Afghanistan's hardline Taliban on Thursday denounced as "barbaric" an online video apparently showing US Marines urinating on the bloodied corpses of slain insurgents, but said it would not affect peace talks.
The US military was investigating the "disgusting" footage, a Pentagon spokesman said, of what appears to be four servicemen dressed in United States military uniform relieving themselves onto three bodies.
They are apparently aware that they are being filmed.
"This is yet another barbaric act by foreign forces. Over the past 10 years there have been hundreds of similar cases that were not revealed," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed told AFP.
"We strongly condemn this," he said.
A Taliban spokesman later said that the video would not affect proposed peace talks.
"I don't think this new issue will affect negotiations which at this stage are mainly about prisoner exchange," spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed told AFP...... more
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12 January 2012
French Journalist Killed in Syria; Arab League Mission a “Farce”
The day after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad spoke publicly for the first time in seven months, a member of the Arab League’s team of monitors said that the mission to see if Syria is following its pledge to end the violent crackdown on protesters is a “farce.” Anwar Malek, an Algerian member of the monitoring team, has resigned from the mission. According to Al Jazeera, he has said that what he saw in Syria was a “humanitarian disaster” and that security forces had not, as they claimed, withdrawn their tanks but hidden them and sent them back out after the monitors left; that “snipers are everywhere shooting at civilians”; that the regime has been deliberately steering the monitors towards “insignificant things.” Political prisoners shown on television were actually people who have been taken from the street, detained in poor conditions for some days and then released.
Malek had himself been a political prisoner and the New York Times quotes an activist from Homs, a center of unrest near the Lebanon border, who said that the sight of the disfigured body of a protester named Abdel Jarim Darwish, from the Baba Amr neighborhood, had especially affected Makel.
After he saw this body during his tour of Baba Amr, he could not leave his hotel room for two days…I think this was one the reasons behind his resignation..... more
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Malek had himself been a political prisoner and the New York Times quotes an activist from Homs, a center of unrest near the Lebanon border, who said that the sight of the disfigured body of a protester named Abdel Jarim Darwish, from the Baba Amr neighborhood, had especially affected Makel.
After he saw this body during his tour of Baba Amr, he could not leave his hotel room for two days…I think this was one the reasons behind his resignation..... more
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8 January 2012
Syrian Activists Say Regime Is Deceiving Arab League Monitors
Amid reports that at least 27 people have been killed in protests in Homs and in Idlib, Arab League foreign ministers are meeting on Sunday to discuss whether the government of President Bashar al-Assad is honoring its pledge to end the brutal crackdown, or not. They will also consider the findings so far of the mission of 67 monitors which has been heavily criticized by activists, who say the government is using the monitors’ presence as “political cover” and are calling for mass protests on Sunday. Indeed, the main opposition coalition, the Syrian National Council (SNC), said that the attacks are a “‘continuation of the regime’s dirty game as it tries to divert attention from massive protests.’”.... more
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