Atrocity in Azizabad:
More Child Sacrifices on the Terror War Altar
Chris Floyd
Monday, 08 September 2008
http://www.chris-floyd.com/content/view/1601/135/
Every day, the shame mounts, the lies grow more brazen and more brutal, and the dishonor spreads and deepens -- ineradicable, like a white garment soaked with blood.
The atrocity in Azizabad, an Afghan village hit by an American airstrike on the night of August 22, is by no means the worst depredation of the so-called "War on Terror," which has left more than million innocent people dead in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia over the past seven years. But the mass death visited upon the sleeping, defenseless citizens of Azizabad encapsulates many of the essential elements of this global campaign of "unipolar domination" and war profiteering: the callous application of high-tech weaponry against unarmed civilians; the witless attack that alienates local supporters and empowers an ever-more violent and radical insurgency; and perhaps the most quintessential element of all -- the knowing lies and deliberate deceits that Washington employs to hide the obscene reality of its Terror War.
Harrowing video film backs Afghan villagers' claims of carnage caused by US troops
Tom Coghlan in Kabul
From The Times
September 8, 2008
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4699077.ece
As the doctor walks between rows of bodies, people lift funeral shrouds to reveal the faces of children and babies, some with severe head injuries.
Women are heard wailing in the background. “Oh God, this is just a child,” shouts one villager. Another cries: “My mother, my mother.”
The grainy video eight-minute footage, seen exclusively by The Times, is the most compelling evidence to emerge of what may be the biggest loss of civilian life during the Afghanistan war.
These are the images that have forced the Pentagon into a rare U-turn. Until yesterday the US military had insisted that only seven civilians were killed in Nawabad on the night of August 21.
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The US military said that its findings were corroborated by an independent journalist embedded with the US force. He was named as the Fox News correspondent Oliver North, who came to prominence in the 1980s Iran-Contra affair…
Palin will meet media in a "few days": McCain
Sun Sep 7, 2008 1:14pm EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0733023520080907
[…]
"She'll agree to an interview when we think it's time and when she feels comfortable doing it," David said on "Fox News Sunday…
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Does palin really think that the rest of the world will wait on her in a crisis until she feels comfortable??!!
If she can’t step in front of the press on day one, she’s not ready to be president, and she will not be ready in a few months. And here’s another flash for that mccain wuss. I’m looking for a president, not a “commander-in-chief”, when January rolls around.
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