Dat schrijft onze christenminister van Defensie op zijn website. Het eerste wat ik denk als ik de Eimert van Middelkoop zie is: "What would Jesus do?" Eimert heeft laatst toch maar weer het gebruik van clustermunitie verlengd, omdat hij blijkbaar de Wrake Gods wil toepassen op onschuldige kinderen wiens ledematen worden afgerukt na het spelen met zo'n 'balletje'.
Minister dient klacht in tegen radioprogramma
"Op basis van onder meer foto's en een verslag van een Amerikaanse legereenheid berichtte Argos half oktober dat Nederlandse militairen begin 2002 hun mandaat te buiten waren gegaan, zowel in het zuiden van Afghanistan als rond Kabul. Deelname aan de Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) viel buiten afspraken die waren gemaakt met de Tweede Kamer."
Eimert is ook niet meer dan een ordinaire leugenaar - moge hij branden in zijn christenhel. De Amerikanen leggen echter geen enkele schroom aan de dag om rapporten te publiceren waarin duidelijk te lezen valt dat Nederland heeft meegeholpen aan Operatie Enduring Freedom.Er wordt zelfs verslag gedaan van een bezoek van Rumsfeld die daarvoor speciaal de Nederlanders kwam bedanken, op 26 april 2002:
U.S., Coalition Troops 'Stand Against Evil'
"The secretary's visit here was the first stop on a five-day trip to visit American and coalition forces in Afghanistan and neighboring nations. About 950 American and an equal number of coalition troops are deployed here to support air operations into Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom."
"Eight countries, including the United States, are represented at the base: Australia, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Norway, Republic of Korea and Spain. Coalition aircraft at the base include: six U.S. F/A-18D Hornets, six French Mirage 2000D, two French C-135FR tankers, one Australian Boeing 707 tanker, two Spanish C-130 cargo planes, plus one Danish, one Norwegian and one Dutch C-130."
"Operation Enduring Freedom, Rumsfeld said, has been very successful in combating terrorists in Afghanistan thanks to the help of many people from many countries. He commended the coalition troops for voluntarily
putting their lives at risk for their country and their families."
Enkele andere bewijzen:
Operation Enduring Freedom: Foreign Pledges of Military & Intelligence Support
CRS Report for Congress (Order Code RL31152)
Updated October 17, 2001
"Netherlands. As a NATO member, it supported the invocation of Article V, and has offered logistical support." Pledges = toezeggingen, offered = aangeboden
September 2002: AFGHANISTAN
"The first three Norwegian F-16 fighters left their Arctic air base Wednesday to join the U.S.-led Enduring Freedom coalition for operations over Afghanistan. The Norwegian aircraft and about 130 support personnel will be based with jet fighters and support teams from Denmark and the Netherlands in Manas, Kyrgyzstan, near Afghanistan. [...] The three aircraft from each country were due to leave Volkel air base in the Netherlands on Thursday for Turkey, where they will overnight, and continue to Kyrgyzstan. The second group of nine was to depart on the same route on Friday, Danish and Dutch military authorities said.(AP 251418 Sep 02 GMT)"
Operation Enduring Freedom - Deployments
"On 1 October (2002) a tri-national detachment of 18 Danish, Netherlands and Norwegian F-16AM fighters and one Netherlands KDC-10 tanker, took the place of the Mirages. The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) leads the 440-strong unit known as the European Participating Air Forces (EPAF) detachment. It is tasked to provide day and night air support to US and coalition forces inside Afghanistan as part of Operation 'Enduring Freedom'."
CENTCOM/Enduring Freedom
"As of June 2002, about 1,000 American troops and an equal number of coalition forces are stationed at Ganci to support fighter, tanker and cargo operations into Afghanistan. The United States, Australia, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway, South Korea and Spain all have forces at Ganci."
"On 1 October 2002 a tri-national detachment of 18 Danish, Netherlands and Norwegian F-16AM fighters and one Netherlands KDC-10 tanker, took the place of the Mirages. The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) leads the 440-strong unit known as the European Participating Air Forces (EPAF) detachment. It is tasked to provide day and night air support to US and coalition forces inside Afghanistan as part of Operation 'Enduring Freedom'. Furthermore, it can be called on to provide air support to International Security Assistance Force troops in and around Kabul. The unit is integrated within the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing of the US Air Force."
Enduring Freedom - Manas AB, Kyrgyzstan, 2002
In 2002 the Dutch government decided to send F-16s to Afghanistan in support of operation 'Enduring Freedom'. Their aircraft are stationed at Manas AFB in Kyrgyzstan together with aircraft from Denmark and Norway. Operations have been flown from October 2002 to October 2003.
UPDATE - Heel toevallig na 5 jaar blijkt ineens:
‘Het Pentagon heeft inmiddels bevestigd dat het rapport onjuiste informatie bevat over Nederlandse troepen’, aldus Van Middelkoop.
Foto 1 (STEPHANIE SINCLAIR/Chicago Tribune): A mosque employee prepares the body of Lamiamh Ali, 6. Four siblings were playing outside their home in Baghdad when a U.S. cluster bomb exploded. Two of the children died that day and their brother died later as a result of his injuries. Photo taken April 26, 2003.
Foto 2: Donald Rumsfeld spreekt o.a. aan de Nederlandse soldaten zijn dank uit voor de hulp aan Operation Enduring Freedom op de Ganci Air Base in Kyrgizië, 26 april 2002.
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