Afghan Antiwar Activist Malalai Joya Calls for an End to the Occupation of Afghanistan by US & NATO

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Democracy Now! interviews former Afghan member of parliament and antiwar activist, Malalai Joya, who just arrived to the United States for a book tour, days after the Obama administration initially denied her a travel visa. The situation in Afghanistan is changing as U.S.-led NATO forces in Afghanistan fear increasing opposition after photographs of U.S. troops posing over dead Afghan civilians were published last week by German news magazine Der Spiegel and broadcast by Democracy Now!. Rolling Stone magazine has just published 18 additional images. The photographs are graphic and have been compared to images that emerged from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The soldiers in the photographs are on trial for forming a secret "kill team" in Afghanistan that murdered unarmed Afghan civilians at random and collected body parts. NATO air strikes have also recently led to more than 15 civilian deaths in the past month.

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[landlogger]

Malalia. You are a dear person and my good will is with you. Don't stop. Hopefully people will soon know enough to start the work of stopping this criminal war.

[GozBezan]

She is sick

[DJCW]

She's right.."WE ARE SICK OF WAR" but there's one war that WE ALL WILL UNITE to fight....

Listen very carefully elitists. "THE NEXT WAR BEING WAGED WILL BE ON ALL the "ELITES" and ALL of your minions!! ALL OF YOUR HEADS WILL BE HUNG HIGH!!"

Their lives should NOT be spared!!! They are the cancer of society and will suck the very soul of life DRY!!!

[whereisthejustice1]

It is obvious that human Life is not valuable to the US government. I hope the Afgan and Iraqi people will have peace and freedom some day soon.

[workwillfreeyou]

Thanks you Malalai Joya, And for the corrupt U.S. government elite and thier partners the War Inc. folks I apologise.