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'Rogue soldier' story is a propaganda lie

anon | 12.03.2012 09:48

THE AMERICAN claim that only one 'rogue' soldier was behind the massacre in Afghanistan on Sunday is being described as a lie.

The line that a sole deranged individual carried out the murder of 16 civilians, including children, has been repeated by global media and seemingly accepted as true. Obviously, this version of the story is less damaging to the reputation of the US's army of occupation.

But eye witness reports spoke of a group of American soldiers who were laughing and appeared drunk. And AP reported on Monday morning: "Afghans are expressing growing skepticism that a shooting rampage that killed 16 civilians was carried out by a single US soldier.

"Abdul Rahum Ayubi, who is a lawmaker from Kandahar province where the tragedy occurred, said Monday it seemed impossible for one soldier to cover the ground between the houses that were attacked — over a mile (2 kilometers) — and also burn the dead bodies.

"Bismullah Afghanmal, a parliament member, said the reports he received from villagers indicate the shooting before dawn Sunday came from several directions." Bacha Agha of Balandi village told AP: "One man can't kill so many people. There must have been many people involved.

"If the government says this is just one person's act we will not accept it. ... After killing those people they also burned the bodies." In a statement, Afghan President Hamid Karzai left open the possibility of more than one shooter.

He initially spoke of a single US gunman, then referred to "American forces" entering houses. The statement quoted a 15-year-old survivor named Rafiullah, who was shot in the leg, as telling Karzai in a phone call that 'soldiers' broke into his house, woke up his family and began shooting them. "This is an assassination, an intentional killing of innocent civilians and cannot be forgiven," Karzai said.

The original news report from Reuters, later modified to include the official US account, said: "Witnesses told Reuters they saw a group of US soldiers arrive at their village in Kandahar's Panjwayi district at around 2am, enter homes and open fire."

From:  http://vastminority.blogspot.com/

anon

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Its over.

12.03.2012 14:55

The dead are taken away.
The dead are taken away.

Some of the dead children.
Some of the dead children.

The bodies of some very young infants.
The bodies of some very young infants.

Yet more dead.
Yet more dead.

Some images from the massacre of women and children in and around the Alkozai and Najeeban areas of Kandahar. A total of 16 died on Sunday and according to the BBC "At one house in Najeeban, 11 people were found shot dead, and some of their bodies set alight. At least three of the child victims are reported to have been killed by a single shot to the head.".

A number of the dead were burned by fire obviously in an attempt to hide the crime.

The US has claimed that a lone soldier was responsible for the atrocity but local eyewitnesses at the scene claim a number of soldiers were present and this goes some way to explain how the bodies, after being shot, were then burned. The United States has been widely accused of attempting to manage the reaction to the atrocity by isolating the conduct of the soldier into a mental health issue in order to protect the integrity of the wider ISAF mission.

At present, the United States forces in Kandahar are bracing for a significant reaction to the massacre and have reeled in troops numbers and confined many to their bases. Colaition partners have also cancelled many walking deployments and security patrols in fear of the consequences that are developing.

There is also a developing breakdown of relations between tribal elders and occupation forces throughout Southern Afghanistan with many meetings scheduled to take place in order to manage the recent protests being cancelled or with senior elders simply not turning up as arranged.

It does now look likely that the already strained and difficult relations US forces have had with the local populace have now broken down completely.

The end is nigh.


Evidence.

12.03.2012 15:27

Anar Gul and her murdered and burned grandson.
Anar Gul and her murdered and burned grandson.

"Any evidence these pictures relate to this incident ?"

The first image I publish here was taken by an Associated Press photographer at Kandahar on Sunday 11th March 2012. The woman sitting in the back of the truck is Anar Gul and it is her grandson laying dead in the back of the vehicle. She has stated that the boy was killed by foreign troops who came to her village in the early hours during the dark. As you can see, the boys leg has been incinerated in fire set by US forces.

An AP photographer has stated that they witnessed 16 bodies a number of whom had been burned by fire and that is corroberated by photographic evidence. The Associated Press news agency is under very great pressure from the US military in Afghanistan and the US State Department not to release the worst of the images.

The end is nigh.


AP

12.03.2012 16:20

"The first image I publish here was taken by an Associated Press photographer at Kandahar on Sunday 11th March 2012."

Its Allauddin Khan who works as a stringer for AP in Afstan.

Trusted contributor and a safe pair of hands.

Jo Shmo


...

12.03.2012 16:33

*********Its Allauddin Khan who works as a stringer for AP in Afstan*************

There's loadsa stuff on t-inernet of his already.

H


group or an individual?

12.03.2012 18:21

Unlikely that it would be a single American out at night on his own unless he was suicidal or wanted to be kidnapped. Almost certainly a group, which means where the fuck are the others?

Al


Bingo

12.03.2012 18:30

Well, according to your super soaraway Sun, the majority of us Brits want out now and couldn't give a toss about staying there anymore.

"Brits want out of ‘unwinnable’ war, Shock Afghanistan poll"

 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/4181933/Sun-poll-reveals-Brits-want-out-of-unwinnable-Afghanistan-war.html

Apparently, its come as a complete shock that no-one gives a shit!

The Current Bun


Tip of the iceboig.

12.03.2012 18:35

"Unlikely that it would be a single American out at night on his own unless he was suicidal or wanted to be kidnapped. Almost certainly a group, which means where the fuck are the others?"

I'm sure I read earlier today that he was a engaged with the hearts and minds operation to convince Afghani's that they actually liked having the yanks there. That means he would've been semi-intelligence so would have had access to special forces or worked alongside them.

If he went with those chappies and they were involved then the yanks will keep that a secret. He'll be on his own.

Mitch


Are you Jewish?

13.03.2012 01:34

AFAIK

The so called 'Zionist Conspiracy' is part of what Michael Parenti calls the Conspiracy of Class Power, Zionism is an Ideology invented as a possible tool to bring about certain geo-strategic outcomes, Invented around the same time as the promise of global power that the nacent technology of the Internal Combustion Engine gave 'Empire Builders (war mongering investors to you and me)' was coming into being. Massive ammounts of oil were roumoured to exist in Mesopotamia and known to exist in Baku, The British sent 'archaeologists' with seismic packs to 'explore' the 'ancient sites'. So -that meant Trucks Battleships U-Boats,eventually planes and tanks all tested in the first Blitzkreig of WW1.

An invented Ideology much like the Jihadi ideology was invented in America to drive the Soviets out of strategically (to Caspian Basin oil) important Afghanistan. What I'm trying to say is that as Jihad was invented for a geo-strategic purpose so was Zionism

The aims for this invented ideology are to divide Arab against Arab, to keep the ME in a constant state of division war and 'Terror', so that two pillars of power for the ruling class, weapons and oil make nice profits for Investors.

The evidence that 'Zionists control the World' isn't evidence that 'Zionists Control the World',

It's evidence that half through WW1 a group of financiers dropped support for the German plan to dominate Eurasia - and in return for the Balfour Declaration' moved their investment to the 'Allied' plan for the restructuring of Power in the ME ( the removal from the Oil lands of the Ottoman Turks), The removal of two other hereditary ruling class dynastys - Hapsberg/ Romanov - in a restructuring of European power and the rapid industrialisation of what had by then become the Soviet Union 'created' as a foil to the threat of future German domination of Eurasia.

So people that say things like Zionists Control things are wrong. Ruling class Zionists don't give a stuff about whats happening to people of any faith or culture in Palestine. They only care about the geo-strategic effect of turbulence in the ME that the existence of Israel creates, I think as soon as the ME no longer has oil the support by ruling class 'Zionists' for Israel will die. Israel will no longer serve a purpose for the ruling class, then fuck knows what happens, well I suppose a war that's the kind of thing that the ruling class like to do when they can't come up with anything more profitable, there isn't much that is more profitable than war, make something and blow it up make another blow that up too, production can bearly keep up with destruction, kerching kerching kerching.

I agree that the word Zionist is often a shield for the white race revenge brigade fascists as typing "Zionists Control Everything" into a search engine of your choice will show - Storm Front, Rense etc etc,

There is a conection too with 9-11 here, I have personal experience of someone who when seeing that 9-11 was a False Flag and hearing it first from one holocaust sceptic Eric Huffschmidt. Huffschmidt managed to 'brain wash' this person to believe that 'ZIONISTS Control Everything' Concerned for the mental wellbeing of my friend I had to wade through the 'evidence' that everything was controlled by Zionists. What had happened was that my mate experienced an 'Everything you know is wrong moment", and Huffschmidt was on hand to fill up what had become an empty vessel.

So I went onto these White Supremacist web sites, and Huffschmidts own and there they provided documentary evidence in the form of a speech given by some soap manufacturer who had invested in the German plan to remodel the world, and obviously wasn't with the 'smart money' that left the German project half way through WW1. And he was pissed off he must have lost a lot, but he's presented as "Zionist Insider" who was at the meeting that discussed the Balfour decoration. Well he was no Zionist Insider if he didn't know the 'Zionists' were pulling out, and he was in the crowd that heard the declaration read not 'in the meeting' as you might expect an insider to be. So hardly an insider more of a dumb investor that was duped out of his soap cash by a bunch war profiteering 'investors' out to reshape the world and make profit through war and energy.

I couldn't shake my mates conviction because rather than thinking that what I tought I'd done which was a critical appraisal of 'evidence' that Zionists control everything and had found it wanting, I was told I was just spouting Zionist misinformation because Zionist Control everthying the media etc and eveything except Huffschmidts 'truth' can't be believed.

My mate got into this state after 7/7 he went looking for answers on the internet coz his kids were too scared to travel in London and unfortunately found Huffschidt first. So the 'truth' about 9-11 is dangerous if you hear about it from a fascist who then goes on to recruit you as a footsoldier for anti 'Zionists'.

So what's this all mean well basically because Zionism is an invented ideology to suit a certain ruling class geostrategic purpose the Zionists are controlled by the ruling class and not the other way round. The ruling class may support Zionism but it's not because they are Zionists its because it serves their purpose.

Zoltan


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