Nato Accused of ‘covered up’ botched night raid in Afghanistan that killed five

[G_j]

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Nato-accused-of-cover-.6149210.jp

Nato accused of cover up over killing of pregnant women

Published Date: 13 March 2010
By JEROME STARKEY in Khataba

THE survivors of a night raid in eastern Afghanistan in which five people, including two pregnant women, died have accused Nato of trying to cover up the atrocity.

In a statement issued after the raid last month, it was claimed Nato staff found the women's bodies "tied up, gagged and killed", and hidden in a room. The statement was headed: "Joint force operating in Gardez makes gruesome discovery".

However, more than a dozen survivors, local officials, police chiefs and a religious leader interviewed at and around the scene of the attack maintain the women were killed by the same unknown US and Afghan gunmen who killed two male relatives and another woman during a botched pre-dawn assault on a policeman's compound a few miles outside Gardez, the capital of Paktia province.

The operation, in the early hours of 12 February, came more than a fortnight after the commander of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan issued strict new guidelines designed to limit the use of night raids.

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http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n212984

Nato ‘covered up’ botched night raid in Afghanistan that killed five

13 March 2010 | 02:26 | FOCUS News Agency

London. A night raid carried out by US and Afghan gunmen led to the deaths of two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials in an atrocity which Nato then tried to cover up, survivors have told The Times.

The operation on Friday, February 12, was a botched pre-dawn assault on a policeman’s home a few miles outside Gardez, the capital of Paktia province, eastern Afghanistan. In a statement after the raid titled “Joint force operating in Gardez makes gruesome discovery”, Nato claimed that the force had found the women’s bodies “tied up, gagged and killed” in a room.

A Times investigation suggests that Nato’s claims are either wilfully false or, at best, misleading. More than a dozen survivors, officials, police chiefs and a religious leader interviewed at and around the scene of the attack maintain that the perpetrators were US and Afghan gunmen.
The identity and status of the soldiers is unknown

[Mari333]

1. knr where is our great MSM in all this??

still blacking out our atrocities.

[G_j]

2. it's very fresh

we'll see. at least in Europe I imagine it will get notice, because this is about NATO.

[Robb]

3. Such impeccable sources are hard to come by.

...the reports were supported by the head of Paktia's influential Religious Council, Maulavi Mohammed Khaliqdad Haqqani.

I wish people would read the articles sometimes. :eyes:

[G_j]

4. is there

something in the subject line that not true?

[Robb]

5. You will be disappointed in how little coverage this "story" will get.

...every sensible reporter on the ground in Paktia province would know better than to report a story using a Haqqani as a confirmation source.

[G_j]

6. a report of survivors

"However, more than a dozen survivors, local officials, police chiefs and a religious leader interviewed at and around the scene of the attack maintain the women were killed by the same unknown US and Afghan gunmen who killed two male relatives and another woman during a botched pre-dawn assault on a policeman's compound a few miles outside Gardez,"


you are grasping for straws

[Robb]

8. Well, it's been 16 hours.

...Have you found out who the Haqqanis are yet? :rofl:

Good luck with the whole thing, though. "Grasping at straws," indeed. Hey, I'm pretty sure Mullah Omar will agree this happened, too, if he isn't dead. Probably even if he is. :D

[G_j]

10. dude, I already know who they

are you so dense as to not realize you have completely misrepresented the story posted?

so all of the survivors interviewed concocted and orchestrated their stories at the behest of a religious militant?
That is what grasping for straws is.

[gimama]

7. Thank You for posting this

It IS hard to find & follow
REAL/accurate/timely information on OUR wars.
& it IS important that the American PUBLIC gets the facts.
Thank YOU, again.

[malaise]

9. Duh

You are surprised because????
War is criminality.

[G_j]

11. Democracy Now! / Common Dreams

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/16/headlines

US Raid Kills Two Pregnant Women and Teenage Girl in Afghanistan

The Times of London has revealed US and Afghan gunmen killed two pregnant mothers, a teenage girl and two local officials last month in a botched nighttime raid in the Paktia province of Afghanistan. The raid came more than two weeks after the commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan issued new guidelines designed to limit the use of night raids. Survivors said US and NATO officials tried to cover up the killings by claiming that the three women had been discovered bound and gagged, apparently killed execution style. The Times reports the two Afghan men were shot dead while trying to proclaim their innocence. The women were hit by the same volley of fire while crouching in a hallway. One of the mothers killed had ten children, the other had six children. The families were offered compensation of $2,000 for each of the victims.

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Another night-time raid on a housing compound in Afghanistan. Another bunch of innocent Afghans killed. Another round of lies by the US-led forces of the so-called International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Only this time, among the dead are two pregnant mothers and a teenage girl.

And once again the US media remain mute, accepting the official story, which was of ISAF forces responding to an attack which in reality appears never to have happened.

Before I started to write this piece, which once again was broken by the intrepid Jerome Starkey, a reporter in Afghanistan who works for the Times of London, I thought maybe I should read the Sunday edition of the New York Times, to see whether America's "paper of record" had reported on this latest atrocity. But the night before we had suffered a heavy storm that knocked down three large trees in my front yard, and there was currently a thunderstorm underway, with rain pouring down, so I decided, what the hell, I'll just write it. There's no way the Times would cover this story.

I was right, of course. When the rain let up, and I went out and got the paper, and scoured it for word of this latest obscene slaughter by US forces, I found nothing. The Times' reporters in Afghanistan and the reporters in the paper's Washington bureau who cover the Pentagon had ignored it. So, a Google search discloses, did the rest of the servile US media.

So what actually happened?


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