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US secretly deployed troops to Somalia since October; drones conducting
airstrikes, surveillance

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> US secretly deployed troops to Somalia since October; drones
> conducting airstrikes, surveillance
>

> Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
> 11 Jan 2014 - Part 1
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> U.S. secretly deployed troops to Somalia since October; drones
> conducting airstrikes, surveillance --Drones from U.S. base in
> Djibouti conduct airstrikes, surveillance missions from Somalia's
> skies 10 Jan 2014 The U.S. military secretly deployed a small number
> of trainers and advisers to Somalia in October, the first time regular
> troops have been stationed in the war-ravaged country since 1993, when
> two helicopters were shot down and 18 Americans killed in the "Black
> Hawk Down" disaster. A cell of U.S. military personnel has been in the
> Somali capital of Mogadishu to advise and coordinate operations with
> African troops fighting to wrest control of the country from the
> al-Shabab militia, according to three U.S. military officials. The
> previously undisclosed [and illegal] deployment -- of fewer than two
> dozen troops -- reverses two decades of U.S. policy that effectively
> prohibited military "boots on the ground" in Somalia.
>
> US considers training Iraqi elite military forces in Jordan 10 Jan
> 2014 As Iraq risks falling even further into [US-generated] sectarian
> violence, the United States is considering training some of the
> country's elite military forces in neighboring Jordan, according to a
> report by Reuters. Since fighters from the
> Al-Qaeda[al-CIAduh]-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
> captured the western city of Fallujah, the US has been seeking
> alternative ways to help Iraqi forces stabilize the country without
> putting its own troops on the ground. According to an American defense
> official who wished to remain anonymous, military training for Iraqi
> forces in Jordan is one such possibility.
>
> Afghan boy killed by US forces as Nato staff die in aircraft accident
> --Four-year-old shot dead in Helmand after being 'mistaken for enemy'
> [?!] 10 Jan 2014 Two Nato servicemen and one civilian employee have
> been killed in an aircraft accident in Afghanistan, while a
> four-year-old Afghan boy has been shot dead by US forces. Afghan
> officials said on Friday that the boy had been accidently shot and
> killed in the latest violent incident to strain ties between the
> uneasy allies. A spokesman for the governor of the southern province
> of Helmand told Reuters that US marines based in the province
> mistakenly shot the boy on Wednesday because visibility was poor.
>
> Two Air Force officers at nuclear missile site targeted in drug
> investigation 09 Jan 2014 Two Air Force officers overseeing
> nuclear-armed missiles at a Montana air base are being investigated
> for involvement in illegal drugs, the latest in a string of misconduct
> cases involving officers who look after the nation's atomic weapons.
> The disclosure Thursday of the investigation at Malmstrom Air Force
> Base was especially embarrassing for the Pentagon because Defense
> Secretary Chuck Hagel spent the day visiting intercontinental
> ballistic missile facilities in Wyoming and Nebraska in an effort to
> lift morale in the beleaguered nuclear force.
>
> US govt attempts to block lawsuit against NSA 09 Jan 2014 Lawyers from
> the Justice Department have urged a judge to halt a lawsuit against
> the NSA's spy programs. This comes after the judge's previous ruling
> that the NSA's collection of metadata was likely unconstitutional and
> "almost Orwellian" in nature. On Wednesday, government lawyers
> appealed to US District Court Judge Richard Leon to put court
> proceedings on hold for two lawsuits against the NSA filed by
> conservative legal activist, Larry Klayman.
>
> Sabu wasn't the only FBI mole in LulzSec, suggest leaked docs
> --Obvious question: who WAS the second snitch? 10 Jan 2014 Leaked
> search warrants suggest Sabu wasn't the only LulzSec hacker who helped
> the FBI take down the infamous hacktivist group. The unredacted search
> warrants for Sabu and LulzSec refer to involvement of three different
> informants in the investigation, at least two of whom it is implied
> were members of the organisation. Information from both Hector Xavier
> "Sabu" Monsegur and another unnamed internal mole were instrumental in
> supplying information that allowed Feds to acquire warrants against
> other LulzSec and Anonymous suspects. The two informants are referred
> to in the documents as CW-1 (confidential witness-1) and CW-2. [The
> leaked documents are mirrored here.]
>
> False flag busted open by Indiana state trooper: Indiana guardsman
> stopped for speeding in Madison County had 48 bombs, prosecutor says
> 08 Jan 2014 An Indiana National Guardsman was arrested outside
> Columbus on New Year's Day after a state trooper found nearly 50 bombs
> and the blueprints for a Navy SEAL training facility inside his car,
> the Madison County prosecutor said yesterday. Andrew Scott
> Boguslawski, 43, also had a remote-control device to detonate the
> bombs, Madison County Prosecutor Stephen Pronai said. Boguslawski's
> civilian job is as a groundskeeper at the Muscatatuck Urban Training
> Center in south-central Indiana. Boguslawski also had a bulletproof
> vest in his car, Pronai said.
>
> Fukushima failure: Decontamination system stops functioning 09 Jan
> 2014 The operator of the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, TEPCO
> (Tokyo Electric Power Company) has stopped using its systems to
> decontaminate radioactive water at the facility, Japanese broadcaster
> NHK reported. The Advanced Liquid Processing System, or ALPS, has been
> utilized to liquidate radioactive substances from contaminated water
> stored at the plant. The crane to get rid of the container from the
> ALPS ceased working on Tuesday. On Wednesday, TEPCO stopped operating
> all 3 ALPS systems at the facility.
>
> West Virginia chemical spill leaves 300,000 without clean water 10 Jan
> 2014 Roughly 300,000 residents have been left without usable water
> after chemicals spilled into a West Virginia river Thursday. The West
> Virginia American Water Company has advised residents of nine state
> counties not to drink or bathe in their running water. The spill
> originated at a chemical storage facility run by the Charleston-based
> company [corpora-terrorists] Freedom Industries, when a 48,000 gallon
> tank dumped an indeterminate amount of the compound
> 4-Methylcyclohexane Methanol into the Elk River. The chemical, also
> known as MCHM, is used by coal companies to wash and prepare their
> product. People who are exposed to a sufficient quantity of MCHM may
> experience vomiting, skin blistering and shortness of breath.
>
> Heads up! U.S. lawmakers propose fast-track bill for TPP
> --Corporatists Barack Obama and Max Baucus pimping TPP under media
> cover of Christie's Bridgegate 09 Jan 2014 U.S. lawmakers on Thursday
> proposed a bill to give the White House power to fast-track
> international trade agreements. The bill would let the administration
> put trade deals before Congress for an up or down vote without
> amendments, a move backed by big business and farmers agri-terrorists
> but viewed with caution by others. Critics of the fast-track power say
> it erodes transparency and accountability and does not protect
> local workers, which unions say is of particular concern with the
> Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. "More U.S. jobs would be shifted
> overseas and U.S. workers would suffer lower wages as companies look
> to countries like Vietnam, where the average hourly wage is 75 cents,"
> Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen said in a
> statement. Vietnam is a TPP partner.
>
> Former New Jersey official takes the 5th in 'Bridgegate' questioning
> 09 Jan 2014 A former New Jersey Port Authority official and appointee
> of Gov. Chris Christie, implicated in the political scandal over the
> deliberate lane closures onto the busy George Washington Bridge,
> refused to answer questions about the episode before a state Assembly
> panel on Thursday. David Wildstein took the 5th Amendment and refused
> to answer questions, prompting lawmakers to vote to find him in
> contempt of the committee, a charge that will be referred to a county
> prosecutor. Wildstein, who was the director of interstate capital
> projects for the New York and New Jersey Port Authority, resigned in
> December, saying the bridge issue had become a distraction.
>
> Christie Addresses Bridge Scandal as US Attorney Is Expected to Open
> Inquiry 09 Jan 2014 Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey apologized to
> the people of New Jersey on Thursday, saying that he was "embarrassed
> and humiliated" by revelations that one of his top aides and close
> associates ordered lane closings on the George Washington Bridge to
> deliberately snarl traffic as an act of political vengeance. He
> announced that he fired that aide, Bridget Anne Kelly, a deputy chief
> of staff, who he called "stupid" and "deceitful" in a news conference.
> After months of denying that anyone in his administration or campaign
> played any role in the lane closings, which resulted in a traffic
> nightmare last September, the governor was forced on Thursday to
> address the issue, just as the U.S. Attorney's office has announced
> open an inquiry into the matter.
>
> Emails Between Top Christie Aides and Port Authority Officials 08 Jan
> 2014 Documents were released Wednesday in connection with an
> investigation into lane closings ordered at the George Washington
> Bridge by top aides to Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey.
>
> Conn. official resigns over Newtown comment 09 Jan 2014 A local school
> board member in Connecticut has resigned amid an outcry over his
> comment that he would observe the anniversary of the Newtown school
> shooting by distributing ammunition. Gregory Beck faced numerous calls
> for his resignation from the Board of Education in Brookfield, which
> borders Newtown, where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed
> Dec. 14, 2012. The News-Times of Danbury reports that Beck left the
> board Tuesday, just two months after being elected.
>
> Paws for thought! Watch the moment an adorable polar bear cub takes
> his first ever steps (with just a few wobbles) 09 Jan 2014 An adorable
> polar bear cub at Toronto Zoo took his first wobbly steps on all four
> paws yesterday - just in time to celebrate his two-month birthday
> today. While the male bear doesn't yet have a name, he's got plenty of
> character as he squawked and screeched before tentatively walking for
> the first time. Fortunately for us, it was all caught on film.
>
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Only US/NATO success in Afghanistan: 40 fold opium increase
    Posted by: "Heikki Sipilä" heikki.sipila at saunalahti.fi heikkisipila
    Date: Sat Jan 11, 2014 10:41 pm ((PST))


> S/NATO success in Afghanistan: 40 fold opium increase
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> richardrozoff posted: "Voice of Russia January 10, 2014   Only US/NATO
> success in Afghanistan: 40 fold opium increase – Rick Rozoff John
> Robles (Recorded in late December)     Photo: EPA   Download audio
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> January 10, 2014
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> Only US/NATO success in Afghanistan: 40 fold opium increase – Rick
> Rozoff
> John Robles
> (Recorded in late December)
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> In a review of NATO and US military activity for the year 2013, Voice
> of Russia regular Rick Rozoff stated that 2013 saw a slowing of, if
> not the beginning of a reversal of a 22 year US/NATO/Western drive to
> assert global dominance economically, politically, culturally and
> militarily. Among the most important events of the last year, if not
> the last 20, was the stopping of the invasion of Syria by Russia.
> According to Mr. Rozoff as US/NATO “slinks away with its tail between
> its legs” from Afghanistan, the only accomplishment they can claim
> after 13 years of occupation is that opium cultivation has increased
> by 40 fold. The military monolith of NATO is having a bad time of late
> and no matter what they say, the fact of the matter is, they have
> failed. This is part one of a much longer year end interview with Mr.
> Rozoff.
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>  Rick Rozoff
>  Hello, this is John Robles, I am speaking with Rick Rozoff, the owner
> and manager of the Stop NATO website and international mailing list.
>  Robles: Hello, Rick.
>  Rozoff: Hello, John.
>  Robles: End of another year, things seem to have gone kind of in the
> opposite direction as they seemed to have been going at the end of
> last year and the previous year. We of course would like to do a year
> end summary and get your views on where things are going. So, take it
> away.
>  Rozoff: You are correct. I mean, there has been, if you will, a
> countercyclical or countervailing tendency dynamic over the past year
> and even though those who are superstitious about numbers might have
> thought 2013 would be an inauspicious one. I think that history will
> record even, you know, in the short term, that it has been momentous
> year in a number of ways.
>  And in particular what we have seen is (for the first time) a slowing
> up of, if not the beginning of a reversal of, what has been just an
> inexorable, unstoppable momentum by the West, the US primarily of
> course, in the entire post-Cold-War period (and we are now talking
> about 22 years) to assert global dominance economically, politically,
> culturally, but militarily in the first place.
>  More than in any other manner of course through the expansion of
> North Atlantic Treaty Organization, throughout the European continent
> but ultimately to transform it into a global military force. This is
> what we talked about a year ago if your listeners will recollect. And
> of course last year was the year of the NATO summit in Chicago here in
> May of 2012 and the US and its NATO allies set some fairly ambitious
> objectives, amongst which were the formal launching of the so  called
> launching of the interceptor missiles system in Europe, the expansion
> of NATO….
>  Robles: I’m sorry, if I could interrupt you, just to remind our
> listeners: this was the first ever (in history) debate, an open debate
> with NATO, it was supposed to be with officials and you were one of
> the spokespeople there, speaking for the other side, right?
>  Rozoff: That is correct, John, thanks for reminding me as well as
> your listeners of that. That was in May of 2012, so roughly a year and
> a half ago. And there was a nationally and through Youtube, of course,
> internationally televised debate, the first of its kind.
>  Robles: And you did quite well. Anyway, please, go ahead.
>  Rozoff: Well, the fact was that we were looking at this a year ago,
> we saw, you know, signs that the uncontested role of the US as the
> “world’s sole military superpower” and pardon me again for quoting the
> president of the US Barack Obama whose term that is. He used it, well
> it will be now 4 years ago, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize and
> boasted of being the Commander in Chief of the world’s sole military
> superpower.
>  But what we’ve seen is that the military monolith has been having a
> bad time of it lately. And these past years signified, I think, on
> three or four different scores at least an indication there is a shift
> in the winds. And the most important by a long shot, the most
> strategically important is the fact that through Russian intervention,
> through many instances also, the heroic activities of a small group of
> individuals, I know you’ve interviewed the British Member of
> Parliament George Galloway recently, and in one of the segments of the
> interview you conducted with him which has been posted on
> voiceofrussia recently. The two of you discussed his role in NATO and
> maybe as few as three colleagues in the British House of Commons, in
> putting a spoke in the wheel of the Cameron Administration’s plans, to
> enter into war against Syria with the US and other NATO allies.
>  So, we saw that occur in the British Parliament, but we saw the
> intervention of Russia in the first instance around the question of
> dismantling the chemical weapons arsenal of the Syrian government as a
> way of really calling the US’ bluff (that of Secretary of State John
> Kerry in the first instance) and diffusing a situation were just few
> days earlier US president Obama had a press conference where he was
> openly laying the ground work for a Libyan style military
> intervention in Syria.
>  So, we saw that stopped. I know, amongst other people myself, drew
> the parallel between Syria this year and Spain in the 1930s in that,
> in both cases, in the case of Spain you had the emerging Axis Powers:
> Nazi’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy (Fascist Italy), supporting the
> armed insurrection of the Generalissimo Franco and his Moroccan
> mercenaries and others against the legally elected Republic the
> Government of Spain. And that battle in Spain in so many ways
> portended  what was to happen in the entire European continent shortly
> thereafter, in other words, had the legitimate government of Spain
> unable to defend itself effectively and fend off an armed insurrection
> backed by foreign powers, WWII may not have occurred, and 50 million
> human lives that were lost may not have been lost.
>  And I think that Syria represented something comparable/analogues to
> that. But you had in these case Russia, Iran and China stepping in and
> saying that foreign military powers are not going to intervene and
> touch off either cataclysm strictly within Syria, but more likely a
> conflagration that would quickly pull into its vortex almost every
> country in the Middle East and perhaps even provoke an international
> crisis. So, we saw that occur.
>  Robles: I’d like to underline that point you just said about the
> possible (and people were saying) escalation of a Syrian war into a
> regional conflict and then into an actual world war. This all begun
> and caused by NATO, so what does that tell us about their role in the
> world as far as being an instrument for security and safety?
>  Rozoff: Your tone seems straightforward but I’m sure it is meant to
> imply irony and not only irony I think that almost demonical
> diabolical inversion of the truth, of course. But NATO itself is
> directly involved in sending batteries of interceptor missiles Patriot
> Advanced Capability 3 interceptor missiles to Turkey within the last
> year and a half which is something NATO has done twice in the past,
> which is to send the same sort (actually they were not quite as
> advanced a model of the Patriot the current one is even more long
> ranged and more sophisticated), but in 1991 and again in 2003 that is
> on the eves immediately of the wars against Iraq in those years
> 1991-2003 NATO also sent Patriot batteries as well as AWACS aircraft
> to Turkey for much the same purpose.
>  So, when US, German and Dutch Patriot batteries were sent to Turkey
> under NATO command a sensible person would have seen the analogy and
> reckoned that a war was imminent against Syria and it would include,
> because Turkey borders Syria and Turkey is a member of NATO, that NATO
> would have been involved its Article 5 mutual military assistance
> clause, and the full force of a military alliance comprised of 28
> countries accounting for some 70% of world military spending ($1
> trillion a year collectively in military spending) arraigned against a
> very weak and isolated Syrian government.
>  This is what was in the offing just a few months ago we do have to
> remember. And that but for heroic efforts in the British Parliament as
> I mentioned but much more; the direct role of the Russian Government
> in a fairly sophisticated manner intervening diplomatically… This is
> what diplomacy is about: it is to prevent wars, not to give cover for
> wars, not to create the pretense for wars but to stop them.
>  And I believe history will record the Russian diplomatic intervention
> around Syria, defusing that crisis is both something likely (as Mr.
> Galloway, parliamentarian Galloway, said on your show) something that
> really ought to get somebody in the Russian government for Nobel Peace
> Prize. As opposed to the person who got it 4 years ago and then
> immediately went to work waging military aggression around the globe.
>  So that we had that occur. We had the Edward Snowden affair which is
> also something that cannot be...
>  Robles: I’m sorry, as a force for stability, peace and security, you
> as one of the eminent (I would say) NATO experts in the world, did
> NATO do anything in the past year that lent to any sort of peace or
> stability or security for any of the people in the world?
>  Rozoff: No, of course it didn’t, nor has it ever been designed to do
> that. So it shouldn’t be surprising.
>  Another factor though which is not quite as salient or clear-cut, but
> I think just as important, is the fact that NATO is licking its wounds
> in Afghanistan, is getting ready to continue the metaphor I suppose,
> to slink away with its tail between its legs. And this into the 13th
> year of not only the longest war in the history of the US, but the
> first ground war ever waged by NATO, the first military campaign
> launched and conducted by NATO in Asia, that is outside of Europe. It
> was followed of course by a war in Africa, the war against Libya two
> years ago.
>  Robles: To call that a war, I don’t know if you could call an
> onslaught of airstrikes and missile shot from hundreds of miles away a
> war, but basically just shooting fish in barrel, if I could use that
> expression.
>  Rozoff: You are correct about that, I should retract the use of the
> term “war” and just call it unilateral military aggression,
> overwhelming unilateral military aggression, the difference is (to use
> a historical analogy I suppose) between the Battle of Okinawa and the
> dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
>  So we do see the debacle, I think at this point it is irrefutable no
> matter how much Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen or any
> of his underlings, or his deputy –Alexander Vershbow former US
> ambassador to Russia (who is Deputy Secretary General of NATO), no
> matter how much these people try to put the best face on it, try to
> save face in fact, by claiming they have achieved anything in
> Afghanistan, as we know from the head of the Anti-Drug Agency in
> Russia, the only unarguable accomplishment if you want to call it that
> of NATO’s military assault in Afghanistan, is the fact that opium
> production has increased by a factor of 40.
>  Robles: I just want to underline, he is not just the head of the
> Anti-Drug establishment here in Russia – YuriyFedotov he is also the
> head of the United Nations Agency on Drugs and Crime that issued the
> 2013 opium report. And he himself was quite shocked at the level of
> heroine production. And Global Research published an expose of
> photographs of US soldiers guarding and protecting opium fields in
> Afghanistan. I mean, if you could comment on that, I’d really love to
> hear what you have to say about what NATO and the US were “really”
> doing in Afghanistan for 13 years.
>  Rozoff: On the question of the explosion of opium cultivation and the
> expansion of heroine abuse and the human tragedy thereof about which I
> hope I can speak in a second, being the only provable accomplishment
> or achievement of NATO in Afghanistan, that is simple beyond
> questioning, that is it, Nothing else has been accomplished.
>  Taliban is still active, other groups, which by the way, like the
> Haqqani network or Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin which are led by people the
> US supported. Supported primarily in the Mujahedeen war in the 1980s,
> these forces are still active both in Afghanistan and across the
> border in Pakistan.
>  There has been no consolidation of a viable representative or even
> reputable government in Kabul. So this has been an unequivocal debacle
> first of all for the Afghan people who have suffered immeasurably by
> 12 more years of dislocation, of night raids, of bombing raids, of
> other catastrophes, destruction effectively of their infrastructure
> and their agricultural economy.
>  And in its place we get again as we talked about a second ago, a 40
> fold increase in the opium cultivation. This means, and we have to
> look at this in human terms, this means hundreds of thousands if not
> millions of Afghans themselves have become addicted to heroin.
>  This means that millions in Russia, in Iran, in Central Asia and
> elsewhere in the general region have become dependent on heroine.
>  This means tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of deaths through
> overdose, through HIV, through criminal activity, as a result of this
> epidemic of heroine.
>  And this is done under the watch of, at peak strength, 150,000 troops
> serving under NATO’s International Security Assistance Force.
>  Certainly the least that the world community could have asked for a
> military occupation force, which legally incidentally the US and NATO
> are in Afghanistan, is they would have provided some modicum of a
> civilian infrastructure, of extermination of the opium cultivation in
> the country and such like, but clearly evidences the fact that the
> West had no intention whatsoever in doing anything of the sort.
>  I don’t have the exact figures at my fingertips, John, but something
> in the neighborhood of 80% to 90% of total funds that have gone into
> Afghanistan since the US/British invasion of October 2001 have gone
> for military and security purposes, that money has not gone into
> civilian infrastructure, has not gone into building a viable economy
> and so forth, notwithstanding comments by certain western foreign
> ministers that they’ve gone in there for alleged humanitarian
> reasons.
>  That was the end of part 1 of an interview with Rick Rozoff, the
> Owner and Manager of the Stop NATO website and international mailing
> list. You can find the rest of this interview on our website at
> Voiceofrussia.com.
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 Interview: U.S. Tries To Exonerate Troops From Atrocious Killings
    Posted by: "Heikki Sipilä" heikki.sipila at saunalahti.fi heikkisipila
    Date: Sat Jan 11, 2014 10:41 pm ((PST))



> U.S. Tries To Exonerate Troops From Atrocious Killings
>
> http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/01/11/345049/us-to-exonerate-troops-
> in-killings/
>
>  Press TV
>  January 11, 2014
>
>  US seeks to 'exonerate' troops from 'atrocious killings' : activist
>
>  The US government’s pressure on Afghanistan to sign a security pact
> is aimed at exonerating US troops from the “atrocious killings” and
> “unspeakable crimes” they are committing, a peace activist says.
>
>  The Obama administration has warned Afghanistan to sign a Bilateral
> Security Agreement within weeks, not months, otherwise US troops will
> completely withdraw from the country.
>
>  On Wednesday, a 4-year-old Afghan boy was shot and killed by US
> Marines in southern Afghanistan.
>
>  The “tragic and atrocious killing” of the Afghan child by US military
> forces is an indication of how the security agreement would be used to
> “exonerate and exculpate US forces from unspeakable crimes of this
> nature,” said Rick Rozoff, a member of Stop NATO International.
>
>  “There is such utter contempt towards the Afghan people themselves
> that civilians can be killed even children without the slightest
> degree of true remorse,” he said.
>
>  As part of the security agreement, which would allow presence of US
> troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014, Washington wants legal immunity for
> US soldiers.
>
>  Despite pressure from Washington, Kabul has so far ignored US demands
> for it to sign the agreement. The protracted negotiation over the deal
> has increased tensions between the two countries.
>
>  “No immunity agreement can be permitted by the Afghan government
> because it will be exploited to justify” the massacre and slaughter of
> innocent civilians, Rozoff said.
>
>  A large number of civilians have been killed or injured at the hands
> of US-led foreign forces -- most of them in nighttime raids and
> airstrikes. The casualty rate has risen over the past few months, even
> though the Afghan government has asked foreign forces to make every
> effort to avoid killing civilians.
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