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bsnub

This is some kind of sick joke right?

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Taliban demand air strike inquiry

crippen

They are catching on.Drown the enemy in paper work,Health and Safety ect.

bsnub

I think the taliban forgot to mention that they beheaded the poor truck drivers.

crippen

Minor detail.

Katana

You cannot imolate your enemy without first calling on them to surrender... three times... nicely..

I'm sorry but kill the fu#$ers. They have no use in the modern world.

q1.) Are you tliban
A1.) Yes

Q2.) bap bap bap

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Mark

Norton

Taliban is not alone in it's demand.

Merkel demands inquiry into Nato air strike which killed 70

"German chancellor Angela Merkel today called for a "thorough, quick" investigation into a Nato air strike which Afghan officials claim killed 70 people.
The demand came as the row over the airstrike by US planes in Kunduz province, in northern Afghanistan, threatened to escalate.
The strike was ordered by Germany, and Ms Merkel said she wanted to know whether civilians were killed in the attack.
The raid has caused uproar in Germany, which will hold parliamentary elections on 27 September.
Speaking in Berlin, Ms Merkel said a quick investigation was essential: "The German government and I personally want to see a Nato investigative team... carry out a thorough and quick explanation of what took place and whether there were civilians killed."


Merkel demands inquiry into Nato air strike which killed 70 | News

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Milkman

The Taliban has and is known to adapt military and with their tactics.

Now, they see public opinion, and diplomatic routes, I believe.

Is the tide shifting? Is sentiment falling for NATO with the civilian casualties.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Taliban leaders watching western news casts, as part of their strategy.

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blackgang

Q-And just how the fuck are you going to find out, look at the uniforms?
A-No cause they would have been burned if they did infact dress differently than civillians.

Q-Ash the people standing around that were not killed?
A_No because you can not believe any Afghan no matter what he says.

Q-would you know if you were talking to a Taliban?
A-No because they will lie to and you can not tell by his cloths.

Q-Did they take the trucks as an act of war and kill the drivers or anyone else?.
A-Yes they did and decapitated the drivers.

OK then this is the end of the case, dismissed and shoot their lawyers where they stand NOW.

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dirtydog

Afghan raid 'killed 30 civilians'

Thirty civilians were killed during a Nato air strike on two hijacked fuel tankers in Afghanistan earlier this month, a government investigator says.

The tankers were seized by the Taliban in the restive northern province of Kunduz earlier this month.

The official said almost 100 people in total died in the strike, reportedly ordered by German commanders.

Nato has acknowledged that some civilians were killed but has yet to publish the results of its inquiry.

After the air strike, which took place on 4 September, President Hamid Karzai called the attack an "error of judgement" and sent his own commission to the area to investigate.

"Based on our interviews with local officials, villagers and the district governor, we have found that 119 people were killed and wounded," said investigator Mohammadullah Baktash.

He said 30 civilians had been killed and nine wounded. Sixty-nine Taliban were killed - 20 of whom were unarmed, he added.


RECENT MAJOR ATTACKS
2 Sep: Blast in Laghman province kills Afghan deputy chief of intelligence and 21 others
25 Aug: Car bomb in southern city of Kandahar kills at least 40
18 Aug: Nine Afghans and a Nato soldier die and more than 50 are injured in Kabul
15 Aug: Bomb outside Nato HQ in Kabul kills seven and injures 90
13 Aug: Twin blasts in Helmand and Kandahar kill 14, including several children
6 Aug: Five American and three UK soldiers, five civilians and five policemen killed by roadside bombs mainly in Helmand
3 Aug: Bomb in Herat city kills 12


Mr Baktash said the full report would be released over the coming days.

"We cannot say whether the air strike was necessary or not. We will present our report to Karzai and it will be up to him to investigate with the Germans," he said.

Last week, a prominent Afghan human rights group, Afghan Rights Monitor, said that according to its own investigation between 60 and 70 civilians had died in the air strike.

The strike, called by German commanders who feared the loaded tankers could be used as mobile bombs, hit as villagers gathered with containers, planning to collect fuel.

Civilian casualties caused by international troops in the country are a major source of friction with the government and the people of Afghanistan.

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Afghan raid 'killed 30 civilians'

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Jet Gorgon

Merkel demands inquiry into Nato air strike which killed 70

Fek off. The Germans ask for help coz they do diddley over there. As for civilians killed, as soldiers tell it, Tango is killed, his weapon is hustled away by fellow terrorists and presto he's a dead civilian. You cannot fight this war by protecting everyone who claims to be a civilian. Civilians have died in every war, and the terrorists are laughing their a**es off about the Euroweenie rules of engagement that they sucked Obama into following. Then the libbie press rolls in and starts the crybaby reports of innocents killed so folks at home are horrified. The terrorists love you guys so much, that when they win, they will invite you for dinner and then slit your throats.

The Washington Post newspaper reported Sunday that a German commander in Afghanistan may have violated NATO rules when he ordered the air strike based on intelligence from just one source.

The Post says the German officer received video from an American fighter jet, showing people around two fuel trucks hijacked by the Taliban. An Afghan informant said everyone at the site was an insurgent, and the German officer ordered a satellite-guided bomb dropped on each truck.

According to the newspaper, a NATO fact-finding team estimates that some 125 people were killed in the strike, and that at least 24 of them were not insurgents.

The NATO rules are aimed at reducing civilian casualties and forbid bombing civilian targets based on a sole source of information.

German officials say the order to attack was given because the fuel trucks could be used as weapons in a suicide attack against nearby German troops.
Aww, shucks, it's NATO's fault that the German commanders are inept and the German troops are pansies.
VOA News - Germany Calls for Swift Probe of Afghan Air Strike

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bsnub

Finally a German soldier with some balls. They used to be the finest fighting force on the planet.

Jet Gorgon

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