You have got to be kidding me: But a gruesome video has now surfaced clearly documenting the huge number of civilians that were killed. A very thorough, independent, on-the-scene investigation by the New York Times‘ Carlotta Gall — who Floyd, a former colleague of Gall at The Moscow Times, rightly hailed as a truly intrepid [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Herat’
FOX News Used Oliver North as Its “Independent Journalist” to Help the U.S. Cover Up a Massacre in Herat
Posted: September 11, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, FOX News, Herat, Jesus, nonviolence, Oliver North
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High Civilian Toll in Herat, Afghanistan Backed Up by NYT, General McKiernan Cites ‘Emerging Evidence’
Posted: September 8, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, Christ, civilian casualties, Herat, Jesus, just war, nonviolence
It looks like initial reports of very high casualties in Herat, Afghanistan, were valid, despite howling protests from the U.S. military: The Afghan government, human rights and intelligence officials, independent witnesses and a United Nations investigation back up their account, pointing to dozens of freshly dug graves, lists of the dead, and cellphone videos and [...]
The Math of Civilian Casualties
Posted: August 29, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, airstrikes, civilian casualties, Herat
Here’s the kind of math that doesn’t help [emphasis mine]: A U.S. military review of an airstrike last week in western Afghanistan maintains that only five civilians were killed, Pentagon officials said yesterday, a finding that starkly contradicts reports by the United Nations and Afghan officials that the civilian death toll from the bombing was [...]
Link Roundup
Posted: August 28, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Halden, Herat, KBR, politics, prayer, Thom Stark
Halden posted a great quote today. Michael wrote about a topic on my mind: how to reconcile a detachment from the kingdoms of the world with citizenship in the Kingdom of God. Thom disputes the notion that prayer is a form of insanity. The U.S. still will not admit wrongdoing in Herat, even after everyone else [...]
Convergence
Posted: August 28, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, airstrikes, civilian casualties, Georgia, Herat, just war theory, Maximillianus, Russia
Two things come together at the United Nations: UNITED NATIONS: Russia, at odds with the United States over Georgia, tried unsuccessfully to push the UN Security Council on Tuesday to condemn US-led air strikes in Afghanistan that killed dozens of civilians. The Russian delegation had drafted a statement that would say the council’s 15 member [...]
Not Good Enough
Posted: August 26, 2008 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, al-Qaida, civilian casualties, Herat, Pentagon
AFP: CRAWFORD, Texas (AFP) – The United States expressed regret Sunday for any civilian deaths from US-led military operations in Afghanistan, without confirming reports of nearly 90 killed in one incident this week. “We regret the loss of life among the innocent Afghanis who we are committed to protect,” White House spokesman Tony Fratto said [...]
