LAT: (Soros-funded Institute) Report Criticizes US Approach in Afghanistan

[DeepModem Mom]

Report Criticizes U.S. Approach in Afghanistan
Short-sighted tactics have allowed warlords to join the government and prisoner abuse and other crimes to occur, a rights group says.

By Halima Kazem, Special to The Times


KABUL, Afghanistan — Washington's short-sighted approach in Afghanistan has put warlords in power and allowed U.S. military forces to engage in prisoner abuse and criminal activities, a human rights report released Sunday said.

The 168-page report by the Afghanistan Justice Project, an independent research and advocacy organization, documented atrocities from the beginning of the Soviet Union's 1978 pre-invasion intervention through today.

Most of the report focuses on abuses during the Soviet occupation, the fighting among Afghan factions after Moscow's 1989 withdrawal and the Taliban era. But it also draws comparisons between the U.S. military's current detention strategies in Afghanistan and the brutal Soviet tactics used against prisoners of war in the late 1970s and early 1980s — including chaining detainees to the floor, holding them in secret facilities, depriving them of access to family members, lawyers and medical care, and subjecting them to extreme temperatures....

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The report also faulted the U.S. for overlooking abuses committed by some of its Afghan allies in the fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda....

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The group, funded by George Soros' Open Society Institute, spent three years researching its report, starting in 2001, and interviewed thousands of people who said they witnessed large-scale massacres, torture, rape and other atrocities....


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-afghan18jul18,0,1450181.story?coll=la-home-world

[dArKeR]

1. I wonder why headlines like "Heritage Foundation (Funded by Bush Family)"

never make it on the liberal press?

[DeepModem Mom]

2. I added "Soros-funded" to the headline because...

I thought that might interest people here. You make an excellent point, however: "think-tanks" funded by the Right seem never to be identified as such by the press.

[bpilgrim]

4. NPR has lapsed into that bad habit, too...

the propaganda is certainly THICK in the homeland, yet they (extreme right-wing WHACKOS - read neoCONs - currently in power) wanna kill PBS (or is that Public Broadcasting Corporation nowadays) as well and blow ALL their - and ours (the U.S.) - credibility in the real-world (the rest of it)

i hate when they do that ;->

peace

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. people who said they witnessed large-scale massacres, torture, rape

Why have US television stations refused to broadcast this documentary?

In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3267.htm


Watch it for yourself... yeah, you freeper lurkers too.

[DeepModem Mom]

5. Thanks, 4. nt