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Rolling Stone: The A-Team Killings
The A-Team Killings
BY MATTHIEU AIKINS | November 6th, 2013
Last spring, the remains of 10 missing Afghan villagers were dug up outside a U.S. Special Forces base – was it a war crime or just another episode in a very dirty war?
A flier of Afghans who were seized by the Special Forces and never seen again.
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Last winter, a twelve-man 'A-Team' of American Special Forces arrived in Wardak Province, Afghanistan. Within six months of their arrival, the team would be forced out of the province by the Afghan government, amid allegations of torture and murder against the local populace that, if true, would amount to some of the gravest war crimes perpetrated by American forces since 2001.
According to local villagers, eight civilians had been killed by the Americans and their translators during operations. Another ten had been arrested by the team and subsequently disappeared. Neither the Afghan government nor the Red Cross was able to locate them, and the American military categorically denied any responsibility for their fate--even after human remains were found buried just outside the Special Forces' base.
........over the past five months, Rolling Stone has interviewed more than two dozen eyewitnesses and victims’ families who’ve provided consistent and detailed allegations of the involvement of American forces in the disappearance of the 10 men, and has talked to Afghan and Western officials who were familiar with confidential Afghan-government, U.N. and Red Cross investigations that found the allegations credible. In July, a U.N. report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan warned: “The reported disappearances, arbitrary killings and torture – if proven to have been committed under the auspices of a party to the armed conflict – may amount to war crimes.â€
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My feature article, The A-Team Killings, is now out in the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine. The results of five months of investigation, the article presents detailed evidence to support the allegations that American forces were complicit in a campaign of murder and torture. These revelations come at an extremely sensitive time for the Afghan and American governments, which are locked in negotiations over the future of US forces in Afghanistan. The US military has opened a criminal investigation--will there be justice for the missing men of Wardak and their families?
So let's review. When Abu Ghraib came out, the DUmmies traced it all the way to the White House. Chimpy W. BushitlerMcCokespoon personally ordered women's panties to be placed on prisoners' heads.And that human pyramid was prima facie evidence of chimpeachable offenses as well as WAR CRIMES. Rolling Stone was one of the major fanners of those flames.
Now, when Lord Zero's killbots (that's what they were called when Bush oversaw them, right?) TORTURE AND MURDER (according to the SAME SOURCE as lots of Abu Ghraib caterwauling) people, it merits
barely a mouse belch on DU.
Why's that? Well, sure, they're HYPOCRITES and ASSHOLES, but also it's because of the now-acceptable excuse that 0bongo "didn't know." Just like everything else he "didn't know." ****wad carries around a Blackberry so he can text Jay-Z, and an iPad so he can direct MSNBC and the NY Times, but his ACA website may as well be on dialup and is about as secure as a Russian porn site.
I guess the bright side is that the Special Forces can do its work without liberal hand-wringing. You wouldn't want to be called RACISTS, would you, DUmmies?
