Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says that US forces in Afghanistan are carrying out what he referred to as "battlefield executions" of prisoners.
"One of the great tragedies of my country is that Mr. Obama is looking the other way, because equally horrible things are happening to prisoners, to those we capture in Afghanistan," Hersh said during a discussion at the Global Investigative Journalism Conference last month in Geneva, where he was also the keynote speaker. "They're being executed on the battlefield."
Hersh, who broke the Abu Ghraib prison abuse story in 2004, says that five or six people had told him about the battlefield executions of prisoners. A video of his comments was uploaded to Michael Moore's YouTube Channel on Tuesday.
Every american citizen has to be aware of what is happening in Afghanistan today. We are killing innocent people. We are spending Billions Of Dollars every day. The result is simple: The muslim world sees us as the enemy and this helps the terrorists recruit members. The US has the opportunity to take a leadership position to mend the division in the world. We have no place in Afghanistan. We need to come home now and fix our problems here. God knows, there are plenty!