AFGHANS CHANT DEATH TO AMERICA AGAIN

WELL AFTER 40 DEAD FROM THE RIOT-BURNING QURAN INCIDENT.THE AFGHANS ARE ACTING UP AND CALLING FOR DEATH TO AMERICA AGAIN.THE WESTERN SOLDIERS BETTER GET RIGHT OUT OF AFGHANISTAN QUICK.THE RIOTS AND BURNING AND KILLING WILL BE IMMENCE I BELIEVE.OBAMA GET THE AMERICAN TROOPS OUT NOW AND QUIT GUARDING THE POPPY DRUG FIELDS.QUIT PUTTING SOLDIERS IN DIRE STRAITS.

U.S. Marines Guard Afghanistan Poppy Fields
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNqIrDKnNE8

Afghanistan's Karzai slams U.S. over massacre ReutersBy Mirwais Harooni and Rob Taylor | Reuters – MAR 17,12

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday lashed out at the United States for failing to fully cooperate with an investigation into the massacre of 16 Afghan villagers by a U.S. staff sergeant and questioned whether only one soldier could have been involved.A series of blunders by the United States, including the killings in Kandahar province on Sunday and the inadvertent burning of copies of the Koran at a NATO base last month, has further strained already tense relations between the countries.This has been going on for too long. You have heard me before. It is by all means the end of the rope here, Karzai told reporters at the heavily fortified presidential palace.Flanked by senior officials, a tired and sometimes angry Karzai listened to village elders and the families of victims of the massacre, and dressed somberly in black for the start of an expected two days of talks to discuss the killings.Some at the meeting shouted, some demanded answers, but all said they wanted any soldiers involved punished.I don't want any compensation. I don't want money, I don't want a trip to Mecca, I don't want a house. I want nothing. But what I absolutely want is the punishment of the Americans. This is my demand, my demand, my demand and my demand,said one villager, whose brother was killed in the nightime slaughter.Furious Afghans and lawmakers have demanded that the soldier responsible be tried in Afghanistan, but despite those calls, the U.S. staff sergeant was flown out on Wednesday.The army chief has just reported that the Afghan investigation team did not receive the cooperation that they expected from the United States. Therefore these are all questions that we'll be raising, and raising very loudly, and raising very clearly, Karzai said.Karzai appeared to back the belief of the villagers, and many other Afghans including the country's parliament, that one gunman acting alone could not have killed so many people, and in different locations some distance apart.They believe it's not possible for one person to do that. In (one) family, in four rooms people were killed, women and children were killed, and they were all brought together in one room and then put on fire. That one man cannot do,Karzai said.

TWIN INVESTIGATIONS

With twin investigations still underway by both U.S. and Afghan officials, any discovery of more than one soldier involved in the massacre would be a disaster for NATO, with Western leaders needing to win over Afghans ahead of a withdrawal by most foreign combat troops in 2014.Civilian casualties caused by NATO forces hunting insurgents are a major source of friction between the Afghan government and its Western backers, and have damaged efforts to win the hearts and minds of locals in the decade-old war.Our families are finished and our houses are destroyed, said a furious Hajji Abdul Samad Aka, who lost 11 members of his family in the killings in two villages of Panjwayi district.An unnamed U.S. official told The New York Times the attack by the accused soldier was a result of a combination of stress, alcohol and domestic issues - he just snapped.The lawyer for the soldier said the staff sergeant was upset at having to do a fourth tour of duty in a war zone and was likely suffering from stress after seeing colleagues wounded.Anger over the massacre spilled into weekly Friday prayers at a major mosques in central Kabul with one cleric calling the shooting unforgivable and questioning how a soldier with alleged mental problems could be in the U.S. military.Revenge for the blood of these victims will be taken either today, tomorrow, in 10 years or the next 100 years, said Mullah Ayaz Niazi at Wazir Akhbar Khan mosque in Kabul's diplomatic enclave, which is also home to NATO headquarters.The soldier accused of the shooting was attached to a small special forces compound similar to others around the country which underpin NATO's anti-insurgent strategy.

On Thursday, Karzai called for NATO troops to leave Afghan villages and confine themselves to major bases, underscoring fury over the massacre and clouding U.S. exit plans.He also demanded the handover of security to Afghan police and soldiers by 2013, a year ahead of schedule.Such a move could undercut U.S. President Barack Obama's strategy for Afghanistan and hamper efforts to mentor Afghan police and help with local governance.In a further blow to NATO hopes of a negotiated end to the decade-old war, the Afghan Taliban said they were suspending nascent peace talks with the United States, following the massacre and ahead of the traditional summer fighting months.The United States said it was committed to political reconciliation involving talks with the Taliban but progress would require agreement between Kabul and the insurgents.The Taliban leadership were and may still be serious about talks, but instead of discussing how to end the war, they will now be persuading the rank and file to go out again this year and fight, Kate Clark of the Afghanistan Analysts Network said.That another round of fighting and killing is now on the agenda is a difficult prospect to face, she wrote in a blog.(Writing by Jack Kimball, Editing by Rob Taylor and Sanjeev Miglani)

NOVEMBER 9, 2011 12:02PM Lifting The Veil on US Government Drug Dealing

I had a conversation with someone a while back. I would call this guy a good ol boy in the sense that he buys the nonsense being spewed by the mainstream media. He told me that the Occupy Wall St. was nothing more than a bunch of drug-addicted kids with nothing to do than complain. Now I may or may not disagree with OWS, but that's not the point of this post. After he made this statement, I mentioned that these kids he referred to were using drugs that the CIA is bringing into this country, and that the US military is tolerating the cultivation of poppy (which eventually becomes heroin) in Afghanistan. He almost wanted to kill me. The fact that I dared to question the sincerity of the US military and the CIA made him doubt my sincerity as an American citizen, and he made it a point to tell me that several times, even after I told him what to look up on the internet as proof. When I replied that dissent is the most sincere form of patriotism and that our forefathers stressed the fact that government is untrustworthy, he cursed up a storm and abruptly ended our discussion. Is it with that conversation in mind that I post the following articles and videos...The New York Times reported twice in 2008 that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's brother, a notorious drug lord, is on the CIA payroll. From the 2nd link: Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/world/asia/05afghan.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html?_r=1

Not surprisingly, the UN reported in October that there has been a sharp rise in poppy cultivation in the last year. Gee, I wonder why...:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/world/asia/un-reports-sharp-rise-in-opium-production-in-afghanistan.html?_r=1&ref=world

Fox News sent Geraldo Rivera to Afghanistan to cover, among other things, how the military tolerates the cultivation of opium poppies in a country that supplies 95% of the heroin in the world. Watching this video, Rivera and the Marine interviewed try to put lipstick on a pig, saying things like ...if we don't do it, they [the locals] will turn their backs on us. Sorry guys, but you're supposed to send good people to war to protect and preserve the liberty of others, not to grow stinkin' poppies. Maybe instead of tolerating the cultivation of poppy, GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN:

Here is ABCNews reporting the same thing:CIA drug trafficking was exposed in the 1980's with the Iran Contra scandal, where the CIA was caught in covert arms deals with Iran who was under an embargo (hey, don't we wanna blow them up now?) and using the funds from the deals to give guns and supplies to the anti-Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua in exchange for drugs that the agency shipped into the Untied States. The following videos detail the scandal, including interviews from whistleblowers and probably one of the most ludicrous statements I've ever heard from former CIA chief Dewey Clariage - Don't give me that conspiracy bullsh*t...There has never been a conspiracy in this country! The CIA is mixed up with drugs all over the world, but don't believe me, instead read this essay put together by California State University Northridge Professor and Chair of Department of Communication Studies Dr. Bernardo Attias. This essay contains tons of links for you to read for yourself. Maybe I'm not a scholar in the eyes of some, but this dude certainly is:
http://www.csun.edu/~hfspc002/news/cia.drug.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElEciFI0Pew&feature=player_embedded
http://open.salon.com/blog/ghost_writer_1/2011/11/09/lifting_the_veil_on_us_government_drug_dealing (WATCH ALL THE VIDEOS)

In 1988 Ron Paul went on the record stating that George H.W. Bush was deep into CIA drug trafficking and that he knew exactly what was happening. Funny that he's STILL the only politician speaking truth to power:Maybe the guy who wanted to kill me for even suggesting government drug dealing will stumble upon this and change his mind. Maybe not. I hope that one day, though, we'll all start to base our opinions on facts and not emotional repsonses like he did.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGUoCyNZTMs&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SBh_hzU-jdI

Twin bombings in Damascus kill at least 27: Syria TV ReutersBy Dominic Evans and Crispian Balmer | Reuters – MAR 17,12

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Twin blasts hit the heart of Damascus on Saturday, killing at least 27 people in an attack on security installations that state television blamed on terrorists seeking to oust President Bashar al-Assad.Syrian television reported that cars packed with explosives had targeted an intelligence centre and a police headquarters at 7.30 am (01.30 am EDT), blowing the front off one building and sending debris and shattered glass flying through the streets.Gruesome images from the sites showed what appeared to be smoldering bodies in two separate vehicles, a wrecked minivan smeared with blood, and severed limbs collected in sacks.At least 27 people were killed and 97 were wounded, another television channel said, quoting Health Minister Wael al-Halki.We heard a huge explosion. At that moment the doors in our house were blown out ... even though we were some distance from the blast," one elderly man, with a bandage wrapped round his head, told a public television channel.

No one claimed responsibility for the coordinated detonations, which echoed similar attacks that have struck Damascus and Syria's second city Aleppo since December.The explosions came just two days after the first anniversary of the uprising, in which more than 8,000 people have been killed and about 230,000 forced to flee their homes, according to United Nations figures.They also coincided with a joint mission by the Syrian government, the United Nations and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation that was due to start assessing humanitarian needs in towns across Syria which have suffered from months of unrest.One source involved in the mission said team members were still gathering in Syria and it was not immediately clear if they would begin their work this weekend as previously planned.

ANNAN WARNING

The U.N.-Arab League envoy for Syria, Kofi Annan, warned on Friday that the crisis could spill over into other neighboring countries and urged international powers to lay aside their differences and back his peace initiative.While the West and much of the Arab world have lined up to demand that Assad steps down, his allies Russia, China and Iran have defended him and cautioned against outside interference.The stronger and more unified your message, the better chance we have of shifting the dynamics of the conflict, an envoy said, summarizing Annan's remarks to a closed-door meeting of the 15-nation Security Council.Turkey said on Friday it might set up a buffer zone inside Syria to protect refugees fleeing Assad's forces, raising the prospect of foreign intervention in the revolt, although Ankara made clear it would not move without international backing.Television showed numerous men and women receiving hospital treatment for multiple wounds following Saturday's strikes. Syria's Sana news agency said the blasts had hit the criminal police force headquarters and the Air Security Directorate.The attacks followed three suicide bombings in Damascus in December and January which killed at least 70 people, and an attack in Aleppo in February that killed 28.Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in a video recording posted on the Internet last month, urged Muslims around the region to help Syrian rebels.Syria has previously blamed al Qaeda for at least some attacks on its territory and vowed to respond with an iron fist.

The army has shelled rebel strongholds in various places in recent weeks before sending in troops to round up suspects. Opposition activists say thousands of civilians have died, with many bodies found bearing signs of torture.The Syrian government denies accusations of brutality and says it is grappling with a foreign-backed insurgency.Diplomats have warned that without a swift resolution, Syria will descend into a full-blown civil war.Syria lies in a pivotal position within the Middle East, bordering Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Iraq and Lebanon, and its 23-million-strong population comprises a mix of faiths, sects and ethnic groups.I think that we need to handle the situation in Syria very, very carefully, Annan told reporters in Geneva on Friday.Yes, we tend to focus on Syria but any miscalculation that leads to major escalation will have impact in the region which would be extremely difficult to manage, he said.The veteran diplomat presented Assad with a six-point peace proposal at talks in Damascus last weekend. Envoys said he told New York on Friday that the response to date was disappointing.Assad insists the Syrian opposition stops fighting first, while the United States, Gulf Arabs and Europeans have demanded that Assad and his much stronger forces must make the first move. Russia wants both sides to stop shooting simultaneously.Annan will send a team to Damascus early next week to discuss a proposal to deploy international monitors in the country, his spokesman Ahmad Fawzi has said.Increasingly alarmed by the growing violence, Turkey urged its citizens to quit Syria on Friday and raised the prospect of creating a safe zone on its border to protect the refugees.A buffer zone, a security zone, are things being studied,Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan told reporters, adding this was not the only proposal under consideration.Ankara is wary of military intervention and has made clear any creation of a security zone would need some form of international agreement, not least because it would require armed protection and could alter the dynamics of the uprising.Turkey says it is now hosting 14,700 Syrian refugees after 250 people crossed its borders on Friday. Some 1,000 had arrived the day before, fleeing fierce fighting in Idlib province.(Writing by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Giles Elgood)