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Ethnic Cleansing?

We've received some odd news from Afghanistan this week. Ben Masel forwarded this dispatch from someone on the ground there. Ben doesn't vouch for it's veracity so neither will I, however, we'll be posting a followup piece this afternoon from another source that lends this report some credibility.

Report from the Front:

Dear Phill,

Something awful is happening on the Afg/Pak border... Musharraf has engaged a horrific scorched-Earth pogrom to destroy, kill, rape, demolish, disintegrate all of the tribes that have lived on those ancient lands since the Tower of Babel fell. The men of the larger tribes further in the interior have gotten advance word from desperate, fleeing women and children running from the American-led and equipped Pak troops who are killing every male in their gunsights.

The fleeing natives all telling the same story... "Bush, Bush, Bush."

The Paks are using loudspeakers and couriers to tell the natives that "the American George Bush" has ordered their destruction.

Also... it appears that Aristide is more a factor in Musharraf's pogrom than were the recent assassination attempts on him. Musharraf, as well as a number of teetering leaders currently dependent on U.S. backing were stunned by Bush's refusal to aid Aristide after more than 10 years of American support for his govt. Musharraf and others are well aware that if the flip-flopping Bush can turn his back on Aristide -- a lawfully elected leader of a democracy so close to U.S. shores -- then Bush will easily turn against remote Allies such as Musharraf once he is no longer useful. Our analysts believe that once the war on terror has diminished Musharraf will immediately return to fighting India and testing nukes... the Pak nuke program is in full-swing. Pakistan will return to adversarial status in our eyes. They are now developing 'suitcase' nukes.

With this latest stunt on the border and the needless, merciless killings of innocent natives, Musharraf has all but extinguished the furor over his country's aid in supplying nuclear material to hostiles. But the bad part about all of this is we are now seeing our own troops willing to adopt a scorched-Earth attitude. Some of our kids are starting to think and act like animals. They want to kill and collect body parts as trophies. We saw this happen in 'Nam. History is repeating itself because there is no sane leadership out there in no-man's land to keep our kids sane. God help them, their families and their neighbors when they return home...

D/W Note: The above was rec'd at approx 04:12 PST. De-coding delayed publication. Our apologies.

Disturbing report, if it's true.