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U.S. Continues Campaign of Death and Destruction
Although it isnt on CNN anymore, the U.S. Government continues to murder and destroy in the name of those who died on September 11th. Remember this next time when you ask, "why???"
Carpet-bombing US Air Force warplanes were blamed yesterday for the deaths of about 150 unarmed Afghan civilians in a densely populated frontline town caught up in the battle for the Taliban redoubt of Kunduz.
Terrified refugees fleeing the town of Khanabad yesterday told The Independent that American planes had bombed the area a few miles from Kunduz daily since Thursday, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the buildings they were bombing were civilian homes. All day yesterday, huge plumes of smoke rose from the hills on the front lines near the Taliban's last northern stronghold as B-52 bombers continued to drop their loads of bombs.
"I saw 20 dead children on the streets," said Zumeray, one of the refugees. "Forty people were killed yesterday alone. I saw it with my own eyes. Some of them were burned by the bombs, others were crushed by the walls and roofs of their houses when they collapsed from the blast."
The relentless US pounding appears to have persuaded the Taliban forces to surrender, provided the Northern Alliance fighters pledge not to kill the mostly Arab and Pakistani fighters among them. The Taliban offer was conditional on UN representatives monitoring the surrender, they said.
Terrified refugees fleeing the town of Khanabad yesterday told The Independent that American planes had bombed the area a few miles from Kunduz daily since Thursday, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the buildings they were bombing were civilian homes. All day yesterday, huge plumes of smoke rose from the hills on the front lines near the Taliban's last northern stronghold as B-52 bombers continued to drop their loads of bombs.
"I saw 20 dead children on the streets," said Zumeray, one of the refugees. "Forty people were killed yesterday alone. I saw it with my own eyes. Some of them were burned by the bombs, others were crushed by the walls and roofs of their houses when they collapsed from the blast."
The relentless US pounding appears to have persuaded the Taliban forces to surrender, provided the Northern Alliance fighters pledge not to kill the mostly Arab and Pakistani fighters among them. The Taliban offer was conditional on UN representatives monitoring the surrender, they said.
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"It was God who brought this on Khanabad," said Farhod. "The people there have had to suffer so much. We had so many problems when the Taliban came, and now this.
"This is the work of the Taliban," said Zumeray, insisting that he was not angry with the Americans. "The Taliban were so cruel, and God brought the Americans to help us."
to read the whole article go to this link: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=105629
i said it before and i'll say it again. americans are stupid.
Since this article has been mutilated it shouldn't be the subject of discussion. However, the fact that it was mutilated is important.
I think an important point here is that posts to Indy Media can possibly be shortened for space constraints but should never be mutilated in a way that obscures or (in this case) changes, a fundimental element of the article. This is arguing under false pretenses.
No matter what the point of view of the poster, articles, quotes, and figures should always be clipped and used in context.
Giving the URL is good but it's like hiding key qualifiers deep in footnotes on a large research paper.
The fact is, your point - and an important one - is now lost (to me at least) because an out of context article was used as the basis.
Those who think that this phony war on terror is going to make Americans safer should think for a second about the mosque that was bombed by the US in Kandahar on the first day of Ramadan. How many Muslims did that offend? How many does it take to retaliate? Put that in your pipe and smoke it danny boy.