“America’s Monster”: How a U.S. Ally Kidnapped, Killed & Tortured Hundreds in Afghanistan
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A major New York Times investigation explores the history of one of America's most important allies in the war against the Taliban: Abdul Raziq. While fighting in Afghanistan, Raziq was frequently praised by American generals and oversaw soldiers "trained, armed and paid by the United States and its allies." But to civilians in the area, Raziq became known as "America's monster" after coming to power through years of torture, extrajudicial killing and abduction. Raziq, who was assassinated in 2018, was responsible for the largest known campaign of forced disappearances during America's 20-year war in Afghanistan. "Raziq was basically the poster child for brutality by the U.S.-backed government," says New York Times journalist Matthieu Aikins. Despite knowing about the abuses, the U.S. "continued to work with Raziq side by side because he was just so effective in the war." Aikins argues U.S. "wishful thinking and self-delusion" about the atrocities committed by U.S. troops and allies "is part of the reason why the U.S. failed in Afghanistan despite spending 20 years there and so many hundreds of billions of dollars."
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Abdul Raziq - It’s the Afghani way.
Abdul Raziq - It’s the Afghani way.
It's a one-off but I did. Thank you for your work.
@@NoWindNoSunNoPowerwhat is afghani, ?
Funny thing is that American military assassinated him. The whole Afghanistan knows this fact. Afghans long did their own investigations
Hundreds of billions of dollars spent in Afghanistan. Can we spend it on healthcare or free college?
They are too busy sending billions to finance genocide.
They won't spend it on college, they want us to be uneducated.
America as a system is too short-sighted for free college. They think about the loss now in military industrial profits and not in the economic boom gained 1 or 2 generations in the future.
You have no idea what money is, if you say something like that. Why does the store accept paper for goods? Force! The store owner will be fined and jailed if he traded his goods for anything except the paper only the government can make. So they can force the stores to accept anything for trade the gov wants. That means inflation is deliberate. The gov sets the prices. Does the supplier charge more? No. Does the store owner decide to charge more for the same product? No. Who does? The same people who issue you your money. The gov can print money and loan it to you at interest. So when the gov asks the fed for a loan, what does the fed loan them? They can print their own money. So what do central banks loan governments? Governments steal every dollar they have. They don’t make money. So why do they exist? Not to help me in my daily life. They only hamper it. Wake up and stop using government.
+lok.;/ You are a Brainwashed capitalist puppet. You have 100% never lived in a country like you know, Norway or Switzerland. Our Goverments provide free healthcare, dentistry, no poverty whatsoever, free education, free universities. Maybe try to learn something besides Milton Friedman and Thomas sowell, Thomas Hobbes, Steven Pinker and those shills who obviously broken your brain.
America has been on the wrong side of history for my entire life. I don’t know if it’s even possible to right this sinking ship.
Empires don't care about right or wrong
Does it make you hard?
"Whoever is far more violent, ruthless, wins. The strongest is the most violent will wins. Not right or wrong. Not morality or what anyone says about us.
Not accidently.
@@TheMediaMachineis that why the Roman empire is still Thriving, or the Spanish empire is still Thriving, what about the mongels. empires rise and fall. they ussually destroy themself
I’d rather investigate thousands of atrocities committed by American soldiers and commanders in Bagram prison and all over the country. Lets do not forget Guantanamo bay.
If all the war crimes of the US were investigated, it would take from now to eternity and still nothing would happen to them. That’s why they’re not stopping Netanyahu- they’re the same. And if someone does expose their atrocities, they call it a risk to national security and abuse, imprison them and drive them to a slow death like Julian Assange. His crime? Exposing the ugly truth
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YEE
"He's a son of a bitch but he's our son of a bitch" never seems to go out of style.
@m€ric@ns always wonder why p€opl€ around thd world r m@d at their country...
They only see the consequences and the reaction to their country ... The ydon't see thf causes and the actions that lead desperate people to the reactions....
I am surprised that RUclips did not censor you for calling the darling of USA “ son of a bitch “. Could or would you use the same phrase on another US Darling “ Netanyahu “? .I think they have a very common Gene .
This guy was a bread baker in Pakistan and Americans made him a General laugh and I'm not even making up stuff
Obama and Biden gave $$$$ 2 IRAN FUNNELED 2 HAMAS , AND WE HAVE GIVEN LESS $$$ 2 ISRAEL SINCE ITS INCEPTION THAN THV LAST 2 YEARS GOING 2 UKRAINE , NOBODY IS PROTESTING BILLIONS OF OUR TAXES CURRENTLY GOING 2 A Unwinnable WAR
are you referring to prophet mohammed?
This is why politicians are fighting against teaching actual American history. Could you imagine how young people would work to correct this madness!😮
Agreed
As long as you as American elect the same ideological representatives USA will never change ,USA it was built on the dead bodies of the Native American and they got no shame in doing what they did and now we’re witnessing the same slaughter and genocide in Gaza and Rafah and still the American politicians have no sence of remorse for the waisted souls,the American and future history tells what kind of people the politicians nowadays are,if you seeking for a change the American has to change the whole cabinets,the question is,can they do it?
This is true. Even in many African countries, we're still taught US propganda to a significant degree. Whilst many are criticaI of the US, we only learn these things from reading, from watching the news, and from witnessing what they're doing here ourselves. But kids in school are still taught to admire the US - which is pretty messeed up. I recall my history teacher often portraying them positively, omitting vital information whenever it came to events in which America were involved. He was an old white guy - so it's to be expected perhaps. But it's still no excuse.
@@TD1237 no it’s not an excuse to teach the kids to admire the occupiers instead of teaches them how the resistance fought for freedom,actually the young generation are the future of every nation and our job is to implant in them the love of our countries and educate them to build a real United free population full with zealous leaders to build a solid foundation by all means. As for the teacher he’s a tale of the occupation he’s panting the love seed for the occupiers to num the patriotic feeling in the kids.
The truth always prevails to the intellectuals .
I'm so grateful for independent journalism. News like this is never covered in mainstream media
This is journalism as much as North Korea is democratic.
So true. Democracy Now is great for unbiased commentary. Definitely appreciated, especially at this time.
It was brought to light by the New York Times mainstream media outside of all the shot we already knew
It'll be one of the things they take away when they can.
What? Sounds like he works for the New York Times. Pretty main stream in my opinion
American dream started with Genocide (of natives) and this dream end with Genocide (in pelistine.
Yep, America is very big on gnocldes. They've never been on the right side of history.
Yep, and so many 'Muricans still defend the gnoclde and say that European-descended people had every right to morder natives all over the world.
Yup. It fits their overall mindset and ambitions as a country. Gnoclde appears to be part of the American spirit, unfortunately.
No it won’t america will still be hear long after we are all gone
@@notamurderer6226 as a dismantled shadow of it past, like every past empire.
Nobel prize should be taken back from Obama.
Such a shyster🌈😩🤷🏿♂️🤡
The problem is liberals from 3rd world countries look at the west as their m@$t3rs and thinks awards like Nobel prize are real thing
Liberals of 3rd world countries need to wake up
That shits been useless for years
Their circles are tight and they protect each other with knighthoods and bungs
Now they are doing it in Israel predominantly started by British mandate backed by the USA
It took 20 years to replace Taliban with Taliban
😂😂😂
I think it was much more complex than that, iirc. Before this, it was US controIIed government, I believe. But, thankfully, this current TaIiban (like the old one) has no ties to lmperiaIists and coIoniaIs. They're not perfect, but Afghanistan can finally grow without being lnvaded and controIIed by outside forces.
@@TD1237nothing complicated with finding a brute that will kill and do anything for power. This is just collinal history of having power over whole nations.
😂😂😂😂
Also sent trillions and losing of thousands from both side😂😂😂
US supported Raziq. That doesn’t amaze me when they’re supporting a person like Netanyahu.
Once wrong and always wrong.
Pretty much the entire history and culture of U$A, death and destruction!
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totally, the entire creation of U$A, just like the zionist created Isfake, both were never on the right side of history to begin with, both were bourne out of death, destruction, l00ting and bloodlust
And lil zenski,
Tiny hat
Billionaire 🤡🌈🤮
Zelinsky comes to mind.
There is no end to sickening atrocities - all in the name of power and greed.
Disgusting shameless
No wonder why Afghani people didn’t trust the USA! This is the type of person we allied ourselves with and propped up?! Disgraceful. The people of Afghanistan suffered a million times more than we ever thought. Thank you for this journalism
Nobody trust America and I don't blame them
Business As Usual , unfortunately 😾
He killed taliban members and brought security. He got killed after meeting US general miller to pave the way for the taliban to be brought back.
As Americans we have a golden opportunity collectively as citizens to acknowledge the actions some in our government have taken and loudly denounce them patriotically. Take our country back and redefine what a democracy is and highlight the risks of corruption taking root. We have an enormous amount of instances where power is abused and led to the unnatural death of countless American citizens and citizens of other countries.
We find ourselves in the current moment witnessing a genocide take place perpetrated under the cover of religious idolatry but in reality it's just a man outrunning democratic law and his enablers who enjoy their proximity to power so they support him for their own self interested means.
An individual wakes up in part by recognizing the conflicting views they hold within themselves and it's the exact same for a country to do the same collectively. It's a mind game where one has come to recognize the nature of the mind and can deal with it accordingly.
It prime time to elect decent and honorable candidates who are independent from corrupt money and interests.
@@rashidtayidi8370 Are there any ?
@@davidlamb7524Cornell West maybe? Or perhaps Jill Stein? They seem to be good people. Of course, you can't just blindly trust them. But they seem decent.
@@TD1237 I agree with your take on both . I believe they are decent as people.
I also agree with some of their policies that they share. Some not.
I think reparations is not really doable in a way that will not reward the undeserving and omit those who have a real claim.
Both also have similar ideas regarding foreign policy I am with them there . They would also free Assange and pardon all whistleblowers. Great. That is a stain on the USA.
I sympathized with Brexit which Jill Stein was a supporter of but I voted against it and still think it was a mistake...but I could go on.
You answered my question.
You are right. There probably are a few decent ones left. As far as we can tell.
They will also need to be wise and very strong if they are to prevail against the powers that be.
Some of their ideas do worry me - but not as much as the current front-runners !
@@rashidtayidi8370 YES CORNEL
And this was the " good war" according to Obama.
As an Afghan I can definitely confirm all this has happened.
Ur son of Punjabi not Afghan.
Taliban are the terrorists
Many Afghans confirm the opposite and see him as a hero. Unfortunately USA killed him as he became to dangerous for Taliban, a US creation.
Were you a soldier for united states or the other side ?
US army most likely did worse than Raziq. After all, Raziq was a student of the US training schools.
Its like american cops. None of it is accidental.
Oh God!...please do not bring up our Police!... We know what a horribly biased and violent establishment / institution we have in America
America itself is a monster!
I served in Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010 and my company was down in Spin Boldak and worked with Raziq. I have to tell you we knew this guy was bad news. We knew that in the past he had committed massacres against members of a rival tribe. We knew he had his fingers all over the opium trade. But we worked with him, visited his compoind in an old fort overlooking the city and he even had Blackwater there with him. But we worked with him anyways. And if i remember correctly the guy was illiterate.
This has never sit well with me. After i left the Army i learned he was promoted and given control of the whole of Kandahar privince. This deeply distrubed me. I knew the war was going to end in some kind of collapse of the Afghan government. I thought that if that happened the "Warlord of Spin Boldak" would essentially become one of the most powerful warlords in a fractured country.
I was greatly relieved when i learned of his assassination. Not just relieved but glad this bastard was dead. I have incredibly mixed feelings about how the war ended but i am certain about two feelings; im glad the war is over and im glad Raziq had no part in how that war ended.
I know that a RUclips comment section might not be the most appropriate place to air all this dirty laundry. But we need viewers and anyone else who wants to know what that war was like to know about what even guys like me knew and had to go through. And especially peolple who dont want to know need to know.
As a Palestinian, I'm curious to know what would you think, feel, and do, if you were a Palestinian during the creation of Israel when over 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed from 1947-1949.
youre a bad person for what you did to the people of Afghanistan. If i had my way all you of you would be in prison, I hope the shame of what you did haunts your memory and name.
Thank you.
Thank for your honesty ..these are the lowest people in afghmaistan,absolute traitors and sellouts .
@@historydiscover Netanyahu started a smear campaign in the West against Arabs about 20 years ago, and many people refuse to see Arabs as anything but terrorists sadly! Peace activists in the West are trying to change that! Because the West are huge terrorist regimes- not to its own citizens- but to the rest of the world. Also, Israel successfully erased Palestine off the map and from the world’s memory. I hadn’t even heard of Palestine until last November!! Our news coverage always said Israel had a war with Hamas, but the word Palaestine was never used. I had no idea who Palestinians were, nor did I know anything about the history of Israel. Now I’m a full supporter of Palestine and the movement for liberation.
Peace be upon you. 🇵🇸
This guy doesn't get it. The U.S. IS the monster.
We are the dark force of Empire! And the Matrix war propaganda mixed with consumerism feeds our minds.
Please tell me WHY I should respect America?
What's to respect?
Power? Violence? Wealth?
Really, the American hierarchy doesn't give a single thought to whether you "respect" it or not. It's gonna keep doing whatever it wants, regardless of your opinions on the subject. Feel free to stop funding them through their -taxes- extortion scheme, then you'll find out why they don't care whether you respect them or not-> they have a monopoly on violence and will use it to gain your compliance.
No one should respect America.
Cuz America loves wars and stealing resources
Nobody loves America government except N@z!
America’s foreign policy is horrible. But domestically, there are some good developments. Americans, themselves, are largely good people, even some have been brain washed by false media reports.
he was the right hand of US and worse than a monster
The US has a long history of supporting and installing monsters. It loves violent dictators and criminals
ISIS?
Nothing surprising here after all isn't that what Americans are known for?
Yes border force coppers are gung ho and arrogant. I got that vibe.
All governments Are Corrupt , 🗝️
I am Afghan but I nerver saw my country but my mother (she is from a really beautiful village near Kabul ) told me that she never liked Americans because they were always Bad News to the poor people of her village and in the city . She never saw Americans as allies
I'm French. When Americans liberated France, they were seen as heros because of Hollywood. The truth is they comitted thousands of rapes, harassed women, killed women and prostitutes and they were drunk all the time so they were responsible of many car crash. French people were fed up with them.
She is a real AFGHAN A REAL MUSLIMA ANYBODY THAT SAYS AMERICA CAME TO HELP AFGHANISTAN IS A COWARD LIER A PUPPET OF TERR&RISTS 🇺🇸
The circumstances of Raziq’s assassination were quite odd. Raziq was assassinated while he was accompanied by General Miller. The assassins had the opportunity to take out General Miller, yet chose to focus on Raziq. I often wondered whether a deal had been made between the US and TBN to give up Raziq. I guess we’ll never know the truth.
The biggest threat is people from within .... Between razik and milley, to the taliban razik is the leader of Afghan forces and number one enemy ..... US that time were building an Afghan army and that posed a threat to Taliban more than anything ....
The biggest threat is people from within .... Between razik and milley, to the taliban razik is the leader of Afghan forces and number one enemy ..... US that time were building an Afghan army and that posed a threat to Taliban more than anything ....
Well puppets are far dangerous ...
USA ALWAYS KILLS THEIR PUPPETS...PUPPETS NEVER LEARN...
Good point.
Great research!
People of Kandahar have suffered so much from this puppet monster of US monster
I wish the movers and shakers were capable of feeling shame and the ambition to avoid such atrocities in future. Well, hope is a thing with feathers...
Whats your opinion on the taliban?
@@Gabriel-vg5qv have ever heard Taliban say anything negative towards USA . They are using each other in this game .
But I would say they are far better than the previous puppets like Ashraf Ghani . Again they are not the representatives of Afghan people. They will eventually disappear. People of Afghanistan will rise God willing and peace will come sooner if US stopped interfering. Sending $80 million US dollars a week currently to Taliban .
So my opinion on Taliban. They are the project of US .
This is so true. Thankfully, Afghanistan is now lead by the people. But only after many years of abuuse and murrder... It is tragic indeed.
An under cover serial murderer
why are we just now hearing this?!!
I am sure there is a lot more you haven’t heard.
The US🇮🇱🇺🇸 empire thats why
The world knew it! But you drape the flag on yourselves and put it in your ears. You basically don’t give a monkey toss about the truth
It's not news. We've known for years that the US allied with Afghan warlords who were child rapists and violent criminals. US soldiers were told by the Pentagon to look the other way.
Much of this has been known. You could have read about alleged human rights violations, drug smuggling and what not. It wasn't a secret the US banned the transfer of prisoners to Kandahar in 2011 or why they did so.
just to say this is a great channel. democracy now dares to cover issues that are not covered anywhere else. war is ugly, it takes at least two sides to engage. however, media only demonizes the other side. thanks for keeping it real. and prayers for peace
They create such monsters then they sit back and tell you, "see what they're doing to themselves; this is why we need to help these people behave like people"; which is all very well, but what then should be said of the masterminds? Bringing the worst out in people, leveraging on ancient fissure lines is relatively easy - and shame on those who allow themselves to be so used - but the greater blame must be on those who routinely incite such ruthlessness, whose policies bring nothing but misery everywhere and on everyone.
Monsters can only train other monsters!
🤦♀️its a different kind of embarrassment when its your government
@3:48 Raziq was assassinated while standing next to American generals ,how is that Americans were nor harmed?😅😅😅😅
20 years of war was a scam on American Taxpayers. Spent 2 trillion losing thousands from both sides and fighting The CIA trained Taliban. And at end Puting Taliban to power 😂😂😂
and the reason you people are still worried about your trillions Doller and not millions of Afghans lives shows your nature , thats why USA is always in massacre and destruction
mass graves were found in his residental compound. he had kept prisoners in an underground dungeon
This Typical American Behavior will never end
Shame on US and Raziq
Benjamin Meikolowsky aka Netanyahu whos family is from Poland
Natenyaho aka Satanyaho
I thought the evil man is from 🇺🇦
Point being?
@@PlasticYT I'm glad you know how things work.
@@sugarsauce2435 He is not semitic.
Same in Guatemala and in many other places, like El Salvador etc etc. That might be the true face of USA.
A serial killer undercover
"بالنسبة لما يفعله بيبي في رفح، لا يقترب ذلك أبدًا من سوء ما فعله تلك القتلة. لقد اتبع أوامر من وحوش حقيقية. ولكن في رفح، هناك وحوش حقيقية تعمل وتدعمها الولايات المتحدة."
crazy how only one man is being talked about when almost the entire ANA did this
Thank you Amy
Afghanistan needs to be safe
Very much safer then America at this moment
Biden state department spokeliar said America made mistakes in Afghanistan and Iraq. He let that slip a couple days ago and wasn’t even asked about it!
Why don’t you ask the Americans that were killed when Biden pulled out. 😂😂😂😂
Let the Afghanistan people be ,they don't need to be told what is good for them.
It’s probably comfy in Afghanistan, armed Talibs everywhere, the former ANA did mass surrender everything, its what the tribal Afghan people wanted, to be ruled under the Talibs again, right 👏 🙌
All is good probably except for the Hazaras, cuz the Pashtuns and IS-KP despise the Hazaras people in Afghanistan, so the majority Pashtuns now live like kings in Afghanistan
While China is building roads and bridges, we continue to fund wars and conflicts. Who do you think will win in the long run?
while true....look up tofu infrastructure.
@@rhetorical1488well the american infrastructure is not better, the pier they built lasted 2 days at most!
@@rhetorical1488Well occasional poor construction is universal. It doesn't appear to be particularly common in China specifically. Keep in mind there is a lot of US propganda intended to misIead people about Asia, and China specifically.
@@user-yx5qw2nj1i lol i stand corrected
@@TD1237 not just asia and china but whatever is non american and non israeli.
Abdu Razaq is one name.There millions of Abdu Razaq in the world and in Afghanistan
No American ally in Afghanistan, Iraq or any other region that America is occupying, should call themselves “patriots” to their countries. U r helping a foreign nation to occupy ur country, where patriotism in that? They should be called traitors to their nations. And I am one of those traitors 😭😭😭
At what point did you realize you betrayed your country? Why did you do it?
I'm sorry to hear that man... Everything you said is true. But you learnt from your past misdeeds, even if they were many, and even if they were serious. Any guiIt you feel just demonstrates that you've had the courage to admit your mistakes. Most people don't ever find this courage. Take care and be proud of who you are now, my friend. Love from South Africa. 🫡 🇿🇦
I wonder how many Americans would sit by and let the kkk dictate there lives I’m sure plenty of people would help out a foreign power especially if our government ignored it
@@anthonyagbojo1408 when I started working with American forces
@@TD1237 thank you and appreciate ur kind words my friend
Thanks Amy
Why should we cooperate with USA? Why should we trade with USA?
Operations: condor, gladio, northwoods. Just the tip of the iceberg
Michael Corleone, veteran of World War II, speaking to a WASP senator, says something very important: "You and I are part of the same hypocrisy." The brutality and coercion those men engaged in had to be hidden and lied about.
There was at one point an idea that "elections" would allow people to move past brutality faster than the one party rule in China, Cuba, and the Soviet Union.
And when Pinochet and Ortega were both voted out of office in the late 1980s, this idea had something to recommend it. But in thevtwenty-first century, the rise on Modi, Duterte, and Bolsonaro suggests something different, that the electorate does not punish brutality, that it rewards efficient brutality as much as Mars himself does. And the triumph of the Taliban, like Fidel Castro in the Godfather part II, is a sign that transparent brutality and hypocritical brutality should be evaluated without the hypothetical of a world without brutality imagined by hippies.
The US is the monster.
Hey, don’t insult monsters!
Those innocent who were tortured and murdered under these thugs took him down.
Don't fool yourself by expecting humanity and ethics from a country, who built on genocide of 130 million indigenous Mississippian, Pueblo, Aztec , Inca peoples Between the late 15th and late 17th centuries , the only country in the world to have unleashed the power of an atomic bomb on a civilian population and they did it twice. More than 906,000 people, including 387,000 civilians, died directly from post-9/11 wars. Another 38 million people have been displaced or made refugees.Around 1,500,000 Iraqis, primarily children, died as a direct consequence of the imposed sanctions, according to UNICEF estimates. Around 2 million civilians were killed in the territories of North and South Vietnam, in the Vietnam war.
and the list is Endless.
if schools taught their students about every heinous atrocity the US and West
has committed abroad, the history books would be too heavy for anyone to carry.
“The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!”
― Tennessee Williams
Not every country in the West is like America. Not all Americans supported the wars .
@@Xztjh53 NATO countries did
And still the EU and the UK establishments like to be its boot-licking poodles. Shame on them
I'm reminded of the French colonel's question to the press in Gillo Pontecorvo's masterpiece The Battle of Algiers: Should France stay in Algeria? If your answer is still yes, then you must accept all the consequences.
Where have we Not been involved either to topple or change governments or whatever suits us. Chile-El Salvador- Africa- Iran- Iraq- Mexico- Europe - Asia - Peru - Mexico - Afganistan- Cuba - Nicaragua - Venezuela
Great reporting
"Meanwhile in Afghanistan... tens of thousands seeking refuge; five million children facing famine; 500% increase in child marriages; children being sold to feed families... Not a mention of it. My god, they must be wondering what makes their humanitarian crisis so unimportant."
~Clare Daly, Member of the European Parliament
Because nobody else Cares 🔥
Thanks to the west
I think God, and I'm happy that Afghanistan returned to the people that it belongs to.
Where have we heard these stories about America and its Dictators
In Italy we still remember USA's many failed coups after WW2. We still are not sure why they thankfully failed, but we know for sure the USA tried MANY times.
I thought America's monster was 'israel'
Thank you Democracy Now and Matthieu for the information you provided regarding the brutality committed by Abul Raziq agains his own people.
"Afghanistan was a great country before the United States destroyed it - it costs the US 4 billion a year to keep it's occupation... just think what 4 billion could do for the U.S. economy."
~Keith Bound
The documentary Taxi To The Dark Side exposes stuff like this
“You can’t defeat men who looks though the barrel and they see paradise”
It has always been the same, only thing is that truth comes out few years after the incident.
I would comment to a few comments here but the free thought/free speech police keep deleting my comments!!!
Bombs & Drones to win Hearts & Minds... Sounds counter-Evolutionary!
"I think that it's time to have a frank reckoning with our history", says Matthieu Aikins.
I trend to agree.
From Vietnam, through many wars, to this one, what has happened after closing one "shameful chapter", has benn the opening of a different shameful chapter. Moralless and deceitful, the Military Industrial Complex has profited based on these shameful acts. President Eisenhower, the ultimate five-star general, warned us, but we never listened.
Afghan Massacre: the Convoy of Death”-produced and directed by award-winning Irish filmmaker Jamie Doran.
AIKINS is an amazing reporter, very intelligent and experienced
What happened to Afganastan's warlords, I can't believe they disappeared.
The remaining warlords who were against the Talibs got whooped by them in their 2021 offensive, had their mansions seized like Dostum, had to flee Afghanistan, likely forever exiled, the Talibs now live in his personal luxurious mansion
A mere 200 - 1.5k militiamen under a warlord is not much against 5,000+ Talibs with never ending reinforcements 👀
maybe back in the 80s or 90s when the warlords held the north strong, but the talibs have basically infinite numbers, lots of recruits, can have up to 4 wives, lots of potential sons and their sons having sons, so infinite manpower for the Talib cause, especially with their ideology
Those poor afghan warlords 😭
I hope they are doing well
As an Afghan, I would like to thank Mr Matthieu Aikins for his honesty and responsibility to his work and let the world know what really happened in Afghanistan during the presence of American !
For many Afghans, Mr Raziq is a hero, but what I heard about him today is that I am really in great shock!
M0nsters creating a monster. 2:44
Love Amy Goodman. She always tries to pronouce the foreign names of people and places as accurately as she can, besides producing one of the best independent news.
And finally he was killed by the CIA because he was defeating Taleban badly and American didn’t want this. The plan was to bring Taleban back to power.
What the US gained by bringing the Taliban to power?
The Usa is still paying the Talibans today. There was a video with Blinken a few days ago. They are also paying to promote atheism in Nepal. They are psychos.
100% agree with you, US trying to cover all his dirty lies with different faces and uniforms. Taliban American first faces focus was on women and second find away to invade Afghanistan by military uniforms to show the world they are the heroes for helping Afghanistan and 3rd face is with Taliban uniforms to close the door of education for girls to twist people’s minds. UK and US goal is to do massacres and genocide around beautiful countries and make dangerous places. All western countries are the most dangerous and hungry blood thirsty for genocide.
You can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep.
And yet somehow you still think Washington is telling the truth about Ukraine? That’s just dumb on purpose.
I believe and I certainly can be wrong ...I believe that NATO expansion/intrusion / encroachment IS the primary reason for the Russian Invasion of Ukraine... Why do we insist on having NATO at Russia's doorstep?... Why? I Love My Country I am Loyal and Will Fight to Defend America...do not misunderstand me please. I feel we tend to overstep at times ... I know we have been wrong and are likely wrong now . Putin did warn and practically Plead with the U.S.A. and NATO but?...
Only the ignorants clinging to the mainstream medias will believe that like fools.
I have witnessed this animals cruelty… he was a CIA dog that profited from the war and his drug smuggling business. Many of his associates and partners live in California .. the US let these dogs ruin the US efforts and are now protecting them inside the US
Razaq was a naan maker and tea maker in Quetta Pakistan 🇵🇰, the fact that an bufoon such as Razaq could climb so high in Afghan society shows how far Afghanistan has gone into the abyss.
The tea makers fly high in that region. They could have made it a positive ascension!
Rizwan hussain afghanistan reach to this destruction due to pakistan pakistan supporters 45 years wars in afghanistan on the nam of jehadh a country which suffer 45 years war reach to this condition in which a illiterate man reach to a high post no wounder
Internet companies do subtle censorship by making typing difficult 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I hate that said of us it’s not us it’s bad actors and parties that want to see us American fail
Between the agricultural, pharmaceutical, and insurance industries, you have bigger problems.
It’s the US
perhaps stop invading other countries to steal their resources
We have definitely lost moral ability to judge anyone....
That is a really good point. Armies commit brutality against civilians because they believe it often works. Taliban brutality was more effective than Western brutality because the Taliban had a better strategy and story. And because Western brutality was denied even though the people affected knew what was happening, especially since it was happening to them.
There is a similar dynamic happening in Gaza.
who told you about taliban brutality ? the same people who said Iraq has weapon of mass destruction , the same people who said satanyahu is angel , the same people who said USA is spreading democracy to the world by attacking them
Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me
And who ordered all this abuse?
Wasn't General Raseq anti Taliban? According to his words, he was.
The evidence was overwhelming !!!!!!!
Thanks
Rules are for other people, right?
Oh, right and left.
That’s more than wrong.
It’s sickening.
It’s 2016 in our own front yard.
- No error; front, not back.
This it all starts, from within.
Becomes visible.
Builds in frequency.
Less efforts to correct.
Love democracy now
Abdul Raziq was in his teen age when Taliban captured Kandahar in early 90s during their first regimen. Taliban Killed an Uncle ( Mansoor) of Abdul Razik and many other family memebers and people of his tribe. Abdul Raziq left Kandahar and came to the border city ( Chaman) of Pakistan.
When the US removed Taliban in 2001, he went back to home country and joined security Forces. In a tribal country like Afghanistan, his tribe was not supportive of Taliban who targeted his tribe. When he gained power , he did same with them. There is a lot of background which needs to be mentioned.
Might isn't right. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Why don't people ever learn from history. ?!?!
The US murdered Ahmad Shah Massoud the real lion of Afghanistan, because he would’ve stood against them and then supported a killer and psychopath.
Massoud took cash and stipends from the USA
We got to pray for people and for peace
a good reminder that might doesn’t always equal right.
DAMAGED MALES BEHAVING BADLY
There is still hope but this hope comes after people bones are vanished in unknown graves sad 🧐
And here they are charging Julian Assange for crimes that they themselves committed?!?! Julian should be released from the charges once and for all!!
US is in maral freefall. This is another example.