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US winning hearts and minds in Afghanistan

Hermes | 20.10.2005 19:58

The US forces commit atrocities in Afghanistan. If they do this in front of the TV cameras, just think what they do when noone is watching.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4359128.stm

The SBS television footage begins with a warning of disturbing scenes, particularly for Muslim viewers.

It opens with what the programme describes as shots of an American PsyOps unit using loud pop music to try to flush out the Taleban - who banned music when they ruled the country.

Some footage shows what the programme describes as the corpses of two Taleban fighters laid out facing Mecca and then being burned in what the reporter, John Martinkus, describes as a "deliberate desecration of Muslim beliefs".

Islamic tradition states that bodies should be washed, prayed for, wrapped in white cloth and buried within 24 hours.

The soldiers initially said they were burning the bodies for hygiene reasons, the programme reports.

Later footage shows two US soldiers reading from a notebook messages which they said had already been broadcast to villagers.

"Attention Taleban you are cowardly dogs," the message reads. "You allowed your fighters to be laid down facing West and burnt.

"You are too scared to retrieve their bodies. This just proves you are the lady boys we always believed you to be."


Here is a link to SBS who filmed it, and at some point there should be an update to be able to watch the footage.

www.sbs.com.au/dateline/

Hermes

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  1. Just out of interest — Amused
  2. Funny Is It? — Not Amused
  3. .. — Hermes
  4. Get your facts straight — Amused
  5. You Get your facts straight — Still not amused
  6. Really? — Amused
  7. ... — Hermes
  8. Like Minds — Amused