Javed
Yazamy, Truth telling freelance journalist,
slain in AFGHANISTAN by a D.I.A / CIA USA ASSASSIN!The
murder of this martyr journalist is a George Clooney movie script! There
is no doubt in my mind, Hollywood is going to buy this story as soon
as one of those Canadian reporters writes it up. (No American news agency
would touch the subject.) This brave, unvetted Journalist in Afghanistan
-- a fixer for all Candian reporters, a total gadfly to the USA,--- a kid
so connected with everybody on a heart level (including the Taliban, whom
he was able to penetrate, so that he knew the other side's point of view
and carried that info to the CANADIAN REPORTERS) was a man so dangerous
to the American military (with its heroin running to get cash for dirty
tricks ) -- that the USA jailed and tortured him for 11 months, probably
got nothing. Finally as Canadian press was pounding on prison doors, going
crazy, the USA let him go. He then rats America out in detail like a true
expose journalist -- telling all the horrific kinds of torture they practice,
shames America across the world (as all the other internat'l journalists
in the area respect and adore him, evinced by his nick name, JO JO. He
got out late Sept, and now, in MARCH 2009, about to move to Canada
so that he could write a book about what the USA did to him and maybe what
they were actually doing in AFGHANISTAN....(OBAMA
JUST SIGNED UP TO WREAK WAR on the place) (OIL PIPELINE
requires
that.) So they killed the boy who knew too much. Days away from leaving
for a safe country. Who killed him? Cherchez the CUI BONUM. US MILITARY
/CIA drug runners and OBAMA and his war. That's who. Everybody else adored,
admired and respected him. Someone that valiant doesn't live when you have
a NAZI thug country around.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Javed "JoJo" Yazamy loved Hollywood movies, mostly action flicks. For the Afghan freelance cameraman, reporter and "fixer" for media outlets covering Canada's military mission in Afghanistan, pirated DVDs were a perfect way to sharpen his English. They were also a window on a world he often struggled to understand-and desperately wanted to join. He never got the chance.
Yazamy - also known as Javed Ahmad but known to most by his nickname, Jojo - was gunned down Tuesday evening in a brazen drive-by shooting in Kandahar city. There was no ready explanation for the killing, nor any claim of responsibility.
Just days before his death, Yazamy had asked fellow journalists to write letters of reference for his Canadian visitor's visa application, which he was to present to authorities early next month.
He said he wanted to see the country whose news coverage he helped shape during several bloody years in Kandahar.
The deaths of four Canadian soldiers in the last week forced his would-be references to put off his request, a setback Yazamy shrugged off with the refined understanding that the news comes before all else.
"Ya, it's fine, bro," he said in an email, responding to the apologies of one journalist. "Get it to me next week."
Yazamy, 23, was shot in his vehicle along a main boulevard in Kandahar city, not far from the governor's palace, when another car pulled along the passenger side and a gunman opened fire. He died instantly, said Dr. Qasim Khan, the physician who pronounced him dead.
Kandahar's provincial police chief refused to comment on the killing Tuesday, but provincial governor Tooryalai Wesa said an investigation was underway.
"It is disgusting a journalist has been killed like that in the city," said Wesa, an Afghan-Canadian who was sworn in as governor only a few months ago.
Police were looking for a white Toyota Corolla - a ubiquitous description of one of Kandahar's most common vehicles, and one that's often heard in the wake of violent crimes in the city.
Yazamy worked primarily as a cameraman for CTV News, but was often hired on a day-to-day basis by other media organizations as well, including The Canadian Press, and routinely proved an asset to virtually every Canadian journalist working in the violence-racked country.
His extensive contacts and connections across Afghanistan, including with the Taliban, appeared to land him in trouble late in 2007 when he was abruptly detained by U.S. soldiers outside the gates to Kandahar Airfield.
Yazamy spent some 11 months in military custody and was publicly named as an "enemy combatant" by American forces before he was set free in September 2008. No explanation, either for his detention or his release, was ever proffered.
CTV News president Robert Hurst spoke fondly of spending several days in Kandahar with Yazamy, who toured him around the region to give him a sense of the country and its character.
"I found him a terrific young journalist who was courageous, (who) had a world view - we were very lucky at CTV to have him as a fixer," Hurst said Tuesday in an interview. Yazamy learned most of his camera skills during his time with CTV, he added.
"I think this is a loss for Afghan journalism, in addition to being a loss to international and Canadian journalism," Hurst said.
"JoJo, as our cameraman in Kandahar area, was directly instrumental in helping us bring the Afghan story home to Canadian living rooms every night. We're deeply saddened by all of this."
The Canadian wing of the international advocacy group Reporters Without Borders issued a statement Tuesday offering condolences to Yazamy's family and calling on Afghan authorities to investigate the shooting and bring his killers to justice.
"He was a talented and promising young journalist who had the courage to work with foreign news media," the statement said.
Several Afghan journalists have said they suspect Yazamy's death was ordered by the Taliban, the statement added.
Yazamy worked for U.S. special forces in 2001, soon after the overthrow of the Taliban regime. It was where he acquired a taste for country music.
He swept floors at their compound, but having learned rudimentary English while in exile in Pakistan, the ambitious teenager soon found himself doing translation work.
U.S. television networks followed in the wake of the invasion and Yazamy began "fixing" for Western reporters, providing translation and transportation services. He soon came into his element as a journalist, conducting interviews and shooting video in places too risky for westerners.
His knowledge and advice on personal safety was universally respected by Canadian journalists in Afghanistan, many of whom had no qualms about putting their lives in his hands.
That was why his capture by U.S. commandos at Kandahar Airfield in October 2007, and the subsequent claim he was an enemy combatant, stunned those who worked with him.
Yazamy acknowledged that in his journalistic work he had occasional contact with the Taliban. But he denied ever having collaborated with them.
"I am innocent," he said in an interview last September, following 11 months in captivity.
He told Reporters Without Borders: "I feel even more of a journalist than before.
"I am very enthusiastic about the idea of going back to work. But above all, I want justice. I want to knock on all the doors, with my lawyers, so that those who detained and tortured me are punished."
He also said he'd been planning to write a book about the experience.
MORE AT SALON.COM tying this to american torture practices
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/21/bagram/
* *
* *
*
Reporter covered his emergence from year due to his Canadian friends
helping him, in jail (below)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080922.wafghanfixer22/BNStory/Afghanistan/home
STANFORD UNIVERSITY LAW PROFESSOR & HUMAN RIGHTS WORKER covered it:
~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ A DAY LATER, VOICE OF AMERICA NEWS REPORTS:~^~^~^~^~^~
Afghan journalists in the southern city of Kandahar have protested
against the killing of a local reporter.
A group of media workers marched through the streets of the city demanding an investigation into the death of Jawed Ahmad, who was gunned down in Kandahar on Tuesday.
They appealed to the United Nations and the Afghan government for better security for journalists in southern Afghanistan.
The Kandahar journalists say they will stop news reporting for three days, except for stories related to Ahmad's killing.
The group Amnesty International on Thursday joined other international rights organizations in expressing concern about press freedom in Afghanistan.
The group said Ahmad's death, along with the 20-year jail term handed down to another reporter, indicate that journalists "are now vulnerable to violence and intimidation by state and non-state actors." Meaning THE AFGHANI PUPPET GOVERNMENT AND THE US CIA.
Ahmad, who often used the nickname "Jojo," worked for several Canadian news organizations and for Iranian television. The U.S. military had detained him for nearly a year and accused him of being an enemy combatant before abruptly releasing him in September.
Ahmad denied any wrongdoing and said he was imprisoned because of his contacts with the Taliban, something many Afghan reporters cultivate.
In the other case, the Supreme Court recently upheld the 20-year jail sentence imposed on a young reporter accused of blasphemy.
A lawyer for Parwez Kambakhsh says he was not allowed to present a defense
case, and the court ruled in secret.
Copyright © 2009 The Canadian Press. All
rights reserved
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<=== BACK TO THE FRUGAL TIPS and CHEAPO LIFESTYLE WEBPAGE
Our POSTER is ANITA SANDS HERNANDEZ, Los Angeles Writer, Futurist and Astrologer. Catch up with her websites TRUTHS GOV WILL HIDE & NEVER TELL YOU, also The FUTURE, WHAT'S COMIN' AT YA! FRUGAL LIFE STYLE TIPS, HOW TO SURVIVE the COMING GREAT DEPRESSION, and Secrets of Nature, HOLISTIC, AFFORDABLE HEALING. Also ARTISANRY FOR EXPORT, EARN EUROS....* Anita is at astrology@earthlink.net ). Get a 15$ natal horoscope "my money/future life" reading now + copy horoscope as a Gif file graphic! No smarter, more accurate career reading out there!
<=== BACK TO TRACKING THE ECONOMY, an INDEX PAGE
<===BACK TO MONEY SECRETS ONLY THE EXPERTS KNOW
<=== BACK TO SECRETS THE GOV DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW
<===BACK TO THE SECRETS OF THE OLIGARCHS, THE EMPIRE INDEX PAGE
<=== SHOW ME THE FIX INDEX PAGE.
<== SHOW ME THE HAPPY R)EVOLUTION PAGE
<=== BACK TO "GUERILLA CAPITALISM" -- THE SOLUTION!
<==== BACK TO THE "VITAL SIGNS OF A DYING ECONOMY" the "FUTURE" WEBPAGE
<==== BACK TO THE WALL STREET MELTDOWN WEBSITE, with "WHAT TO DO TO SURVIVE" TIPS
<=== BACK TO ENRON PLANET, the DOOMSDAY SCENARIO!
<====BACK TO THE HOLISTIC GOURMET, BON MARCHE
<=== BACK TO THE FRUGAL ARTISAN IMPORT/ EXPORT TYCOON AND HIS "STUFF"
<=== BACK TO THE GLEENERS PAGE
<== BACK TO THE FUTURE INDEX PAGE
<=== BACK TO THE GENTLEMAN FARMER'S GARDEN INDEX
<=== INVESTIGATE DOING DRIP IRRIGATE- LINES in PUBLIC GARDENS as a CHARITY
<=== BACK TO "DONE WELL, ACTIVISM IS A DELIGHT and IT CREATES CAREERS for YOU as well as PLANETARY EVOLUTION"
<=== BACK TO THE MALTHUSIAN INDEX PAGE
<===BACK TO THE PHILOSOPHY INDEX PAGE
<=== BACK TO THE LUCK IN LOVE WEBSITE
<== BACK TO THE PROPAGANDA STUDIES WEBSITE, HOW GOV LIES TO YOU
<=== BACK TO ALL POINTS OF THE COMPASS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY TUTORIAL
<=== BACK TO JERRY'S REFRIGERATOR & the Tin Foil Hat Collection of CONSPIRACY THEORIES!
<====BACK TO THE FREE MONEY WEBSITE
<==== BACK TO THE HARD TIMES WEBSITE
<===== BACK TO THE POVERTY INDEX PAGE
<==== BACK TO THE "TIPS to SURVIVE THE FUTURE" INDEX PAGE
BACK TO THE "FIX YOUR FLAGGING AMBITION" SEMINAR
<== BACK TO THE SNOOKERED INDEX PAGE
<===BACK TO THE REALITY 101 SEMINAR FOR TEENS
<==== BACK TO THE SHOW BUSINESS PAGE, ARCHIVE, SEMINAR, WHATEVER YA WANNA CALL IT
<====HOW TO TINKER WITH OTHER PEOPLE's BRAINS
<====BACK TO THE NEW AGE EMPOWERING INDEX
<===BACK TO "HOW TO MERCHANDISE YOURSELF" INDEX
<===BACK TO THE ALL ABOUT TAXES INDEX PAGE
<=== MEET ANITA SANDS WHO WRITES ALL THESE ARTICLES
<=== TAKE ME TO THE HOLISTIC PET, HOW NEVER TO NEED a VET
<=== BACK TO THE TRUTHS ABOUT DENTISTRY THAT WILL SAVE YOU 100 THOUSAND!
<=== BACK TO THE SNOOKERED WEBPAGE, HOAXES WE HAVE ALL KNOWN
<===BACK TO EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT WEB STUFF (for dummies)
<===BACK TO HOW TO
MARRY A BILLIONAIRE AND SAVE THE WORLD
<==== BACK TO THE CONSPIRACY INDEX PAGE