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I found a news story worth reading. I don't often do this so bear with me.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7496122.stm

Firstly, "Foreigners" were behind Monday's devastating bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, a spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said. Humayun Hamidzada did not name Pakistan's intelligence agency - frequently accused by Afghan officials - but he strongly implicated them. and secondly, the Afghan parliament has strongly criticised what is says is the high level of civilian casualties following US-led air strikes. Local officials say nearly 40 people were killed in two separate incidents over the weekend, including one that allegedly struck a wedding.

Mirwais Yasini, deputy speaker of the lower house of parliament, said that MPs were urging the government to find foreign soldiers involved and bring them to justice. "The Afghan people cannot tolerate American forces' bombing of civilians any more," Mr Yasini said. "We are are stuck between a rock and a hard place, between Taleban attacks and foreign forces air strikes." If the Pakistanis are blowing up embassies in American-held Kabul, shouldn't Pakistan go to the head of the queue for being bombed back into the stone age ahead of Iran?

If the US-installed US-friendly Karzai government is asking for permission to try US air crew for killing Afghan civilians, shouldn't Afghanistan go back to the head of the queue for being bombed back into the stone age ahead of Pakistan and Iran?

Ah... the logic of the second question suddenly hits me. It's already in hand, that's what the US-installed US-friendly Karzai government is complaining about in the first place.

How about the US ally next door though - Pakistan? Is the US seriously going to just sit there and let them blow up Indian embassies in US cities with impunity? Or are Pakistan and the US jointly bloodying Karzai's nose for daring to let his politicians criticize US air crews, that would make sense of the entire article.

spot;911170 wrote: I found a news story worth reading. I don't often do this so bear with me.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7496122.stm

Firstly, "Foreigners" were behind Monday's devastating bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, a spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said. Humayun Hamidzada did not name Pakistan's intelligence agency - frequently accused by Afghan officials - but he strongly implicated them. and secondly, the Afghan parliament has strongly criticised what is says is the high level of civilian casualties following US-led air strikes. Local officials say nearly 40 people were killed in two separate incidents over the weekend, including one that allegedly struck a wedding.

Mirwais Yasini, deputy speaker of the lower house of parliament, said that MPs were urging the government to find foreign soldiers involved and bring them to justice. "The Afghan people cannot tolerate American forces' bombing of civilians any more," Mr Yasini said. "We are are stuck between a rock and a hard place, between Taleban attacks and foreign forces air strikes." If the Pakistanis are blowing up embassies in American-held Kabul, shouldn't Pakistan go to the head of the queue for being bombed back into the stone age ahead of Iran?

If the US-installed US-friendly Karzai government is asking for permission to try US air crew for killing Afghan civilians, shouldn't Afghanistan go back to the head of the queue for being bombed back into the stone age ahead of Pakistan and Iran?

Ah... the logic of the second question suddenly hits me. It's already in hand, that's what the US-installed US-friendly Karzai government is complaining about in the first place.

How about the US ally next door though - Pakistan? Is the US seriously going to just sit there and let them blow up Indian embassies in US cities with impunity? Or are Pakistan and the US jointly bloodying Karzai's nose for daring to let his politicians criticize US air crews, that would make sense of the entire article.


The UK will do whatever the US administration tells it to do, just like its been doing since 1990, while complaining loudly about the democratic deficit (ha!) in the EU (damn those Eurocrats!). What a pathetic position to end up in for a once proudly independent nation.

Would we like a follow-up report?

A US air strike in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, an Afghan government investigating team says. Reports at the time said that 20 people were killed in the airstrike in Nangarhar province.

The US military said they were militants. But local people said the dead were wedding party guests.

Correspondents say the issue of civilian casualties is hugely sensitive in Afghanistan. President Hamid Karzai has said that no civilian casualty is acceptable.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7501538.stm