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THE
SORROWS OF EMPIRE
The Inevitable Consequences of
Washington’s Corrupt, Jingoistic, Interventionist Foreign Policy
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SLAUGHTER!!
100 Afghan Civilians Dead in U.S. Led NATO Air Strike
By Griff Witte and Javed
Hamdard
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, July 1, 2007; A16
ISLAMABAD,
Pakistan,
June 30 -- Just a week after Afghan President Hamid
Karzai chastised international forces for being "careless,"
Afghan officials reported Saturday that possibly 100 or more civilians had
been killed in a NATO and U.S.-led assault.
The
battle in the southern Afghan province
of Helmand, which was prompted by a Taliban ambush, began Friday night
and continued into Saturday morning, Afghan officials said. It ended with
international forces bombing several compounds in the remote village of Hyderabad.
"More
than 100 people have been killed. But they weren't Taliban. The
Taliban were far away from there," said Wali Khan, a member of
parliament who represents the area. "The people are already unhappy with the government.
But these kinds of killings of civilians will cause people to revolt
against the government."
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Sunni
Faction Says US Killed 350 in Baquba
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After Sadr City Raid Kills 26
Worst Three
Months for US in Iraq Since War Began
AP
June 29, 2007
A huge bomb explosion
followed by a hail of gunfire and grenades killed five US soldiers, the
military said Friday. The attack climaxed the deadliest three-month period
for the Americans since the war began.
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No regrets, Laura Bush says
An
Open Letter to Gordon Brown
By
PATRICK COCKBURN
June
29, 2007
“Sending in more
troops to support a government is like giving a drunk more whisky, as one
former senior US intelligence officer said.”
Dear
Mr Brown
Peace
can only be returned to Iraq by a negotiated end to the occupation and an
acceptance by Washington and London that the Shia religious parties, in
alliance with the Kurds and influenced by Iran, are going to run the
country.
You
should take on board simple facts about Iraq that Tony Blair never seemed
to grasp. The occupation is disliked by most Shia and Sunni Iraqis and is
supported only by the Kurds. When the US and Britain overthrew Saddam
Hussein and his Sunni-dominated regime in 2003 they made it inevitable that
the majority Shia community would rule and Iranian influence would
increase. The contortions of US policy over the past four years are largely
a vain attempt to avoid this outcome.
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Rainer Hachfeld,
Berlin,
Germany, Neues Deutschland
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Liberate
With Extreme Prejudice:
Another Civilian Slaughter in Afghanistan
by Chris Floyd
The
Atlantic Free Press
Sunday, 01
July 2007
(Excerpt)
While the
Anglo-American media goes into hyper-drive over a pair of utterly bungled
terrorist wannabe
attacks in the UK, the actual, highly
efficient slaughter of innocent civilians in Afghanistan by American
forces continues at a frenzied pace.
Dozens of
Afghan civilians -- from 50 to 80 -- were killed
in a three-hour bombing raid on the village of Hyderabad on Saturday,
local officials of the American-backed Afghan government told the
Observer.
One man, Mohammed Khan, lost seven
members of his family, including his brother and five of his brother's
children, the paper reported.
In the month of June alone,
more than 200 Afghan civilians were killed by their
"liberators" -- a kill ratio far outstripping that of the
violent sectarians of the Taliban. On the
ground and especially in the air, U.S. forces are now applying a
sledgehammer approach to their counterinsurgency operations, firing
blindly into crowds and at civilians after attacks, or suspected attacks,
by the Taliban, and calling down massive firepower on residential areas.
British commanders are increasingly concerned about the American
policy of "Kill 'em all; let God sort 'em out," and blame the
recent escalation on newly installed NATO commander, the U.S. General Dan
McNeill, as the Observer notes:
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