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Taliban Serving US Military Says Afghan President, Hagel Cancels Going
Afghans want U.S. troops out of their country. (Photo credit: Getty Images)
Afghan president, Hamid Karzai said Sunday that recent suicide bomb attacks in Kabul and Khost province, in which 17 people died, demonstrate that the Taliban is working with the U.S. in America’s efforts to justify a longterm foreign troop presence.
Recent accusations of what U.S. troops are doing in Afghanistan, working with the Taliban to keep the war on terror serving Full Spectrum Dominance has resulted in newly appointed US defence secretary Chuck Hagel cancelling plans for his first joint news conference with the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai.
A cancellation of the prisoner transfer on Saturday came after Karzai told parliament that some of the men held by U.S. forces were innocent and that he would free them when they are handed over.
“U.S. officials have said they have detained some prisoners based on classified intelligence they cannot share, but do not hold anyone without cause,” the Guardian reports.
Not so, say others.
“We now know, however, that many Guantanamo detainees never fought against anyone; they were simply turned over by Northern Alliance and Pakistani warlords for bounties of up to $25,000,” wrote Thomas Wilner in We Don’t Need Guantanamo Bay. (Wall Street. December 22, 2008) ”For almost seven years they have been held without a fair hearing or opportunity to demonstrate those facts.
“The Supreme Court ruled last June in Boumediene v. Bush that these men have the constitutional right to prompt hearings to determine if there is adequate reason for detaining them. Since that decision, lower courts have reviewed the cases of 23 detainees and have found no credible basis for detaining 22 of them.”
In Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. Civil and Political Rights. Situation of detainees at Guantánamo Bay”. United Nations Economic and Social Council, published February 15, 2006, it is stated, “Many of the detainees held at Guantánamo Bay were captured in places where there was – at the time of their arrest – no armed conflict involving the United States.”
Note that TV “expert consultants” have always promoted our useless wars and the lies behind them. They have never apologized for the harm they did, never been investigated for their collusion in war crimes, and they are still invited back to repeat their petrochemical-military-industrial complex lies. On the other hand, real experts like scholar Noam Chomsky are never asked their opinions on these TV programs. Unlike the crony pundits, he has been right about Vietnam, South America, and the Middle East, especially Israel. Another good reason to stop watching commercial TV and start reading excellent journalism by authors like Deborah Dupre.
i really thought there would be more interest in this article. karzai had the balls to come out with this collusion that we all know has been ongoing for many years. how much money has been spent on the phoney war on terror? how many lives wasted? how many lies? how do these poor people in these ravaged countries think about the USA? i don’t trust karzai much, but i’m giving him a thumbs up for this.