If you ever wondered how it is possible for the US to kill so many innocent and (sometimes) unintended victims in Afghanistan in episodes like this, here is a link of interest to you. It doesn't explain the almost daily carnage which the US and NATO perpetrate in Afghanistan and Pakistan but it explains one particularly harrowing piece of bloody incompetence. Among the dead this time were two boys, Daoud, 3, and Murtaza, 4.
The crass squalor of this incident was compounded by the lies and spin which NATO/ISAF injected into the coverage, such as it was, at the time and since. Full story here.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/04/drone-reportedly-kills-two-u-s-troops-in-friendly-fire-incident/
ReplyDeleteNasty story. The U.S. government has developed a God-like complex in Afghanistan, especially as it rules from the air. Want to believe Afghans are insurgents, and can't believe they hit civilians when they do.
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