A United Nations investigator released a preliminary report citing widespread civilian deaths in Afghanistan, often at the hands of unaccountable units led by the CIA or other foreign intelligence agencies, including the Mossad – or Israel’s secret service.

The British Intel is also involved in the secret battle in which the target is mostly civilians who knows too much about the Taliban and Taliban close allies in villages and cities.

These ops – illegal according to the rules of wars – were condemned by Philip Alston who is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Professor Philip Alston.

“My focus is on extrajudicial executions or what might be called unlawful killings. The principal actors whose conduct I have been examining include the Government, particularly the police, the international military forces and the anti-government elements, including the Taliban. The bottom line of my report is that there are many killings which are avoidable,” he said after delivering a devastating report that showed the CIA were killing civilians with impunity in Afghanistan.

“In terms of the international military forces, it has been reported that as many as 200 civilians have been killed in the first four months of this year, often in joint operations with Afghan security forces,” he said.

“I have summarized my findings with the following statement: police killings must cease; widespread impunity within the legal system for killings must be rejected; the killings of women and girls must end; the international military forces must ensure real accountability for their actions; and the United Nations itself must give greater prominence to human rights in its activities,” the UN rapporteur said in his report delivered in May this year.

The professor also works at the New York University and spent some time in Afghanistan at the request of the Government of Afghanistan. He reports directly to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. There are no indications that the UN will take any actions against the US for using the CIA to establish its ‘democratic’ system in Afghanistan.

Rights activists in the US have criticized the US for using such tactics and said they feared this will be the norm of the American politicians when they conduct wars outside the US in the name of the war against terrorism. It can affect not only countries where the US are directly involved in territorial wars but also in countries that the US suspects are either hiding or allowing Muslim militants access.

Such practices can target the citizens of any country who are involved in the promotion of non-democratic ideals such as Islamic ideas and Islamic political norms like in Egypt or Malaysia and even in Turkey and why not England, said some critics.

In January 2008, two brothers were killed in Kandahar province in a raid led by "international personnel." Alston found that the victims "are widely acknowledged, even by well-informed Government officials, to have had no connection to the Taliban, and the circumstances of their deaths are suspicious. However, not only was I unable to get any international military commander to provide their version of what took place, but I was unable to get any international military commander to even admit that their soldiers were involved."

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Other incidents involved raids by Afghans led by unnamed "international intelligence services" out of bases in both Kandahar and Nangarhar provinces.

In 2007, Tom Coghlan of the Dialy Telegraph reported that Military specialists with the CIA were among an American force accused of killing more than 50 civilians during the hunt for a Taliban commander in Afghanistan.

Afghan community leaders in the Shindand district on the Iranian border say U.S. forces destroyed several villages during the operation last month. The American mission was conducted outside the NATO command structure and was therefore subject to different rules of engagement.

Other incidents involved raids by Afghans led by unnamed “international intelligence services” out of bases in both Kandahar and Nangarhar provinces.

“It is absolutely unacceptable for heavily-armed internationals accompanied by heavily-armed Afghan forces to be wandering around conducting dangerous raids that too often result in killings without anyone taking responsibility for them,” the report by Professor Philip Alston stated.

In one case, according to a US intelligence official and a military analyst, an Al Qaeda target was identified by US forces on the ground, then captured on real-time, high-resolution video by a CIA RQ-1 Predator plane, and relayed to screens at the control centers at Central Command in Tampa and Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia. As those military officials discussed whether to give a green light for a nearby warplane to blow up the target, the Predator went ahead and shot Hellfire antitank missiles and destroyed it. Central Command officials reacted angrily because the CIA had violated the chain of command.

The Central Intelligence Agency - criticized for its military forays in Vietnam and Central America - has taken a lead role in the war in Afghanistan, running covert paramilitary teams, shooting Hellfire missiles from airborne drones, and acting as the Bush administration's political and financial broker in warlord-controlled regions.

With up to 200 operatives there at any given time, Afghanistan represents the CIA's largest on-ground military presence since Vietnam, yet it has received slight public scrutiny.

The same pattern emerged in Iraq where desperate to impose its democracy on the Iraqi people after toppling Saddam Hussein; the US administration engaged secret services from Israel to conduct joint stealth operations targeting Iraq’s rich resource of scientists and Muslim Ulema (clerics). At least 500 of these very important personalities were killed in silent operations, depleting Iraq of its potential for reconstruction. The reason behind the killings was that these people knew too much and were in a position to prevent the establishment of a ‘puppet’ regime in Baghdad.

On the Afghanistan murderous campaign, the British Independent newspaper noted, “A Western official close to the investigation said the secret units are still known as Campaign Forces, from the time when American Special Forces and CIA spies recruited Afghan troops to help overthrow the Taliban during the US-led invasion in 2001. ‘The brightest, smartest guys in these militias were kept on,’ the official said. ‘They were trained and rearmed and they are still being used.’

The Independent went on to cite one incident involving British forces. “In Helmand, where most of Britain’s 7,800 troops are based, Special Forces were accused of slitting a man’s throat in a botched night raid in 2007. Security sources now claim the operation was mounted by a secret spy unit.”

In general, Alston found little to no interest among US or Afghan officials in monitoring or following up on civilian deaths. “The level of complacency in response to these killings is staggeringly high,” he said.

In 2005 he reported, US media reported on the operations of US-backed deaths squads in Iraq, deployed to kill suspected opponents of the US occupation. Yasser Salihee, a special correspondent for news agency Knight Ridder who was investigating the death squads, was killed with a bullet to the head in June of that year. Separate reports related how the US military had modeled Iraqi units on the death squads deployed in Central America during the 1980s to eliminate left-wing opposition to US policies.

While most of the CIA’s actions remain shrouded in secrecy, one CIA contractor was prosecuted for torturing an Afghan prisoner to death in 2003. The contractor, David Passaro, interrogated and beat the prisoner, Abdul Wali, for two days, injuring him so severely that he died two days later, said the Independent.

At the very least, what the international forces have on their hands is a public relations disaster. They have not taken the steps necessary at the political level to ensure a degree of transparency and accountability in relation to the casualties. This is a very major political issue, because the support of both the people in Afghanistan and the international community is dependent upon a sense that the international forces are doing what they think the people of Afghanistan should be doing – being held to account said Alston.

Afghanistan is increasingly becoming another Iraq with the Nato now putting more firepower to get the sleek Taliban out of its hole in an attempt at ending the war, which is long overdue. In between the scuffles and the suicide bombings, the CIA has been on a killing spree that has not been reported before. It is clear that democracy is about killing opponents to survive in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq.

The US is probably shy to tell the world that it is killing innocents, slitting throats during the night and bombing villages suspected of hiding Islamic Militants because this is not the way to promote democracy in the Islamic world.

However, many in the Islamic world are willing to subdue themselves to the demands of the US administration for fear of being targeted by such CIA squads. Thus the ball keeps rolling about whether the Muslims need democracy at gun point or roses on their graves.

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Master of hype !
written by Abdul Gaffar, November 11, 2008

You really are a Master of Hype and Hate.

You might think that by spewing hatred for America you are helping the Afghani people.In fact hatred for America has become the sixth pillars of Islam. The majority of Afghani people wants to be helped by the Americans and the west. They want the Wahabi Arabs out of their country and want to bring in enlightened values like women's education and secular freedom to their society.

May be you are too young too remember that it was America that helped the Afghans get rid of the Russian and gave billions of dollars to feed the Afghan refugees. You are also too stupid to think that America is colonising Afghanistan. If America and the Nato forces move out of Afghanistan it will the rule of the Taliban again.

You are not an Afghan. You have never been to Afghanistan. You know diddly about what is going on in this country. You are just a Muslim fanatic with an agenda to bake your bread on the fire of Afghan misery.

What Afghanistan needs from the Muslims of the world is not to support the likes of Osama Bin Laden and not to Islamatize our misery.

At this stage what we want is America and for half-baked and childish Muslim bigots like you to keep your nose out of our affairs.

Khuda Hafiz.

correction and elaboration.
written by Hasan Yahya, Ph.D, November 28, 2008

What you have reported was true, about CIA Clandistine personnel to ease occupation , They are not involved large group killing, Yes CIA is responsible for the false information given to the president who order the Army at land and sea to demolish suspected villages where tens of innocent people pay the price of being ordinary people. In a Book ON CIA "The Legacy of ASHES" The history of CIA, the author Tim Weiner, shows, that the role of CIA is to recruite persons to collect information about its enemies, unfortunately CIA depends heavily on false information, and bombed whole villages supposed to have militants or their leaders Like Saddam and Bin Laden or Taliban personnel. CIA is formed from persons with qualifications but their mistakes cost hundreds of victims, not even counted or counted as colliteral damage. But who tell the CIA that they had fatal mistakes. The other comment I might add that American did not in anyway wanted democracy to come to these countries, because a democratic nation will be governed by the people for the people, not to condone sytems with monarchy or otherwise govern countries for 50 plus years. As I said in my article, We have to be friends to America to tell it where it did wrong democratically to give the CIA to relax from giving false information. In any case, as I said, war is not performed by man facing another, it is a technological dstroy everything no matter it destroy, people or resources of the land. The shelling of Pora Pora was a misleading information to kill Osama, that was a terrible mistake for Mr. Bennet who was in charge of the CIA, the boook says.

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