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Top story on the BBC news tonight (30th July 2010)was from Nad-e-Ali in Afghanistan's Helmand province.
It was about the British Army's surge to clear this area of Taliban.
There was much talk about difficulties and where this new initiative falls relative to overall coalition strategy, but the astonishing part of the report came when the reporter interviewed a large group of local shopkeepers.
The reporter's voice-over reported content as the shopkeepers' spokeman delivered his opinions.
"This man says that the problems should be addressed by negotiation, not war. When I asked the group who they would like to be responsible for running this area they answered, to a man, Taliban."
When I saw this report on the 6 'O' Clock News I was astonished that these words had made it past the editor.
At 10 p.m. there was (surprisingly) the same report, in full, again.
The thing that made this breathtaking was the knowledge that the BBC is so often, indeed almost invariably, a mouthpiece for government propaganda and lies.
So.
Credit where credit is due.
Fair play the BBC News!
For once.
Miracles never cease.
Mind you there, in a word (from the horses' mouth, as it were), is the reality on the ground. A reality that demolishes most of the government's endless witterings about the War in Afghanistan......the improvements we're making in the economy, the increase in education prospects for girls etc., etc.
The people we are protecting from the Taliban and their tyrannical Islamic agenda.....
....WANT THEM AS THEIR GOVERNMENT (IN HELMAND AT LEAST).
Let nobody say again that this war has ANYTHING to do with the wellbeing of the Afghan people.
PS
Michael Hoffman talks about us living through the age of "The revelation of the method", an occult methodology whereby the outrageous truth is allowed to be put before an astonished world in order to deepen our despair and sense of helplessness. Most who see the truth either don't care or simply refuse to believe it and there are too few of the (disorganised) rest to do anything to effectively challenge the criminal power.
This may well be true.
Anyone who wants to understand the crime of 9/11, for instance, can go to the evidence and see through the provable lies very easily.
There is also the possibility that reporting a fact that is very damaging to an official narrative adds real credibility to the next bunch of lies to be sold to the masses.
However, let us applaud reporters when they really do their jobs properly.
If they behaved in this way always, the fact that the war will continue would be our fault alone and not theirs.
Addendum August 2nd 2010
To give an idea what kind of morally compromised cesspit we have created in Afghanistan/Pakistan, see here.
Friday, 30 July 2010
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Yes i saw the BBC news last night and i too was puzzled by the statement that those Afghans who ere interviewed wanted the Taliban to govern them.It does indeed show that the so called war on terror is bogus and based on lies.I suspect that the majority of Afghans would rather have the Taliban in power,than be governed by a puppet regime backed by the west.
ReplyDeleteI agree though well done to the BBC for screening what is probably the nearest thing to the truth that they have ever aired on the box regarding the Afghan war.Just pinching myself to make sure im not dreaming.
Covkid
Can you blame them? All we ever cared about the damn place was the TAPI pipeline and the CIA re-partnering w/drug lords there. As the gas in Turkmenistan is controlled by the Merhav Group ( Yosef A. Maiman CEO ) it really lends credence to the 9-11 as Mossad/rogue CIA job story..Along w/everything else..It's frustrating that ANYONE still believes the official 9-11 story..
ReplyDeleteNow we're told that a mosque at "Ground Zero" would be a travesty. No, the travesty is that we haven't waterboarded Dominic Suter, Dov Zakheim, Michael S. Goff, Ehud Barak, Silverstein and Lowy, Jerome Hauer to get confessions out of them.
Amen to that.
ReplyDeleteThe taliban are now in Canada:
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Bibi & co. were there in NY on 9/11
ReplyDeleteand they were also there in London on 7/7
What a strange coincidence? Must ask the 5 Dancing Israelis who were there on a mission videotaping the event of 9/11. How did they and Odigo know?
By way of deception................., pass the buck.
People are easily duped into believing just about anything. Thanks to Oliver Stone for telling us who's controlling the media, what's news and what isn't. And of course, the magic 6 million.
Haim Saban is on record confirming their control of the media, as shown by his reaction towards Stone's admission.
The U.S. has been messing up Afghanistan since the late 40's.Ruining prime farmland and forcing
ReplyDeletepeople to become dependent. Not hard to imagine wanting anyone else but Russia or the U.S..
Anonntx
You don't think the BBC's apparent change of tune over the Afghan war might have something to do with the change of our government and the BBC's desire to embarrass the new coalition as much as it can?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'm aware of formal opinion polls that claim that while the NATO forces in their country are far from popular (and for obvious and fully understandable reasons), most Afghanis still prefer them to the Taliban. Why do you think that the BBC's straw poll of a tiny sample of Afghans in this particular area should have greater weight than these, especially when there is a good possibility that the answers that the BBC reporter got may have been influenced by fear (i.e., of the Taliban returning and exacting vengeance, which would be quite likely after the British withdrawal)? And what about those not included in this ad hoc poll, specifically the women, do their views not count at all?
I am by no means a war enthusiast and on most related issues it is quite possible that I could well agree with you, but I'm afraid that I can't actually bring myself to wish the Taliban on anybody.
I have friends from Afghanistan who are currently living and working in London and have been for years. To my knowledge, none of them want or ever wanted the taliban ruling their country. And contrary to popular belief, the taliban are not from Afghanistan but from Pakistan. From a lawless region in the north or so I have been told. The Afghanistan people do not like to be ruled with an iron fist of extremism. I'm not saying that some Afghani's don't embrace the taliban ideology but in genral it is not the way they want their country to be! They are respectful and friendly hard working people who only want the same as we do. To be able to feed and clothe their families and live in peace like the rest of us. But like almost everywhere else, it is the minority that controls the majority with fear and violence.
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