Winstonm Posted April 6, 2010 Report Share Posted April 6, 2010 Glenn Greenwald names names and re-publishes the lies that have been told by the DoD and the puppet-like media that has forgotten how to fact check. On February 12 of this year, U.S. forces entered a village in the Paktia Province in Afghanistan and, after surrounding a home where a celebration of a new birth was taking place, shot dead two male civilians (government officials) who exited the house in order to inquire why they had been surrounded, and then shot and killed three female relatives (a pregnant mother of ten, a pregnant mother of six, and a teenager). The Pentagon then issued a statement claiming that (a) the dead males were "insurgents" or terrorists, (b) the bodies of the three women had been found by U.S. forces bound and gagged inside the home, and © suggested that the women had already been killed by the time the U.S. had arrived, likely the victim of "honor killings" by the Taliban militants killed in the attack. But enough evidence has now emerged disproving those claims such that the Pentagon was forced yesterday to admit that their original version was totally false and that it was U.S. troops who killed the women: Here, for instance, is how the Paktia incident was "reported" by CNN on February 12: Note how the headline states as fact that the women were dead as the result of an "honor killing." The entire CNN article does nothing but repeat what an "unnamed senior military official said" about the incident... http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/ I would not advise watching the Wikileaks video - it is sad and sickening and real. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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