U.S. forces kill almost 20 civilians in two days in Afghanistan March 6, 2007
Posted by dave128 in Bush Administration, Human Rights, Invasion of Afghanistan.add a comment
Disturbing news from Afghanistan, with two reports of civilian deaths in as many days.
The first batch of killings happened in Nangarhar province. A suicide bomber attacked a military convoy, then shooting broke out. The marines fired indiscriminately, killing ten people, according to witnesses.
The following day U.S. forces bombed a house in Kapisa province. A cleric who buried the dead said there were nine bodies, five adults (including four women) and four children. U.S. forces alleged two men who had attacked a NATO base were seen entering the housing-area.
President Karzai implored foreign forces to use restraint, fearing a backlash against U.S. troops would give support to the resurgent Taliban. This is just another example of the U.S. exacerbating the threat from fundamentalists, and not”making the world safer” as they are fond of proclaiming.
In a disturbing development, the U.S. military erased photos and videos that journalists took of the aftermath of the shooting.
That makes my blood boil. They are always touting themselves as freedom-loving, democracy-spreading angels. These actions are the total opposite of that. The U.S. said “it was concerned the pictures would not accurately represent the scene.” Which, in a way, is true, because the U.S. has no view of reality.
This reminds me of a discussion (that’s a nice word for it) I had with a Republican over the invasion of Iraq. I mentioned how the photos coming out of the country (specifically the graphic image of a child with his arms blown off) were distressing me terribly and how angry they made me. He replied that he could show me photos of car accidents and it would be the same thing. He alleged the photos and video, yes all of it, coming from Iraq was being taken out of context (of course by the elitist liberal media).
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