SAS Ladies Cry Foul

sent by a reader in Sewage City [Wellington]  and edited by TEAA

Yes, Ladies, It’s your Turn in the Barrel on Wednesdays!

Didn’t anyone tell SAS they are being used as cannon fodder?

This week’s capital ‘S’ for stupidity must go to the SAS commander for not realizing that her ladies were being used as the sacrificial lamb in Afghanistan!

Members of New Zealand’s Special Air Service have expressed grave concerns about the dangers of the mission they have been given in their latest deployment to Afghanistan.

One of their war pimps [commanders] is on record as saying that  some of his girls were “extremely uneasy about the combination of an increasingly deadly insurgency and the high-risk missions.”

The commanders’ comments come at a time of record deaths for US forces and their allies in Afghanistan. In recent weeks American and Nato commanders have openly discussed the possibility the conflict may be lost. On Thursday, five US soldiers died in three incidents in Afghanistan; a total of 769 Americans have died in Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan and Uzbekistan since the US invaded in 2001. …  six Italian soldiers were killed earlier this month when their convoy was hit by a car bomb in Kabul previously regarded as one of the country’s few areas of relative safety.

Without releasing any details, the Sunday Star-Times has said that the new asSASsination missions are “far more dangerous than that carried out on deployments between 2001 and 2005.”

The unit’s latest mission, approved by Prime Minister John Key, will see SAS men in close-quarter battle in urban areas. Close-quarter battle is one of the most complex and hazardous areas of special operations, often leading to intense firefights at very short range. Soldiers from other special forces have been killed on such missions in Iraq and this month in Afghanistan.

We are also told that:

Previous SAS deployments, by contrast, have focused on long-range patrols and rural reconnaissance. The SAS also took prisoners during “snatch and grab” operations, which led to controversy after revelations they were transferred to US custody at Kandahar, where torture was occurring. The Star-Times has learnt the government has signed a secret agreement with Afghanistan to protect the latest SAS contingent and other soldiers from legal implications of complicity in torture.

New Zealand violated the Geneva Convention, laws against torture and  committed war crimes when our “elite” assassins, the so-called SAS troops,  handed over 50-70 Afghan prisoners to the Americans at a detention center in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan in 2002.

Meanwhile, a report by General Stanley McChrystal, America’s top commander in Afghanistan, which was leaked to the Washington Post, has concluded that failing to quash insurgents within a year “risks an outcome where defeating the insurgency is no longer possible”.

Would the New Zealand Assassins make any difference to the outcome of the US  lost war of occupation of Afghanistan?

Former New Zealand diplomat Terence O’Brien said there was no evidence special forces would make a difference. “There’s no assessment of what they’re doing. It’s all covered up under the rubric of security.”

How could John Key be so ruthless as to commit NZ troops to a lost war?

O’Brien said Key wanted to curry favour with the US, but could have done so without sending the SAS to Afghanistan. Committing to the current deployment was like being stuck to a tar baby. “We’re in an absolute bugger’s muddle now,” O’Brien said. “We’re there, and the question is, how to get out.”

War Criminal John Key must resign NOW and hand himself in to the International Court of Justice to be tried  for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Related Links:

• ‘War Criminals’ or Common Murderers?
• ‘Boobs on Tanks’: Selling War in Afghanistan to NZers
• 219,627 New Zealand Children live in poverty
• Delusionary vision
• Fighting for $1.62 an hour
• NZ Bathtub Navy Boat: FBKP – BNB1
• Meet pakeha pete!
• NZ ‘Comfort Soldiers’ Pose with Bomb in Afghanistan
• Another US-NATO Massacre Bloodies Afghanistan
• A Few People Said “NO!”
• Burning New Zealand’s Flag of Shame