By Brian Cloughley

"American Special Operations forces conducted raids in the area on Friday and Sunday, and on both occasions they called in airstrikes when they encountered armed resistance, the military said. It said in a statement that it had killed 136 Taliban fighters, including some who were trying to flee across the river."

"Aerial bombing of a valley in western Afghanistan several days ago by the American military killed at least 42 civilians, including women and children, and wounded 50 more, an Afghan government investigation found Wednesday. A provincial council member who visited the site independently put the figure at 50 civilians killed ". . . some women and children were drowned in the river, and it was maybe in the heat of the moment that the children and people wanted to escape and jumped into the water"."

New York Times, June 3, 2007

06/13/07 "ICH" -- -- Who do you believe about the killing of Afghan civilians? Do you believe official US military statements, brought to us by the people who fabricated the story about Jessica Lynch and lied contemptibly at the highest levels about the killing of Pat Tillman? Or do you believe the Afghans who investigated the bombing?

The military gave a precise number for the number of supposed 'Taliban' killed by air strikes, so there are two points to be considered. First, in such circumstances how could they know the number and that all those killed were 'Taliban'? That is impossible. Second, the military tell us smugly that they don't do body counts. Then they feed the media with supposed exact figures of dead "enemy". How can we trust people who produce such garbage? But this atrocity, like so many others, will vanish into the dust of history, speeded into oblivion by the lies of the Pentagon.

In another example of deception the military mind-benders went a bit too far. They made up identical quotes from an "Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified" concerning two entirely separate incidents. Here are the official announcements:

July 13, 2005: "The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the children and all of Iraq," said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified. "They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists"."

and

July 24, 2005: " "The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the ISF [Iraqi Security Forces] and all of Iraq. They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and I will now take the fight to the terrorists," said one Iraqi man who preferred not to be identified."

According to CNN "Lt. Col. Clifford Kent, spokesman for the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division, said use of the quote was an "administrative error." He said the military was looking into the matter." Yeah, right, Colonel.

During the barbarous obliteration of the town of Fallujah by US forces in 2004 it was stated by witnesses that in the course of their malevolent savagery US troops fired White Phosphorus (WP; what we old soldiers used to know as 'Willy Pete') shells which are terror explosives that kill people in the most hideous way. This was denied vehemently by Washington. One self-righteous official rebuttal was that:

" . . . some news accounts have claimed that U.S. forces have used "outlawed" phosphorus shells in Fallujah. Phosphorus shells are not outlawed. U.S. forces have used them very sparingly in Fallujah, for illumination purposes. They were fired into the air to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters. There is a great deal of misinformation feeding on itself about U.S. forces allegedly using "outlawed" weapons in Fallujah. The facts are that U.S. forces are not using any illegal weapons in Fallujah or anywhere else in Iraq."

Well . . . , perhaps not quite all the facts, because the US Army's Field Artillery Magazine then recounted, embarrassingly, that :

"The munitions we brought to this fight [in Fallujah] [included] illumination and white phosphorous (WP, M110 and M825) . . . . White Phosphorus proved to be an effective and versatile munition. We used it for screening missions . . . and, later in the fight, as a potent psychological weapon against the insurgents in trench lines and spider holes when we could not get effects on them with HE. We fired "shake and bake" missions at the insurgents, using WP to flush them out and HE to take them out. . . We used improved WP for screening missions when HC smoke would have been more effective and saved our WP for lethal missions."

The official Pentagon lie was "they were fired into the air to illuminate enemy positions" but the army inadvertently revealed that they were fired to "shake and bake". In ordinary language that means to terrify and incinerate. A tiny morsel of WP burns instantly into flesh and cannot be stopped in its fiery chemical plunge deep into the body. There is no remedy. Victims die in shrieking agony from the effects of ammunition that the Pentagon boobies tell the world was fired "into the air to illuminate enemy positions at night, not at enemy fighters." They lied. They are beneath contempt.

http://www.ichblog.eu/index.php?option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&id=55996

Here's another from US Govt. If going to war with Iran by alleging that they are making a nuclear bomb wasn't enought, they have come up with 'Iran is assisting Iraqi insurgents with arms'.

A biggest joke. At the same time, US is supporting an authoritarian and dictator regime in Pakistan. Wow! Talk of double standards?

ever heard MIGHT is RIGHT ...

it is so true ...

whoever wins is always right and winner always writes the history ...

there was a time talibanis were destroying afganistan ( they were in power ) ...

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Originally posted by hemzer

By Brian Cloughley

"American Special Operations forces conducted raids in the area on Friday and Sunday, and on both occasions they called in airstrikes when they encountered armed resistance, the military said. It said in a statement that it had killed 136 Taliban fighters, including some who were trying to flee across the river."

"Aerial bombing of a valley in western Afghanistan several days ago by the American military killed at least 42 civilians, including women and children, and wounded 50 more, an Afghan government investigation found Wednesday. A provincial council member who visited the site independently put the figure at 50 civilians killed ". . . some women and children were drowned in the river, and it was maybe in the heat of the moment that the children and people wanted to escape and jumped into the water"."

New York Times, June 3, 2007

06/13/07 "ICH" -- -- Who do you believe about the killing of Afghan civilians? Do you believe official US military statements, brought to us by the people who fabricated the story about Jessica Lynch and lied contemptibly at the highest levels about the killing of Pat Tillman? Or do you believe the Afghans who investigated the bombing?

The military gave a precise number for the number of supposed 'Taliban' killed by air strikes, so there are two points to be considered. First, in such circumstances how could they know the number and that all those killed were 'Taliban'? That is impossible. Second, the military tell us smugly that they don't do body counts. Then they feed the media with supposed exact figures of dead "enemy". How can we trust people who produce such garbage? But this atrocity, like so many others, will vanish into the dust of history, speeded into oblivion by the lies of the Pentagon.

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