation of Afghanistan which depends on Kyrgyzstan as a Northern supply post?

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10 Weekly Update into Afghanistan Situation

-A night raid carried out by US and Afghan gunmen led to the deaths of two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials and is an atrocity which Nato then tried to cover up, survivors have told The London Times in England.

The assault by Nato was carried out before dawn on the morning of February 12, 2010 in Pakita Province, Eastern Afghanistan; Despite the fact that two weeks earlier Nato had promised to eliminate night time raids specifically because of the high rate of civillian casulaties caused by these raids.  Nato issued a statement after the raid which claimed that the victims were already dead and had been found already “tied up, gagged and killed”.

Investigations by the London Times however, which included interviews with more then a dozen survivors of the Nato assault, officials, police officers and a religious leader at and around the scene of the attack “suggest that Nato’s claims are either wilfully false or, at best, misleading.”

Nato’s original statement said: “Several insurgents engaged the joint force in a firefight and were killed.” The family, who were celebrating the wedding of one of the victims, maintain that no one threw so much as a stone. Rear Admiral Greg Smith, Nato’s director of communications in Kabul, denied that there had been any attempt at a cover-up, but did not respond to the allegations that laws and rules of conduct requiring Afghan-International and Nato units to identify themselves by leaving leaflets of identification were not respected. In fact, local US forces denied any involvement.

Nato’s director of communications did admit that the original statement had been “poorly worded” but said “to people who see a lot of dead bodies” the women had appeared at the time to have been dead for several hours.

Although the family of the victims were offered 2000$ US dollars for each of the victims, a family member said “There’s no value on human life. They killed our family, then they came and brought us money. Money won’t bring our family back.”

-Last week we reported that the UK-based group “Save the Children” had stressed the importance of seperating humanitarian aid from military strategy and attack. In fact, the UN has withdrawn from Afghanistan for precisely that call not being heeded by Nato and its allies. Now, over the past week more NGOs trying to provide humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan have joined in the call.

Doctors Without Borders/Medicins Sans Frontiers issued a press release strongly objecting to a recent statement by NATO’s Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, in which he implied that aid groups should be the “soft power” component to the military strategy NATO and the international coalition forces have employed in Afghanistan.

The NGO press release re-inforced the points made on this program last week: that the international military coalition has also co-opted the aid system – at times with the aid community’s complicity – to the point where it is difficult for Afghani Civilians and taxpayers at home to distinguish between assistance and political or military action.

To quote Doctors Without Borders reps in the US and Afghanistan -

“When confusion is sown about the intentions of aid workers, it can raise suspicions in affected communities or even lead armed groups to consider health centres and medical personnel as legitimate targets.

This draws humanitarian aid into the battlefield, with populations subsequently denied health care. After eight years of war, emergency medical care for Afghanis should not depend upon the parties waging it.”

-Afghani President Karzai signed several economic agreements with Chinese leaders which indicate that it is possible to develop a prosperous economic future without having to resort to military force. Canadians should try to find out how the Chinese did it.

-Afghanistan will need another 500 million US dollars to clear the country of mines, according to Afghan Technical Consultants, a private mining company

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7060395.ece

http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/63672/2010/02/18-125742-1.htm

http://unama.unmissions.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1741&ctl=Details&mid=1882&ItemID=8270

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