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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (271)1/6/2003 11:24:13 PM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (1) of 25898
 
What does Von Rumsfeld think of this...?

German TV airs documentary charging American war crimes in Afghanistan

US State Department denounces broadcast

By Stefan Steinberg

The US State Department has reacted angrily to the showing of a
documentary on German television alleging that US soldiers were
involved in war crimes in Afghanistan. The film, Massacre in
Afghanistan—Did the Americans Look On?, was produced by Irish
filmmaker Jamie Doran. It was shown December 18 on one of the main
German public channels—ARD. The 45-minute documentary had
previously been shown by the British Channel 5 and the Italian station
RAI.

Prior to the German broadcast, a spokesman for the US State
Department, Larry Schwartz, declared: “It is a mystery to us why a
respected television channel is showing a documentary in which the facts
are completely wrong and which unfairly depicts the US mission in
Afghanistan.”

In fact, the allegations in Doran’s film have been public for over half a
year and the US government has refused to make any statement or
advance any argument to refute its detailed evidence of complicity by US
soldiers in war crimes. The film makes the point that the Pentagon has
refused numerous requests by Doran for an interview or comment on the
events that it depicts.

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