Friday, May 8, 2009

U.S. STRIKE: TRACTOR TRAILERS FULL OF BODY PARTS

"... The US military now seem to have dropped their previous suggestion that Taliban gunmen had run through the village streets lobbing grenades into houses because villagers had failed to give them a cut of the profits from the opium crop. No evidence was produced for this unlikely tale. Witnesses saw no signs of grenade blasts or machine gun fire. A US official source in Washington eventually admitted that the claim was "thinly sourced".
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-these-killings-will-only-strengthen-the-taliban-1685705.html

"... a US bombing massacre... may have killed as many as 130 Afghans... After US Strikes, Afghans Describe "Tractor Trailers Full of Pieces of Human Bodies"... the International Committee of the Red Cross has stated bluntly that US airstrikes hit civilian houses and revealed that an ICRC counterpart in the Red Crescent was among the dead. “We know that those killed included an Afghan Red Crescent volunteer and 13 members of his family who had been sheltering from fighting in a house that was bombed in an air strike”... the Pentagon was seeking to blame the Taliban for “staging” the massacre to blame it on the US..."
http://rebelreports.com/post/104594733/after-us-strikes-afghans-describe-tractor-trailers

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