NATO Tries to Silence a Truth-Teller in Afghanistan After Killing Pregnant Women

[cory777]

Source: Rethink Afghanistan

Posted by Derrick Crowe on March 26th, 2010

Q: Why would U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan go out of their way to smear a journalist?

A: Because he told the truth about a night raid that killed Afghan civilians, including pregnant women.

Last week, I spoke with Afghanistan-based journalist Jerome Starkey about his reporting on special forces raids that killed civilians and NATOs surprising–and disappointing–response. This video contains disturbing images, and an even more disturbing story of violence, and an attempt to silence a truth-teller. It shows why its absolutely essential that we keep pushing back against the Pentagon’s message machine.

Over the past few months, Starkey exposed two incidents where NATO initially claimed to have engaged and killed insurgents, when they’d in fact killed civilians, including school children and pregnant women. In both cases, when confronted with eye-witness accounts obtained by Starkey that clearly rebutted NATO’s initial claims, NATO resisted publicly recanting.

Read more: http://rethinkafghanistan.com/blog/?p=1844

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[Rapier09]

2. Collateral is the definition of War

You don't want innocent to be slaughtered left and right-don't start one.

Hell came to Afghanistan for a reason(2 reasons actually)

[pundaint]

3. It might stop if the war funding does.

[skeptical cynic]

6. It would stop if

the old men who start wars were the ones doing the dying in them.

The two reasons were: 1)George W. Bush and 2)imperialism.

[skeptical cynic]

4. Were they reasons good enough to kill innocent persons

and then try to cover it up?

My son is serving in the Middle East now. In his own words: "The American soldier in my command who raises a weapon on a woman or child will wake up with a head injury matching the butt of my M4. The soldier who pulls the trigger on a woman or child won't wake up at all."

We need fewer war crimes, and fewer making pathetic excuses for them.

[ConsAreLiars]

5. The US Reich Wing started two.

But you're right, wanting to inflict collateral damage and seeing innocents slaughtered left and right was part of the reason.

They did that very well:

[BlueIris]

7. K&R. nt