with the utmost respectnow that they are dead.
Two Saudi nationals and a Yemen national hanged themselves according to the US military. The suicides were supposedly coordinated to put trigger further condemnation of the Gitmo hostage center. I find this claim specious. While it is possible that the hostages hung themselves I find it more likely that the US military killed them. This is based on reports of US military slaughters in Haditha, Fallujah and Baghdad. All verified to have happened.
The Times also reports the defense of the US military of its actions,
They have expressed a commitment to kill Americans and our friends if releasedThis is used as the justification for not releasing the hostages. There is no mention as to whether the kidnapped men expressing these views had the same to say before they were taken hostage and tortured.
While the Times also quoted George Bush and several high level military personnel at Gitmo, in their fair and balanced report, there was no testimony from any Gitmo hostage.
Read the NYTimes article here.
500 Dead in Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, the AP reports that over the past 3 weeks 500 have been killed. And as we know, whenever an American is killed that alone warrants its own article, I will assume that the 500 killed were Afghanis, none of whom were mentioned by name in the AP article. Of the 500 reported killed, only 44 so-called militants deaths are explained. The explanation being that the militants
died in a battle with Afghan and Canadian troops.What is the difference between a militant and a troop? Am I allowed to ask that?
Oh well. Apparently we’ve killed 500 of their guys in the past 3 weeks. Again, no report from their side. But no lack of grand pronouncements from high ranking officials on the side of justice.
We will not be deterred from our mission to….Yadda..yadda..yadda..
Way to go Associated Press. Way to go Canadian death squads.
