The war in Afghanistan is not only lost, but is now getting down right disgusting. I have said for a very long time that we are in Afghanistan to both secure the Opium trade, and to prop up a corrupt government!
Now according to this article from www.uruknet.info, it seems that NATO/US forces have been murdering Afghan children.(!) This is beyond revolting, and an investigation must take place immediately..... Here is the article:
Afghan children 'shot dead' by foreign forcesBy Sardar Ahmad (AFP)
Afghan civilians 'shot dead' by foreign forces
December 30, 2009
KABUL — Afghan government investigators on Wednesday accused foreign troops of dragging 10 people, including eight children, from their homes and shooting them dead.
Anti-US protests erupted in at least two cities over the alleged killings as President Hamid Karzai's office published its report, likely to enflame tensions between the Afghan government and its Western military backers.
The presidential investigating team said the dead included eight children, between 13 and 17 years old, said a statement from Karzai's office.
The alleged incident took place late Saturday in the eastern province of Kunar, where Taliban activity is high as the militants are believed to cross into Afghanistan across the porous border with Pakistan.
International forces based in Kunar and local police told Asadullah Wafa, head of the investigating team and a former governor of Kunar province, that "they were unaware of the incident," Wafa told AFP.
"A unit of international forces descended from a plane in the Narang district of Kunar province and took 10 people from three homes, eight of them school students in grades six, nine and 10, one of them a guest, the rest from the same family, and shot them dead," the statement said, quoting Wafa.
Wafa was shown documents by the principal of the school that the students attended, proving their status, the statement added.
Karzai had spoken to the father and uncles of the students, offering his condolences, and promised a full investigation.
"The president assured them that the government will seriously investigate the incident and deal with the culprits in accordance with the law," the statement said.
Hundreds of university students blocked main roads in Jalalabad, capital of eastern Nangahar province, on Wednesday to protest the alleged deaths.
The protesters torched a US flag and an effigy of US President Barack Obama in a public square, after chanting "death to Obama" and "death to foreign forces", witnesses said.
"Our demonstration is against those foreigners who have come to our country," said Safiullah Aminzai, a student organiser.
"They have not brought democracy to Afghanistan but they are killing our religious scholars and children."
Protesters in downtown Kabul tied green ribbons around their foreheads on which was written in red "stop killing us," witnesses said.
Others chanted "foreigners out" and "death to the murderers of Afghan people".
Civilian deaths in the eight-year war to eradicate a Taliban-led insurgency are a sensitive issue for the Afghan public, and fan tensions between Karzai and the 113,000 foreign troops.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which has 113,000 troops in Afghanistan, said it had no activities in the area at the time the alleged incident took place.
A senior Western military official said US Special Forces have been conducting operations in the area, separately from ISAF.
The United Nations released figures this week showing that civilian deaths rose 10.8 percent in the first 10 months of 2009 to 2,038, up from 1,838 for the same period of 2008.
The UN calculations show the majority, or 1,404 civilians, were killed by insurgents fighting to overthrow Karzai's government and eject Western troops.
But extremists rarely claim responsibility for attacks that kill large numbers of civilians, instead blaming foreign forces in an increasingly effective propaganda campaign.
The Taliban rely increasingly on homemade bombs, which exact a horrific toll on civilians and military alike, with foreign troop deaths at a record 508 this year.
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:: Article nr. 61628 sent on 30-dec-2009 23:29 ECT
NTS Notes: If this proves true, then there must be an immediate call for a tribunal to bring those responsible to swift justice.
You cannot win the hearts and minds of people if you murder their children, and if this report is proven accurate, then the US/Nato forces have crossed the line on human decency!
This war is one for criminals, and a drug empire. Lets demand the withdrawal of all foreign troops immediately.
More to come
NTS
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