The Faces of War

Aoxomoxoa said:
Taliban using human shields, says Afghan army general

Senior commander echoes British claims that enemy is placing women and children in line of fire to stall offensive

So whats new.....they are barbarians....time to face the truth.



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A US marine watches an Afghan family evacuate Trikh Nawar, a rural area north-east of Marjah. Photograph: Patrick Baz/AFP/Getty Images

Taliban insurgents are increasingly using civilians as human shields against the US-led attack on Marjah, in southern Afghanistan, a senior Afghan commander said today. Speaking on the fifth day of an offensive involving about 15,000 US, British, and Afghan troops, General Mohiudin Ghori said his soldiers had seen Taliban fighters place women and children on rooftops and fire from behind them.

At the same time US marines called in air support as they came under heavy gunfire from insurgents hiding in bunkers, houses and mosques. Ghori, the senior commander for Afghan troops in the area, accused the Taliban of placing civilian hostages in the line of fire. "Especially in the south of Marjah, the enemy is fighting from compounds where soldiers can very clearly see women or children on the roof or in a second-floor or third-floor window," he was quoted by Associated Press as saying. "They are trying to get us to fire on them and kill the civilians." His forces were having to choose between not returning fire and advancing much more slowly in order to distinguish militants from civilians, Ghori said, echoing comments by British commanders in the area about Taliban tactics.

They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike. And for the first time, British army engineers have deployed a new device against roadside bombs. Called a "python", it is mounted on a trailer pulled behind a Trojan armoured vehicle, and shoots a length of high explosives high into the air and on to a minefield, where it detonates. It was deployed today to clear a dry river bed of improvised explosive devices north of patrol base Wahid in Nad-e-Ali, north-east of Marjah, the Ministry of Defence said.

British forces there have discovered a cache of stolen Afghan army and police uniforms, suggesting that the Taliban had been planning disguised attacks.
Dawud Ahmadi, a spokesman for the governor of Helmand, Gulab Mangal, said yesterday that 1,240 families had been displaced and evacuated from Marjah to Lashkar Gah, capital of the province.

Amnesty International said *today that the Nato-led force lacked the "credible mechanism" needed to investigate incidents of loss of civilian life or ensure that such occurrences were not repeated. The human rights group also described as "inexcusable" tactics employed by the Taliban, stating that knowingly endangering Afghan life could constitute a war crime. It urged both sides in the conflict to comply with legal obligations to protect thousands of displaced Afghans and those still trapped in areas of intense fighting. Amnesty issued the warning after the deaths of at least 15 civilians so far during Operation Moshtarak, including 12 people killed on Sunday when a house was struck by Nato rockets. A further three have since been killed in separate incidents.

Nato said that any credible allegation would be investigated. Carmen Romero, a spokeswoman, said: "We are trying to do everything we can to limit civilian casualties and we are increasing our efforts."

Asia-Pacific director Sam Zarifi said: "About 10,000 civilians have fled the conflict zone, but thousands more are caught up in the fighting." He added: "The Taliban have a record of knowingly endangering Afghan civilians in their operations, which can constitute a war crime. Insurgent groups are bound by international law to take every possible precaution to protect the lives of civilians."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/17/taliban-human-shields
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Originally Posted by Aoxomoxoa
The Taliban shoot teenage girls for having the audacity to want to go to school. They are also quite happy to sacrifice children because they are useful in the propaganda war.
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Darla said:
Great so we are the moral equivalent of the taliban, good news.
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Did we shoot somebody because they wanted to go to school ?............................fool.
 
Another glorious day for Team WhiteGuys!

Brothers, the current status report is as follows:

  • Still rocking it on wallstreet
  • Still being in charge of most countries
  • Sending armies around the world, protests don't matter. Try and stop us.
  • Bombing people we don't like cause, I mean come on, why else are we building all those cool weapons? Gotta keep up our skills.
And the ultimate bonus: Dead kids. This has been our greatest success today. Very few people understand the joy of having the power to send a shockwave through a 6 year olds spine and making him collapse. It's even better if you are having some over priced whole foods orderves while hearing the exciting news of our latest victory. Its like punting a pigeon while walking down the street. Sooo satisfying feeling that type of contact.

(sidenote: more white cities with more pigeons - post haste).

Of course, we still have our typical bleeding heart rabble rousers. Some real uptight white girls, who are suuuper jealous at not having kill powers like us. Who could blame them? All they have currently is driving badly and ramming their cars into us, and the power to nag us to death, the latter of which can be a tedious process.

I suggest we gaslight them a bit or at the very least mansplain them, that will REALLLLLLY get under their skin.

In closing, we had a good day. On the docket for the following weeks is:

  • Margaret Thatcher funeral, and debate over if she should be an honorary White Man. (she already has the look part down mostly).
  • Afternoon stroll down some impoverished neighborhood streets. Please bring your own tailcoat. Monocles and cigars will be provided.
  • Zimmerman trial. This is a big one. We need to preserve our ability to shoot kids in a personal way, not just in war like settings. Please focus all our white man super powers on affecting the outcome of the trial. Other options are using our superior white man connections with judges, jury members, and the system in general.
Good day.
 
I just wanted to see the world burn :)

sadly, tom saw through my ruse. It was all a show!

or was it?
 
Grind is Dead said:
I just wanted to see the world burn :)

sadly, tom saw through my ruse. It was all a show!

or was it?
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Remember when I told you I wanted to do that? I told you he would piss his pants with excitement, but you were afraid he'd get so excited it'd kill him. And I said, who gives a fuck? You remember grind. It would have been awesome.
 
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