Lindorff: Children Executed in Afghanistan

[carincross]

Are U.S. Forces Executing Afghan Kids? By DAVE LINDORFF

"The Taliban suicide attack that killed a group of CIA agents in Afghanistan on a base that was directing US drone aircraft used to attack Taliban leaders was big news in the US over the past week, with the airwaves and front pages filled with sympathetic stories referring to the fact that the female station chief, who was among those killed, was the “mother of three children.” But the apparent mass murder of Afghan school children, including one as young as 11 years old, by a US-led group of troops, was pretty much blacked out in the American media. Especially blacked out was word from UN investigators that the students had not just been killed but executed, many of them after having first been rousted from their bedroom and handcuffed. …

"Afghan President Hamid Karzai is calling for the US to hand over the troops who killed the students. He also quoted a “NATO source” as saying that the “foreigners involved” in the incident were “non-military, suggesting that they were part of a secret paramilitary unit based in the capital” of Kabul."

http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff01042010.html


“Once again, the American media are falling down shamefully in providing honest reporting on a war, making it difficult for the American people to make informed judgments about what is being done in their name.” – Dave Lindorff

[Blue Owl]

1. FUCK WAR

and fuck every chickenhawk warmonger who got us into this fucking mess.

[bergie321]

2. That just makes me sick.

Physically ill.

[Quantess]

3. K & R

[yurbud]

4. this seems like part of a pattern to incite rather quell violence so we have an excuse to stay