- Three months after it initially lied about the murder
by US forces of eight high school students and a 12-year-old shepherd boy
in Afghanistan, and a month after it lied about the slaughter by US forces
of an Afghan police commander, a government prosecutor, two of their pregnant
wives and a teenage daughter, the US military has been forced to admit
(thanks in no small part to the excellent investigative reporting of Jerome
Starkey of the London Times), that these and other atrocities were the
work of American Special Forces, working in conjunction with "specially
trained" (by the US) units of the Afghan Army.
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- Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the US war
effort in Afghanistan, is reported as saying he is taking over "direct
charge" of Special Forces operations because of "concern"
that they were not following his orders to make limiting civilian casualties
a "paramount" objective. McChrystal is quoted as saying the US
military "carries the burden of the guilt" for the "mistakes"
made by those Special Forces.
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- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/world/asia/16afghan.html?hp
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- This has to be a sick joke....
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- For the rest of this article, please go to:
- http://www.thiscantbehappening.net
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