NATO supported Afghan regime legalizes rape, starvation of women

[Liberty Star]

Afghanistan legalizes rape, starvation of women

July 11, 7:06 AM

This week, Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed legislation which among other things, allows Afghan men to starve their wives if they refuse to have sex with them. The measure was an amendment to a law which have husbands the right to force themselves on their wives, if they did not consent.

Some NATO countries have threatened to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan as a result of the measure.

Speaking to British newspaper The Independent, women's rights activist Wazhma Frough said that hard line clerics pressured the Justice Ministry to retain the most outrageous parts of the original legislation. She said: "There have been a few little changes, but they are not enough. For example, if the wife doesn't accept her husband's sexual requirements then he can deny her food."

http://www.examiner.com/x-5919-Norfolk-Crime-Examiner~y2009m7d11-Afghanistan-legalizes-rape-starvation-of-women




In other news, Afghanistan is this year getting aid even more aid than villified holy land regime:



U.S. House backs $48.8 billion foreign aid funding bill

By Jeremy Pelofsky and Susan Cornwell
Reuters

Thursday, July 9, 2009; 8:19 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a $48.8 billion spending bill to bolster U.S. foreign policy and aid efforts, including to allies like Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The legislation includes $2.7 billion in foreign aid for Afghanistan and $1.5 billion for Pakistan as they fight Taliban militants. It also provides $2.2 billion for Israel, another close U.S. ally, for the fiscal year 2010 that starts October 1.

The legislation is $3 billion less than the $52 billion requested by President Barack Obama, with cuts in funds for items such as overseas diplomatic operations and money for agricultural assistance and improved food security.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR2009070902663.html


In other current news from Afghanistan:



8 British soldiers killed in Afghanistan

itnnews
July 11, 2009

YouTube - 8 British soldiers killed in Afghanistan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKeMLrML8io)

[Liberty Star]

This has been a deadly week in Afghanistan , 10 US/Westren troops were killed few days ago:



Helicopter Crash Adds to Deadly Day in Afghanistan

By ABDUL WAHEED WAFA and MUHIBULLAH HABIBI
Published: July 7, 2009

KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO forces said Tuesday that three foreign troops died in a helicopter crash on Monday, already the deadliest day for American forces in Afghanistan in nearly a year as the war against the Taliban intensifies.

Of seven United States soldiers killed Monday, said Capt. Jon Stock, an American military spokesman, four died along with two Afghan bystanders in a roadside bomb explosion in the northern Kunduz Province, and two American soldiers were killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.

The seventh American soldier died during a firefight with insurgents in the country’s northeast, Captain Stock said.

On the same day, at a base in Zabul, in southern Afghanistan, a helicopter crashed on takeoff, killing two Canadians and a Briton, NATO officials said. A preliminary inquiry had established that the helicopter was not brought down by enemy fire, they said.

Also on Monday, a car bomb exploded near the main NATO air base at the Kandahar airport early in the morning in what was said to be a suicide attack, Afghan military officials said. At least 2 civilians were killed, and 2 Afghan Army soldiers and 12 civilians were wounded, said Gen. Shir Mohammad Zazai, the army commander in the Kandahar region.


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/world/asia/08afghan.html?ref=world

[Liberty Star]

This resilience of ragtag Taliban groups 8 years after we started searching for OBL there is puzzling.

Could such things have led to greater support among Aghan populations for Taliban:




New York Times: Bush Team Discouraged Probe of Mass Taliban Deaths

By VOA News
11 July 2009

A U.S. newspaper reports the Bush administration repeatedly discouraged efforts to investigate the 2001 mass killings of Taliban prisoners by the militia of an American-backed warlord.

The New York Times reports the FBI, State Department and Red Cross pushed for a probe, but the White House failed to act because the warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, was being paid by the CIA at the time of the killings.

Dostum and his fighters are accused of killing hundreds, and perhaps thousands of Taliban prisoners who surrendered after the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. Authorities believe the bodies were placed in a mass grave found in Dasht-e-Leili in 2002.

The report says the Bush White House was also worried about undermining U.S.-backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who named Dostum to his defense team.


http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-07-11-voa5.cfm



From The Times December 24, 2008

Mass grave plundered at site of Taleban prisoners’ massacre

Tom Coghlan in Kabul

The Afghan Government has called on Nato troops to guard an alleged war crimes site that has been plundered and as many as 2,000 bodies apparently removed.

The mass grave at Dasht-e-Leili in northern Afghanistan is thought to contain the remains of between 1,000 and 2,000 Taleban prisoners massacred by fighters loyal to the Uzbek warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum in November 2001. The killings occurred in the remote Leili desert as General Dostum’s forces fought alongside US special forces.

Prisoners were packed into sealed shipping containers and left to suffocate. Others are alleged to have died when fighters riddled other containers full of prisoners with bullets before burning and burying the bodies.

A State Department intelligence assessment from November 23, 2002, released recently under freedom of information laws, assessed that up to 2,000 Taleban prisoners died in the incident, despite initial claims from the US Government that the number was in the dozens. The mass grave site is a forbidding and desolate spot in an area notorious for bandits and thieves.

Human rights organisations confirm that five large pits have appeared recently at the site, with two measuring about 15m (50ft) by 30m, and that earth movers have been operating, digging to a depth of 3m.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5391550.ece

[Sandman33]

They arent legalizing RAPE because you can't rape your WIFE.

[Freedom 4 all]

They arent legalizing RAPE because you can't rape your WIFE.

Really coming in to the 21st century kicking and screaming aren't ya.

[Freedom 4 all]

Seriously, we spent trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives to bring democracy to these knuckle dragging cavemen and this is what the end result is.

[Young Paleocon]

The law was made on behalf of the Shiite Hazaara ethnic group in the country. It's about 10% of the pop.