America the Pacified ~ Atrocities in Afghanistan Ignored by US Media!!

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Apr/100

So many are ‘shocked by the wikileaks video’ and some are thankful the MSM gave it a few minutes air time in between Tiger Woods and meaningless ad nauseum fluff that counts for reporting these days. They ONLY gave it air time because the INTERNET chatter forced them to do it.. NOT from any sense of journalistic integrity, obligation or moral outrage to inform the American people. I would like to see them give the following atrocities some coverage:

America the Pacified ~ Atrocities in Afghanistan
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If the U.S. public looked long and hard into a mirror reflecting the civilian atrocities that have occurred in Afghanistan, over the past ten months, we would see ourselves as people who have collaborated with and paid for war crimes committed against innocent civilians who meant us no harm.

*December 26th, 2009: US-led forces, (whether soldiers or “security contractors” (mercenaries) is still uncertain), raided a home in Kunar Province and pulled eight young men out of their beds, handcuffed them, and gunned them down execution-style…the boys aged 11 – 18, were just seven normal schoolboys and one shepherd boy. Following courageous reporting by Jerome Starkey, the U.S. military carried out its own investigation and on February 24th, 2010, issued an apology, attesting the boys’ innocence.

*February 12, 2010: U.S. and Afghan forces raided a home during a party and killed five people, including a local district attorney, a local police commander two pregnant mothers and a teenaged girl engaged to be married. A March 16, 2010 U.N. report, following on further reporting by Starkey, exposed the deception, to meager American press attention. Broad consensus among the press accepted this as a gracious gesture, with no consequences for the helicopter crew ever demanded or announced.

*February 21st, 2010: A three-car convoy of Afghans was traveling to the market in Kandahar with plans to proceed from there to a hospital in Kabul where some of the party could be taken for much-needed medical treatment. U.S. forces saw Afghans travelling together and launched an air-to-ground attack on the first car. Women in the second car immediately jumped out waving their scarves, trying desperately to communicate that they were civilians. The U.S. helicopter gunships continued firing on the now unshielded women. 21 people were killed and 13 were wounded. There was press attention for this atrocity, and U.S. General Stanley McChrystal would issue a videotaped apology for his soldiers’ tragic mistake.

http://www.counterpunch.org/kelly03302010.html
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