QUOTE OF THE DAY

"A US soldier on patrol in southern Afghanistan with Afghan security forces was shot to death Sunday when one of the Afghans opened fire. It was at least the sixth such attack in the past two weeks. Over this period, twelve US soldiers have been killed by Afghan soldiers or policemen who were supposedly their allies. These incidents have a significance far beyond the actual death toll, since they give a glimpse of the real relationship between an oppressed population and the US-NATO occupation, now approaching the end of its eleventh year. Working people must demand an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all American and NATO military forces from that war-devastated country, the payment of compensation to the millions whose lives have been uprooted by successive US interventions, and the prosecution of top US government and military officials for the war crimes they have ordered against the people of Afghanistan." Patrick Martin wrote.