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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/15

Terror, Trauma, and the Endless Afghan War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/03/15-1

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Afghan leader blasts U.S. over shootings probe

Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out at the United States on Friday, saying he is at the ''the end of the rope'' because of the lack of U.S. cooperation into a probe of a killing spree allegedly carried out by an American soldier.

http://usat.ly/wa1mES



What Motivates Americans to Kill Muslims?

By Glenn Greenwald

Here s a summary of the Western media discussion of what motivates Muslims to kill Americans: they are primitive, fanatically religious, hateful Terrorists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30854.htm



No One Asked Their Names

By Qais Azimy

Mainstream media outlets channelled a significant amount of energy into uncovering the slightest detail about the accused soldier . But the victims became an anonymous footnote. Just the number 16. No one bothered to ask their ages, their hobbies, their aspirations. Worst of all, no one bothered to ask their names.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30873.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Afghan probe team finds multiple US soldiers behind Kandahar killings

International News Network [Pakistan]

03/19/12

More than a dozen U.S. soldiers had reportedly been involved in the Kandahar killing of 16 civilians, a local newspaper reported on Sunday, citing members of the Afghan parliament who were part of an investigation to probe the incident. ... a U.S. investigation has repeatedly maintained that only one soldier has committed the killing who had been detained...

http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=190355



Massacre fatigue in Afghanistan

CounterPunch
by Alexander Cockburn

03/16/12

Americans have been expressing bafflement that there has not been more outrage in Afghanistan about the latest lethal rampage. Afghans could be forgiven for suffering 'massacre fatigue,' precisely because 'authorized military activity' by US troops and special forces in Afghanistan has long since degenerated into a lethal culture of assassination, 'revenge' sorties, desecration of bodies, harvesting of trophies such as severed fingers, ears and the like. In the recent past Afghans have also been able to study photographs of laughing American soldiers pissing on the bodies of dead Afghans...

http://tinyurl.com/76kzjgs


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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