BATTLE OF QALA I JHANG lasted six days and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Taliban fighters who were attempting a prison break out. They were struck with 52 US air strikes and those who survived emerged from the fortress after it was flooded. No one – not the Americans or the warlord who was put in charge of guarding the fortress, Raschid Dostum – have ever been charged for this crime against prisoners of war. The episode is remembered for two Americans – one CIA operative killed during the break out and other who emerged from the fortress having fought for the Taliban, John Walker Lindh, prisoner 001, pictured below.
MILITARISM IN IT’S MANY GUISES .. US ARMY IN VIETNAM, IRAQ, ISRAELI ARMY IN GAZA, AND RUSSIA IN CHECHNYA, UKRAINE ..
DICK CHENEY ON 9/11 .. USA UNDER THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION LAUNCHED WARS AGAINST AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ AND UNDER OBAMA LIBYA AND SYRIA. WHILST AIRSTRIKES AND DRONE STRIKES AGAINST PAKISTAN, SOMALIA, YEMEN CONTINUE .. AND GUANTANAMO BAY DETENTION CENTRE REMAINS OPEN TO THIS DAY ..
US TROOPS UNDER NIGHT VISION GOGGLES – NOT THE STORMTROOPERS OF STAR WARS ..
