Afghans shout "death to Obama" at demonstration over civilian killings

[Better Believe It]

Afghans shout ‘death to Obama’ over killings
Investigator says most of dead were teen students, but NATO disputes that
December 30, 2009

ASADABAD, Afghanistan - The head of a presidential delegation investigating the deaths of 10 people in eastern Afghanistan concluded Wednesday that civilians — including schoolchildren — were killed in an attack involving foreign troops, but NATO officials disputed that.

NATO spokesman Col. Wayne Shanks said in a statement NATO has no direct evidence to substantiate the Afghan probe's findings, and the international force has requested an immediate joint investigation to find out what happened.

Asadullah Wafa, a senior adviser to President Hamid Karzai, gave conflicting numbers on the schoolchildren. He told The Associated Press by telephone that eight schoolchildren between the ages of 12 and 14 were among the dead discovered in a village house in the Narang district of Kunar province. But Reuters quoted him as saying that eight boys, ages 13 to 18, and two men in their 20s were killed.

Afghans protested the deaths Wednesday in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad and in the capital of Kabul.

In the capital of Nangahar province, which borders Kunar, around 200 university students took to the streets to protest against the raid, demanding those responsible be brought to justice.

"Death to Obama. Down with Karzai," they shouted.

Wafa said he was convinced all those killed in the Kunar incident were innocent civilians.

"I have talked to the principal of the school in the village and he gave us details about the killed children," Wafa said in Asadabad, the provincial capital of Kunar.

Wafa said the villagers demanded from the 10-member delegation of government officials and lawmakers that informants "who gave the wrong target to the Americans must be found and punished by a court."


Protesters chant anti-American slogans and burn an effigy of President Barack Obama in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Wednesday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34629216/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

- I bet many of these informants give false information to the U.S. military on the alleged location of insurgents and are really working for Taliban warlords. -

[Echo In Light]

1. Blowback = Lucrative

Yikes...

[EFerrari]

2. Earth to Obama.

[Thickasabrick]

10. Let's hope he figures out he listened to the wrong people sooner

rather than later.

[bread_and_roses]

12. yep (n/t)

[EmeraldCityGrl]

3. Who didn't see this coming?

God I wish Obama read DU. He's becoming completely sealed in the bubble.

[Better Today]

4. As to your final comment, I agree wholeheartedly. We have learned

nothing apparently from our early Afghan and Iraq failures. Failures that saw innocents rounded up on the say so lying "informers" trying to get even with their rivals and using US as their pawns toward those ends.

I cannot comprehend why we trust any informants anywhere without hard evidence to back things up. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, we certainly have full jails here from the same bullshit.

[malaise]

9. And they never learn -US plots retaliatory strikes against al-Qaida in Yemen over plane bomber

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/30/us-plots-retaliatory-strikes-yemen
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The US is planning retaliatory strikes in Yemen against al-Qaida over its attempt to blow up a transatlantic flight on Christmas Day.

American officials say intelligence efforts are focused on identifying and tracking down those who plotted to put Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on the plane with enough explosive in his underwear to bring down the Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam. But they warn that finding those responsible is unlikely to be swift and say that identifying other "high-value" al-Qaida targets for retaliatory attack would also be a priority.

"First we have to find out who put Abdulmutallab on the plane with the bomb," said a US official working alongside intelligence organisations. "He's providing some leads and we're not dealing with an unknown quantity here. We've been watching and listening to what goes on in Yemen and we may have pieces of the puzzle already and just need to fit it together.
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Start with Cheney

[clear eye]

5. "informants 'who gave the wrong target to the Americans must be found and punished by a court.'"

That's quite a thoughtful response. But war can only erode our relations w/ the Afghanis.

[LittleBlue]

6. 8 children executed by US troops. Obama, you goddamn fool, get us out

Not acceptable. You are responsible.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Ingrates! Don't they understand we're killing their children for their own good? K&R

[Echo In Light]

11. Whiner!

:evilgrin:

[ProgressIn2008]

13. They are clearly out of touch with reality. nt

[Doctor_J]

8. I guess they will all be voting for Palin in 2012

Who knew that Fox "News" was organizing tea baggings in Afghanistan?

[StarfarerBill]

14. And we were expecting parades and flowers, perhaps?

[timeforpeace]

15. What a horrible image.

[MichiganVote]

16. How many billions are we pouring into this shithole?

[Better Believe It]

17. Well, we need to rebuild their economy. A lot of Afghans are unemployed.

What do you wanna do? Spend that money for jobs at home?

[MichiganVote]

23. Yeah, I forgot. We should just get our wheelbarrows and empty out our assets to all shitheads.

After that a pound of flesh should be a piece of cake.

[earth mom]

18. What's it going to take for Obama to understand that War is NOT Peace? nt

[Better Believe It]

19. Answer: A mass anti-war movement similiar to what LBJ and Nixon had to face.

[earth mom]

22. Will that happen without a draft? I really hope so, but I'm doubtful.

Because it seems to me that people only started to get upset with Obama because of the Health Care mandate, not when he beefed up troops and made his War is Peace speech at West Point.

[librechik]

20. huh--now why would they blame US?

Oh. Because we did kill their children. I hear we don't have to even write them down
if it's less than 30. Guess that's how it slipped our attention.

[spoony]

21. Hearts and minds!

:nuke:

[bvar22]

24. !

Meet Hamid Karzai
or as Obama calls him, "The Government of Afghanistan".

He was appointed by Bush the Lesser to run Afghanistan.
He is one of the most despicable criminals in The World,
But NOW we like him so much
that our children will be sent to DIE in the deserts of Afghanistan to keep him in power.