Like Israel, US Labels Victims As Terrorists&Cluster Bomb Them!
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Like Israel, US Labels Victims As Terrorists&Cluster Bomb Them! |
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Posted by Jamila on January 27, 19102 at 15:27:39:
In Reply to: Afghan Victims of US Bombings Demand Compensation posted by French Press on January 27, 19102 at 15:14:00:
Only the Germans had to pay for victims. The US and Israel kill people for a
mere suspicion. The Israeli read a prepared statement saying that fire was
coming from their side. Israeli and US lives matter but not those of Muslim or
Arab. No one sued the US in Vietnam.
:Published on Tuesday, January 22, 2002 by Agence France-Presse
:Victims of the September 11 terrorist strikes in the United States handed
:over compensation claims to US officials here on behalf of Afghan
:civilians who lost family or homes in Washington's retaliatory bombing
:campaign in Afghanistan.
:The handover was the culmination of an eight-day visit to Afghanistan by a
:group of four Americans who lost family members when terrorists rammed
:jetliners into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in
:Washington, killing more than 3,000 people.
:Kelly Campbell, 29, whose brother-in-law Craig Amundson was killed in the
:Pentagon attack, said the group had met dozens of Afghan victims since
:they arrived in the country.
:"We've met with people who have lost their loved ones to the US bombing,
:we've met children who've lost limbs to US cluster bombs, people whose
:homes were destroyed, who have no income, nowhere to go ... and do not
:know what to do next," she told reporters.
:"The United States government needs to take responsibility for the direct
:effect on these people's lives," she added.
:"We have looked at pictures of their families, they have looked at
:pictures of ours, we have talked with them, we feel the same grief, but
:they have nothing.
:"We owe it to them to do what we can to help them rebuild their homes and
:give their children health care and an education so they can get on with
:their lives."
:Among those making a claim was Harafa Ahmad, who lost eight members of her
:family when her home was hit by a wayward bomb on November 7.
:She told reporters she had arrived on her own at the gates of the embassy
:but had been turned away by officials.
:"They treated me as a beggar," she said.
:The US began waging war in Afghanistan on October 7 to flush out Osama bin
:Laden, the Saudi dissident believed to have masterminded the September 11
:atrocities, and to help topple the Taliban regime which sheltered him.
:The head of the Global Exchange non-governmental organization which
:organized the visit, Medea Benjamin, handed over claims from 12 families
:to the commanding officer of the US Marines in Kabul, Captain Ferral
:Sullivan, at the US embassy here.
:She said there had been precedents in Lebanon, Grenada and Panama for
:Washington paying compensation to families of people accidently killed in
:US bombing campaigns.
:The 12 families making the claims, she added, were not angry at the United
:States and accepted the bombings of civilians had been unintended. They
:were also pleased the campaign had resulted in the Taliban's ouster.
:"But they feel they were ... (also) innocent victims of September 11 and
:they have such great need and nowhere to turn."
:She said one study had indicated that at least 4,000 civilians were killed
:in the bombings, which are still continuing, but believed this figure was
:vastly underestimated.