Afghans riot over air-strike atrocity
Witnesses say deaths of 147 people in three villages came after a sustained bombardment by American aircraft commanded by President Barack Hussein Obama.
Shouting “Death to America” and “Death to the Government”, thousands of Afghan villagers hurled stones at police yesterday as they vented their fury at American air strikes that local officials claim killed 147 civilians.
The riot started when people from three villages struck by US bombers in the early hours of Tuesday, brought 15 newly-discovered bodies in a truck to the house of the provincial governor. As the crowd pressed forward in Farah, police opened fire, wounding four protesters. Traders in the rest of Farah city, the capital of the province of the same name where the bombing took place, closed their shops, vowing they would not reopen them until there is an investigation.
A local official Abdul Basir Khan said yesterday that he had collected the names of 147 people who had died, making it the worst such incident since the US intervened in Afghanistan started in 2001. A phone call from the governor of Farah province, Rohul Amin, in which he said that 130 people had died, was played over the loudspeaker in the Afghan parliament in Kabul, sparking demands for more control over US operations.
Patrick Cockburn, in Herat, reports Friday, 8 May 2009
oh my god where is this? And what do you mean by the title
I pledge allegiance to liberty and justice for all. The flag doesn’t honor that. Fuck the flag.
Another pathetic traitor to the American Constitution and the American people.
Look at what they are doing to the people in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Look at how they are inducing even more violence in Israel (giving the Illegal state BILLIONS a year)…
Yet they wonder why they hate us so much?
May God have mercy on these poor people…they were told they would be liberated,and they were subjugated,massacred and raped for all they have instead