Afghanistan blames vendetta for civilian deaths

[unhappycamper]

Afghanistan blames vendetta for civilian deaths
By Jason Straziuso - The Associated Press
Posted : Sunday Sep 14, 2008 15:17:39 EDT

KABUL, Afghanistan — An American bombing that killed up to 90 Afghan civilians last month was based on false information provided by a rival tribe and did not kill a single Taliban fighter, the president’s spokesman said Sunday.

The claim contradicted a U.S. contention that the Aug. 22 raid on the western village of Azizabad killed up to 35 Taliban fighters.

“There was total misinformation fed to the coalition forces,” Humayun Hamidzada, the spokesman for President Hamid Karzai, told The Associated Press.

Afghan police arrested three suspects accused of giving the U.S. military false intelligence that led to the bombardment, the Interior Ministry has said.

An Afghan government commission found that up to 90 civilians were killed, including 60 children, a finding backed by a preliminary U.N. report.


Rest of article at: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/09/ap_civilian_casualties_091408/%2e

[pleah]

1. I believe I said that this was retaliation against them

when this story first came out.

What's our mission now? To kill them into submission?

Do we not even double check the intelligence that we get. Or, just run blind into these situations?

I guess when it is just about control of a region and oil, anything goes.

:-(