The Village where 'nothing' happened. (war crimes by US)

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=937337280


THE TIMES OF INDIA

The village where 'nothing' happened

DECEMBER 04, 2001

RASHMEE Z AHMED
TIMES NEWS NETWORK

LONDON: Fifty-nine days after America struck back, an intrepid British correspondent has had the temerity to question the Pentagons version of a recent bombing raid in which a whole village in eastern Afghanistan was wiped out.

The Independent newspapers Richard Lloyd Parry travelled to the destroyed village, which he caustically described as "the village where nothing happened".
This was in a reference to the Pentagons tough-talking rejection at the weekend of reports that innocent civilians at Kama Ado village had been killed en masse. In response to questions, the Pentagon had said, "it just didnt happennothing happened".

But Parry said he travelled at great risk to himself along the road out of the city of Jalalabad to Kama Ado, where the houses were now just "deep conical craters. He said he unearthed "a small fragment of 'nothing' the tail-end of a compact bomb. It bore the words, Surface Attack Guided Missile AGM 114, and a serial number: 232687", he said.

He added in a tone of angry incredulity that "till nothing happened, it was a large village with a small graveyard, but now that has been reversed. The cemetery on the hill contains 40 freshly dug graves, unmarked and identical. And the village of Kama Ado has ceased to exist".
He said that "when nothing happened, that morning", the villagers had apparently been having an early morning meal. He found some bombed-out cooking utensils, he said, including a "contorted tin kettle turned almost inside out" by the force of the blast.

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A village is destroyed. And America says nothing happened
War on terrorism
Richard Lloyd Parry in Kama Ado, Afghanistan
04 December 2001

The village where nothing happened is reached by a steep climb at the end of a rattling three-hour drive along a stony road. Until nothing happened here, early on the morning of Saturday and again the following day, it was a large village with a small graveyard, but now that has been reversed. The cemetery on the hill contains 40 freshly dug graves, unmarked and identical. And the village of Kama Ado has ceased to exist.

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In another room are the only riches that these people had, six dead cows lying higgledy-piggledy and distended by decay. And all this is very strange because, on Saturday morning – when American B-52s unloaded dozen of bombs that killed 115 men, women and children – nothing happened.

We know this because the US Department of Defence told us so. That evening, a Pentagon spokesman, questioned about reports of civilian casualties in eastern Afghanistan, explained that they were not true, because the US is meticulous in selecting only military targets associated with Osama bin Laden's al-Qa'ida network. Subsequent Pentagon utterances on the subject have wobbled somewhat, but there has been no retraction of that initial decisive statement: "It just didn't happen."

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=108209

[Bozola]

1. Odd...

An AGM 114 is a helicopter launched, short-range, laser-guided, air-to-surface missile, aka, Hellfire.

B-52s don't drop Hellfires. To find fragments of a Hellfire missile means that either the US Army or Marines were close by, participating.