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Topic: Afghans accuse U.S. special forces
of being involved in torture |
Afghans accuse U.S. special forces
of being involved in torture
CBS News/Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By:JoniTx, 2/24/2013 6:12:51 PM
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| KABUL, Afghanistan -Afghanistan´s president says all U.S. special forces must leave eastern Wardak province within two weeks because of allegations that Afghans working with them are torturing and abusing other Afghans. Presidential spokesman Aimal Faizi says Sunday´s decision was taken during a meeting of the National Security Council because of the alleged actions of Afghans who are linked to the U.S. special forces. He said the government wants the individuals, whom he did not identify, to be handed over to the government. Wardak is a restive province next to Kabul and has been the focus of counterinsurgency efforts.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
GreatGreyhounds, 2/24/2013 6:19:49 PM (No. 9193994)
The savages will be abusing each other regardless if American forces are in country or not. They´ve been doing so for centuries....
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Periwinkel, 2/24/2013 6:20:44 PM (No. 9193995)
I doubt this...Remember, the Afghanis are really great at torture. Just ask small boys, women, young girls and dogs.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Jonr, 2/24/2013 6:32:00 PM (No. 9194004)
Who cares? These are tribal cockroaches one and all!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 2/24/2013 6:34:06 PM (No. 9194005)
Islamic justice: Rape is blamed on the victim, usually a young boy.
Torture of one Afghan by another is blamed on the Americans.
The Afghans have more respect for the Russians than for us because the Russians beat and bombed the hell out of them and they respect brute force.
Our kindness marks us as weak and stooopid.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Seething Citizen, 2/24/2013 6:39:49 PM (No. 9194020)
Get every American service member out of there now! Those barbarians and their hellhole of a "country" aren´t worth one more American life.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Texan1stCavDad, 2/24/2013 7:04:08 PM (No. 9194050)
Thank You #5.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
reilly, 2/24/2013 7:28:42 PM (No. 9194072)
Take out every bridge, every dam, every road within X hundred miles, and leave.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 2/24/2013 7:37:53 PM (No. 9194086)
If they had bridges, roads and dams it wouldn´t be Afghanistan.
Mea culpa on the second post.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
srhcb, 2/24/2013 7:54:45 PM (No. 9194102)
Afghans are torturing other Afghans so getting US forces out will solve the problem?
Somehow, I suspect torture of Afghans by Afghans will increase as a result, but ... to paraphrase our Sec of State:
"What difference does it make?"
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
STLstudent, 2/24/2013 7:58:29 PM (No. 9194103)
Why are we still in this horrid country? Once again our nation-building efforts are pure manure.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
TheGrandWahzoo, 2/24/2013 8:00:39 PM (No. 9194107)
Get our boys out of there stat. Then cover the place in Napalm
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Jubilationtcornpone, 2/24/2013 8:16:47 PM (No. 9194120)
Afghanistan appears to be in need of a drone-orientated coup d´état.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
woodsman, 2/24/2013 9:35:24 PM (No. 9194175)
Agent orange the poppies and leave
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 2/24/2013 10:46:41 PM (No. 9194251)
Torture-is that like what happened to Daniel Pearl ?
Too bad we are fighting a PC war. Let me guess- they play bad cop and we play good cop ?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
4freedom, 2/24/2013 10:50:23 PM (No. 9194254)
Did Barry give them a copy of Rules for Radicals?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 2/24/2013 11:23:14 PM (No. 9194272)
Get out now! Muslims ain´t worth it. Never have been. Islam is a curse on the planet.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Spidey, 2/25/2013 4:22:52 AM (No. 9194418)
We would have been out of Afghanistan a long time ago if they had elected the northern alliance leader instead of the stumblebum Karsai,who´s a puppet of the Taliban.
All Karsai cares about right now is saving his own skin after he Americans leave. He´d be better off packing up to a different county.
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