Lest We Forget.

*http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2008/10/15/how-deeply-is-the-u-s-involved-in-the-afghan-drug-tradeo.html

RAWA: Since 2001 the opium cultivation increased over 4,400%. Under the US/NATO, Afghanistan became world largest opium producer, which produces 93% of world opium.

This is the poppy the war in Afghanistan is all about. The U.S. controls the export of opium/heroin, via government agencies including the C.I.A. The Taliban has only a small part of this as the growing is controlled by the Northern Warlords and the the puppet Afghan "government". The C.I.A. did the same thing in Vietnam and the Golden Triangle region of Laos. Now private "security" (read private army) firms are involved in the shipments. Taliban ruled 90% of Afghanistan from 1996-2001, it almost totally stamped out poppy cultivation as un-Islamic. The UN's drug control agency has confirmed this fact.

Remembrance Day ---- Poppy Day 2008

Lest We Forget that the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are about our troops invading to secure supplies of opium and oil. There is nothing heroic about it. ********************* Afghan boy whose family was killed by allied "liberating soldiers".* The twin towers terrorist attack had nothing to do with Afghanistan or Iraq. There were NO Iraqis or Afghans in the group. They were Arabs with one Moroccan. The Bush administration used the attack as an excuse to invade for OTHER REASONS. ************************************************************************************************** *Even with modern weapons of mass destruction, the Canadian Army cannot match a dedicated fanatic who is willing to blow himself up for his cause.

Another one down. More to come. Why are Canadian troops in Afghanistan? 25% of returning men have psychological problems. Maybe they have doubts about them being there.

The real killer of this soldier is the U.S. War Policy that has sucked Canada in.

Don't blame the soldiers. Blame the governmental policy that sucks up to the American Administration.

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Private Kevin Kennedy was blown up by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. He was twenty. Just why are Canadian troops in that country? There were no Afghans among the terrorists of the World trade Center. Afghanistan was no danger to Canada. The Taliban ( Organization started by Afghan Students) were far better than the vicious Northern Warlords that Canada supported.* *http://www.rawa.org/reports.htm Northern Alliance Atrocities. . The Taliban set about stopping all opium production. They were not Al Qaeda. George Bush and Cheney's propaganda lied. Guess what. Then America invaded and the poppies are growing in profusion and there is a much higher production of illegal opium, much of which ends up in the veins of Canadian and American youth. So let us talk straight. Kevin died so that (1)there would be an uninterrupted supply of heroin(2) to facilitate the building of an oil pipeline from the Caspian and (3) to pump billions of dollars into the multi-nationals which benefit from supplying armaments and material of war. http://www.webcom.com/~lpease/collections/denied/contracocaine.htm http://www.savethemales.ca/130202.html Oh, so is it said Canadians are really helping Afghanistan by killing them? Is Afghanistan a safer better place since the invasion of American troops and the "coalition of the willing." Not bloody likely! The multinational companies that supply materiel for war, are making tremendous profits. The ordinary Afghans have limited access to clean water or electricity, and health care hardly exists, despite the propaganda that the invaders are providing services and safety against the" bad Taliban." ***********************************************************************************

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"They said, 'don't sit back on your heels, don't look to the side'. They were beating me, telling me bad things. They ordered me to stay kneeling until the morning. I was three nights without sleep and then the last night, I had to kneel until morning." Jannat Gul says he was punched and kicked. At one point, he says, he was told to lie down. "They picked me up by my neck and said, 'we're going to kill you unless you confess what you did'." As he describes his experiences, a couple of phrases in English are scattered among the Persian — "put your arms up" is one. The other is, "shut the **** up". "I'm a farmer," says Jannat Gul, showing his calloused hands. "I'm not a member of al-Qaeda. Ask the Americans why I was held for 16 months. When they released me, they just said, 'we're very sorry'. That's all they said. If there is such a thing as human rights, I want to ask for my rights.Mounting anger over US atrocities in Afghanistan

Three weeks after an American AC-130 gunship killed and injured more than 100 civilians in the small Afghan village of Kakarak, US military officials have ... www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jul2002/afgh-j22.shtml - 19k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Final act in cover-up of US atrocities Military court acquits Abu ...

Final act in cover-up of US atrocities .... during the US invasion of Afghanistan in the fall of 2001, they publicly renounced the Geneva Conventions ... www.wsws.org/articles/2007/aug2007/jord-a30.shtml - 24k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this [ More results from www.wsws.org ]

US Torture and Atrocities

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U.S. Torture and Atrocities: Snoopy "torture" in Afghanistan

Snoopy "torture" in Afghanistan. Photo Credit: Capt. Michael Meridith ... US Torture --- US Atrocities --- US military --- War on Terrorism --- Iraq ... ustorture.blogspot.com/2007/10/snoopy-torture-in-afghanistan.html - 75k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this* * You die, you die, you die Witness the Telegraph story's closing words, from young Lt. Denton. The passage is obviously meant to be a bit of gung-ho G.I. bravado of World War II vintage, the kind of line you might hear in an old movie from a cheerful, apple-cheeked, tough-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold dogface played by, say, Ronald Reagan:

But for now, the American airmen are not losing any sleep over [the threat of being shot down]. "When you are on top of the enemy you look, shoot and it's, 'You die, you die, you die'," Lt Denton said. "The odds are on our side."I really enjoy it"! I told my wife, if I could come home every night then this would be the perfect job."

"You die, you die, you die....You can see the person but you can't see the features of his face...You just see a big dust cloud where the person used to be...I really enjoy it...I really enjoy it....You just see a big dust cloud...I really enjoy it...you die, you die...you can't see his face...you die...I really enjoy it." Even in a justified or unavoidable war, the thought of killing another human being — the thought that we, the common human family, have sunk to such a low point, yet again — should be a matter of deepest tragedy, of enduring regret. It is a terrible thing to have to do, even when compelled by the most extreme necessity. Yet the Terror War is leeching the terror out of this dreadful act. Because the Terror War has no deeper meaning — no real purpose beyond loot and power for a few — it devalues and degrades everything it touches. To kill a human being is nothing more than stirring up a bit of dust; it's easy — "the odds are on our side" — it's fun, "I really enjoy it."

Loved one shot dead by NATO An Afghan elderly man points to a bed on which a loved one was shot dead while was asleep during a raid last night in Ghani Khail district in Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, April. 21,2007. Hundreds of angry Afghanistan people chanting 'Death to Bush' and 'Death to Karzai' demonstrated in eastern Afghanistan after the U.S. attaked early Sunday. Thousands more Afghans staged a protest against U.S. forces and the puppet Afghanistan government on Monday saying U.S. forces were continuing to maim and kill their relatives and loved ones. Photo: AP/Rahmat Gul

NATO's Operation Medusa. Accustomed to seeing the Canadian Forces' role as that of peace-keepers, many observers were stunned . Meanwhile, there was a largely unreported civilian exodus as some 80,000 people fled their homes while “at least 50 civilians were killed over several weeks of bombing” (New York Times, Nov 27, A12). At around 2am on October 18, NATO helicopters firing on houses in the village of Ashogo in Kandahar killed between nine and thirteen civilians, including women and children. Almost simultaneously, in neighboring Helmand province, another NATO air strike killed a reported thirteen civilians. Additionally, NATO revealed that just one purported Taliban insurgent was killed in the attacks. In fact, during the attack on Ashogo, there were no Taliban whatsoever in the village, according to local officials. NATO blamed the botched attacks on intelligence failures.

News of these two catastrophes was vividly related by a veteran Afghanistan reporter, Kathy Gannon, whose article was carried widely on the Associated Press wire. The Toronto Star (Oct 19) ran her AP report on page A7 with the title "NATO strikes kill villagers". That was pretty much the end of coverage in the Star: no editorials or opinion pieces weighed in on the killings. The paper did briefly revisit the events in a news article three days later (Oct 22, A14) in reporting on an Afghan father's accusations that during the Kandahar attack NATO troops had executed his wounded son when the soldiers had entered their house. (As for the allegation, NATO later announced that they had exonerated themselves on the matter. See "No evidence to support claim of execution-style killing of Afghan teen: NATO", Bill Graveland, Canadian Press, Nov 21.)

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Canadian troops kill another Afghan civilian

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Canadian soldiers kill Afghan police officer, civilian

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CTV.ca | Canadian troops accidentally kill man, wound boy

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CTV.ca | Canadian troops kill Afghan civilian, officer

Canadian troops killed an Afghan National Police officer and civilian after their convoy was ambushed in Kandahar City, military officials confirmed. www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070219/kandahar_ambush_070219/20070219?hub=World - 46k * This boy alleges his friend a detainee at the American base was not given food or water for four days"He was a young boy" He alleges that a detainee his friend was tortured at the U.S. Asadabad base and died after not being given enough water in hot weather over a four-day period. *************************************************************************************************** Bush associates with drug-runners.Unanswered questions. http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/W_plane.html Afghanistan, Opium and the Taliban Papaver somniferum: the opium poppy" border="0" height="330" width="229"> JALALABAD, Afghanistan (February 15, 2001 8:19 p.m. EST

U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has nearly wiped out opium production in Afghanistan -- once the world's largest producer -- since banning poppy cultivation last summer.

A 12-member team from the U.N. Drug Control Program spent two weeks searching most of the nation's largest opium-producing areas and found so few poppies that they do not expect any opium to come out of Afghanistan this year.

"We are not just guessing. We have seen the proof in the fields," said Bernard Frahi, regional director for the U.N. program in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He laid out photographs of vast tracts of land cultivated with wheat alongside pictures of the same fields taken a year earlier -- a sea of blood-red poppies.

A State Department official said Thursday all the information the United States has received so far indicates the poppy crop had decreased, but he did not believe it was eliminated.

Last year, Afghanistan produced nearly 4,000 tons of opium, about 75 percent of the world's supply, U.N. officials said. Opium -- the milky substance drained from the poppy plant -- is converted into heroin and sold in Europe and North America. The 1999 output was a world record for opium production, the United Nations said -- more than all other countries combined, including the "Golden Triangle," where the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet.

Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader, banned poppy growing before the November planting season and augmented it with a religious edict making it contrary to the tenets of Islam.

The Taliban, which has imposed a strict brand of Islam in the 95 percent of Afghanistan it controls, has set fire to heroin laboratories and jailed farmers until they agreed to destroy their poppy crops.

The U.N. surveyors, who completed their search this week, crisscrossed Helmand, Kandahar, Urzgan and Nangarhar provinces and parts of two others -- areas responsible for 86 percent of the opium produced in Afghanistan last year, Frahi said in an interview Wednesday. They covered 80 percent of the land in those provinces that last year had been awash in poppies.

This year they found poppies growing on barely an acre here and there, Frahi said. The rest -- about 175,000 acres -- was clean.

"We have to look at the situation with careful optimism," said Sandro Tucci of the U.N. Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention in Vienna, Austria.

He said indications are that no poppies were planted this season and that, as a result, there hasn't been any production of opium -- but that officials would keep checking.

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When Masuda Sultan first heard reports that scores of civilians at a wedding party in central Afghanistan had been killed in a U.S. bombing attack last week, she says she experienced a sickening sense of deja vu.

Masuda Sultan" border="0" height="356" width="225"> Outside the White House, Masuda Sultan, an Afghan-American from New York, protests against Afghan civilian casualties, on July 5, 2002. Sultan is program coordinator for Women for Afghan Women. (Kenneth Lambert/AP Photo)

Sultan herself had lost 19 members of her extended family in a U.S. air attack on a village near the Afghan city of Kandahar last October. And from what she could gather from news reports about the July 1 attack on the Deh Rawud village in the central Uruzgan province, the events seemed chillingly familiar.

"It was almost like playing out what happened to my family," says the 24-year-old Afghan-American. "At first, my deepest fear was that something had happened to my family. And then after a while I found I couldn't help thinking about what these people must be going through."

It was the sort of empathy that comes from having been there and done that.

Nineteen years after her family fled the fighting in her native Afghanistan for the United States, Sultan returned to the region with a U.S. documentary crew last December to find out how some of her family members who had stayed on in Kandahar were doing.

She wasn't exactly expecting an exuberant family reunion, but she had no idea it would be quite so grim. As the camera rolled inside a modest dwelling in the Pakistani border city of Quetta, where her family had taken refuge from the bombing, Sultan learned that many of them had been killed by U.S. AC-130 gunships in the village of Chowkar-Karez on October 22.

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