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US-led forces admit killing Afghan civilians
Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:25:40 GMT
The US-led forces in Afghanistan admitted on Sunday that they had killed five civilians, including three women, during a night attack in February.
"International forces were responsible for the deaths of three women, who were in the same compound in which two men were killed," NATO said in a statement.
The US-led troops had killed the Afghan civilians in the Gardez district of Paktia province on February 12. Earlier, the NATO alliance claimed that its troops had attacked militants.
"We now understand that the men killed were only trying to protect their families," Brigadier General Eric Tremblay, spokesman for the NATO-led forces, said in the statement.
Other signs of evidence tampering had also been found at the house.
''There was evidence of …walls being washed; bullets dug out of holes in the wall,'' a NATO official told New York Times in an interview, noting that the investigators ''couldn't find bullets from the wounds in the body''.
The high number of civilian casualties has infuriated Afghan tribal elders and President Hamid Karzai.
The Afghan president has repeatedly called on the foreign troops to stop killing civilians.
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What about this, I read today in the news? We wonder who the real terrorists are...
Ha ha, I hit 'em': Top secret video showing U.S. helicopter pilots gunning down 12 civilians in Baghdad attack leaked online
By David Gardner
Last updated at 12:37 PM on 06th April 2010
A top secret video showing U.S. soldiers laughing as they launch a helicopter air strike that killed 12 Iraqi civilians - including two journalists - has been leaked.
In the 17-minute black-and-white footage taken from an Apache helicopter gunsight, the pilots can be heard discussing the carnage as if they were playing a video war game.
The victims included Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his assistant and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, who were killed in the incident.
The gritty film was posted online last night by Wikileaks – a website that encourages whistleblowers to expose government and corporate cover-ups – in defiance of a Pentagon ban.
Target: A still taken from a video shot from a U.S. army Apache helicoptes showing a group of men in the streets of eastern Baghdad just prior to being fired upon
Baghdad attack
Seconds from death: The video identifies the two Reuters employees just seconds before the two helicopters fire on them
Although it's existence has been known since shortly after the July 12, 2007 attack all attempts to make it public have been rebuffed by the U.S. Defence Department.
Major Shawn Turner, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said an investigation of the incident shortly after it occurred found that U.S. forces were not aware of the presence of the journalists and thought they were engaging armed insurgents (LIARS, WHO WILL YOU MAKE BELIEVE THAT?)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1263822/WikiLeaks-Iraq-video-Horrific-footage-shows-U-S-soldiers-shooting-dead-civilians--laughing-bodies.html
fisherman1969
06-04-10, 21:27
What about this, I read today in the news? We wonder who the real terrorists are...
Ha ha, I hit 'em': Top secret video showing U.S. helicopter pilots gunning down 12 civilians in Baghdad attack leaked online
By David Gardner
Last updated at 12:37 PM on 06th April 2010
A top secret video showing U.S. soldiers laughing as they launch a helicopter air strike that killed 12 Iraqi civilians - including two journalists - has been leaked.
In the 17-minute black-and-white footage taken from an Apache helicopter gunsight, the pilots can be heard discussing the carnage as if they were playing a video war game.
The victims included Reuters photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and his assistant and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, who were killed in the incident.
The gritty film was posted online last night by Wikileaks – a website that encourages whistleblowers to expose government and corporate cover-ups – in defiance of a Pentagon ban.
Target: A still taken from a video shot from a U.S. army Apache helicoptes showing a group of men in the streets of eastern Baghdad just prior to being fired upon
Baghdad attack
Seconds from death: The video identifies the two Reuters employees just seconds before the two helicopters fire on them
Although it's existence has been known since shortly after the July 12, 2007 attack all attempts to make it public have been rebuffed by the U.S. Defence Department.
Major Shawn Turner, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command, said an investigation of the incident shortly after it occurred found that U.S. forces were not aware of the presence of the journalists and thought they were engaging armed insurgents (LIARS, WHO WILL YOU MAKE BELIEVE THAT?)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1263822/WikiLeaks-Iraq-video-Horrific-footage-shows-U-S-soldiers-shooting-dead-civilians--laughing-bodies.html
Ik heb de beelden ook gezien het was op het journaal.
Afschuwlijk ! :schreeuw:
Heb er geen woorden voor :droef:
p.s Komt ook straks om 23.00 bij P .W op Ned 1
Ik heb de beelden ook gezien het was op het journaal.
Afschuwlijk ! :schreeuw:
Heb er geen woorden voor :droef:
p.s Komt ook straks om 23.00 bij P .W op Ned 1
The U.S went to war against Iraq on basis of lies such as "Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction". They intervened with the support of so many so-called "democratic" and "human rights" nations that did not realize that the US were only seeking their own interests (oil, what I call the US petroimperialism) by going into this dirty war . Result: No WMD, but millions of innocent civilians killed.
USA and Israel, same terrorist states.
I wonder sometimes if they did not lie on 9/11...
Truth always comes out. The future will tell.
Nog lang niet zo erg nieuws als toen de terrorist vrouwen en kleine kinderen balde in Abu Ghraib.
Wanneer hun wordt gezegd: "Richt geen onheil op aarde aan" dan zeggen zij: "Wij zijn slechts vredestichters".