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US bombs 6 Red Cross warehouses
The United States just bombed 6 Red Cross warehouses. This is clearly not an accident; it is obviously a deliberate war of genocide of the Afghani people so that Unocal can build a pipeline through Afghanistan from the Caspian Sea to the Indian Ocean. This is what every member of Congress, the House and Senate, supported when they voted for war, when they voted for money for the war and when they voted for fascism at home with this week's destruction of the 4th Amendment.
The United States just bombed 6 Red Cross warehouses. This is clearly not an accident; it is obviously a deliberate war of genocide of the Afghani people so that Unocal can build a pipeline through Afghanistan from the Caspian Sea to the Indian Ocean. This is what every member of Congress, the House and Senate, supported when they voted for war, when they voted for money for the war and when they voted for fascism at home with this week's destruction of the 4th Amendment. Call your Congresspeople listed in your phone book and demand that the bombing stop and that they never again vote for money for war. See the article at:
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011027/1/1l9z1.html
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011027/1/1l9z1.html
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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011027/1/1l9z1.html
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"But in the latest bombing blunder, two Navy F/A-18C each dropped a 907 kilo (2,000-pound) satellite guided bomb on the warehouses in Kabul used by the ICRC, the Central Command said in a statement.
A third F/A-18C dropped a 500-pound bomb around the same time on the residential area, the command said, adding that "initial indications are that the bomb's guidance system malfunctioned."
That attack, which occurred around 8:00 pm (2400 GMT) Thursday, was followed eight hours later by two B-52H Stratofortress bombers that each dropped three 2,000 pound satellite guided bombs on the same complex of warehouses, the command said.
Two of the six warehouses were mistakenly struck on October 16 by US aircraft because they were believed to be used by the Taliban to store military equipment, the command said."
Comment:
The Red Cross warehouses were targeted twice in the same day, eight hours apart, in ADDITION to being bombed ten days earlier on October 16. The early attacks yesterday, which ICRC observers stated had been executed by aircraft flying "low and slow" (this from the ICRC official statement), were duplicated eight hours later by B-52s. This later attack was AFTER the ICRC issued its statement and formal complaint, and therefore could not possibly have been "accidental" or "inadvertent", as the Central Command has characterized it.
Also, the statement of the Central Command that the warehouses were "mistakenly" targeted on October 16 because the US believed they were being used for military purposes is a direct contradiction of earlier US claims that the bombing was due to a targeting error and was not intentional.
What a bunch of liars.
oh yeah, don't forget the drink-can sized cluster-bomblets that don't all blow up, and are colored yellow, JUST LIKE THE FOOD DROPS.
that'll kill more pesky hunger-striken afghans too.
and just for the record, any idiot warmongers, i'm being cynical
If we bomb a red-cross facility, it's either a mistake, or it was chock full of jeeps and Taliban fighters.
Read "Black Hawk Down" by Mark Bowden, to get a taste of how the gun toting Somalians fought in the street surrounded (literally covered) by women and children to discourage the Americans to return fire.