Afghan Official Says U.S. Raiders Hid Killings
By Gareth Porter
The head of the Afghan Ministry of Interior investigation said publicly for the first time his investigators had accepted the testimony of family members of the victims of the Feb. 12 raid by U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) that the U.S. troops had dug bullets out of the bodies of their victims in an apparent effort to cover up the killings and that Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal had agreed with the team's conclusions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25157.htm
Inquiry puts spotlight on U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan
A joint U.S.-Afghan investigation into a raid in February may shed light on the secretive role of Special Forces, who are said to account for a disproportionate number of civilian deaths.
http://snipurl.com/vcy6q
From Information Clearing House
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Cover-Ups to Protect US Murders in Afghanistan Continue Unabated
Dave Lindorff, Truthout: "So, finally the truth comes out ... sort of. After initially claiming that two pregnant women and a teenage girl killed in a US Special Forces raid on an Afghan home in Khataba in February had been discovered by the Americans bound and slain, the US military has admitted that they were actually shot and killed by those US troops - who then tried to cover up their 'mistake' by carving the bullets out of the bodies with knives, removing other incriminating bullets from the compound's walls and then washing away the bloody evidence with alcohol."
http://www.truthout.org/obamas-war-death-women-and-children-cover-ups-protect-us-killers58391
US Military Slaughters Sheep in Apology for Afghanistan Deaths
Julius Cavendish, The Christian Science Monitor: "A top US Special Forces commander visited the village of Khataba in eastern Afghanistan today to apologize for a night raid that went terribly wrong. It was here on Feb. 11 that a Special Forces team gunned down an Afghan police chief, a prosecutor, and three unarmed women, infuriating locals and drawing a sharp rebuke from politicians in Kabul."
http://www.truthout.org/us-military-slaughters-sheep-apology-afghanistan-deaths58416
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US Ignorance of Afghan Society Led to Botched Raids
http://act.commondreams.org/go/193?akid=21.124981.iDmEi9&t=8
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McChrystal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Khataba
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Special+Forces
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=night+raid
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Julius+Cavendish
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter
The head of the Afghan Ministry of Interior investigation said publicly for the first time his investigators had accepted the testimony of family members of the victims of the Feb. 12 raid by U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) that the U.S. troops had dug bullets out of the bodies of their victims in an apparent effort to cover up the killings and that Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal had agreed with the team's conclusions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25157.htm
Inquiry puts spotlight on U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan
A joint U.S.-Afghan investigation into a raid in February may shed light on the secretive role of Special Forces, who are said to account for a disproportionate number of civilian deaths.
http://snipurl.com/vcy6q
From Information Clearing House
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Cover-Ups to Protect US Murders in Afghanistan Continue Unabated
Dave Lindorff, Truthout: "So, finally the truth comes out ... sort of. After initially claiming that two pregnant women and a teenage girl killed in a US Special Forces raid on an Afghan home in Khataba in February had been discovered by the Americans bound and slain, the US military has admitted that they were actually shot and killed by those US troops - who then tried to cover up their 'mistake' by carving the bullets out of the bodies with knives, removing other incriminating bullets from the compound's walls and then washing away the bloody evidence with alcohol."
http://www.truthout.org/obamas-war-death-women-and-children-cover-ups-protect-us-killers58391
US Military Slaughters Sheep in Apology for Afghanistan Deaths
Julius Cavendish, The Christian Science Monitor: "A top US Special Forces commander visited the village of Khataba in eastern Afghanistan today to apologize for a night raid that went terribly wrong. It was here on Feb. 11 that a Special Forces team gunned down an Afghan police chief, a prosecutor, and three unarmed women, infuriating locals and drawing a sharp rebuke from politicians in Kabul."
http://www.truthout.org/us-military-slaughters-sheep-apology-afghanistan-deaths58416
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US Ignorance of Afghan Society Led to Botched Raids
http://act.commondreams.org/go/193?akid=21.124981.iDmEi9&t=8
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McChrystal
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Khataba
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Special+Forces
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=night+raid
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Julius+Cavendish
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gareth+Porter
rudkla - 8. Apr, 09:22
