The comments are priceless. It seems to be devolving into a Cheney killed Bhutto thread there.
On May 18, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/18 > > One senior official who asked for the identity of the respected > international organisation for which he works to be withheld said: > "Expect to see secret, dead of night raids in Afghanistan, with more > civilians getting hurt and no one being held accountable. It's a big > tactical shift. Because of his history in Iraq we were very alarmed > when we heard he was going to be in charge in Afghanistan." > > Mr Garlasco said that, as the top commander, Gen McChrystal "can allow > the special forces to operate with impunity, or he can rein them in > and use counterinsurgency tactics like (General David) Petraeus." > > Mr Garlasco interviewed a special forces soldier named Jeff who > accused Gen McChrystal of banning the Red Cross and other > investigators from entering Camp Nama, a decision which was viewed as > a violation of the Geneva Conventions. > > "Once, somebody brought it up with the colonel," reported the soldier. > "'Will [the Red Cross] ever be allowed in here?' And he said, > 'Absolutely not.' He had this directly from General McChrystal and the > Pentagon that there's no way that the Red Cross could get in. 'They > won't have access and they never will.'" > > "This facility was completely closed off to anybody investigating, > even to Army investigators." > _______________________________________________ > OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] > http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters > List hosted at http://cat5.org/ _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
