Showing posts with label Special Forces. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Special Forces. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, USA , home of the 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne) - also known as Green Berets

"...the story of a single battalion based at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment. Soldiers from the brigade have have been involved in brawls, beatings, rapes, drunk driving, drug deals, domestic violence, shootings, stabbings, kidnapping and suicides."

(aired July 30, 2009)

Monday, July 13, 2009

Torture, murder and disappearances: US tools in US Wars - THE CONTAINERS

Afghan Massacre - The Convoy of Death - Documentary by former BBC producer Jamie Doran

The film tells the story of thousands of prisoners who surrendered to the US military's Afghan allies after the siege of Kunduz. Some three thousand of the prisoners were forced into sealed containers and loaded onto trucks for transport to Sheberghan prison, when the prisoners began shouting for air, U.S.-allied Afghan soldiers fired directly into the truck, killing many of them. The rest suffered through an appalling road trip lasting up to four days, so thirsty they clawed at the skin of their fellow prisoners as they licked perspiration and even drank blood from open wounds. Witnesses say that when the trucks arrived and soldiers opened the containers, most of the people inside were dead. They also say US Special Forces re-directed the containers carrying the living and dead into the desert and stood by as survivors were shot and buried. Some of the witnesses in the film have already been killed. While US Administration has deepened the United States’ commitment to Afghanistan, sending 21,000 more American troops there and asking the support of its allies, Afghan General Dostum, was on the CIA payroll at the time of the massacre, has been reappointment as military chief of staff to the Afghan president Karzai.

On July 10, 2009, in the New York Times, James Risen wrote about the massacre HERE.

Obama on the Massacre - CNN's Anderson Cooper July 12, 2009:


THE DOCUMENTARY:


Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The Military involvement in Torture - What is next and the role of American General Odierno and others - "There’s a lot to hide"

The American military establishment and its complicity in torture is coming to light and pressure is increasing to avoid accountability.
In an interview with Jane Mayer , American investigative journalist and author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, and British attorney Philippe Sands, author of Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values , Mayer and Sands discuss the Obama danger of becoming part of a cover-up and about the fact that the issue of torture is not going to go away.
So tells History in the case of torture in other countries like Chile, where even the once powerful General August Pinochet had to face Justice and was arrested in London in October 16, 1998 , for torture and other human rights violations during his 1973-1990 regime.
In the case of the General, regardless the open support of influential personalities like Margaret Thatcher, who campaigned for his release since his arrest in London, and regardless the "debt" she believes the UK owed him for being an ally during the 1982 Falklands War, the General was not above the Law and was arretsed and brought to Justice. (article HERE)