U.S. USED PSY-OPS ON LAWMAKERS VISTING AFGHANISTAN
"... military personnel deployed to win Afghan hearts and minds were instructed over their own objections to carry out “psychological operations” to help convince visiting members of Congress to increase support for the training mission there... Psychological operations and deception... are understood as being aimed at adversarial or neutral audiences — not at Americans."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/world/asia/25military.html
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
PETRAEUS: AFGHANS BURNED THEIR OWN CHILDREN
"To the shock of President Hamid Karzai's aides, Gen. David H. Petraeus suggested Sunday at the presidential palace that Afghans caught up in a coalition attack in northeastern Afghanistan might have burned their own children to exaggerate claims of civilian casualties... (Petraeus is quoted as saying) that in the midst of the [operation] some pro-Taliban parents in contact with a government official decided to create a civilian casualty claim to pressure international forces to cease the [operation]. They burned hands and legs of some of their children and sent them to the hospital."
"... U.S. and Afghan officials are investigating what happened during the three- to four-day operation in the mountains of Ghaziabad district... U.S. military officials said there is no evidence that civilians died. The governor of Konar, Fazlullah Wahidi, disagreed, citing reports from villagers that dozens of women and children perished. Karzai's office placed the civilian death toll at 50..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/21/AR2011022104514.html
"To the shock of President Hamid Karzai's aides, Gen. David H. Petraeus suggested Sunday at the presidential palace that Afghans caught up in a coalition attack in northeastern Afghanistan might have burned their own children to exaggerate claims of civilian casualties... (Petraeus is quoted as saying) that in the midst of the [operation] some pro-Taliban parents in contact with a government official decided to create a civilian casualty claim to pressure international forces to cease the [operation]. They burned hands and legs of some of their children and sent them to the hospital."
"... U.S. and Afghan officials are investigating what happened during the three- to four-day operation in the mountains of Ghaziabad district... U.S. military officials said there is no evidence that civilians died. The governor of Konar, Fazlullah Wahidi, disagreed, citing reports from villagers that dozens of women and children perished. Karzai's office placed the civilian death toll at 50..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/21/AR2011022104514.html
Sunday, February 20, 2011
NATO KILLS 22 WOMEN AND 26 YOUNG BOYS
"The governor of Afghanistan's Kunar province said Sunday that 64 people, including some civilians, were killed in a joint operation by NATO's International Security Assistance Force and Afghan security forces over the past few days.... the dead included 16 insurgents, 22 women, and 26 young boys..."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/02/20/afghanistan.civilians.killed/index.html?iphoneemail
"The governor of Afghanistan's Kunar province said Sunday that 64 people, including some civilians, were killed in a joint operation by NATO's International Security Assistance Force and Afghan security forces over the past few days.... the dead included 16 insurgents, 22 women, and 26 young boys..."
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/02/20/afghanistan.civilians.killed/index.html?iphoneemail
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