-Caveat Lector- These may be heavy for survivors of abuse.
excerpt from http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/afg-n12.shtml The killing fields of Afghanistan By Richard Tyler 12 November 2001 The first month of the war being prosecuted by the richest and most powerful military state on the planet has seen America unleash a terrible arsenal of destruction against one of the world's poorest countries. The full panoply of modern airborne munitions is being deployed against a land that has already been ravaged by war and civil war for over 20 years. The US bombardment includes the use of fuel-air explosives (FAE), cluster bombs, bunker-busting bombs and carpet-bombing. The skies high above Afghanistan have been filled by the smoke trails of the B-52, the world's largest bomber, notorious for its missions over Vietnam and other parts of Indo-China more than 25 years ago.... Pakistani newspaper The News wrote October 26 that the UN "has sounded an alarm over the use of cluster bombs by American aircraft attacking Afghanistan, saying eight people died in a Herat village by dozens of unexploded orange coloured ‘bomblets' littering roads and fields." A November 3 article in the Toronto Globe & Mail reports on the bombing of the village of Chowkar-Karez, where the Taliban say between 90 and 100 civilians, almost the entire population of the farming village, were killed by US warplanes on October 22. According to the article, "The Pentagon says the community was supporting terrorists from the al-Qaeda network and deserved its fate." Another article in the Dawn from Pakistan reports the death of 40 people in an October 25 bombing raid on Kandahar, including the killing of 19 members of one family. The bombing also injured 35 people in Daman Borai village, 50 kilometres west of Kandahar. "‘Where are my children, bring them,' moaned Siddiqua Bibi, a 70-year-old injured woman who lost all members of her family" the paper writes. She was the only surviving member of her family, which included two sons, a daughter-in-law and children. excerpt from http://cal.jmu.edu/aleysb/chomsky.htm Propaganda, American-Style - by Noam Chomsky - "People are much freer in the U.S., they are allowed to express themselves. That's why it's necessary for those in power to control everyone's thought, to try and make it appear as if the only issues in matters such as U.S. intervention in Vietnam are tactical: Can we get away with it? There is no discussion of right or wrong." <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
