American Massacre

by Hameed Abdul Karim

There was this report by CNN that three American soldiers were injured in a blast in Afghanistan. The next day a report from Afghanistan claimed that some Americans had perished in this blast, which was actually (according to this report) triggered off by Afghanis. An attack on American positions had followed the report further claims.

There was no way to check on the report from Afghanistan but it seems there is a way to analyse such reports. After every attack of this nature it is the American and Israeli practice to attack what they call 'soft targets', a euphemism for civilian targets, as revenge. The merciless American attack on a convoy of tribal Afghan leaders headed towards Kabul to attend the 'ceremonies' must be seen in this light. In this attack 65 tribal leaders were blown to bits.

America and Israel are not averse to bombing civilian targets like residential areas, hospitals, ambulances, refugee camps, Red Cross Stores or civilian aircraft. These two terrorist states have done all that in the past and will continue to do so in the future.

CNN, BBC and the rest of the American and British propaganda machinery mentioned the American massacre of the tribal leaders in Afghanistan only in passing. It only takes the death of just one American or British soldier to turn the entire propaganda network into a funeral parlor. Mass murder of 65 Afghan tribal leaders doesn't evoke the same kind of feelings or sympathy in the propaganda network. The reason for that is patently clear. The western propaganda machinery is not supposed to say or do anything, on the instructions of Ari Fleshier, that could in any way expose the truth or unveil the American and British designs on Afghanistan.

The Mazar-e-Sharif massacre of POW's is yet another example of America's genocide in Afghanistan. Even this heinous massacre did not merit much TV coverage. From the few pictures that CNN and SKY showed it was clear that the prisoners had been shot in the back. Many of the dead were seen lying face down and there were no weapons by their sides either. Robert Fisk, the veteran journalist and one of the few who is reporting the Afghan genocide from a humanitarian point of view says in a report in UK's Independent Newspaper that some of the dead prisoners had their hands tied behind their backs.

If the Taliban had carried out this massacre one could only imagine the hue and cry the western media would have made about human dignity and the sanctity of human life. Even the UN has not made any investigations into this massacre in spite of many appeals. But that's not surprising seeing that the UN is an American appendage. And so the UN's Secretary General, Kofi Annan, is the latest Nobel Peace Laureate! That's not surprising either. But for God's sake must they make it so obvious?