"It looked like they were going to shoot us, and I was very afraid," Khan said. "Then a NATO soldier said through his translator that even our children will pay for this. Now they have done it and taken their revenge."
Neighbors of Khan gave similar accounts to the AP, and several Afghan officials, including Kandahar lawmaker Abdul Rahim Ayubi, said people in the two villages that were attacked told them the same story.
...Ghulam Rasool, a tribal elder from Panjwai district of Kandahar province, where the shootings occurred, gave an account of the bombing at a March 16 meeting in Kabul with President Hamid Karzai.
"After the incident, [the Americans] took the wreckage of their destroyed tank and their wounded people from the area," Rasool said. "After that, they came back to the village nearby the explosion site.
"The soldiers called all the people to come out of their houses and from the mosque," he said.
"The Americans told the villagers, 'A bomb exploded on our vehicle. ... We will get revenge for this incident by killing at least 20 of your people,'" Rasool said. "These are the reasons why we say they took their revenge by killing women and children in the villages." MORE
And the hits just keep on comin'.
ReplyDeleteThis might help explain the hefty [50K$] prompt payoff.
Like I said he will probably do 5 years max.
What a filthy page to turn.
But try and turn it they shall.
Glimpse memory of before and after the shootings.
There is their defense.
Washington has essentially abandoned Panjwai's information sphere. Panetta made his rounds, the villagers were paid off and, if one believes them, no one from the U.S. or NATO has come to interview them. U.S. officials deny the IED in question, the threats made by U.S. soldiers and a second shooter from afar, as of Afghans are supposed to trust our word instead. Putting aside the Pentagon's talk of a "unique fighting season," the administration is mailing in its PR and appears uninterested in the war. The withdraw from the American political/media sphere was always part of Obama's surge.
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