{"id":45279,"date":"2012-03-18T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T08:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=45279"},"modified":"2012-09-30T22:09:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T22:09:03","slug":"our-noble-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=45279","title":{"rendered":"Our Noble Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Montecristo \u2013 Edited by Pandora Pushkin, Darkmoon.me March 16, 2012<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>The official line for the atrocity carried out in Kandahar has now been clearly established: a US soldier went off base alone in the night and proceeded to kill 16 civilians in a nearby village before setting fire to the bodies.<\/h5>\n
Tensions were already inflamed over the burning of the Quran by American soldiers, and following on from the revelation of \u201ckill teams\u201d collecting body parts as \u201ctrophies\u201d and the leaked footage of troops urinating on dead Afghans.<\/h5>\n
The latest line from the US government on the killings has been to discuss at length the mental state of the gunman. Initially, he was described as being possibly \u201cderanged\u201d at the time of the shootings; then, it was stated that he had suffered a \u201cmental breakdown\u201d, yet another soldier from Fort Lewis-McChord to have buckled under the strain of warfare and gone on a killing spree \u2014 a considerably more common trait for US soldiers than their NATO allies.<\/h5>\n
Additional reports have since emerged pointing to a \u201ctraumatic brain injury\u201d.<\/h5>\n
So far, nothing seems out of the ordinary with this narrative \u2013 until you include the eyewitnesses.<\/h5>\n
According to PakTribune<\/span><\/a>: \u201cOne Afghan father who said his children were killed in the shooting spree accused soldiers of later burning the bodies.\u201d Reuters were told by witnesses that \u201ca group of US soldiers\u201d arrived at the village and were responsible for the killings.<\/h5>\n
Resident Haji Samad said:<\/h5>\n

They [the Americans] poured chemicals over their dead bodies and burned them \u2026 I saw that all 11 of my relatives were killed, including my children and grandchildren.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

A neighbour, Agha Lala, added, \u201cThey were all drunk and shooting all over the place.\u201d<\/h5>\n
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Afghan children on their way to school\u2026only too aware that they, too, could one day fall victims to the psychopaths in uniform who have occupied their country.<\/p><\/div>\n

The official response from the US came shortly after: \u201cBased on the preliminary information we have this account is flatly wrong,\u2019 the official said. \u2018We believe one US service member acted alone, not a group of U.S. soldiers.\u201d<\/h5>\n
No information has been provided to refute the testimony of the eyewitnesses, who also described shots being fired from several directions.<\/h5>\n
As Afghan lawmaker Abdul Rahim Ayubi observed,<\/h5>\n

It is not possible for only one American soldier to come out of his base, kill a number of people far away, burn the bodies, go to another house and kill civilians there, then walk at least 2 kilometers and enter another house, kill civilians and burn them.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Local Panjwai councilman, Abdul Ghani, corroborated the unlikelihood of a single shooter, stating, \u201cThe villagers said they were hearing machine gun fire and pistol fire from different directions.\u201d<\/h5>\n

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai to America:<\/span> \u201c<\/span><\/strong>You killed our children<\/span><\/strong><\/a>!\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

While objectively-speaking the evidence would point towards multiple shooters, once again the media have taken the pronouncements of unnamed \u201cUS officials\u201d as gospel truth.<\/h5>\n
The official line has been set in stone: in print and on the TV news channels.<\/h5>\n
As for the eyewitness accounts of drunken troops killing over a wider area, firing wildly, urinating on the dead bodies and then burning them\u2014that, predictably, has been expunged from the record and gone down the Orwellian memory\u00a0hole.<\/h5>\n
It never happened.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n<\/h4>\n

Based on <\/span>this article<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span>By Andy Dilks.<\/span><\/p>\n

See also:<\/span><\/p>\n

US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghans could be executed, says Leon Panetta<\/span><\/span><\/a>13 Mar 2012<\/p>\n

Hundreds take to streets to protest at killing of 16 Afghan civilians<\/span><\/span><\/a>13 Mar 2012<\/p>\n

US soldier who killed villagers should be put on trial in Afghanistan, parliament demands<\/span><\/span><\/a>12 Mar 2012<\/p>\n

Pandora Alexandrovna Pushkin is a Russian-American academic and human rights activist<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Doing what American soldiers do so well: killing third world civilians while Washington lies and the corporate media assists in the cover-up <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Afghanistan","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45279"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57506,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45279\/revisions\/57506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}