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I think that this war has seen the US establishment and its allies engage in systematic lying and the concealment of information and events, though with so much at stake ruling classes do not act like truth-telling boy scouts anyway. In earlier posts I overstated the Taliban's powers of resistance. Unfortunately, I think the US etc. authorities will begin attacking other countries, thinking that they had a relatively easy ride in Afghanistan. I believe the next target is Iraq, which indeed has never stopped being attacked. The signals that Iraq is next up for assault are very strong. Other countries like Britain and Turkey are being pulled into line for just such an attack. Steve K. _________________________________________ >From: Rolf Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: UNITE! Info #158en: Kama Ado - US: "nothing happened" >[WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] >Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 16:00:13 +0100 > >HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK >--------------------------- > >UNITE! Info #158en: Kama Ado - US: "nothing happened" >[Posted: 06.12.01] > >Note / Anmerkung / Note / Nota / Anm�rkning: >On the UNITE! / VEREINIGT EUCH! / UNISSEZ-VOUS! / >�UNIOS! / F�RENA ER! Info en/de/fr/es/se series: >See information on the last page / Siehe Information auf der >letzten Seite / Verrez information � la derni�re page / Ver >informaci�n en la �ltima p�gina / Se information p� sista sidan > > >INTRO NOTE: > >Concerning what is really taking place in the aggression by, >above all, the US imperialists against Afghanistan, "justified" >by their own atrocities against the people in the USA on 11.09, >the US military and governmental authorities are taking even >greater "care" than in the earlier and equally infamous wars >of aggression of theirs to prevent information from reaching >the public, in the USA and all over the world, and to dissemi- >nate lies about it. > >One small glimpse of what *is* going on in Afghanistan now, >and has been in the last two months, and of how this is "re- >ported" or "commented on" by the US authorities, the readers >of the UK newspaper The Independent could get from an article >in the 04.12 issue of that paper. I'm reproducing that article >here, as sent by Miroslav Antic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to the >mailing list AntiNATO [HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] on 05.12. > >End of intro note > > > >[QUOTE:] > > >Published on Tuesday, December 4, 2001 in the Independent/UK > >A VILLAGE IS DESTROYED. AND AMERICA SAYS NOTHING HAPPENED. >By Richard Lloyd Parry in Kama Ado, Afghanistan > > >The village where nothing happened is reached by a steep climb >at the end of a rattling three-hour drive along a stony road. >Until nothing happened here, early on the morning of Saturday >and again the following day, it was a large village with a >small graveyard, but now that has been reversed. The cemetery >on the hill contains 40 freshly dug graves, unmarked and >identical. And the village of Kama Ado has ceased to exist. > > {Picture text: > Residents of Kama Ado, Afghanistan, survey the damage > to a house Monday, Dec. 3, 2001. Provincial officials > brought reporters to see what they said was the de- > struction done by U.S. bombs at Kama Ado. One resi- > dent, Kamal Huddin, said 115 of the 300 residents were > killed. In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. > John Stufflebeem told reporters he had seen no evi- > dence to support reports of U.S. bombs striking civi- > lian villages in the area. (AP Photo/Yola Monakhov)} > >Many of the homes here are just deep conical craters in the >earth. The rest are cracked open, split like crushed cardboard >boxes. At the moment when nothing happened, the villagers of >Kama Ado were taking their early morning meal, before sunrise >and the beginning of the Ramadan fast. And there in the rubb- >le, dented and ripped, are tokens of the simple daily lives >they led. > >A contorted tin kettle, turned almost inside out by the blast; >a collection of charred cooking pots; and the fragments of an >old-fashioned pedal-operated sewing machine. A split metal >chest contains scraps of children's clothes in cheap bright >nylon. > >In another room are the only riches that these people had, six >dead cows lying higgledy-piggledy and distended by decay. And >all this is very strange because, on Saturday morning - when >American B-52s unloaded dozen of bombs that killed 115 men, >women and children - nothing happened. > >We know this because the US Department of Defence told us so. >That evening, a Pentagon spokesman, questioned about reports >of civilian casualties in eastern Afghanistan, explained that >they were not true, because the US is meticulous in selecting >only military targets associated with Osama bin Laden's al- >Qa'ida network. Subsequent Pentagon utterances on the subject >have wobbled somewhat, but there has been no retraction of >that initial decisive statement: "It just didn't happen." > >So God knows what kind of a magic looking-glass I stepped >through yesterday, as I travelled out of the city of Jalalabad >along the desert road to Kama Ado. From the moment I woke up, >I was confronted with the wreckage and innocent victims of >high-altitude, hi-tech, thousand-pound nothings. > >The day began at the home of Haji Zaman Gamsharik, the pro- >Western anti-Taliban mujahedin commander who is being dis- >creetly supplied and funded by the US government. The previous >day I had followed him around Jalalabad's mortuary, where >seven mutilated corpses were being laid out - mujahedin sol- >diers of Commander Zaman who had been killed when US bombs hit >the government office in which they were sleeping. And now, it >had happened again. > >There they were in the back of three pick-up trucks - seven >more bloody bodies of seven more mujahedin, killed when the >guesthouse in which they were sleeping in the village of Landi >Khiel was hit by bombs at 6.30am yesterday morning. > >Commander Zaman is a proud, haughty man who fought in the >mountains for years against the Soviet Union, but I've never >seen him look so vulnerable. "I sent them there myself yester- >day,'' was all he could say. "I sent them for security.'' > >But the commander provided us with mujahedin escorts of our >own, and we set off down the road to Landi Khiel. We found the >ruins of the office where the first lot of soldiers had died, >and the guesthouse where they perished the previous morning. >And there, in the ruins of a family house, was a small frag- >ment of nothing. It was the tail-end of a compact bomb. It >bore the words "Surface Attack Guided Missile AGM 114", and a >serial number: 232687. It was half-buried in the remains of >the straw roof of a house where three men had died: Fazil >Karim, his brother Mahmor Ghulab, and his nephew Hasiz Ullah. >"They were a family, just ordinary people," said Haji Mohammed >Nazir, the local elder who was accompanying us. "They were not >terrorists - the terrorists are in the mountains, over there." > >So we drove on in the direction of the White Mountains, where >hundreds of al-Qa'ida members, and perhaps even Osama bin >Laden himself, are hiding in the Tora Bora cave complex. A >B-52 was high in the sky; a billow of black smoke was visible, >blooming out of the valley. Something, surely, was happening >over there. And then we reached the ruins of Kama Ado. Among >the pathetic remains I found only one sinister object � an old >leather gun holster with an ammunition belt. It is conceivable >that a handful of al-Qa'ida members had been spending the >night there, and that US targeters learnt of their presence. > >But after 22 years of war, almost every Afghan home contains >some military relic, and the villagers swore they hadn't seen >Arab or Taliban fighters for a fortnight. Certainly there >could not have been enough terrorists to fill the 40 fresh >graves. One person told me a few holes contained not intact >people, but simply body parts. > >We had been warned that white faces would meet an angry re- >ception in the village where nothing happened, but I encoun- >tered despair and bafflement. I had only one moment of real >fear, when an American B-52 flew overhead. We halted our con- >voy, clambered out of the cars and trotted into the fields on >either side. The plane did a slow circle; I was conscious of >electronic eyes looking down on us, the only traffic on the >road. Then, to everyone's relief, the bomber veered away. > >Before we left the city, an American colleague in Jalalabad >telephoned the Pentagon and informed them of our plans to >travel to the village where nothing happened. I can't help >wondering, in these looking-glass times, what that B-52 would >have done to our convoy if that telephone call had not been >made. Perhaps nothing would have happened to me too. > >� 2001 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd > > >[END OF QUOTE] > > > >UNITE! / VEREINIGT EUCH! / UNISSEZ-VOUS! / �UNIOS! / >F�RENA ER! Info en/de/fr/es/se series: > >Advocates the political line of Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong. Each >item # will be posted in one or more language(s). Leaflets in >the INFORMATIONSBLAD series published by me, mainly in Swedish, >since 1975 are available on request. > >Bef�rwortet die politische Linie von Marx, Lenin und Mao Zedong. >Jedes Nummer # wird in einer oder mehreren Sprache(n) gesandt >werden. 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