Carol Anne Grayson (Radical Sister) blog

After suffering heavy casualties and humiliating defeats in the fierce counter attacks of Mujahideen during the ongoing futile ‘Zulfiqar’ operation in Helmand province’s Sangin district, the enemy troops began systematically targeting civilians in retaliation. During the destructive operations over past several weeks, the ruthless enemy troops bulldozed hundreds of civilian homes around Sangin district center and have similarly destroyed the water canal going through the district center all the way up to Fath Muhammad Peich area, the reconstruction of which seems impossible in the near future.

At the southern portion of the district, the enemy destroyed all homes for about a 10 kilometer stretch in broad daylight. The poor civilians only managed to save their lives while all the property and valuables were crushed under the bulldozers of the oppressive regime.

As an example, the destruction of homes caused around the bottom portion of Sangin bazaar is as follows:

10 homes around Haji Naimatullah mosque

30 homes in Perozo area

23 homes around Haji Nur Muhammad Sahib mosque

12 homes in Haji Zahir Shela area

50 homes in Chamanan area

17 homes in Haji Abdul Rahman village

27 homes around Mawlawi Mahuddin mosque in Ahmedzo

28 homes in Haji Mira Jan village

10 homes in Haji Shah Ghasi Agha village

10 homes in Haji Muhammad Gul village

20 homes in Gumbatu area

9 homes in Haji Khudai Daad village

40 homes in Haji Gul Shela area

30 homes in Haji Hameedullah Aka Shela area

50 homes in Haji Gul Baba Shela area

50 homes in Haji Durrani Shela area

20 homes in Haji Kareem Shela area

20 homes around Mawlawiano mosque

10 homes around Haji Abdul Hakim mosque

10 homes in Mobile Khada area

40 homes around Haji Muhammad Rasoul mosque in Shakar Shela area

20 homes around Mawlawi Maluk mosque

50 homes in Haji Rahimuddin village

30 homes in Haji Mullah Sammad village

20 homes in Haji Lalai Agha village

5 homes in Mistiri Aka village in Dasht area

30 homes in Haji Mullah Sa’dullah Aka village

10 homes around Sra Musa Jan mosque

While 2 villages southwards Breshna Kot area were completely flattened yesterday

The white-bearded elders and oppressed residents of the abovementioned areas have repeatedly raised their voices in protest to this inhumane aggression and have even travelled to Kandahar and Kabul however their pleas have fallen on deaf ears. They say that they have met with the representatives of BBC in Kandahar however they responded by saying that they are barred from covering the story. The journalists here in Helmand have also been prohibited from releasing such reports that’s why they do not cover our story or help in raising awareness.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, which has always stood next to its oppressed and helpless countrymen, strongly condemns this un-Islamic, inhumane and anti-Afghan action, sympathizes with the affected and vows that it will take revenge for these brutal actions from the enemy, Inshallah (God willing).

The Mujahideen of Islamic Emirate in Sangin district, for the purpose of shedding light about the ongoing criminality and indiscriminate destruction, invites media workers to visit the area after contacting and gaining permission from the spokesman of Islamic Emirate in order to witness the crimes firsthand and gain access to witnesses.

Spokesman of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

Qari Muhammad Yousuf Ahmadi

20/03/2015 

Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad . She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”.

Ba’ath party building in newly liberated Idlib (Via HadiAlaballah)

The city of Idlib in north-western Syria has allegedly been liberated from government forces according to monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Rebel groups have been fighting for the last 5 days and the BBC reports, “Idlib is only the second provincial centre to fall into rebel hands, after Raqqa was seized by Islamic State (IS).”

Al Manara Network tweeted, “Jabhat al-Nusra: Al Dareem, Al Qabab and Al Ashqar checkpoints have been liberated on the road to Al Mastouma, Idlib.” Al-Nusra Front, the official Syrian affiliate of Al-Qaeda fought with other groups to take charge of key institutions. According to photos posted, Jabhat al-Nusra appeared to be in control of Idlib’s Central Bank, City Council & the city’s main Secondary School.

Assad defaced

Twitter accounts covering Ahrar al-Sham, Jund al-Aqsa and Nusra Front groups alerted followers. Abdul Bari, tweeted, “may Allah accept mujahideen who were martyred and may Allah give us more victories, amin”.

Images appeared on social media purporting to show a large poster of Bassar al-Assad being ripped down from the Ba’ath party building. Another photo shows a masked fighter bashing the head and shoulders of a statue of Assad with a hammer.  The following videos show rebels enjoying their victory in Adlib firing shots in the air and singing in celebration.

Rebels celebrate their victory in front of Idlib Municipal Building (video)

Rebels celebrating in Idlib and burning flag (video)

Residents however are said to be fleeing from Idlib city in fear of airstrikes and Channel 4 News claimed, “the army of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is reported to have responded with chlorine attacks on towns outside the city.” The following video was posted on Twitter by “Mark” purporting to show 4 children killed in regime shelling of Idlib city with rockets,

Rebels welcomed in Idlib

Administration of Idlib

Ibn Nabih who describes himself as a “freelance reporter/translator on all things Jihadi, mainly in Syria” tweeted an initial list of 71 rebels killed during the capture of Idlib, “where a greater majority are said to be from Idlib providence.” He also tweeted how Idlib will now be administrated, as follows:-

“IMPORTANT: Shaykh al-Muhaysini (who is the head of The Shari’a Council of Jaysh al-Fath) explains how Idlib City will now be administrated;

1/3 There will be no Dar al-Qada (JN dominated) nor Hay’at al-Islamiyah (IF/FSA dominated) in it, rather a new United Court shall be set up.

2/3 The Sharia Committee to the city has been chosen & a division mechanism btwn factions has been agreed for spoils,HQs & admin of the city

3/3 The city swill be a new start for unity between the factions. And he points out that not a single dollar has been given to Jaysh al-Fath”

An earlier liberation of prisoners in Idlib, January 2013

FSA Freeing prisoners in Idlib January 2013

Back in February 2013 Idlib was the scene of an earlier battle to wrestle control from Assad regime which led to the liberation of inmates from a notorious prison complex in the city known for its torture of inmates. At that time Global Post reported that,

“many rooms in the prison appear to have been used as crowded but adequate cells, but three underground floors tell a different tale.

In one dark room, two ropes hang above an execution platform. Other rooms house piles of heavy chains inside large metal cages. Traces of blood are still present on several cell walls.”

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/middle-east/syria/130215/idlib-government-prison-torture

Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad . She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”.

The American president Obama announced yesterday that he shall maintain all of his invading troops inside Afghanistan throughout the year 2015 to protect his stooges, to kill and oppress the Afghans and to prolong the occupation of this country. This announcement comes despite America already been dealt a defeat in Afghanistan, its prestige and economy has taken a tumble and thousands of its troops have been killed, maimed or are facing psychological problems.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan strongly condemns America’s announcement of the prolongation of occupation and vows to continue its blessed salvatory Jihad against all forms of occupation. America which failed to attain its open and hidden objectives during the course of 13 years of occupation with over a hundred thousand troops and billions of dollars of expenditure will never be able to achieve them with a few thousand troops.

The Afghan courageous nation will continue to wage its legitimate blessed Jihad until the complete end of occupation. The Afghan nation has proven itself over the course of history and especially during the past 13 year test. The treasonous and American citizen chiefs of the two-headed Kabul administration can never be representatives of the free Muslim people of Afghanistan. The Afghans will never accept foreign occupation and have the patience and determination for a long struggle.

The powerless Kabul administration made much noise about fabricated peace talks over the past few months and now that all its propaganda was exposed to the people, it wants to busy the nation and media with ceremonial trips and divert attention away from the failures and end of its crumbling regime. They are begging America to stay because they fear the Afghan nation, want to protect themselves from the wrath of the people of this land and are falsely portraying Afghanistan as posing danger to the world.

The leadership and administration of the blessed Jihad inside Afghanistan is in the hands of the Islamic Emirate while the legitimate goals and comprehensive policy of the Islamic Emirate are known to everyone. We also remind the American people that your leadership is still playing with your tax-money and man-power and wants to continue to kill the sons of America at our hands in this aimless futile war as well as further damage the economy and prestige of its nation.

Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan 

06/06/1436 Hijri Lunar 

6/01/1394 Hijri Solar                      26/03/2015 Gregorian

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Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad . She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”.

Enraged protesters burn the Penrose Report

The Penrose Inquiry, the public inquiry into the circumstances in which patients treated by the NHS in Scotland became infected with Hepatitis C, HIV, or both, through the use of blood or blood products published its Final Report on Wednesday, 25 March 2015.

The Inquiry was set up by Scottish Ministers under the Inquiries Act 2005 and was announced by the then Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Nicola Sturgeon, in the Scottish Parliament on 23 April 2008. However the largely avoidable acts of “biological terrorism” happened at a time when Scotland came under a Westminster Government, a fact which Penrose wanted to avoid addressing as much as possible. An earlier report, the Archer Inquiry (named after Lord Archer of Sandwell who chaired the investigation) was held in London. This was a very low budget privately funded inquiry and the Westminster Government did all it could to avoid implementing key recommendations which were largely based on my own research recommendations. Evidence on blood contamination often crossed borders and should have been valid in both inquiries.

As someone who lost 2 family members to “bad blood” I had written my own dissertation research on the impact of the global blood trade prior to the Archer Inquiry which was awarded the Economic and Social Research Council, Michael Young Research prize see link,

http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/press-releases/2846/michael-young-prize-winners-announced.aspx

I had hoped to give evidence to the Penrose Inquiry but became swiftly disillusioned when told no evidence that showed government, NHS liability would be accepted. So I decided it was a waste of time and energy to participate in something designed NOT to have a positive outcome and penned my reasons for doing so in an open letter.

First see link below for an outline of the Penrose Report,

“BBC at a glance, Penrose report”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-3204886

Information from the earlier Archer Inquiry Report, England (2009)

UK HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES – AND WHY I HAVE NOT PARTICIPATED IN THE PENROSE INQUIRY:

AN OPEN LETTER

Although I have evidencing pertaining to UK government negligence and human rights abuses spanning several governments which led to over 2,000 deaths and rising and many others still suffering  I will not produce this evidence in a UK public inquiry, the Penrose Inquiry.

WHAT IS A PUBLIC INQUIRY?

The public inquiry is the foremost vehicle for allaying serious public concern and restoring trust in the state. The Inquiries Act 2005 ensures that the public inquiry will remain a “pivotal part of public life in Britain” and a major instrument of accountability and reconciliation.

http://www.publicinquiries.org/

WHY I TOOK TAKEN THE DECISION NOT TO PARTICIPATE?

• I cannot morally be part of a system that continually hides human rights abuses in the UK whilst attacking the human rights abuses of other countries…that is total hypocrisy!
• The Public Inquiries Act does not allow for negligence to be found or for anyone to be held to account therefore it is largely a useless process for those who are wronged obtaining any justice or closure for their suffering.
• The Public Inquiries Act pre-determines that no negligence will be found as we cannot submit evidence of negligence.
• A public inquiry is allegedly “the foremost vehicle for allaying serious public concern and restoring trust in the state”… yet I have been informed that any documents that pertains to alleged negligence cannot be shown/discussed…the attitude is “we are not interested in finding negligence”. Is this is our “foremost vehicle” then there is something wrong with the state and the system!

For many years I campaigned for a “full and open public inquiry” until I realized the system does not work. It was all to no avail anyway, as the Westminster government have always denied a public inquiry into the “worst medical treatment disaster in the history of the National Health Service”. This was prioritising profit over safety by importing blood from the US multi-national pharmaceutical companies such as Bayer, Baxter, Alpha and Amour (some have changed names).  The process of collecting blood bought from prisoners in places like Arkansas State Penitentiary violated almost every safety rule in the book and then it was injected into NHS patients, haemophiliacs with a blood clotting disorder. Infecting them with HIV and hepatitis viruses.

Minutes in the UK between haematologists show a discussion where it is decided to use children for experimentation with dirty blood to follow disease progression as they are “cheaper than chimpanzees.” Then test results for HIV and hepatitis C were carried out without permission using blood samples given only for blood clotting levels. Positive test results were withheld for years to make it harder to litigate due to legal time limitations after finding out infection. Many have since died and their families are left suffering from physical and mental health problems following years of caring for their loved ones.

Arkansas prison where much blood was sourced for NHS hospitals, was a place with a history of torture of prisoners, beating them and even using a Tucker Telephone, an electrical device strapped to a prisoner’s testicles,  http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=4923 (a similar device was later used at Abu Ghraib). Due to serious safety violations which I will detail below this blood from inmates was contaminated with HIV and hepatitis viruses and who knows what else as at one point prisoners were being deliberately injected with live viruses. They became part of experiments against the Nuremburg code in exchange for extra privileges, a few pills (prison currency) or a small reduction of a prison sentence…

ALLEGED SAFETY VIOLATIONS

In this section, I have listed some of the alleged safety violations below (this is just one prison, there were several used for plasma collection) as detailed by the sister of a prison plasma donor whose brother a known drug addict died of hepatitis C induced liver failure. She was horrified that her sick and dying brother was allowed to sell his plasma and wanted this exposed. We were in regular contact and I submitted a letter covering the horrors which was handed in to then Prime Minister Tony Blair at No 10 Downing Street.

Later at a meeting in Westminster attended by Members of Parliament including Paul Goggins, we asked former Health Minister Yvette Cooper to investigate the use of Arkansas Prison blood as I knew her own past links to Arkansas which might have been helpful. She agreed to do so in front of MPs and campaigners if we could provide plasma treatment batch numbers traced directly to the prison which we did…. With the help of lawyers, we even traced which treatment batches had included infected donors (HIV, hepatitis) from the prison. Then despite doing exactly as we were asked and writing to Yvette Cooper, we were totally ignored!

Here are some of the gross safety violations,

• Known homosexual prison prostitutes, even those in the final stages of AIDS were routinely permitted to donate plasma.
• Men who were bloated and jaundiced from the final stage of hepatitis were routinely permitted to donate plasma.
• Even when available, tests for HIV and hepatitis were seldom utilised, and when they were, results were often falsified.
• Needles were sharpened with sand paper and collection tubing was re-used from inmate to inmate, thereby cross- infecting virtually the entire donor base.
• The collected plasma was stored in a freezer that was often out of order. Plasma rendered unfit by thawing was refrozen and shipped out in regular shipments.
• Plasma that was rejected by the plasma brokers as unfit was returned to the Cummins Unit for destruction. Out of each returned case of plasma, one of two units were destroyed and the rest was refrozen and re-shipped.
• During periods of time when the US food and Drug Administration had shut down the Cummins Unit Programme due to their unsafe practices, the Arkansas Department of Corrections administrators continued to collect and sell plasma, using names collected from the local telephone book and selling it through a community plasma center.

These safety violations meant that prisoners were cross infected with blood borne viruses and thousands of haemophilia patients around the world died due to this imported treatment. The UK government were repeatedly warned in writing of the risks…but ignored the warnings.

In Scotland I was able to help the family of a young boy infected at Yorke Hill Hospital with HIV during a trip to Glasgow from New Zealand to get a settlement direct from a US pharmaceutical company but the family had to sign a silence clause. It was the first time he had ever had factor concentrate treatment. The family gave me relevant documents but asked that I withhold using them for a while or they may have to pay back the settlement if they spoke out. Many others from Yorke Hill should also have been compensated as it showed contamination and prison links. I attempted to submit this information into the Inquiry but again was told it could not be used,

The callous, unethical and unlawful acts of both the UK and US with regard to bad blood through flawed and extremely dangerous government policies, the fact that whistleblowers and victims were suppressed and continually abused has led to my losing all faith in my government and so called “western democracy”. However the appalling way, myself and others were treated has helped me understand the process of radicalization incited by unethical government policy when rules are broken and families are annihilated which is my current area of research.

I no longer accept the system of western democracy as every major institution failed haemophiliacs who were left to die unsupported and often in agony as a result of the extreme acts of “biological terrorism”. This was akin to the experimentation at Auschwitz concentration camp which I visited to compare experimentation on concentration camp inmates with haemophiliacs …..very similar, Dr Mengele replaced by other doctors, at prisons in the US and the “NHS Nazis”.

Neither Amnesty International nor Human Rights Watch helped struggling survivors when they battled to expose the truth. Amnesty told me that “there were no human rights abuses in the UK” they focused abroad. Even haemophiliacs’ own lawyers were found to be corrupt with one struck off for misappropriation of funds and behaviour not befitting a solicitor. Then a government trust fund set up to help victims was embezzled by a government employee who faked around 20 false profiles of sick and dying haemophiliacs to claim money from a trust. I no longer have faith in my government or these institutions within British and US society. I have decided to withhold my vote and encourage others to do so as voting in this western democracy and believing it is possible to achieve meaningful progress and change is a complete and utter waste of time.

There is also discrimination against haemophilia widows. Army widows for example are now allowed to keep their widows’s allowance if they should ever remarry due to suffering they have experienced but not so for widows of those unlawfully killed by the state, here is the letter,

LETTER RECEIVED FROM NICK BROWN MP,

Dear Carol,

I have now received a reply from the Secretary of State for Health to my letter regarding contaminated blood and recent associated developments. In the reply, the Secretary of State acknowledges that many remain unhappy with the current system of financial support and has stated that the Government is awaiting the publication of the report of the Penrose Inquiry. The reply also notes the work of the All Party Parliamentary Group and recent Backbench debate in informing its eventual response.

Unfortunately, in relation to the matter of bereavement payments, the reply states that the changes made to armed forces widows/widowers benefits were for ‘distinct and separate’ reasons and that the Government is not considering extending this to other cases.

Please find a copy of this reply attached. I hope you find it informative in clarifying the Government’s current position.

With best wishes,

Nick

Yet another example of the way our community is treated. The widows of those who wage illegal wars, slaughtering innocents in Iraq and Afghanistan are made a special case while those who were peaceful carers to their sick relatives infected at the hands of the state are penalized. That is our British values… tell that to Theresa May! I would like to remind her that the British government has killed more innocent people through biological state terrorism than have ever died at the hands of any other so called “terrorists” in the UK. In fact may I suggest that the government target and drone themselves for their crimes against humanity. They should be the ones observed and monitored day in day out in a Prevent programme as a severe safety risk to society and showing little remorse… such hypocrisy and double standards.

I have even had a government advisor Sir Joseph Smith ring me, a long and detailed phone conversation during the Archer Inquiry admitting his and the British governments gross negligence and saying he was sorry the state killed my husband and brother in law. I know exactly what he did and didn’t do, he told me and this was backed up respected Dr Spence Galbraith who wanted to take a legal case against Sir Joseph Smith for failing to act on his safety advice and alleged “conflict of interest” over his funding,

http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/alumni/news/dr_spence_galbraith.html

Campaigners were so angry on reading the report they set it alight and called the report a whitewash. What use is PM David Cameron’s apology when an arrogant government will not accept liability for its own actions. At one point I even received a letter from the Department of Health telling me not to write to them with any more questions, I was apparently asking too many. This is a terrible and ongoing injustice spanning 3 decades now and I have no hope of it ever ending!

Links

“Response to Penrose Haemophilia Scotland Recommendations”

http://haemophiliascotland.org/2015/03/25/response-to-penrose-report-haemophilia-scotland-recommendations/

Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad . She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”.

TTP JA 2014

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan Jamaat-ul-Ahrar Statement

(Wednesday 23rd March 2015)

TTP JA stated that both office bearers Maulana Qasim Khurasani and Umar Khalid Khurasani have presented their resignation in front of the Central Council which was accepted with full Consensus.

Central Council nominated Asad Afridi as Acting Amir and within days Central Council will nominate a new Amir.

One has to remember that this is happening happen due to the law and rules of Jamaat- ul -Ahrar. In law the decision is present that after six months office bearers will change and this fresh move is due to following of our rules and the law. There is no Conflict in Jamaat Ul Ahrar.

Ehsanullah Ehsan ( TTP JA spokesperson)

Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights/WOT and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad. She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”.

The Islamic Emirate (Afghan Taliban) have condemned the killing and burning of a young woman, Farkhunda in Kabul, Afghanistan who suffered an horrific ordeal at the hands of a mob after being wrongly accused of desecrating the Quran. Articles were forwarded to the Taliban requesting they join with me to condemn this terrible act of mindless brutality.

It is understood that following the assault, witnesses came forward to give evidence that Farkhunda had challenged a local mullah in Kabul for selling charms to impoverished women wishing to become pregnant requesting he stop. This simple act was turned against her by those falsely stating she had set alight to a copy of the Quran and whipping up a crowd of men into making a frenzied attack, beating her to death then burning her body by a river.

Some of those involved photographed and made videos of the lynching which circulated on social media shocking many in Afghanistan and around the world who took to the streets demanding “justice for Farkhunda”.

Hundreds of people turned out to protest the killing. Women mourners were so insensed at her treatment they insisted on breaking with tradition by carrying the body of Farkhunda themselves to the burial site, guarded by males within the community. Following the killing, 18 people have now been arrested and 13 police officers suspended.

Abduqahar Balkhi who runs a twitter account in English affiliated to the Islamic Emirate, tweeted the Taliban response, lending an important voice in speaking against the violation and murder of a woman who was known to love Islam. He said,

“Statement regarding Farkhunda by Z.Mujahid | killing was personal, pretext of burning Quran baseless, condemns act of killing/burning”

“However warns, defense of Islamic sanctities in case of abuse is the legitimate right of every Muslim Afghan”

The country’s top criminal investigator, General Mohammed Zahir was reported in the Independent as stating, the authorities have been “unable to find any single iota of evidence to support claims that she had burned a Koran” and declared, “she is completely innocent”.

Sweeta from the Afghan Women’s Writing Project wrote poignantly,

“she was a hafiza Qur’an. She had memorized and knew every single verse of the holy book. She was a graduate of the Islamic Institute of Aisha Durrani. Would a girl with that much knowledge about her religion be doing such an immoral act?  No way!”

Links

“Farkhunda and Lahore killings acts of violent sexual perversion by ‘out of control’ men”

https://activist1.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/farkhunda-and-lahore-killings-acts-of-violent-sexual-perversion-by-out-of-control-men/

“Farkhunda respected in death as the brave female warriors of Kabul carry her body”

https://activist1.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/farkhunda-respected-in-death-as-the-brave-female-warriors-of-kabul-carry-her-body/

Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad . She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”.

The Islamic Emirate (Afghan Taliban) deny killing 13 passengers travelling on a bus in Wardak province in central Afghanistan. The bus was on its way to the southern city of Kandahar when the incident occurred. Reuters news agency stated, “it is the third time unknown gunmen have targeted bus passengers over the past month.”

Ataullah Khogyani, the spokesman for the Wardak provincial governor, told AFP a group of gunmen opened fire on a bus around 1:00 am (2030 GMT Monday), killing 13 people including one woman.

An English speaking Twitter account affiliated to the Islamic Emirate stated.

“Z.Mujahid in statement condemns & denies any links to attack on bus in Haft Asyab area of Sayedabad (Wardak) which killed 13 civilians”

“Z.Mujahid calls attack work of intelligence agencies, states investigation launched & vows to punish culprits if/when apprehended”

It was also stated that the account of Islamic Emirate spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid,  “was suspended for unknown reasons” though a new account is now up and running.

It wouldn’t be the first time Islamic Emirate have been accused of incidents they have strongly denied. When an overseas Taliban office was due to be opened in Qatar in June 2013, reports appeared alleging poisoning of schoolgirls. Zabihullah Mujahid told the BBC at that time that, “the Taliban denied their involvement in the attacks, saying they “strongly condemn” such actions, vowing to punish those behind them.”

http://rt.com/news/afghanistan-girls-school-poisoned-139/

Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad.  She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”.

Tehreek -e-Taliban spokesperson has denied the death of Mullah Fazlullah in the following statement (translation from Urdu) received Monday March 23rd 2015

“News about the life losses of Taliban and Amir Fazlullah are completely wrong. We deny all these claims, only three Taliban were martyred. On other side Army had heavy life losses, three army men were beheaded and are with ourselves. We can confirm that 30 Army man were killed this time. Mujahiden are in gorilla war so army just tells lies to the media and in confusion army target civililian population, homes and houses. This is history of brutality and we will revenge. They do not know the location of Amir Fazlullah and if known the location will be failure of Taliban Intelligence. But they don’t know”

In a separate statement (23rd March 2015) TTP also had this to say,

“The dream of Allama Iqbal and Islamic Democratic Pakistan….. is that a free Islamic state or British, USA slave Democratic state? This (Pakistan) came into being under the ideology of Doctrine of nationalism, but at this time in Pakistan and India there is only one system which is democratic. Here (Pakistan) demand of Islamic law (Shariat) is known as Terrorism. Pakistan Army is still the faithful of the British and USA.

Here if any one is burnt alive then media query that suspected terrorist was burnt. And if some one attack on their front line then media called it “terrorism”. Today Muslims property and life is not safe. Mosques are targeted by the gun ship helicopters. Any one who gives moral support to those who demand Islamic law is called guilty. Pakistan jails are full of Muslims and it is a naked truth that no one has courage to arrest Raymond Davis. Instead of that he was killer of Muslims and of two workers and instead of trial they release him with respect.

Here (Pakistan) love and faith with non-Muslims is remarkable, they give them airports from where drones killed thousands of innocent people. All of these non-Muslims are friends. Hired killers, Black water, CIA, ISI live in the face of diplomats but Madrassas (ISLAMIC Schools) was considered as terrorist centres.”

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Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad . She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”.

Farkhunda, respected in death by brave women of Kabul

Farkhunda the young woman subjected to a brutal lynching, beaten to death and her body set ablaze for allegedly burning the Quran was finally given the care and respect by the women of Kabul, denied to her in life. They came together and shouldered a heavy burdon of collective pain and loss as they carried their sister to her final place of rest guarded by a ring of men who stood beside their women.

Farkhunda who suffered from mental health problems was set upon by an unholy mob of violent deviants that took it upon themselves to act as judge, jury and executioner to a person described by her father as “devoted to her religion”. See link below for earlier story,

“Farkhunda and Lahore killings acts of violent sexual perversion by “out of control” men”

https://activist1.wordpress.com/2015/03/20/farkhunda-and-lahore-killings-acts-of-violent-sexual-perversion-by-out-of-control-men/

Cowards who mercilessly beat a mentally ill woman

As Amina Zia Masoud so poignantly writes in her op-ed for Khaama Press,

“her name was Farkhunda, she was 27 years old and had allegedly burnt the Holy Quran, a crime punishable by Afghan law. Yet, Farkhunda was mentally ill, according to her doctor and her parents, Farkhunda had been mentally ill since her teenage years.

“We tried everything, got her medication, took her to many mullah’s but with no luck”, said her mother at the 6pm nightly news, completely unaware that her child had been murdered by an angry mob on the accusation of blasphemy.  A mob of hundreds of men who shamelessly beat one woman, no consideration was given to her screaming and her wailing, the blood protruding from her flesh, the sounds of her bones cracking, her young life being taken away. In broad daylight, in the middle of Kabul, under the shadow of the Shah-do-Shamsher mosque, a house of God, one woman was beaten and tortured to death by hundreds of men proclaiming to be honouring their Creator, yet they were the most honourless men. The haunting thought of one woman being beaten to death by hundreds of men replays in my mind.”

Mullah alleged to have praised her murderers, led away from her funeral (image via Bashir Ahmas Gwakh)

This time the crowd was not hostile but caring, determined to make sure Farkhunda was treated with dignity. Nor were they going to tolerate anyone that had allegedly colluded with her killing. Bashir Ahmad Gwakh tweeted, “people did not allow influential Mullah (Mullah Niazi) in Farkhunda funeral. He praised her murderers…. This influential hypocrite Mullah first praised Farkhunda’s killing, then came to her funeral but chased away by people.”

Khaama Press reports that 11 people have been arrested so far and that President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has ordered a commission to investigate the incident and send its report to the presidential palace. A press release states,

“President Ghani has also instructed all of the related government agencies to cooperate with the commission and provide necessary support in the time of need.

President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has also asked the Ministry of Interior to specify the role of the security agencies and present report about the pre-arrangements in preventing such incidents.”

Recent reports from UNAMA (a part of the United Nations) and HRW Human Rights Watch show that physical, psychological and sexual abuse of women remains a concern in Afghan Society. America continues to fund and support criminal actions by “notorious human rights abusers” warlords and the militia though western media tend to focus on the Taliban.

Staring at burnt remains..the day men turned into timid mice failing to protect a vulnerable woman

Far from being brave and defending Islam, the men at the scene of Farkhunda’s killing chose to be weak and impotent… not one had the guts to step forward and protect a vulnerable woman… it was a day when men turned into timid mice.

Reactions on Twitter

PashtunWomenVP

Your own people watched you die Farkhunda… Ahhhh we failed to save you … 😦 R.I.P.

Ahmad Suja

Ministry of Hajj & Endowments can’t find any evidence that Farkhunda burned the Qur’an.

-abu-TaHa

I am confused! Both people who lynched Farkhunda and people who protested her brutal killing were shouting “Allah Akbar”.

Courtney

“Farkhunda is a daughter of Afghanistan! Today it is her, tomorrow it is us!” they chant.

Daud Junbish

Afghan officials who praised the murder of the innocent woman in Kabul are as complicit as killers themselves; they must be punished

Links

“Family of Afghan Woman Murdered by Mob Says She Was ‘Devoted to Islam’ and Did Not Burn the Quran”

https://news.vice.com/article/family-of-afghan-woman-murdered-by-mob-says-she-was-devoted-to-islam-and-did-not-burn-the-quran

“When Kabul lost its honour”

When Kabul Lost its Honour

Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad . She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”.

Aftermath of US bombing- 11 civilians, including 4 children kids who died from 1 family

(AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)

Personal details of US armed service personnel hacked

In a continuation of the “Die in your Rage” phenomena, the Islamic State (IS) “hacking division” have allegedly been hard at work accessing the names, addresses and photographs of 100 US military personnel according to their latest press release to selected journalists and social media reporters. They claim to have hacked “military servers, databases and emails” and the statement includes the images of armed service personnel with details of the area in which they serve .

I would imagine the civilians whose families in the Middle East and further afield have been killed in US air raids or left wounded themselves will be interested to see the faces of the individuals responsible for their trauma who are so often hide behind anonymity. The IS information is not difficult to find and is currently in circulation on social media.

Let’s not play the American game of denying civilian casualties, those suffering airstrikes in “Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Khurasan and Somalia” or giving them a meaningless name like “collateral damage” often an escape route for accountability. As the US lawyers would no doubt say, “what accountability” (yes have been there myself as a victim of US collateral damage) see link for one example of US bombing of urban populated areas in Syria,

“Dozens Of Civilians Killed By US-Led Bombing Of Syria: Report”

Dozens Of Civilians Killed By US-Led Bombing Of Syria: Report

Jihadi “license to kill”

There are clearly serious security issues at stake here now that Islamic State supporters in the US are armed with the means to track down these “heroes” of so called “democracy” that are bombing the world into submission. This seems to be a new stage in the IS campaign… The person who sent me the press release today stated, its “the beginning of offensive jihad” and there are instructions by the Islamic State for a jihadi “license to kill kufars” on US soil using quotations from the Quran as justification.

In the Islamic State press release the image is a normal clear head and shouldier’s photo complete with personal details. 

Dozens of photos of armed service personnel in uniform have now been published with their home addresses which were current at the time of hacking. It looks not unlike a reverse “US most wanted terrorists list” except this time the perceived terrorists are not insurgents from Islamic State, Al Qaeda or Taliban etc but those working for the state in the American armed forces. The words wanted “dead or alive” might need altering though as the “alive” does not seem to be an option.

Some service personnel are pictured with women, their faces are blanked out, however images of children (possibly with daddy in uniform) are visible.

The press release and images had been viewed (and no doubt shared and copied several thousand times in just a few hours) so these individuals will now be looking over their shoulders or concerned regarding the security of their families at home.

Alleged victim of US drone strike on a wedding party in Yemen

(image Reprieve)

Once again Islamic State aims to copycat US behaviour by targeting selected persons residing in the US in a similar way to a drone strike, locking on to an individual, following and eliminating them. Let’s pray there is no collateral damage to follow as America appears to excel at killing civilians in other countries through air strikes and drone attacks as well as suspected militants, see,

“Yemen: Turning a wedding into a funeral”

http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/21/turning_a_wedding_into_a_funeral

Here is part of the statement from Islamic State, minus photos and emails.

IS state, “Kill them in their own lands, behead them in their own homes, stab them to death as they walk their streets thinking that they are safe,”

Private e-mails hacked

IS has also released content of email communication from “Joel to Samer” referring to the collection of “the names of Imams at each mosque visited” to start “a private database of radicalization in Egypt, mosque by mosque” in the hope of “linking specific Imams to radicalization” which is seen to be “the most valuable part”.

If this information is correct, then there is a serious security breach which needs attending to as the US is failing to protect its armed services personnel and the public who may be targeted due to controversial foreign policy actions of America and her allies. If I can see all the names, addresses, photos of United States Airforce, Navy and Army so can everyone else!

Another somewhat worrying comment tweeted with the press release was reference to “revenge” suggesting a “nuclear plant” might be a target. Let’s hope the US is not too busy bombing other countries to neglect safety and security at its nuclear facilities. If IS are anything like Taliban in their preparations, they appear to have an insider in all key institutions. The saying, “what goes around, comes around” is likely to be applied in ever increasing variety of methods to teach the US a lesson regarding its persistent interference in other countries.!

Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad.  She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”.