They get worse everyday with their blatant agenda-pushing lies.
And Bush's "liberation?" Suffering increases, what a surprise.
"Afghanistan -- Heart of Darkness
Princess Patricia, a Taliban takeover. Oh, the horror of it all, gasps Eric Walberg
News from Afghanistan makes no sense. On the one hand there are up-beat stories like the recent Canadian Operation Rolling Thunder in Pashmul, Kandahar. "I started the operation on a hospital operating table and I'm ending it with everybody coming back safely. I couldn't be happier," beamed Major Grubb, leading the 2nd Battalion of the bizarrely named Princess Patricia's Light Infantry Company.
The few locals still living in Pashmul, the scene of this "liberation" campaign by the kuffar Canadians, either fled by foot or cowered in their dugouts before the fighting started. Most are poor farmers. Scores of locals, the "enemy", were killed by the brave Canucks, who, just to clinch their "success", called on US military air support to drop several bombs, including Hellfire missiles. Several dozen "enemy" were destroyed. Only one Afghan government soldier was hurt when he accidentally shot himself in the foot. No Canadians were even injured. Major Grubb acknowledged the operation isn't a "permanent result" because the Taliban seem to have an unlimited supply of fighters willing to battle for Pashmul.
Western readers have become numbed into accepting the code words "enemy" and "insurgents", ignoring the underlying fact that the Taliban are still the legitimate government, that these so-called insurgents are in fact widely seen as freedom fighters battling the non-Muslim foreign occupiers - the real "enemy" - who invaded the country illegally and have killed hundreds of thousands of resistance fighters and innocent civilians illegally. Rather than "killed", the word "murdered" might be more appropriate. For locals, the dead are "martyred", as in Iraq and Palestine.
In a recent report which notably reflects the implicit horror of what the occupiers are doing, the Globe and Mail's Doug Saunders describes a scene in Naray, on the northeast border with Pakistan, where 200 trigger-happy US Army soldiers huddle in tents, sheltering themselves from regular rocket attacks....--MORE--"
Hunger, water scarcity displaces thousands of Afghans
"Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes due to food and water shortages in northern Afghanistan, the government said on Wednesday....
Water and food shortages have forced several families to eat grass, resulting in some deaths in recent weeks in different parts of northern Afghanistan, according to press reports.
In some areas water-fed crops have died due to lack of rain and in some others an unprecedented infestation of locusts has destroyed cultivated fields in recent weeks, according to officials...."
Food crisis adds to Pakistan-Afghanistan tensions
"It would be hard to think of a more complex web of problems. Pakistan and Afghanistan face, in very different ways, severe domestic political crises which are being exacerbated by soaring prices and food shortages. Both blame each other for failing to crack down on the Taliban and al Qaeda. And now tensions are rising over attempts by Pakistan, the traditional supplier of food to Afghanistan, to curb its wheat exports to make sure it can feed its own hungry population."
Also see: Fighting Over Fuel
