This coming 12th February is the second anniversary of the Uruzgan massacre carried

out by Australian Special Forces soldiers while on a night-time raid in a tiny Afghan
village called Sur Murghab in which six people were killed in cold blood. Five of the
victims were young children.

Australia is presently aiming to be a big power in Asia, a sort of mini-US in the south
eastern corner off the edge of the huge Asian land mass. The country has been sending
its soldiers to take part in invasions and other military operations conducted by the US.
Australian soldiers were involved in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 besides the military
actions in Afghanistan. These soldiers from Australia are no strangers to wars, killings
and massacres, having prior experience in those earlier Vietnam and Korea conflicts.
On the night of February 12 2009, a group of Australian Special Forces commandos
sneaked into the remote Afghan village to arrest a suspected Taliban leader alleged to
be hiding inside a house in the village. Approaching the house silently, the soldiers
managed to open the door and grabbed the nearest person and dragged him outside. The
noise woke up others inside the house, and as they stirred, the Australian soldiers hurled
grenades and shot with their guns.

Six people were killed on the spot, while four others were wounded by the actions of the
Australian soldiers who were well-trained commandos. It was a cold-blooded massacre.
These soldiers are thoroughly cold-blooded killers as a result of their special training and
also because of the demands made on them in their deployment to Afghanistan. These
Special Forces personnel are typically assigned to undertake kidnap-or-kill operations
that are usually conducted after nightfall when their victims are believed to be fast asleep.
Unfortunately, houses in Afghan villages are not only unlit at night, but normally look
the same as one another. There are no cars or trucks parked in front of the houses that
might help to differentiate one from the other and there are no fancy decorations or other
ostentatious belongings present either. Thus, night-time raiders like the Special Forces
commandos often attacked the wrong houses and carelessly killed innocent people.
The Australian soldiers carried off their captive back to their base and after several hours
whacking and probing him, they found that he was just an ordinary Afghan civilian and
had no connections at all with the Taliban. The soldiers had not only carried out a very
botched raid and totally missed their man, but had also committed a deadly massacre. The
killings of the six Afghans in Uruzgan were not isolated acts of inhuman cruelty in a time
of war but were part of a larger pattern of very carefully orchestrated murders carried out
by Special Forces soldiers under the command of the ISAF and NATO occupation forces
in Afghanistan. The most famous, or most notorious of such soldiers operated within the
unit known as ‘TF373’ which worked as a ‘ghost unit’ killing innocent people throughout
large areas of the Afghan rural regions during hours of darkness in a clandestine effort to
put fear into the hearts of the Afghan rural population and dissuade them from supporting
or aiding the Taliban. So much for the wild and evil claims that the ISAF and NATO
soldiers are in Afghanistan to ‘protect’ the Afghan people and are their ‘friends’.