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Death Made In America
Wondering if your conscience is still
anesthetized by Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD Mdmiraki@ameritech.net
29.04.06
A LITTLE
TERRORIST: ENJOY YOUR HANDIWORK USA
I took this
photo on the last day of my journey: one the triplets Afghanistan is has
become the disaster words could not describe, hence, I decided to
illustrate this disaster via these photos of babies born deformed. On
many occasions, I pointed out that we need funds to build a
research institute and the linked monitoring stations. Unfortunately,
majority of you simply brushed off my request. I wonder if these photos
could elevate your humanity that has been overwhelmed by your
comfortable life and materials desires.
 Again, it is up
to you, to do whatever you think is human; that should not be too
difficult. The funds for the research institute are very small price
you have to pay after all your tax dollars have created this disaster.
Whether you like it, admit or deny it, it does not absolve you from the
indirect complicity in these war crimes. If everyone visiting this web
site pays the amount they spend on soft drinks in a month, we would have
the funds to build our research facility:
AMERICAN
DEMOCRACY IN ACTION-"FREEDOM IS ON THE MOVE" RIGHT? YOUR GOVERNMENT is
CRIMINAL BUT YOU ARE equally RESPONSIBLE. YOU MIGHT SAY, "THAT'S LIFE
WHAT COULD I DO" PAY FOR THE RESEARCH FACILITY-A TOTAL COST OF FIVE
MILLION DOLLARS-PEANUTS COMPARE TO THIS PAIN. I HOPE YOU COULD EAT
TONIGHT AND LOOK AT YOUR CHILDREN AND SAY IT IS OKAY TO REMAIN
INDIFFERENT. I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED AFTER ALL IT IS OKAY-YOU HAD
NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, RIGHT? You had everything to do with it, your tax
dollars paid for their misery!!! HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF YOUR CHILDREN
WERE BORN LIKE THIS? FROM THE AMERICAN GIFT (URANIUM MUNITIONS)
THAT KEEPS ON GIVING HORRORS UNLIMITED: MADE IN USA The parents of this
child do not give a damn about your freedom BS or some other garbage OUR
CHILDREN WOULD BE BORN THIS WAY FOR EVER THANKS TO THE URANIUM MUNITIONS
USED BY YOUR ARMED FORCES PAID FOR BY YOUR TAX DOLLARS. OH A FEW MINOR
DETAILS ABOUT SITUATIONS IN AFGHANISTAN: URANIUM MUNITIONS
Due
to the use of massive amount of uranium munitions used by the US forces
in the initial bombing and subsequently, massive amount of congenital
deformities occur all over Afghanistan. The rate of various cancers has
gone up significantly. Leukemia and esophageal cancers are very high
among children. According to doctors at maternity and children hospitals
in Kabul, the rate of various congenital deformities have increased by
many folds since the US invasion. In fact, the magnitude of man made
isotopes was established by the Uranium Medical Research Center after
their investigators made to trips to Afghanistan and collected urine and
soil samples. They established that the rate of man made isotopes was
gone up 2000 times in some subjects located near the bombed areas. Since
uranium used in the weapons have a half-life of 4.5 billion years, the
US forces ensured that generations of Afghans suffer from cancers and
deformities. This is certainly not development. In fact, it is
the biggest crime ever committed by anyone in the history of humanity.
 RECONSTRUCTION
There
has been a lot of talk of reconstruction and rebuilding, but this issue
could only be understood if one compares the substance against the
rhetoric and the large amount of money allocated for the
so-called reconstruction. Of all the whooplas made of reconstruction,
the US and its client regime has only inaugurated the truck
route-highway-between Kabul and Kandahar. This hallmark of achievement
that the US brags about was completed 40 percent during the Taliban
government. While the highway is inaugurated, it still needs
significantly additional work to remain intact. The inauguration of the
highway was a political ploy aimed to convince the critiques that the
reconstruction has been going smooth. It is hardly so.
When I entered Afghanistan from Pakistan, the lack of achievement was
evident. For the past three years, there have been construction efforts
underway to pave the road from Torkham, the entry point from Pakistan to
Afghanistan, to the city of Jalalabad in eastern
Afghanistan. Unfortunately, the Pakistani contractors are more
interested to have their tea breaks rather than to do any rebuilding. I
brought up this issue with the authorities in Kabul, but to avail. After
reaching Jalalabad, I was further surprised to see the roads in the city
with massive potholes, unpaved roads, hence, tremendous amount of dust
blown in every direction. The reason for the lack of work in Jalalabad,
as is the case almost every where in Afghanistan, corrupt officials
eager to make money than to worry about the welfare of the people. If a
Mayor is appointed to a town or city, the would be mayor has to pay
$40,000 bribe since he would be making more than $400,000 in selling
government land to the highest bidder.
 The
magnitude of corruption is not limited to a province, but
rather officials in the central government in Kabul are equally
complicit in massive corruption and inefficiency which I would discuss
shortly. Since the main road to Kabul is under construction for the past
three years-we had to take a mountain pass called Lataband, which is a
very rugged mountain terrain with huge rocks and massive
potholes widespread for miles on. Once I reached Kabul, I stopped
complaining about the Lataband road-after all Lataband is a mountain
pass-Kabul the capital city lacked paved roads with exception of very
few. The government in Kabul has not done anything of substance whether
it pertains to infrastructure, housing, sanitation or drinking water.
These are the essential elements of survival in any city. There are
several reasons for the lack of progress. Some of the reasons are
fundamentally flawed while others are bureaucratic hurdles and
corruption. The fundamental flaws are situated in the free market
approach superimposed on Afghanistan. There are two aspects of the free
market that impedes the reconstruction of basic infrastructure in Kabul,
one is the idea that money spent has to be invested with a return in
mind, second, basic development should be contracted to private sector.
Both of these issues have impeded the rebuilding of infrastructure. In
the first half of the 20th century, the Afghan government asked for
a loan from the US government to build basic infrastructure-paved
roads in Kabul, the government and the bank refused the loan on the
ground that building roads in Kabul is not profitable investment.
The government in Kabul at that time, argued that for any
profitable enterprise to succeed basic infrastructure has to be built.
So there is very little amount allocated for rebuilding basic
infrastructure. It is worth noting that part of the blame goes to the
international reconstruction aid as it is dispersed in such a way that
some amount is allocated to the government in Kabul while the rest goes
to the countless NGOs. Since the first problem, namely investment with
a profit in mind, does not materialize in the construction of roads,
efforts are made to resolve that problem through contracting out
construction of roads to private sector. Thus, contracting out roads to
private sector would mean money for contractors, hence, compensate for
the lack of profitability associated with paving roads. This created
another problem.Once a road is contracted
out, the private contracting firm resort to delaying tactics associated
with feasibility study and other related issues in order to fatten its
return. This delayed tactic does not serve peoples' needs and the roads
remain unpaved. For example, the road from Kabul's airport to the
presidential palace was contracted out three years ago it was still not
built. This practice of contracting out projects adds to unemployment.
Had the government adopted a different method, perhaps by hiring local
laborers and using machinery, the chronic unemployment would be reduced,
thus, people would have some food on the table.Three weeks ago, Karzai
announced that the road in the Dasht-e-Barchi area repaired and built.
The allocated funding is $10,000000 ten million dollars. This is an
outrage. Ten million dollars could repair all the roads in the capital,
Kabul if only the function is taken over by the ministry of public
works.
 The Free Market Nonsense:
In
order to please the US administration, the regime in Kabul advocated the
notion of 'free market' as if this would become a panacea for
the national economy. On the contrary, the so-called free market
scheme had been tried in the past-the 1930s-- that resulted in
fruitless consumerism of imported goods, which otherwise would have
been produced domestically. Moreover, the consumption of luxuries
received more priority than investment in productive sectors of the
economy. A handful of businessmen and investors became rich while the
rest of the country remained poor and destitute. Today, in the
post-Taliban Afghanistan, the consumption of goods such as television
sets and satellite dishes are more important than worrying about clean
water and proper schooling. After all, as long as capitalism had brought
the culture of corruption and entertainment, other necessities
become secondary. Meanwhile, people with money import these goods,
pocket their profits and leave. The desire of the installed regime to
collect custom duties contributes to the perpetuation of
underdevelopment. Corruption also plays a significant role in the
continuation of import than investment in productive infrastructure. For
example, for the past 2-3 years over 100,000 tons of cement is imported
while the construction plans of four cement factories collect dust. The
official reason is that the country does not have a mining law. This
year alone 380,000 tons of cement is imported this year alone. The
question is how long does it take to formulate a mining law; it has been
three years. The profit margin for dealers has skyrocketed while the
long-term development prospects have waned down with every imported bag
of cement.
AMERICAN
CRIMES AND ORGANIZED CRIMES
With the collapse of Taliban, a very profitable, yet nasty sector of
the economy has risen to new heights. Organized crime is an extension
of what used to be warlords and their armies of bandits. With the
warlords and other officials of the Northern Alliance occupying
official positions, their former foot soldiers are equipped with new
weapons and Toyota trucks, Landcruisers, with only one aim to kidnap
people from diverse backgrounds for large sums of money. Once the money
is secured, the government officials, who are also leading these
bandits, keep 80 percent for themselves and 20 percent for their
men. The Italian aid worker, who was kidnapped in Kabul in broad
daylight, was a victim of these organized bandits. After she was
released, the government claimed that it secured the release of the aid
worker through negotiation, but the truth is otherwise. The kidnappers
received 5 million dollars. Those poor souls that can not afford paying
ransoms end up dead. Other groups of criminals kidnap children for money
as well as for their organs. This is an epidemic that people sought
Talibans' assistance for in the mid-1990s, however, it appears that this
is no longer an issue for the US occupation force and their puppets
after all when it comes to crimes what could be more criminal that using
WMD against civilian population. The US forces
 have used uranium weapons
against the people of Afghanistan, and continue to commit crimes that
dwarf what the organized criminals are doing. The followings are some of
the examples of the brutality of the US forces in Afghanistan: Rape and
Murder by the US forces In the Bagrami area of Kabul, the US forces
assaulted a small enclave of nomads. The US forces flew over this
enclave and saw nomad women near their tents. They landed their
helicopter and kidnapped these women by gunpoint. Subsequently, the US
soldiers flew away with these women to some location, where these women
are gang-raped. After these women were raped and died in the process,
the soldiers flew them back to the community from where they
were kidnapped. However, this time the helicopter did not land, instead,
the women were thrown down from the helicopter. This is not unique
for the US forces since they committed similar crimes in
Vietnam. American forces are too much of cowards to have landed because
they knew they would be shot in revenge.
Another incident
occurred when a US helicopter spotted an old shepherd grazing his
animals. The shepherd was 70 years old but this did not appear to matter
to the US forces. The helicopter landed and raped the old man. His
relatives told me that on the one hand we are furious about the crime
committed by these beasts, but on the other hand we are curious "what
kind of rotten people Americans are." In another incident, a truck
driver was driving his truck north from the Kabul, passing the US base
in Bagram when the US patrol stopped him. In the passenger seat of the
truck a young boy was sitting. This young man wanted to learn driving a
truck, but tragically for him, the Americans noticed him and asked him
to step out. The young man stepped out and the soldiers took him away
from the truck and gang raped him. When the boy returned to the truck,
he was crying and furious. Later that day, he committed suicide. This is
another gift of the US's democracy.
 In the American military base Bagram, north of Kabul, 15
translators while working for the US forces were gang raped by the very
forces for which they worked. Although I have no sympathy for those that
work for the US forces, however, no one should be subjected to such
extreme cruelty. One of the translators said, "Around 25 to 30 American
soldiers enter the area where we were sleeping and started raping us. I
was conscious until to the third soldier started raping me and then lost
consciousness." (Hamid-translator for the US forces, June 2005) In
Badakhshan province, the US soldiers had taken forty (40) women and
extracted their teeth for oral sex. One member of the parliament, who is
a close supporter of Karzai, said: "The issue of these women treated in
such a miserable way was about to get some publicity, however, the US
officials made sure that this does not happen." (Parliament member--I
can not reveal his name) In another incident, the US forces were
searching local houses between JalaAbad and Kabul, when they entered and
tried to search the house, they came across the woman of the house,
since she was very beautiful, the soldiers decided to take her to the US
base. The husband was not at home. When he returned from Peshawar, he
went to get his wife. He told his wife, "To me you are now my mother and
sister, I can not touch you any more, but tell me if they have violated
your dignity? 'They raped me by force, I was conscious for the first
three men, then lost consciousness'." (The husband whose name I can not
reveal his name. He joined Taliban afterward and I do not blame him.) A
young man committed suicide in the Laic-e-Mariam in KairKhana area after
the Americans in an NGO raped his sister. These are some of the very few
examples of the many crimes committed by the US forces in Afghanistan,
but unfortunately, the coward officials of the puppet regime call it
reconstruction. To add insult to injury, the two American soldiers, who
murdered two detainees at Bagram airbase, received only 2 and 3 months
in jail for crime ruled homicide by the US medical examiners. The two
detainees were beaten at their legs while hanging from the ceiling until
their legs "pulverized". The term "pulverized" was used by the medical
examiner to articulate the magnitude of the fatal injury and the
inhumane way of murdering. When one of the victims asked for water, the
soldier poured water over his face; subsequently, the poor man died.
This is Americanreconstruction of Afghanistan. Life for Ordinary
People There is absolutely no hope for the Afghans. The billions of
dollars of development aid did not benefit ordinary Afghans. Abject
poverty is the rule of the day. Orphans and widows roam the streets to
make a living. The NGOs and foreign advisors enjoy life to the fullest.
They are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, enjoy luxury vehicles
and houses, while ordinary Afghans die from homelessness, hunger and
disease. In light of the London donor conference, which would amount
to nothing considering the legacy of so-called reconstruction
in Afghanistan; it is prudent to make some points. It is a tragedy of
immense proportion that no one even dare to address the abomination that
is called life with inevitable demise at every corner resulting from the
massive amount of uranium munitions used by the American forces and
their allies. Our so-called Afghans self-sold surrogates are more than
happy to jump on the bandwagon and express their gratitude for the token
thrown at our people when in fact their entire existence is put in
question by the massive use of weapons of mass destruction. Let the
progress of the Bonn agreement tell the children of Tora Bora and
Shah-e-Kot suffering from Leukemia and Esophageal cancers, or the
massive number of sudden abortions occurring among women and animals in
those areas.
Another legacy
is the corruption of bribery and sheer robbery by the officials of this
puppet regime eager to make dollars. Unfortunately, they do not even
accept Afghan currency but rather demand dollars. According to an Afghan
commission, the amount of bribes paid in Afghanistan ranges from 20
Afghani to 15,000000 Dollars. In a country where an experience medical
technologist is paid $40/month, the millions of dollars paid in bribe
point to the magnitude of profit individuals and companies expected to
enjoy. Abject poverty is every where and hopes of revival are no where.
The billions of dollars donated went into the pockets of NGOs and
powerful government officials, while the poor remains poor. Another
problem is Americanization of the system, namely whole sale firing of
professionals with decades of experience under the pretext of making
hospitals and offices efficient. The truth is the US wants to implement
capitalism in Afghanistan and bring open market when in fact no has food
to eat or money to pay for healthcare. The shortage of physicians and
health technicians is ignored for the sake of this garbage called free
market. Now there are no private companies to hire these professionals
with decades of experience. It would have been nice if other
opportunities existed, but there are none.
 Today in
Afghanistan, there are a few very rich and the rest extremely poor
thanks to the United States of America. Afghan Resistance and US
losses: The Afghan resistance fighters consist of Pashtuns, entirely.
The East, Southeast, South and Southwest, West and part of Central area
of Afghanistan are the most volatile. The US forces have lost a lot
of soldiers there. In fact, ordinary Afghans used to wondered about the
US losses and started to believe a myth that the soldiers that are
killed in Afghanistan must come from orphanages in the US, hence, their
death is not missed by anyone. To the Afghans, it does not make sense
when so many soldiers lose their lives and yet there has not been any
outrage on the part of the families of those soldiers. Thus, ordinary
Afghans started this myth that the soldiers that are killed in
Afghanistan are from orphanages since this was the only rational
explanation they could find. Before going to Afghanistan, different
sources claimed that American dead were kept refrigerated on board ships
in the Arabian Sea and at US bases in the Middle East. When I went to
Afghanistan, many people within the Afghan Ministry of Defense told me
similar stories that American dead are stored in refrigerated containers
on board ships and at the US bases in the Middle East. In fact, one
translator, who was working with the US forces, told me that he had seen
refrigerated containers filled with dead US soldiers. The following two
incidents should give a glimpse into the US losses and lies about those
losses there. Around June 12, 2005, an Afghan resistance fighter rammed
an
explosives laden vehicle into the US military convey in Kandahar.
The result was severe losses for the US military. Initially, the
media reported that five American soldiers were killed, then later that
figure was abandoned and replaced with only four wounded. However,
the truth was completely different. An eyewitness, Haji Habib told us
an entirely different account of the losses: "A suicide bomber slammed
his vehicle into the US convey. The vehicle must have been full of
powerful explosives because the explosion was really loud and
shattering. After the dust and smoked settled, I counted the charred
bodies. There were 39 charred bodies. The American cleanup team came
with cranes and picked the destroyed armored vehicles and dead bodies
before anyone could take photographs." (Haji Habib: June 14, 2005-my
first trip) In another incident around the 22nd of May 2005, the US
forces lost 75 soldiers along with three tanks and three armored
vehicles in Helmand province in Southwestern Afghanistan. This occurred
when the US unit went to the province and arrested a former Mujahideen
commander. The eyewitness, a translator, who witnessed and counted the
dead bodies at Kandahar airport after being transported from Helmand described
the operation as follows: "The Americans went to Helamd to arrest a
former commander. When they arrested him, his villagers and former
Mujahideen fighters blocked the retreat of the US forces. The US forces
fired at the men standing in their way, killing six of them. Since the
rest of the fighters had already taken positions, the Americans were
bombarded with RPG-7 grenade-launchers and heavy machinegun fire. In the
firefight, the arrested commander was also martyred but also 75 American
soldiers were killed, three of their tanks and three armored vehicles
were also destroyed. When the American reinforcement arrived, all the Mujahideen
fighters were long gone. Instead, the US helicopters bombed civilian
areas." (Abdul Ali-eyewitness to the fight) At the end of February 2006,
in Uruzgan province an American convey was ambushed and 29 American
soldiers were killed, while officially they admitted only four. These
are just few of the many unreported losses of the US soldiers in
Afghanistan.
 FINAL NOTE
For those of you who would make the argument that we were attacked by
Bin Laden and the Taliban refused to hand him over even though
we refused to show his involvement, here is a piece of information
revealed by Vice President Cheney. His answer to a question from the
Tony Snow Show via telephone, and the link below is that of the
White House: http://www.whitehouse. gov/news/releases/2006/03/20060329-2.html
Q: I want to be clear because I've heard you say this, and I've
heard the President say it, but I want you to say it for my listeners,
which is that the White House has never argued that Saddam was directly
involved in September 11th, correct? THE VICE PRESIDENT: That's correct.
We had one report early on from another intelligence service that
suggested that the lead hijacker, Mohamed Atta, had met with Iraqi
intelligence officials in Prague, Czechoslovakia. And that reporting
waxed and waned where the degree of confidence in it, and so forth, has
been pretty well knocked down now at this stage, that that meeting ever
took place. So we've never made the case, or argued the case that
somehow Osama bin Laden [sic] was directly involved in 9/11. That
evidence has never been forthcoming. But there -- that's a separate
proposition from the question of whether or not there was some kind of a
relationship between the Iraqi government, Iraqi intelligence services
and the al Qaeda organization. So the US bombed Afghanistan and killed
tens of thousands of people and turned the country into a uranium
hellhole on a hunch? Obviously so, and that is why, they could never
produce an ounce of proof of his complicity in the attacks.
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