NYT appears to scrub Assadullah Wafa's name from (handcuffed kids) story.

[Robb]

OK, my post about Wafa and why he's the one talking about this doesn't seem to be resonating with DUers. Fine.

No one seems interested that Karzai picked the face that reminds Afghans most of civilians killed by U.S. bombs to investigate.

No one seems interested that whichever province the guy's governor of that year tends to have these horrifying civilian deaths while he's around.

In fact, the New York Times has apparently decided that he is so unimportant, the last update of the story took his name right out of it.

Google cache results look thusly when searching on Wafa in "News": (sometimes spelled with one "s")

And the NYT story currently reads thusly:

No, Wafa's appointment isn't important. Nothing to see here.

[FreakinDJ]

1. Some folk don't want to see it

[johnaries]

2. Something about this whole story just doesn't "smell" right.

I have no doubt that atrocities and mistakes have occurred in both Iraq and Afghanistan (especially at the hands of Xe-Blackwater), but there's just something not quite right about this story. And for some reason I think Karzai has a bigger part in this than he's saying.

All I can say for sure is that I will reserve all judgements until we can get more information.