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Up to 20 US troops behind Kandahar bloodbath – Afghan probe

Published time: March 16, 2012 07:33
Edited time: March 17, 2012 03:42
U.S. armoured vehicles are parked outside a US base in Panjwai district Kandahar province, March 11, 2012 (Reuters / Ahmad Nadeem)

An Afghan parliamentary investigation team has implicated up to 20 US troops in the massacre of 16 civilians in Kandahar early on Sunday morning. It contradicts NATO's account that insists one rogue soldier was behind the slaughter.

­The team of Afghan lawmakers has spent two days collating reports from witnesses, survivors and inhabitants of the villages where the tragedy took place.

“We are convinced that one soldier cannot kill so many people in two villages within one hour at the same time, and the 16 civilians, most of them children and women, have been killed by the two groups,” investigator Hamizai Lali told Afghan News.

Lali also said their investigations led them to believe 15 to 20 US soldiers had been involved in the killings. He appealed to the international community to ensure that the responsible parties were brought to justice, stressing the Afghan parliament would not rest until the killers were prosecuted.

"If the international community does not play its role in punishing the perpetrators, the Wolesi Jirga [parliament] would declare foreign troops as occupying forces,” he said.

The head of the Afghan parliamentary investigation, Sayed Ishaq Gillani, told the BBC that witnesses report seeing helicopters dropping chaff during the attack, a measure used to hide targets from ground attack.

Gillani added that locals suspect the massacre was revenge for attacks carried out last week on US forces that left several injured.

In response to the massacre Afghan PM Hamid Karzai called for US troops to quit Afghan villages and confine themselves to their military bases across the country. Furthermore, the Taliban announced that talks with US forces would be suspended.

Meanwhile the US military has detained one soldier in connection with the massacre and transferred him to Kuwait amid outcry for a public trial in Afghanistan. Currently, the soldier is being flown to Kansas base, AFP reported.

US authorities are currently conducting an investigation into the motives behind the attack, but maintain that the soldier’s trial must be dealt with by the US legal system.

It is believed that the soldier may have had alcohol problems and been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

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bravewarrior (unregistered) 22.05.2012 19:26

kihnu wrote in #7If this story is true, it will be an explosive revelation of the true extent of American lies and deceptions in Afghanistan.  Unfortunately the truth will be suppressed by the American MSM. Shortly after the Civil War in the US-angry whites wanted to intimidate blacks from exercising their rights. Many black persons were accused of crimes, without any justication, cause or evidence. They were publically 'lynched' not because they were guilty of any crime, but rather to set an example to all the other blacks, to keep them in 'their place'. It was a warning that any black person who would become uppity could face instant justice (sic) at the whim of white people. Our prisons are filled with people of color-who were never guilty of anything, but were convicted on false testimonies (jail house snitches), planted evidence, falsified police reports. It doesn't matter if the person was truly guilty, but allowed the police to show efficiency in solving, arrestting and prosecuting criminals. It is the major form of cultural repression. It eliminated the need for the society to provide jobs and eductions. White families used to gather with picnic baskets from all over the various areas, usully in train junctions-and watch and enoy the spectacle of human beings being hung, castrated and put on fire. These are truly sick and evil people. But there is always an evil method to their madness.

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Jean-Claude Meslin 21.03.2012 09:29

Thank You for publishing my precedent comment. I would like to add this: Seeing how stupid is my beloved France actually, I am willing to help before, here as in America the situation become bloody and get out of hand. Look already how Nazi-like America is becoming
With that Patriot act N° ? and the new requests of that hypocrite "Uncle-Tom Obama, if I go visit my friends, I could vanish...
 S orry, Future Generations; you will inherit of such a big mess...
 Jea n-Claude Meslin 

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Jean-Claude Meslin 19.03.2012 09:14

In the preceding statements, you see a condensed of pro and con stupidities. We know trough the age what war is all about. It has become even worse when using all those sophisticated weapons. Beside when it is fought in locations considered by the white race (mostly US-NATO mafia) as under-human and uncivilized. Then, it become a free for all situation for uneducated and often drugged soldiers. We had the sad example of Korea, Vietnam, Algeria etc.
As I have suggested, time and time again, there is a way to make a stop to that. The creeps making all those tragedies possible are very few: the businessmen of the West and their unconscious populations (all together less than 10% of mankind). What are the other 90% doing? Most of all their leaders. BOYCOTT those crooks. Vladimir Putin; Please do something. In that actual crazy World, you are the only one having the stature to save us; think about the Future Russian Generations...Jean-C laude Meslin     

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