The story behind ‘Task Force Violence’

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On Monday, March 5, 2007, Afghan officials in Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, surveyed the wreckage of the suicide bombing that targeted a U.S. Marine convoy a day earlier. Afghan witnesses and gunshot victims said U.S. forces fired on civilians in cars and on foot along at least a six-mile stretch of road in Nangarhar province after a suicide attack against the military convoy.


The story behind ‘Task Force Violence’
By Trista Talton and Sean D. Naylor - Staff writers
Posted : Friday Feb 15, 2008 16:15:51 EST

They were supposed to be the fewest of the Few and Proud, quiet professionals trained for sticky covert missions.

So when Marine Special Operations Company-Fox — the first of the Corps’ new spec ops units to deploy for combat operations — left for Afghanistan in early 2007, the Corps expected nothing less than total success.

Then the unit bent every rule that wouldn’t break, ticked off every commander in the theater, alienated the local population, violated direct orders, caused an international incident, allegedly killed as many as 19 Afghan civilians and wounded dozens more.

The whole thing lasted only a few weeks, according to courtroom testimony and interviews with military eyewitnesses.

“They were just acting like a bunch of cowboys,” said one source inside Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan, which became Fox Company’s higher command when the unit arrived in Afghanistan in late February 2007.


Read about the rest of this clusterfuck at: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/02/marine_marsoc_080215/