http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7501538.stm
'Mr Karzai set up a nine-man commission to look into Sunday's incident.
The commission is headed by Senate deputy speaker, Burhanullah Shinwari whose constituency is in Nangarhar province. He told the BBC: 'Our investigation found out that 47 civilians (were killed) by the American bombing and nine others injured.
"There are 39 women and children" among those killed, he said. The eight other people who died were "between the ages of 14 and 18".'
Over and over again, the Taleban claim that their operatives killed on the battlefield are civilians. When these claims are investigated by credible people, they are mostly discovered to be the lies that they are. Last year was the famous 'team of forty road builders' bombing; this was investigated by Reporteurs Sans Frontier. The road builders turned out to be turbaned Taleban armed with AK 47s and RPGs, and just like many many stories of dead civilians before and since, the real facts never made it into the The Times, the NYT and the Guardian. The BBC website is particularly averse to filling in the story with appropriate backgrounding.
Not once in this story is it revealed that these 'civilian deaths' stories are one of the main weapons the Taleban have at their disposal. It is their stated intention to fight two wars- one on the ground in the NWFP area and the other in the salons of Europe and America. The latter are where public disapproval of the 'Brutal America bombings' can have a discernable effect on the behaviour of NATO countries in dealing with Afghanistan. Why can't the BBC be bothered to report that? Don't they know its true? Or they actually see the world through the eyes of Taleban medievalists?
The grandly and hollowly named 'Commission' investigating these 'murders' was chaired by a man whose constituency is in the heart of Taleban country. He is a Pushtun, they are Pushtun. Many of his constituents sons will have been, or currently are, active Taleban. Why wouldn't the BBC mention this little conflict of interest? If this were a US Senator cooperating with the lies of his constituents, what do you bet the BBC would be all over that like a plague?
Whose side are the BBC on in the war against Islamism and Islamist terrorism and recidivism?
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