On 5th May 2009, the US airstrikes targeted people’s homes, killing more than 150, mostly women and children.
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Let’s rise against the war crimes of US and its fundamentalist lackeys!
RAWA Statement on Massacre of over 150 civilians in Bala Baluk of Farah Province by the U.S.

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[link:http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/rawagallery.php?mghash=a69ba84843a6c778938bd59b65a08f63&mggal=6|(Photos of Bala Baluk Massacre)]


As the US occupiers continue killing our innocent and sorrowed people without regret, this time they committed yet another horrible crime in Bala Baluk village of Farah Province. On 5th May 2009, the US airstrikes targeted people’s homes, killing more than 150, mostly women and children. This is another war crime but Pentagon shamelessly includes Taliban as the perpetrators too and announces the civilian deaths being only 12!

The so-called ‘new’ strategy of Obama’s administration and the surge of troops in Afghanistan have already dragged our ill-fated people in the danger zone and his 100-day old government proved itself as much more war-mongering than Bush and his only gifts to our people is hiking killings and ever-horrifying oppression. This administration is bombarding our country and tearing our women and children into pieces and from the other side, is lending a friendly hand towards the terrorist Gulbuddinis and Taliban -- the dirty, bloody enemies of our people-- and holding secret negotiations and talks with such brutal groups.

While our grieved people are burying the torn bodies of their loved ones in mass graves; the traitor lackey Said Tayeb Jawad, in his comfort in the USA, tries to dim the war crimes of his masters and about the killings of civilians, shamelessly salts people’s wounds saying, “this is a price we have to pay if we want security and stability in Afghanistan, the region and the world.”!

If his or other ignoble spies like him would lose their children and dear ones like the people of Bala Baluk, would they still become so stone-hearted and remain silent in the face of US/NATO war crimes in Afghanistan?

The only way our people can escape the occupant forces and their obedient servants is to rise against them under the slogans of: “Neither the occupiers! Nor the bestial Taliban and the criminal Northern Alliance; long live a free and democratic Afghanistan!”

http://www.rawa.org/rawa/2009/05/07/lets-rise-against-the-war-crimes-of-us-and-its-fundamentalist-lackeys.html

‘US air-raid kills over 100 civilians in Farah’

Dr Atiqullah, a resident of the village, told they had so far retrieved 123 dead bodies from beneath the debris of the destroyed homes by using tractors.

Ahmad Qureshi

FARAH CITY: Residents of the Bala Boluk district in western Farah province on Tuesday claimed more than one hundred 'innocent people' have been killed in the Monday's air offensive by the US forces.

The air-strike in Bala Boluk district came after an insurgent attack on a police check post that killed six people and three others on spy charges on Sunday.

Following the militant attack, locals say, the American forces bombarded Grani village, inflecting huge casualties to non-combatants.

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An injured Afghan child from the Bala Baluk, district of Afghanistan, is seen on a bed at the hospital in Farah province of Afghanistan Tuesday, May 5, 2009. Abdul Basir Khan, a member of Farah's provincial council, said villagers brought some 30 bodies, including women and children, to Farah city to show the province's governor, that they had been killed by coalition airstrikes. (Photo: AP)

Dr Atiqullah, a resident of the village, told Pajhwok Afghan News the bombardment destroyed the whole village and some of the mutilated bodies were beyond recognition.

He said they had so far retrieved 123 dead bodies from beneath the debris of the destroyed homes by using tractors.

[div class=excerpt style=background:#FEFEFF]Villagers brought truckloads of bodies to the capital of a province in Western Afghanistan on Tuesday to prove that scores of civilians had been killed by U.S. air strikes in a battle with the Taliban.

Reuters, May 5, 2009 [/quote]



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyowNt9MR0c
Over 120 innocent civilians, many of them women and children, were massacred when US war planes bombed villages of Gerani and Gangabad in Bala Baluk district of Farah Province on May 5, 2009.

As seen in this video, "villagers brought truckloads of bodies to the capital of a province in Western Afghanistan on Tuesday to prove that scores of civilians had been killed by U.S. air strikes in a battle with the Taliban." (Reuters, May 5, 2009)

This is one out of many war crime cases committed by the US troops in Afghanistan over the past few years. The number of innocent civilians killed since Obama took office in Jan.21, reaches to 300 and his so-called new strategy for Afghanistan and surge in number of troops has result in more such terrible tragedies.

http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/05/05/and-8216-us-air-raid-kills-over-100-civilians-in-farahand-8217.html

Some of the injured people were provided first aid, Atiqullah said. One family lost 23 members alone, he claimed.

A tribal elder of the village, Abdul Manaan, told this news agency that 52 people in Ishaqzai area and 65 in Agha Sahiban area had been killed in the blitzkrieg.

"Our homes are destroyed and scores of people are killed, but the government is doing nothing," he lamented.

Manaan said a team of the Red Crescent society is expected to visit the area to observe the situation.

Public Health Director, Dr Abdul Shaiq, told this agency they had so far received two corpses and 13 injured people, including two police officers, children and women from the area.

Governor Roohul Amin confirmed civilian deaths in the air raid and said the operation was still underway in the district.

He claimed 30 armed Taliban have so far been eliminated in the operation.

A delegation has been formed to visit the affected families and assess the exact number of casualties, he claimed.

A provincial council member, Balqis Roshan said over 100 innocent people have been killed in Monday's bombardment.

As a protest, the locals also brought some dead bodies to the capital city, Farah.

Balqis blamed both the government and the international forces for what she described not taking care of the civilian lives.

Brian Naran an official at the US forces' media office in Kabul told this scribe the operations are still going on in Bala Boluk district, but would not say about non-combatant deaths.

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An Afghan boy places dirt over the grave of one of his family members after air strikes in Ganj Abad of Bala Buluk district, in Farah province, May 5, 2009.
(Photo: Reuters)


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An injured Afghan woman from the Bala Baluk is seen on a bed at the hospital in Farah province. (Photo: AP)

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Afghan villagers mark new burial site of victims who were allegedly killed during the coalition airstrikes in Bala Baluk district of Farah province. (Photo: AP)

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A wounded Afghan villager stands amid the rubble of destroyed houses after the coalition airstrikes in Bala Baluk district of Farah province. (Photo: AP)

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A wounded child in Farah yesterday. Up to 120 people, including civilians, were reported to have been killed in a series of US airstrikes on two villages. (Photo: The Times)

http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2009/05/05/and-8216-us-air-raid-kills-over-100-civilians-in-farahand-8217.html

Obama unveils Afghanistan plan
President says U.S. must ‘disrupt, defeat and dismantle’ al-Qaida

updated 11:17 a.m. PT, Fri., March. 27, 2009
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Friday ordered 4,000 more military troops into Afghanistan, vowing to “disrupt, dismantle and defeat” the terrorist al-Qaida network in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan.

In a war that still has no end in sight, Obama said the fresh infusion of U.S. forces is designed to bolster the Afghan army and turn up the heat on terrorists that he said are plotting new attacks against Americans. The plan takes aim at terrorist havens in Pakistan and challenges the government there and in Afghanistan to show more results.

Obama called the situation in the region “increasingly perilous” more than seven years after the Taliban was removed from power in Afghanistan.

(snip)

Violence is rising. The war in Afghanistan saw American military deaths rise by 35 percent in 2008 as Islamic extremists shifted their focus to a new front with the West. Obama’s plan will also cost many more billions of dollars.

And the president’s plan includes no timeline for withdrawal of U.S. troops.

'Disrupt, dismantle and defeat'
Yet Obama bluntly warned that the al-Qaida terrorists who masterminded the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks were actively planning further attacks on the United States from safe havens in Pakistan. And he said the Afghanistan government is in peril of falling to the Islamic militants of the Taliban once again.

“So I want the American people to understand that we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future,” the president said.

“That is the goal that must be achieved,” Obama added. “That is a cause that could not be more just. And to the terrorists who oppose us, my message is the same: we will defeat you.”

(snip)


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29898698/

FUCK YOU YOU WAR CRIMINAL


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PupXTUn9Mo

Empire - Obama and Afghanistan - 29 Apr 09 - Part 1
AlJazeeraEnglish

Empire examines the path from Iraq to Afghanistan and into Pakistan. With the Iraq operation apparently drawing to a close and a mini-surge underway in Afghanistan, people in the region are wondering what this will all mean on the ground and what will the repercussions be for the region. As locals worry that they will be caught in the crossfire or killed by drones, experts question whether the strategy is the correct one or if it is too little, too late. Empire investigates what went wrong and the plan to fix it.


How many lives will our country destroy?