{"id":2853,"date":"2020-12-18T13:43:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T13:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=140989"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T13:43:42","slug":"cia-backed-afghan-death-squads-massacred-children-inside-religious-schools-in-campaign-of-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/18\/cia-backed-afghan-death-squads-massacred-children-inside-religious-schools-in-campaign-of-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA-Backed Afghan Death Squads Massacred Children Inside Religious Schools in Campaign of Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>A shocking expos\u00e9 in The Intercept reveals <span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span>-backed death squads in Afghanistan have killed children as young as 8 years old in a series of night raids, many targeting madrassas, Islamic religious schools. In December 2018, one of the death squads attacked a madrassa in Wardak province, killing 12 boys, of whom the youngest was 9 years old. The United States played key roles in many of the raids, from picking targets to ferrying Afghan forces to the sites to providing lethal airpower during the raids. The Intercept reports this was part of a campaign of terror orchestrated by the Trump administration that included massacres, executions, mutilation, forced disappearances, attacks on medical facilities, and airstrikes targeting structures known to house civilians. \u201cThese militias \u2026 were established in the very early days of the Afghan War by <span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span> officers, many of whom had been brought back into the fold after the invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001 who had previously been working in Afghanistan during the 1980s,\u201d says reporter Andrew Quilty. \u201cThis network of militias was set up and appear to be entirely under the control of the <span class=\"caps\">CIA<\/span> but made up entirely of Afghan soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/18\/cia-backed-afghan-death-squads-massacred-children-inside-religious-schools-in-campaign-of-terror\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shocking expos\u00e9 in The Intercept reveals CIA-backed death squads in Afghanistan have killed children as young as 8 years old in a series of night raids, many\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2854,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions\/2854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}