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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=3
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bold'>De<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName></span></font></b><span
lang=EN-GB> <st1:PersonName ProductID="Shebar Windstone" w:st="on">Shebar
Windstone</st1:PersonName> [shebar@e271.net]<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Envoyé<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName></span></b>
mercredi 30 mars 2011 17<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName>42<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>À<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName></span></b>
Recipient list suppressed<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Objet<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName></span></b>
FYI<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName> Kill teams in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region><st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName>
the truth (Malalai Joya - CiF <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>
at Guardian) </span><font color=purple><span style='color:purple'>/ Des équipes
de tueurs en <st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region><st1:PersonName
w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName> la vérité (Malalai Joya - CiF <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place> au Guardian)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 color=purple
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'>Comme <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>nseillère de rédaction et de l’armée avec la
Résistance, j’ai vu des photos atroces <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>mparables,
ramenées par des anciens <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>mbattants
du Vietnam, & je ne doute pas que des atrocités semblables ont eu lieu dans
tout <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>nflit armé dans lequel les US
ont été engagés (& dans ceux financés, entraînés et armés par les US), au
moins depuis les années 1960. Des nations malades font des choses malades, y <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>mpris l’emprisonnement et la torture de ceux qui
dénoncent <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>mme Bradley Manning qui
a essayé d’amener à la lumière des crimes semblables. Si j’entends en<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>re un seul gouvernement glorifier officiellement
la soi-disant « ouverture et transparence, » Je vais dégueuler !
Appelez cet endroit <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>U</span></b>nited <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>S</span></b>icknesses of <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>A</span></b>merica.<i><span style='font-style:italic'>(La Maladie unie
d’Amérique)</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'><a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/30/kill-team-photos-afghanistan-us">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/30/kill-team-photos-afghanistan-us</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=5 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;color:purple;font-weight:bold'>Des équipes de tueurs en
Afghanistan <st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName> la vérité<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:18.0pt;color:purple;font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><i><font size=3 color=purple
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple;font-style:
italic'>Ces photos déguelasses d’Afghans assassinés révèlent l’agression et le
racisme qui sous-tendent l’occupation de mon pays</span></font></i><font
color=purple><span style='color:purple'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font color=purple><span style='color:purple'>Ces photos déguelasses et qui
brisent le cœur publiées la semaine dernière dans les médias allemands, et plus
récemment dans Rolling Stone Magazine </span></font>[<a
href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/photos/the-kill-team-photos-20110327"
eudora=autourl>
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/photos/the-kill-team-photos-20110327</a> <font
color=purple><span style='color:purple'>], apportent enfin la macabre vérité
sur la guerre en Afghanistan à un public plus large. <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'>Toutes les relations au public au sujet
de cette guerre <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>ncernant la
démocratie et les droits humains s’évaporent avec les photos de soldats
américains posant avec des <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>rps
morts et mutilés d’innocents civils afghans. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'>Je me dois de rapporter que les Afghans
ne croient pas qu’il s’agit d’une histoire de quelques soldats voyous. Nous
croyons que les actions brutales de ces « équipes de tueurs »
révèlent l’agression et le racisme qui font partie intégrante de l’occupation
militaire toute entière. Alors que ces photos sont nouvelles, le meurtre
d’innocents ne l’est pas De semblables crimes ont suscité beau<st1:PersonName
w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>up de protestations en Afghanistan et ont augmenté
fortement le sentiment anti-américain parmi les Afghans ordinaires. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'>Je ne suis pas surprise que les médias <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>urants aux US aient été réticents à publier ces
images de soldats qui font du meurtre d’Afghans, un sport. On dit que le
Général Petraeus, actuellement en charge de l’occupation américaine attache une
grande importance à « l’information sur la guerre » pour
l’opinion publique et qu’il y a un effort <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>ncerté
pour ne pas montrer la réalité en Afghanistan aux US. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'>La semaine dernière, ma première demande
pour un visa d’entrée aux US a été refusée et ainsi ma tournée pour mon livre a
été retardée, tandis que des supporters exigeaient mon droit d’entrer dans le
pays. Le gouvernement américain a été poussé à revenir sur sa décision et à
permettre que ma visite se poursuive. Finalement, cela aussi sera incapable de
bloquer la vérité sur la guerre en Afghanistan. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'>Les images de « l’équipe de
tueurs » produira un choc chez beau<st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>up
d’extérieurs à l’Afghanistan, mais pas pour nous. Nous avons vu d’innombrables
incidents de forces américaines et de l’OTAN tuant des innocents <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>mme des oiseaux. .Par exemple, ils viennent de
tuer récemment neuf enfants dans la province de Kunar qui ramassaient du bois
pour le feu. En février, cette année, ils ont tué 65 villageois innocents, la
plupart des femmes et des enfants. Dans ce cas, <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>mme
dans beau<st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>up d’autres, l’OTAN a
prétendu qu’il n’avait tué que des insurgés même si les autorités locales
avaient re<st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>nnu que les victimes
étaient des civils. Pour éviter que les faits ne soient <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>nnus,
il a même arrêté deux journalistes de al-Jazeera qui essayaient de venir et de
rapporter à partir du lieu du massacre. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'>Les autorités US successives ont dit
qu’elles sauvegarderaient les civils et qu’elles seront plus prudentes, mais en
réalité elles sont surtout plus prudentes dans leurs efforts pour dissimuler
leurs crimes et pour éviter q’ils soient rapportés. Les US et l’OTAN avec le
bureau de la mission d’assistance de l’ONU à l’Afghanistan donnent généralement
des statistiques sur les décès civils qui sous-estiment leur nombre. En réalité,
la soi-disant <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>lère <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>( ???surge)</span></i> du Président Obama a
seulement eu pour effet un mouvement de violence de tous les côtés, et les
morts civiles ont augmenté. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'>Les armées d’occupation ont essayé
d’acheter les familles de leurs victimes en leur offrant à chacune $2000 pour
chaque tué. La vie d’un Afghan est bon marché pour les US et l’OTAN, mais peu
importe <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>mbien ils offrent, nous ne
voulons pas de leur argent sanglant. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'>Une fois qu’on sait tout cela et qu’on a
vu les photos de « l’équipe de tueurs » on <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>mprend
plus clairement pourquoi les Afghans se sont retournés <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>ntre
l’occupation. Le régime Karzaï est plus détesté que jamais, il ne gouverne que
par intimidation, <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>rruption et avec
l’aide des armées d’occupation. Les Afghans méritent beau<st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>up
mieux que cela. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'>Cependant, cela ne signifie pas que
davantage d’Afghans soutiennent la soi-disant résistance des Talibans
réactionnaires. On assiste au <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>ntraire
à la croissance, dans des <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>nditions
très difficiles, d’une autre résistance dirigée par des étudiants, des femmes
et les gens ordinaires pauvres d’Afghanistan. Ils descendent dans la rue pour
manifester <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>ntre le massacre de
civils et pour exiger la fin de <st1:PersonName ProductID="la guerre. Des"
w:st="on">la guerre. Des</st1:PersonName> manifestations pareilles ont eu lieu
récemment à Kaboul, Marzar-e-Sharif, Jalalabad et Farah.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'>Cette résistance s’inspire de mouvements
dans d’autres pays <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>mme l’Egypte et
la Tunisie – nous aussi nous voulons voir le « pouvoir du peuple » en
Afghanistan. Et nous avons besoin du soutien et de la solidarité des gens des
pays de l’OTAN. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'>Beau<st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>up
de voix nouvelles s’expriment <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>ntre
cette guerre <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>ûteuse et hypocrite
en Afghanistan, y <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>mpris des
soldats des armées de l’OTAN. Quand j’ai visité la dernière fois le RU, j’ai eu
l’honneur de ren<st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>ntrer Joe Glenton,
un objecteur de <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>nscience qui a
passé des mois en prison pour sa résistance <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>ntre
la guerre en Afghanistan. De sa période en prison, Glenton dit <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName> « Dans le climat actuel, je <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>nsidère <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>mme
un honneur d’avoir été <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>ndamné à la
prison ». <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'>Ainsi, pendant que le monde regarde avec
horreur les photos de « l’équipe de tueurs, le <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>urage
et l’humanité de Joe Glenton sont un rappel important que la guerre en
Afghanistan ne doit pas durer pour toujours. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=purple face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:purple'>***********************************************<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:8.0pt;font-weight:bold'>De<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName></span></font></b><font
size=1><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt'> <st1:PersonName
ProductID="Shebar Windstone" w:st="on">Shebar Windstone</st1:PersonName>
[shebar@e271.net]<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Envoyé<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName></span></b>
mercredi 30 mars 2011 17<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName>42<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>À<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName></span></b>
Recipient list suppressed<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Objet<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName></span></b>
FYI<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName> Kill teams in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region><st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName>
the truth (Malalai Joya - CiF <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region></st1:place>
at Guardian) <font color=purple><span style='color:purple'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:8.0pt'>As a draft and military <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>unselor
with the Resistance, I saw <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>mparably
atrocious photos brought back by Vietnam vets, & I don't doubt that similar
atrocities have taken place in every armed <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>nflict
in which the U.S. has been engaged (& those funded, trained & armed by
the U.S.), at least since the 1960s. Sick nations do sick things, including
imprisonment & torture of whistleblowers such as Bradley Manning who try to
bring such crimes to light. If I hear one more government official laud
so-called "openness & transparency," I will puke! Call this place
the United Sicknesses of America.<br>
<br>
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href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/30/kill-team-photos-afghanistan-us"
eudora=autourl><span lang=EN-GB>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/30/kill-team-photos-afghanistan-us<br>
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<h1><b><font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
8.0pt'>Kill teams in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region></st1:place><st1:PersonName
w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName> the truth<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=1
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt'>These
disgusting photos of murdered Afghans reveal the aggression and racism
underpinning the occupation of my <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>untry<br>
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</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/malalai-joya"><span lang=EN-GB>Malalai
Joya </span></a></span></font><font size=1><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
8.0pt'><br>
</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian"><span lang=EN-GB>The Guardian</span></a></span></font><font
size=1><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt'>, Wednesday 30 March 2011 <br>
</span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/30/kill-team-photos-afghanistan-us#history-link-box"><span
lang=EN-GB>Article history</span></a></span></font><font size=1><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt'><br>
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The disgusting and heartbreaking photos published last week in the German
media, and more recently in </span></font><font size=1><span style='font-size:
8.0pt'><a
href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/photos/the-kill-team-photos-20110327"><span
lang=EN-GB>Rolling Stone magazine</span></a> </span></font><font size=1><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt'>[</span></font><font size=1><span
style='font-size:8.0pt'><a
href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/photos/the-kill-team-photos-20110327"
eudora=autourl><span lang=EN-GB>
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/photos/the-kill-team-photos-20110327</span></a></span></font><font
size=1><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt'> ], are finally bringing the
grisly truth about the war in </span></font><font size=1><span
style='font-size:8.0pt'><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/afghanistan"><span
lang=EN-GB>Afghanistan</span></a></span></font><font size=1><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:8.0pt'> to a wider public. All the PR about this war being
about democracy and human rights melts into thin air with the pictures of US
soldiers posing with the dead and mutilated bodies of innocent Afghan
civilians.<br>
<br>
I must report that Afghans do not believe this to be a story of a few rogue
soldiers. We believe that the brutal actions of these "kill teams"
reveal the aggression and racism which is part and parcel of the entire
military occupation. While these photos are new, the murder of innocents is
not. Such crimes have sparked many protests in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region></st1:place> and have sharply raised
anti-American sentiment among ordinary Afghans.<br>
<br>
I am not surprised that the mainstream media in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place> has been reluctant to publish
these images of the soldiers who made sport out of murdering Afghans. General
Petraeus, now in charge of the American-led occupation, is said to place great
importance on the "information war" for public opinion – and there is
a <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>ncerted effort to keep the
reality of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region> out
of sight in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<br>
<br>
Last week my initial application for a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place> entry visa was turned down, and
so my book tour was delayed while supporters demanded my right to enter the <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>untry. The American government was pressed to
relent and allow my visit to go ahead. Ultimately it too will be unable to
block out the truth about the war in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<br>
<br>
The "kill team" images will <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>me
as a shock to many outside <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region></st1:place>
but not to us. We have seen <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>untless
incidents of American and Nato forces killing innocent people like birds. For
instance, they recently killed nine children in </span></font><font size=1><span
style='font-size:8.0pt'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunar_Province"><span
lang=EN-GB>Kunar Province</span></a></span></font><font size=1><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt'> who were <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>llecting
firewood. In February this year they killed 65 innocent villagers, most of them
women and children. In this case, as in many others, Nato claimed that they had
only killed insurgents, even though local authorities acknowledged that the
victims were civilians. To prevent the facts <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>ming
out they even arrested two journalists from al-Jazeera who attempted to visit
and report from the site of the massacre.<br>
<br>
Successive <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place>
officials have said that they will safeguard civilians and that they will be
more careful, but in fact they are only more careful in their efforts to <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>ver up their crimes and suppress reporting of
them. The US and Nato, along with the office of the UN's assistance mission in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
usually give statistics about civilian deaths that underestimate the numbers.
The reality is that President Obama's so-called surge has only led to a surge
of violence from all sides, and civilian deaths have increased.<br>
<br>
The occupying armies have tried to buy off the families of their victims,
offering $2,000 for each one killed. Afghans' lives are cheap for the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place> and
Nato, but no matter how much they offer, we don't want their blood money.<br>
<br>
Once you know all this, and once you have seen the "kill team"
photos, you will understand more clearly why Afghans have turned against this
occupation. The Karzai regime is more hated than ever<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName>
it only rules through intimidation, <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>rruption,
and with the help of the occupying armies. Afghans deserve much better than
this.<br>
<br>
However, this does not mean more Afghans are supporting the reactionary
so-called resistance of the Taliban. Instead we are seeing the growth, under
very difficult <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>nditions, of
another resistance led by students, women and the ordinary poor people of <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
They are taking to the streets to protest against the massacre of civilians and
to demand an end to the war. Demonstrations like this were recently held in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Kabul</st1:City></st1:place>, Marzar-e-Sharif,
Jalalabad and Farah.<br>
<br>
This resistance is inspired by the movements in other <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>untries
like <st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Tunisia</st1:country-region> – we want to see "people
power" in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region></st1:place>
as well. And we need the support and solidarity of people in the Nato <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>untries.<br>
<br>
Many new voices are speaking up against this expensive and hypocritical war in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region></st1:place>,
including soldiers from the Nato armies. When I last visited the <st1:country-region
w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> I had the honour of meeting </span></font><font
size=1><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><a
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8551245.stm"><span lang=EN-GB>Joe Glenton</span></a></span></font><font
size=1><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:8.0pt'>, a <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>nscientious
objector who spent months in jail for his resistance to the war in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
Of his time in prison, Glenton said<st1:PersonName w:st="on">:</st1:PersonName>
"In the current climate I <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>nsider
it a badge of honour to have served a prison sentence."<br>
<br>
So while the world looks in horror at the "kill team" photographs,
Joe Glenton's <st1:PersonName w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>urage and humanity
is an important reminder that the war in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">Afghanistan</st1:country-region></st1:place> need not last forever.<br>
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w:st="on">co</st1:PersonName>mments<br>
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Windstone</span></font></st1:PersonName><font size=1><span lang=EN-GB
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:8.0pt'>If Bradley Manning is aiding the enemy,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:8.0pt'>then *we* are the enemy!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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