WSWS.org<\/em> donne une bonne analyse du dernier massacre en date en Afghanistan, et sans doute l’un des plus consid\u00e9rables depuis longtemps; rien encore de BHL, sans doute au repos apr\u00e8s son p\u00e9riple g\u00e9orgien. Il y a les r\u00e9actions imm\u00e9diates des acteurs concern\u00e9s, avec la fureur de Karza\u00ef qui ne cesse de se trouver dans une position toujours plus fragile \u00e0 cause de l’incroyable incurie de la plus mauvaise arm\u00e9e du monde (US, bien entendu), notamment dans les effets politiques de ses diverses actions, dont les tueries m\u00e9caniques au premier plan. Celle-ci, cette tuerie-l\u00e0 de 90 civils et plus, a \u00e9t\u00e9 aussit\u00f4t comment\u00e9es du c\u00f4t\u00e9 US avec la compassion bureaucratique qui va bien:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abAs word of the massacre spread across Afghanistan, Karzai attempted to stem the outpouring of opposition toward the US occupation by sacking the top military commander in western Afghanistan and the commander of the commando unit that called in the air strike. Referring to the false claims that Taliban had been killed, Karzai declared the two had been dismissed for negligence and concealing facts.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbA spokesman for the Bush administration, Tony Fratto, issued a statement on Sunday that still refused to acknowledge that the US military had slaughtered civilians. Fratto declared: These reports are being investigated and we’ll look for the results of that investigation. In words dripping with cynicism, he stated: Coalition forces take precautions to prevent the loss of civilians, unlike the Taliban and militants who target civilians and place civilians in harms way.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbA press release from US military headquarters in Afghanistan simply noted that it was aware of allegations that the engagement in Shindand district of Herat province Friday may have resulted in civilian deaths.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tL’article de WSWS.org<\/em> donne une excellente appr\u00e9ciation des massacres de civils qui sont la sp\u00e9cialit\u00e9 de l’U.S. Air Force en Afghanistan. Il appr\u00e9cie justement que ces massacres vont aller en croissant, \u00e0 mesure que les talibans gagnent du terrain et que la coalition, dont la France fait glorieusement partie, est conduite \u00e0 user de moyens de plus en plus exp\u00e9ditifs et de plus en d\u00e9sesp\u00e9r\u00e9s. L’OTAN et son mentor am\u00e9ricaniste semblent avoir trouv\u00e9 la formule de la d\u00e9faite inflig\u00e9e \u00e0 soi-m\u00eame, par soi-m\u00eame, en usant de la puissance consid\u00e9rable dont l’on dispose soi-m\u00eame.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abThe massacre in Azizabad is only a particularly graphic incident in the frequent killing and maiming of Afghan civilians by American and NATO. Despite the propaganda claims of taking precautions and observing stringent rules of engagement, the occupation forces respond to insurgent attacks in populated areas with overwhelming firepower and rely heavily on air strikes to disrupt Taliban movements in rural areas.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAs larger areas of Afghanistan fall under the sway of the Taliban, the air strikes become more indiscriminate. Any large group of people moving in the countryside or assembling in a village is treated as suspicious by the targeters who sit in secure bases and scour satellite images for potential targets for the pilots stalking the skies of Afghanistan. Wedding parties have been attacked repeatedly over the past six yearsthe most recent being the July 6 bombing of a wedding in Nangarhar, in which 47 people were killed, including the bride.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbAs many as 1,000 civilians have been killed so far this year in Afghanistan, of which close to 400 can be directly attributed to occupation forces. The rest are blamed by the UN on suicide attacks, bombings and other actions carried out by the Taliban.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe true number of civilian fatalities is likely to be far higher. In areas heavily bombed during major US or NATO offensives, some deaths are almost certainly not reported. There are also good grounds to suspect that some of the several thousand alleged insurgents killed this year were actually non-combatants caught up in the fighting.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 27 ao\u00fbt 2008 \u00e0 08H53<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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