Whats that place called again....

[poopsicle]

Afghanistan?

The Associated Press
Updated: 6:52 a.m. ET July 28, 2004<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> KABUL, Afghanistan - Medical relief agency Medecins Sans Frontieres on Wednesday announced that it will withdraw from Afghanistan because of the killing of five of its staff and the danger of further attacks.

The Nobel Prize-winning group, known as Doctors Without Borders in English, said it was pulling out also because it was unhappy with a government investigation into the June 2 deaths and with the “co-optation of humanitarian aid” by U.S.-led forces here “for military and political motives.”

The group said in a statement that it regretted having to leave Afghanistan, where it has been operating for 24 years, but added: “today’s context is rendering independent humanitarian aid for the Afghan people all but impossible.”

About 80 international volunteers and 1,400 Afghan staff worked for the agency in Afghanistan before the June attack, which killed three Europeans and two Afghan staff members in northern Badghis province.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
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[Marco]

Rather sick fvckers...soldiers are one thing but to attack groups like the medics and red cross....

 

[Oceans11]

Medecins Sans Frontieres also accused US-led forces in Afghanistan of using humanitarian aid for "military and political motives". The US military rejected the claims.
The Nobel prize-winning agency has continued to operate through the country's upheavals for 24 years.

"People are questioning whether we are allied with the military... We have to struggle to convince them we're not"
Kenny Gluck,
MSF head in Afghanistan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3931995.stm

 

[Oceans11]

Good old 'land of the free' tactics.
Give us what we want, or the population starves.

Denying it just makes them look even dumber too..

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The violence directed against humanitarian aid workers has come in a context in which the US backed coalition has consistently sought to use humanitarian aid to build support for its military and political ambitions. MSF denounces the coalition’s attempts to co-opt humanitarian aid and use it to “win hearts and minds”. By doing so, providing aid is no longer seen as an impartial and neutral act, endangering the lives of humanitarian volunteers and jeopardizing the aid to people in need. Only recently, on May 12th 2004, MSF publicly condemned the distribution of leaflets by the coalition forces in southern Afghanistan in which the population was informed that providing information about the Taliban and al Qaeda was necessary if they wanted the delivery of aid to continue.

http://www.msf.org/

http://www.msf.org/countries/page.cfm?articleid=409F102D-A77A-4C94-89E0A47D7213B4D5

Coalition soldiers in civilian clothes/cars. (Categorised as "illegal combatants" if they get taken prisoner I presume.

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http://www.msf.org/content/page.cfm?articleid=99C060CE-A541-48CB-B247DC795348960A