NATO/ISAF murder Afghan civilians

international | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis

Thursday October 26, 2006 20:04

by Yusuf

NATO/ISAF in Afghanistan are suffering further defeats as Taliban retake control of the south

NATO/ISAF mass murders in Afghanistan are increasing in number an ferocity as they tak battlefield defeats from Taliban fighters

Taliban forces regrouped

The British regiment of NATO/ISAF have been as recently as last week forced to retreat and hand over control of the Musa Qala region in Helmand. They were only allowed remove their vehicles after negotiations with locals acting on behalf of the Taliban. The US is unhappy with this decision. http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=da...inent
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&obje...07621
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25430786.htm

Taliban fighters are reequipped and have thousands of members willing to carry out attacks on NATO/ISAF forces. They travel light and are highly mobile, operating with the assistance of the local community. NATO/ISAF have been responsible for numerous murders and outrages in recent times in Afghanistan as they are on the back foot.

Dubious reports from NATO/ISAF today claim they killed 38 Taliban fighters during one of four contacts on Tuesday in the Kandahar region but conflicting reports from local police say that around 20 houses were destroyed and 60 people killed or wounded in the fighting around the Panjwayi area, which is about 19 miles from Kandahar. Police confirmed there were civilian casualties and that none of the dead were Taliban. Ministry of interior spokesman Zemarai Bashary could not confirm the number of civilians murdered by NATO/ISAF. NATO/ISAF carried out the mass murder and destruction of the village during the Muslim holiest day of Eid Al-Fitr, continuing to bomb and mortar the village into the night. This was a collective punishment meted out to the villagers for assisting rebel fighters. In contradiction to NATO/ISAF claims, Taliban commanders confirmed what the police and Dept of Interior spokesmen had said, that none of their members were killed.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061025/wl_sthasia_afp/afg...43451
On Monday NATO/ISAF murdered three young girls. NATO/ISAF claimed they were test firing mortars across the homes of the children. Two other seven-year-old girls were seriously wounded.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20641515-401,00.html

German members of NATO/ISAF have been exposed today in the German daily Bild for despicable acts no Muslim will forgive. A series of photographs shows the German regiment desecrating a skull. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20643803....html
Acts like these, as well as the murder of over twenty civilians in their homes last week has guaranteed the Taliban will have full support from local people and no shortage of recruits to fight the invaders. On the night of the 7th October NATO/ISAF dropped two bombs on the village of Regan in Helmand province. One hit a house, killing six members of a family, including three young girls. The other demolished the mosque.
Irelands participation in NATO/ISAF will make targets out of Irish troops in Lebanon even if our assistance of US troops passing through Shannon and Baldonnel aerodrome has not already put them in extreme danger. The full-scale war being waged by NATO/ISAF, in which Ireland is a participant, against the civilian population of Afghanistan is a further war crime in which the Irish government has enlisted the Irish people and Defense Forces
After the initial US invasion of Afghanistan and establishment of a puppet government headed by former CIA agent Hamid Karzai, the US used the United Nations to pass a resolution establishing the International Security Assistance Force as a means of enlisting other countries in the illegal invasion of Afghanistan. The ISAF was supposed to provide security for the puppet government so as to establish “democracy”. ISAF was always under the direct controlof the US army, thus placing Irish troops under the direct command of it’s commander in chief, George W Bush. This fact was kept secret from the Irish people. Then NATO volunteered to take over from the US forces bound for Iraq and take control of the ISAF. So now Irish troops are under the control of NATO who report to the US. This is Bertie Aherns form of neutrality. He and his government are just as responsible for the recent spate of murders in Afghanistan as the NATO/ISAF thugs who are carrying it out.