NATO Night Raid in Kabul Leaves Afghan Guards Dead

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NATO Night Raid in Kabul Leaves Afghan Guards Dead
By MICHAEL KAMBER and SHARIFULLAH SAHAK
Published: December 24, 2010

KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO forces, acting on apparently faulty intelligence, killed two Afghan private security guards and wounded three others in a gun battle early Friday that could lead to renewed criticisms of foreign forces by President Hamid Karzai.

The foreign troops were searching for two cars they had been told were packed with explosives and were going to be used in a car bomb attack on the United States Embassy in Kabul, according to a statement from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, or ISAF.

An ISAF representative said the battle started when troops took fire from a building near the lot where the cars were parked.

In the end, no explosives were found, and the troops released 15 people they had detained in the operation.

The ISAF statement described the raid as a joint operation with Afghan troops, but Col. Mohammed Zahir, director of criminal investigations with the Kabul police, denied that Afghan forces had been involved. Often on raids, NATO troops are accompanied by Afghan commandos not necessarily under the same command as the Afghan police and regular military.

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1. Pity the Afghan children, that all they know is violence and invasions.