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January 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“It certainly appears to us to be what it appears to be to you guys… troops
urinating on corpses. But there’s an investigation process ongoing. We need
to let that work its way through to determine all the facts of the case.”
Both Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Taliban enemy have denounced the
video.
A Taliban spokesman described the scenes as “barbaric”. The short
video clip features four khaki clad Marines, some in sunglasses, laughing as
they urinate on three corpses. One soldier uses high-pitch comic voice as he
says ‘have a great day buddy.’
The emergence of the footage follows the prosecution of the five soldiers of
the US Army’s 5th Stryker Brigade accused of murdering Afghan civilians in
Helmand province in 2010.
“The actions portrayed are not consistent with our core values and are not
indicative of the character of the Marines in our Corps. This matter will be
fully investigated,” said a Pentagon spokesman, while the NATO-led
International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan ‘stongly condemned’
the actions captured on the video and blamed them on a “small group of US
individuals, who apparently are no longer serving in Afghanistan”.
One
Pentagon official described the actions as ‘disgusting.’ “It
turned my stomach,” he said.
A senior Taliban spokesman said there had been hundreds of similar abuses
carried out by foreign forces in Afghanistan over the last ten years, but
this latest one would not sabotage early stage negotiations between
the movement’s leadership and the US State Department. Talks are expected to
begin soon on possible Taliban prisoner releases and other ‘confidence
building measures’ to encourage full negotiations to end the conflict.
“This is yet another barbaric act by foreign forces. Over the past 10 years
there have been hundreds of similar cases that were not revealed.We strongly
condemn this,” said Zabihullah Mujahed. But he added: “I don’t think this
new issue will affect negotiations which at this stage are mainly about
prisoner exchange.” But fears remain that the video images could yet provoke
anti-US protests and attacks on Western installations in the country after
they were broadcast on the local television station Tolo.
President Karzai added his to the growing number of voices condemning the
video.
“The government of Afghanistan is deeply disturbed by a video that shows
American soldiers desecrating dead bodies of three Afghans,” he said in a
statement from the president’s office.
“This act by American soldiers is simply inhuman and condemnable in the
strongest possible terms. We expressly ask the US government to urgently
investigate the video and apply the most severe punishment to anyone found
guilty in this crime,” he added.
Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a spokesman for the Taliban in Southern Afghanistan said
watching the video made him feel ashamed.
“How brutal are they? First they try to piss on them and their other crime is
that they are filming it for fun These kinds of activities with the dead
bodies of Mujahideen, it actually make their defeat more possible and they
will get defeated soon.
“No religion in the world will allow someone to do this,” he said.
The row over the video erupted as senior American officials prepared to resume
talks with Taliban figures following a deal to allow the insurgents to open
a representative office in Qatar to facilitate further negotiations.
President Obama’s special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Marc Grossman is
expected to meet President Karzai next week to win his backing for a new
round of talks.
The talks are expected to focus on the release of a number of key Taliban
figures detained at Guantanamo Bay to kick-start a peace process. They will
aim to overcome mutual hostility between President Karzai and the Taliban to
enable an ‘Afghan-led process’ to begin. Some of those released could be
transferred to Qater, sources close to the talks believe.
American officials will also aim to persuade the Taliban leadership to
dissociate from al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups — its refusal to do so
immediately after the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States led to
the NATO invasion of Afghanistan and the ousting of the Taliban government.
German officials, who initially brokered the latest talks in Qatar believe the
Taliban may now be ready to contemplate such a move, but only much later in
negotiations.
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