VIDEO: View of Taliban commanders, bombed Afghan villagers during Op. Anaconda
David Edwards
Published: Wednesday June 28, 2006
British reporter Kate Clark travels to the south-eastern district of Afghanistan. This is the first time a reporter has been to this area since the U.S. bombings in 2002 during "Operation Anaconda". Taliban Commanders escort Clark to a old Taliban outpost where the U.S. Military claims to have killed 100 men.
These Taliban Commanders have stopped fighting and say that they want peace. The Commanders still have strong feelings against America. In the evening one of the men explains, "This is our country but we don't have rights here. The United Nations should ask the Americans to stop their crimes. We want peace but even it the send me to Guantanamo I will say, 'If someone attacks us and doesn't respect our religion and culture, we will defeat them.'"
Clark also visits a village that has been "flattened" by bombing. Only a few residents have returned since 2002. One village remembers when the American bombers destroyed the village, "Most people were still here when the B-52's came. They didn't give us warning. Women and children were also killed. We escaped. We had already come back once and rebuilt our houses after the Soviets destroyed the village. We have come back again but we're living more like animals than human beings."
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Published: Wednesday June 28, 2006
British reporter Kate Clark travels to the south-eastern district of Afghanistan. This is the first time a reporter has been to this area since the U.S. bombings in 2002 during "Operation Anaconda". Taliban Commanders escort Clark to a old Taliban outpost where the U.S. Military claims to have killed 100 men.
These Taliban Commanders have stopped fighting and say that they want peace. The Commanders still have strong feelings against America. In the evening one of the men explains, "This is our country but we don't have rights here. The United Nations should ask the Americans to stop their crimes. We want peace but even it the send me to Guantanamo I will say, 'If someone attacks us and doesn't respect our religion and culture, we will defeat them.'"
Clark also visits a village that has been "flattened" by bombing. Only a few residents have returned since 2002. One village remembers when the American bombers destroyed the village, "Most people were still here when the B-52's came. They didn't give us warning. Women and children were also killed. We escaped. We had already come back once and rebuilt our houses after the Soviets destroyed the village. We have come back again but we're living more like animals than human beings."
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