A War Crime In Afghanistan?

[laststeamtrain]

30 Dec 2009 07:16 pm
A War Crime In Afghanistan?

That's what Karzai is claiming:

“The delegation concluded that a unit of international forces descended from a plane Sunday night into Ghazi Khan Village in Narang district of the eastern province of Kunar and took 10 people from three homes, eight of them school students in grades six, nine and 10, one of them a guest, the rest from the same family, and shot them dead,” said a statement from the president’s office.

Mr. Karzai, the statement added, “was deeply grieved at the loss of civilians and assured the mourning families of his every effort for a serious and thorough investigation and said perpetrators would be legally dealt with.”

(Photo (at link): Afghan demonstrators hold banners and placards while shouting anti US slogans during a protest rally in Kabul on December 30, 2009, against the alleged killing of 10 people including eight children in the easten province of Kunar. Afghan government investigators on December 30, have accused foreign troops of dragging 10 people, including eight children, from their homes and shooting them dead. Anti-US protests erupted in at least two cities over the alleged killings as President Hamid Karzai's office published its report, likely to inflame tensions between the Afghan government and its Western military backers. By Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images). ... http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/a-war-crime-in-afghanistan.html

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[laststeamtrain]

2. I wish I thought you were kidding. n/t.

[rug]

3. NATO is far more credible.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Deepening a rift between allies, Afghan investigators on Wednesday sharply contradicted accounts by NATO officials about the deaths of 10 civilians in eastern Afghanistan, saying a visit to the remote site showed that nearly all those killed were school-age boys and one was an elderly man. They blamed international forces for the deaths.

NATO officials said earlier this week that all those killed last weekend in a joint operation by Afghan and international forces in a remote district of eastern Kunar Province were armed insurgents who smuggled bombs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/world/asia/31afghan.html?_r=1

[G_j]

4. It says Karzai has made the claim

I would say that makes it newsworthy

[spanone]

5. your stay here will thankfully be very short.

[malaise]

6. Chile, Argentina?

Do you have a clue how many were killed in football stadiums by military dictators financed and backed by the US government?

For the record Al Jazeera has more objective news than Fox - Fox News is an oymoron.

[Fumesucker]

7. Welcome to DU..

[daleo]

8. Why would Karzai's office lie?

He is our guy. Are you saying that he's really Taliban?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. Jesus is watching you. n/t