1/4 we know the numbers. we use numbers to understand the time of our activities, dates of specific events on calendars, the amount of salary we receive, the amount of money we pay for our daily shopping, the exact size of our clothes and many other things. people use numbers more than their mother tongue. and

this is not the only interesting fact about numbers. it often happens that number has different meanings. one side is life and hope and the other is death. for instance, 2,974, 91, 47,245. these three numbers can be the number of schools, doctors, or hospital beds available to patients in a country. yet for the afghan people, these numbers don't refer to fortunate events. there are signs of

horrific incidents. the first number, 2,974. on september 11th, 2001, 2,974 people lost their lives and 25,000 were injured. 19 hijackers carried out the attacks in broad daylight as everyone looked on. the air defense system and advanced fighter jets of

the most powerful country in the world couldn't stop you okay oh my god oh my god the 2009 974 people who were killed on september 11th were from 90 different nationalities, and the 19 members of the group that carried out the attack hailed from four countries: saudi arabia, the uae, egypt and lebanon. to be more precise, 15 of them were citizens of saudi arabia, two from the united arab emirates, one from lebanon, and one from egypt. there were no afghan

terrorists among the members, but on october 7th, the united states invaded afghanistan seeking revenge against the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks. before the invasion, then us president george w. bush held a meeting with his senior advisors at camp david and declared war. on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against al-qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. afterwards, the north atlantic treaty organization, nato, held a summit meeting, according to article 5 of washington treaty

an armed attack against one or more of them in europe or north america shall be considered attack against them all, so all 19 member countries and then secretary general of nato, lord robertson decided to join america in invading afghanistan. two years later, in 2003, the us central intelligence agency claimed to have arrested the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in pakistan. according to the cia, his name was khalid sheikh muhammad, who was born to pakistani parents in kuwait and studied in north carolina, usa. apparently he suggested the attacks to the leader of al-qaeda in 1996. while the us was in a hurry to invade afghanistan, sheikh muhammad's trial was held in 2021, 18 years after 911. so far, there

were no afghans involved in those series of attacks on september 11th. but the united states believed that afghans must have paid for the 2,974 victims of that dark day. america's reason to invade afghanistan was that the leaders of al-qaeda were hiding in that country, but later most of al-qaeda's members were arrested in pakistan. their leader, osama bin laden was killed in pakistan by american special forces, 10 years after the start of the us-let war in afghanistan.

it took 20 years to avenge the september 11th attacks from afghans, 20 years of war with a country that had been engaged. a civil war for more than two decades. at first, the special forces of the cia entered afghanistan through pakistan where al-qaeda leaders were later arrested or killed. american forces entered afghanistan to provide security for helicopters and airplanes to enter through special operations, including the collection of short-range stinger missiles. these missiles were given to the mujahidin of afghanistan by the united states to fight against the soviet red army in the 1980s. now the us begins attacks with bombings. their

attacks lasted for 44 hours using all kinds of... bombs and cruise missiles to set the record for the longest bombing campaign in history. 830 paratroopers from 13 nato member states entered afghanistan when there were almost no military facilities for industrial infrastructure left in that country. afghanistan became safe place for guests who wanted to fight terror. terrorism for 20 years. very soon in just two months, more than 1,300 american troops entered afghanistan. i'm announcing today. additional

american troop deployments to afghanistan. the arrival of american troops continued rapidly after that, and in 2004, their number rose to 20,000. nine years later, during the era of the pacifist president of the united states, barack obama, the number reached 100 thousand. thank you very much, by hearing the news about afghanistan, people around the world realized that the us started the war in... its own style, just like the vietnam war. on december 29, 2001, american warplanes bombed village near the city of gardes, the capital of pacquia province, under the pretext of targeting the terrorists

ammunition warehouses. the attack killed 52 civilians, most of them women and children. this attack proved that the presence of the americans had. other than elimination of al-qaeda in afghanistan. ngos around the world made efforts. stop the war crimes and the killing of civilians in afghanistan. in his report, mark harrold, a professor at the university of new hampshire, expressed that the casualties of afghan civilians from 2001 to 2002, exceeded the number of victims of the 9/11 attacks. his report showed that 3,800 afghan civilians were killed by the us army in the... first two months of the war, from october 7th to december 7th, 2001.

however, the americans and nato forces did not stop. on october 3rd, 2015, they killed 42 civilians in attack a hospital operated by doctors without borders in condues. incident like this was repeated on march 4, 2007. on that day, united states marines fired on people and killed 19 civilians in chinoir. they thought that they identified a would be suicide bomber among citizens. the

report says the marines frantically fled the scene, destroyed a six-mile stretch of highway, started firing weapons and shot almost everyone around. in the same year, polish forces accompanied by the us soldiers attacked a wedding ceremony in a village and killed 40 women and children. there was a pregnant woman among the victims, two years later in 2009, the us forces killed 15 afghan students on the school bus. on may 5 of the same year, us military offensive killed

140 civilians in abdul basir khan village in farah province. the news about the us crimes was totally censored by the mainstream media, but in july 2010, wikileaks, which had classified information published more than 91,00 confidential documents about the us war in afghanistan between 2004 and 2009. the documents confirm the killing of civilians by the. us and its nato allies. these documents

known as the afghan war diaries were obtained from grantly manning, a former us army intelligence analyst. in this case, um, it will show the the true nature of this war, and then the the public from afghanistan. other nations um can see what's really going on and take steps to address the problems. the significance of this material is both the overarching context, that is, it covers the entire war since 2004, and individual events, which are also significant or a threat of events. so those include something like task force 373, and us- based assassination squad. that goes around afghanistan, killing people a killer capture list. uh, it includes

significant events where many people were killed. according to these documents, the us used white phosphorus in afghanistan. a few years before the afghan war, the use of white phosphorus on the battlefield was condemned by international... human rights organizations for causing severe burns, but wikileaks documents confirmed that in may 2009, nato forces repeatedly use white phosphorus to clear. or open fire at enemies shelters and equipment. many anti-american politicians started a campaign to condemn these barbaric behaviors. it happened after the publication of these confidential documents and the information about the killing of afghan civilians. warged by the us

have caused tremendous casualties and displacement of civilians. the drastic change in afghanistan shows once again that military intervention and power politics get no support, imposing the american style democracy on others will only lead to chaos and turm and is doomed to failure. we urge the us to reflect seriously and correct its mistakes and take concrete actions to address its serious human rice problems. we call on the human rice council and commissioner for human rights to continue to attend to the human rights situation in the us, the international criminal court began investigating war crimes committed in afghanistan since 2003. us forces used to burn or dismember civilian dead bodies, take

photos with them, create secret prisons and attack wedding ceremonies. they also used inhumane interrogation method. following the publication of the results of the investigation, the international committee of the red cross announced in a report that afghan prisoners and cia detention centers were kept. in complete darkness and they had to listen to music played at excruciating volumes in their cells, and in the absence of heating system, many prisoners died, the process of revelations against the war crimes of nato soldiers in afghanistan entered new phase with what sergeant jeff cork admitted and the

insideho modern war podcast. according to his words, nato forces used afghans as human shields and used children to clear explosive traps. based on his confessions, small afghan children, less than 10 years of age, were let with box of chocolate, toys and food packages to the alleys where there was a possibility of explosive traps. american soldiers and their companions used them to make their path safe and secure. it was time for the american authorities to respond to these revelations. at first then white house national security advisor james l. jones issued a statement saying that the release of the wikileaks files was dangerous for american citizens and their allies and requested the stop of wikileaks as soon as possible. afterwards the

australian editor of wikileaks julian paul sange was arrested by british. police in london on april 11th, 2019. he was detained after years of taking refuge in the aquadorian embassy to be punished for the release of these 91,000 secret documents. but what happened to the judges of the international criminal court? in june 2020, donald trump issued an order to impose severe economic sanctions and travel ban on the personnel of the international criminal court, in response to their efforts to complete the war crimes investigation against the us military. today on the eve of

september the 11th, i want to deliver a clear and unambiguous message on behalf. the president of the united states. the united states will use any means necessary to protect our citizens and those of our allies from unjust prosecution by this illegitimate court. we will not cooperate with the icc, we will provide no assistance to the icc, and we certainly will not join the icc. we will let the icc die its own. after all, for all intense and purposes, the icc is already dead to us. we will respond against the icc and its personnel to the extent permitted by us law. we will ban its judges and prosecutors from entering the united states. we will

sanction their funds in the us financial system, and we will prosecute them in the us criminal system. we will do the same for any company or state that assists an icc investigation of americans. the u.s. secretary of state, mike pompelo, also announced sanctions on. natu bensuda, former prosecutor of the international criminal court, and stated that this action was one of the important achievements of the trump administration. the us state department also restricted the issuance of visas for other personnel of the international criminal court. the united states is not a party to the icc, we will take all necessary measures to protect our citizens from this renagrade, unlawful so-called court.

ladies and gentlemen, uh, as uh, we've been covering the main story. for today uh iranian president masoyan has embarked on his first foreign trip, the destination, the iraqi capital, baghdad, this is his first foreign trips in taking office in july, i believe we have live images now as the iranian president has landed in the iraqi capital, uh president pesishian is leading a high ranking delegation to baghdad, which uh is at the beast of the iraqi uh prime minister muhammad shah al sudani's invitation. the three-day visit is expected to focus on strengthening bilateral ties and will include the signing of key documents on cooperation and security

as well. before the visit of course iranian president called iraq a brotherly country highlighting its role as an important economic, political and social partner of the islamic republic of iran. pesishgan is scheduled to visit the holy shrines in the city of najaf and carbala his triple. so include stopovers in basra as well as the kurdish cities of airbil and saleymania as well uh so these are live images that we're getting from uh the first official foreign trip by uh the iranian president masud pesishian in the lead up to this trip uh the iranian foreign ministry spokesman naser canoni had said this trip will be an opportunity to promote and in the friendly and brotherly relations between the two countries in various fields. uh, the iranian

president will also be holding a meeting with uh the uh iranian business uh business persons and businessmen residing in the neighboring country as well so there's a lot on the plate there and uh a full agenda uh and full itinerary for ' the um iranian president as he's visiting the um neighboring country of iraq in his first official foreign visit. the president is also scheduled as we mentioned earlier uh to uh go to arabial the curdison regional curdistan regional capital at the official invitation of the region's head as well and also uh we're seeing right now they were paying respects uh to um they... ping respects at the memorial of uh the late uh martered lieutenant general osim suleimani and uh pmu commander abu mahdi al-mohandis in the iraqi capital baghdad they

were assassinated by the united states uh early 2020 just outside the iraqi uh the baghedad international airport so so they were paying respects at their memorial there just moments ago and and uh as we mentioned, he will be meeting with high-ranking iraqi officials as well. we are going to keep a close eye on all the developments of this uh first official foreign visit by the iranian president uh to uh iraq right here on press tv so you might want to stay tuned for all uh the uh the latest details and news. regarding that trip, we're going to be back in just under two minutes with the world news. stick around. this scene makes this tragedy last for all the people of the world.

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