Obama ordering "Battlefield Executions" in AfPak?
Nothing like a hot shot of uncut hypocrisy directly
into the veins of the liberal intelligentsia...
"US troops executing prisoners in Afghanistan, journalist says."
By David Edwards
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
rawstory.com
The journalist who helped break the story that detainees at
the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were being tortured by their
US jailers told an audience at a journalism conference last
month that American soldiers are now executing prisoners in
Afghanistan.
New Yorker journalist Seymour Hersh also revealed that the
Bush Administration had developed advanced plans for a
military strike on Iran.
At the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Geneva,
Hersh criticized President Barack Obama, and alleged that
US forces are engaged in "battlefield executions."
"I'll tell you right now, one of the great tragedies of my
country is that Mr. Obama is looking the other way, because
equally horrible things are happening to prisoners, to those
we capture in Afghanistan," Hersh said. "They're being executed
on the battlefield. It's unbelievable stuff going on there
that doesn't necessarily get reported. Things don't change.:
"What they've done in the field now is, they tell the troops,
you have to make a determination within a day or two or so
whether or not the prisoners you have, the detainees, are
Taliban," Hersh added. "You must extract whatever tactical
intelligence you can get, as opposed to strategic, long-range
intelligence, immediately. And if you cannot conclude they're
Taliban, you must turn them free.
"What it means is, and I've been told this anecdotally by five
or six different people, battlefield executions are taking
place," he continued. "Well, if they can't prove they're
Taliban, bam. If we don't do it ourselves, we turn them over
to the nearby Afghan troops and by the time we walk three feet
the bullets are flying. And that's going on now."
The video of Hersh was uploaded to Michael Moore's
YouTube account Tuesday.
Hersh has a long history as an investigative journalist and
worked for many years at The New York Times. In 1969, he
broke the story of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
This video is from YouTube, broadcast May 11, 2010.
youtube.com
This could lead to War Crimes charges against Obama.
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