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You know, the USA and its allies are becoming ever more "Turkish" in their military and security practices. By that I mean that they are showing greater and greater ruthlessness. In December 2000, the Turkish authorities carried out a prison crackdown, killing 28 prisoners. (Two of the troops involved were also killed, but at least one of them died as a result of "friendly fire".) Many other prisoners were wounded and brutalised, but nonetheless the majority of prisoners survived, as opposed to what appears to be a massacre in Afghanistan a couple of days ago that spared nobody. So we have just seen a "Turkish prison" massacre multiplied to a power of 10. The "Turkish" aspect goes more widely than that. We are seeing an ever-increasing attempt to control information. In Turkey, newspapers and journals whose line differs from that of the state have been bombed or police have carried out raids on them. Journalists are numbered among the "disappeared". Lesser forms of sanctions are also common. In the same way, Al-Jazeera was bombed. But perhaps I am looking through the wrong end of the telescope. It is not the USA that is becoming more "Turkish". Rather, the practices it has long encouraged by security forces in states like Turkey are now being adopted more directly by US and allied forces. Steve K. __________________________________ >From: mart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Clancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >KIM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, com-int <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Fw: [pttp] Massacred Prisoners' Hands Were Tied >[WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] >Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:58:58 -0500 > >HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK >--------------------------- > >Forward from mart. >PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY. >----- Original Message ----- >From: Dawn >Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 8:26 AM >Subject: [pttp] Massacred Prisoners' Hands Were Tied > > > >Via Workers World News Service >Reprinted from the Dec. 6, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper > > >Massacred Prisoners' Hands Were Tied >- by Deirdre Griswold > >The Pentagon has made it clear that it will manage the news coming out of >Afghanistan - either by direct censorship or by bombing the offices of >independent news sources like Al-Jazeera. > >Now we know why. > >What just happened to hundreds of Taliban prisoners of war at a fortress >outside Kunduz in northern Afghanistan would enrage and sicken anyone who >cares about justice and humanity. Amnesty International on Nov. 28 called >for an urgent inquiry into how the estimated 400 prisoners were killed - >only a handful survived - after witnesses said they had seen about 50 >bodies lying in the courtyard, their hands tied behind their backs. > >The official story was that they were killed in an uprising that got out of >control. The Northern Alliance called in air strikes by U.S. jets. When >that failed to kill all the prisoners, oil was poured into the lower >chambers of the fortress and set on fire. As the Taliban tried to escape >the flames, a tank mowed them down. > >Washington has admitted that a CIA agent was killed in the fighting and >five U.S. Special Forces were injured by U.S. bombs. What was going on at >the fortress? Were prisoners being tortured and executed in summary >fashion? Is that why they rebelled? Or was the "rebellion" just >disinformation to cover an out-and-out slaughter of helpless captives? > >Remember, the Taliban released the Western missionaries they had been >holding without a scratch. And for them, this is a defensive war, fought on >their own territory against an enemy that has invaded from 10,000 miles >away. How civilized compared to the barbaric conduct of the Pentagon and >its puppet forces. > >- END - > >(Copyright Workers World Service: Everyone is permitted to copy and >distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not >allowed. 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