Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Tristemente familiare...

Gli occupanti Israeliani distruggono i raccolti dei contadini
Palestinesi per vendetta contro questi ultimi, colpevoli di non
collaborare abbastanza con l'occupazione...
Oooops, scusate, mi sono confuso.   I contadini sono Irakeni.
E a distruggere i loro raccolti come punizione collettiva sono
i "liberatori" Americani.  Aspetto i soliti coglioni a dirmi come
questa in Irak sia stata una liberazione.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=452375
US soldiers bulldoze farmers' crops
Americans accused of brutal 'punishment' tactics against villagers, while 
British are condemned as too soft
By Patrick Cockburn in Dhuluaya
12 October 2003
 US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have 
uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in 
central Iraq as part of a new policy of collective punishment of farmers 
who do not give information about guerrillas attacking US troops.
The stumps of palm trees, some 70 years old, protrude from the brown earth 
scoured by the bulldozers beside the road at Dhuluaya, a small town 50 
miles north of Baghdad. Local women were yesterday busily bundling 
together the branches of the uprooted orange and lemon trees and carrying 
then back to their homes for firewood.
Nusayef Jassim, one of 32 farmers who saw their fruit trees destroyed, 
said: "They told us that the resistance fighters hide in our farms, but 
this is not true. They didn't capture anything. They didn't find any 
weapons."
Other farmers said that US troops had told them, over a loudspeaker in 
Arabic, that the fruit groves were being bulldozed to punish the farmers 
for not informing on the resistance which is very active in this Sunni 
Muslim district.
"They made a sort of joke against us by playing jazz music while they were 
cutting down the trees," said one man. Ambushes of US troops have taken 
place around Dhuluaya. But Sheikh Hussein Ali Saleh al-Jabouri, a member 
of a delegation that went to the nearby US base to ask for compensation 
for the loss of the fruit trees, said American officers described what had 
happened as "a punishment of local people because 'you know who is in the 
resistance and do not tell us'." What the Israelis had done by way of 
collective punishment of Palestinians was now happening in Iraq, Sheikh 
Hussein added.
The destruction of the fruit trees took place in the second half of last 
month but, like much which happens in rural Iraq, word of what occurred 
has only slowly filtered out. The destruction of crops took place along a 
kilometre-long stretch of road just after it passes over a bridge.
Farmers say that 50 families lost their livelihoods, but a petition 
addressed to the coalition forces in Dhuluaya pleading in erratic English 
for compensation, lists only 32 people. The petition says: "Tens of poor 
families depend completely on earning their life on these orchards and now 
they became very poor and have nothing and waiting for hunger and death."
The children of one woman who owned some fruit trees lay down in front of 
a bulldozer but were dragged away, according to eyewitnesses who did not 
want to give their names. They said that one American soldier broke down 
and cried during the operation. When a reporter from the newspaper Iraq 
Today attempted to take a photograph of the bulldozers at work a soldier 
grabbed his camera and tried to smash it. The same paper quotes Lt Col 
Springman, a US commander in the region, as saying: "We asked the farmers 
several times to stop the attacks, or to tell us who was responsible, but 
the farmers didn't tell us."
Informing US troops about the identity of their attackers would be 
extremely dangerous in Iraqi villages, where most people are related and 
everyone knows each other. The farmers who lost their fruit trees all 
belong to the Khazraji tribe and are unlikely to give information about 
fellow tribesmen if they are, in fact, attacking US troops.
Asked how much his lost orchard was worth, Nusayef Jassim said in a 
distraught voice: "It is as if someone cut off my hands and you asked me 
how much my hands were worth."

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Tutte affermazioni senza lo straccio di una prova e senza che sia
presente la versione americana :)
Ma pur di fare disinformazione questo e altro! :))
-Stefano

 
Addirittura tre volte la stessa stronzata! :))
-Stefano

 -Stefano

 te la posso dire io  :
Se lo dici tu... :)))
*ROTFL*
-Stefano