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“Surprising: The top US soldier kills US troops”

This should be the subject of a recent article on the latest “investigation” into the “murder” of an Afghan family, including seven children, who were crushed by the US “Hellfire” bomber in late August.

Obviously, not a single editor – as far as I can tell – chose to tell the simple and unambiguous truth. Instead, many issued clear statements to stop the US military from killing Afghan Afghan aid worker Zemari Ahmadi, his three children, Zamir, 20, Faisal, 16, and Farzad, 13, and his own. cousin, Ahmad, 30, and three of his grandchildren Ahmadi, Arwin, seven, Benjamin, six, and Hayat, two two-year-old daughters, Malika and Somaya.

As a result, editors have written numerous articles like this to summarize the “final” report of a report by US Air Force Lieutenant General Sami.

The Pentagon could not record the “investigation” of Lieutenant General Said in the summary of the assassination of Ahmadi and his family.

The Pentagon is, without a doubt, one of excitement. But it is important and instructive to get rid of – in writing – the Pentagon’s, interesting subject to expose the flaws and inaccuracies.

First, Lieutenant General Said would not be interested in killing Ahmadi and his relatives if the Pentagon continued to deceive the whole world at what happened in the courtyard of Ahmadi’s house on August 29.

Remember, some of the most powerful US military forces in the “chain of command” immediately fired on fugitive civilians, experts and retaliation for a terrorist bomb blast at Kabul airport that crippled and killed many US and Afghan soldiers trying to escape. .

The Pentagon assures us that two “high” terrorists were killed before they could injure and kill others and that well-prepared beatings prevented, with difficulty, the killing of civilians.

Quoting a senior security official from the Department of Homeland Security, US journalists also stated that the main purpose was “clear” what he believed was “related to future violence at the airport” and that the U.S. found him and “had enough. Face to face and information. enough ”to kill him.

Every word was a lie.

However, the Pentagon continued to repeat its lies easily with the metronome for several days, as Afghans insisted that a large family, not terrorists, were removed and burned. Few believed them because, unlike the Pentagon’s “well-established” sources, Afghans could not, it seems, be trusted.

Just a week after the New York Times published a suspicious report on the official, a false report that U.S. military secretly admitted to killing a family, not terrorists.

Obviously, American justice was Mrs. Lai and the drone.

In countless letters reviewing his “report” – which would not have been written if he had not dug up a number of skeptical journalists – Lieutenant General Said is described as an “independent supervisor”.

This made me – and maybe you – laugh.

While I am convinced that Lieutenant General Said is a good employee, I am convinced that he did not become a Lieutenant General by harassing his superiors or causing the Pentagon – his boss – any unjustified grievances.

A one-page summary of his “known” report – riddled with secrecy and misinformation – shows that the loyalty of Lieutenant General Said and to the US military he served for so long, is not true.

Surprisingly, Lieutenant General Said chose not to respond – in a convincing way – why and why top US troops and officials spent weeks claiming the US military and intelligence agencies had carried out a deadly plot in August.

He stopped ignoring that terrible deception.

And, suddenly, Lieutenant General Said came to a verdict in which US officials had been speaking for months and their lies had been exposed: the mutilation and death of 10 Afghans had a good purpose, but “wrong”. ”Produced by soldiers who were“ absolutely convinced ”that most of the United States’ military would soon be killed.

“Murder offenses along with discrimination and disruption of communications have resulted in civilian casualties,” said Lieutenant General Said.

He added – and I would like to tell you here to save you from the beliefs of Lieutenant General Said: “Hey, the US military was in serious danger and they believed another plot was imminent. Any patriotic soldier who participates in these horrific crimes should rest, okay?

Ahmadi was followed for hours as he traveled daily to fetch water and food for the poor Afghan people. However, in a way, not a single expert wizard who informs researchers living in the US intelligence infrastructure realized that Ahmadi was doing the right thing, not the best.

Just minutes before U.S. forces opened fire on Ahmadi and his children, a forensic video allegedly showed a child near the scene.

The Lieutenant General Said’s explanation of this horrible “mistake” is absurd. “The real evidence of the child came to light in the 2nd minute,” he said at a press conference. “But 100 percent is not visible; you need to find out. ”

Well, sir, that wasn’t the job of the United States soldier or the army that was watching Ahmadi coming that day: A closer look. Observing. Visualize and then warn or suspend the strike so that ordinary people are not harmed.

Encouraged by anger and a desire to say what he believed was right and proper in retaliation, it was “my sincere belief” that the US military looked, saw, but did not care who killed it, as long as the Afghan people died. quickly retaliate for the killing of their brothers and sisters at gunpoint.

Lieutenant General Said and his allies inside and outside the Pentagon will remove anyone who dares to claim that Ahmadi and his family were not killed in a massacre with a statement announcing the appropriate, eye-to-eye approach to the terrorists. .

Lieutenant General Said and his cocksure confederates should answer this question: How does he explain that from 2015 to 2019, the US government created – with savings accounts – the so-called “apology payments” of more than $ 2m for 455 Afghan families?

If they really bought, so far, the false allegations that Ahmadi and his family were killed by “mistake”, please recount how the US military continued to “make a mistake” after the “mistake” after the “mistake” that led to the Afghan assassination. women, children and men repeatedly and, apparently, after every “mistake” failed to make sure they did not make any other “mistakes”?

On October 22, 2020, a U.S. airplane on a religious school is said to have killed 12 children and injured 14 people. Were the deaths of those 12 children also “wrong”?

Four days later, a US plane crash in the Taliban killed three children and a Taliban elder. Was the death of the three children also “wrong”?

Among other things, the long-range missiles in which U.S. troops killed children, women, and fathers of Afghanistan, we must acknowledge, without a doubt, that Lieutenant General Said found that not a single U.S. soldier violated any law, including military rules. the destruction of Ahmadi and his family.

We are expected to accept, without a doubt, the words of a volunteer member of the same US military force who spoke day after day after day lies about those who actually destroyed when Ahmadi arrived home with a car and expensive jars. of flowing water, welcomed by a group of happy and excited children.

We are expected to acknowledge, no doubt, that the US military has spoken out all the lies in good faith, as wrong.

Finally, we are expected to acknowledge, without a doubt, that the US military is not responsible for the killing of innocent people.

Zemari Ahmadi, Zamir, Faisal, Farzad, Ahmad, Arwin, Benyamin, Hayat, Malika and Somaya deserve justice. But you and I and their families know that they will not find it.

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