Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Weekend of carnage in Afghanistan, 8 women dead, but pointless and lost war goes on...

LET US GET this right. In one weekend in Afghanistan, two separate 'green on blue' attacks have left six troops dead -- two of them British -- killed by Afghan police. Another British soldier was killed by a roadside bomb.

And two US marines were killed when the Taliban attacked Camp Bastion, the heart of occupation military operations.

That is nine soldiers in three days. Most alarming for the occupying powers is the green-on-blue attacks by Afghan forces, which now account for around a quarter of NATO deaths.

To have the very Afghan forces being trained to take over security for the country by the end of 2014 turn their guns on their western trainers must put into doubt the whole exit strategy and create a level of fear and insecurity among the occupying armies far beyond the actual numbers being killed.

Not to be undone in a weekend of carnage, NATO reportedly killed at least eight women and young girls, some aged just 10 years, who were collecting firewood. NATO'S initial statement that armed insurgents were killed in a "precision air strike" had to be revised quickly to admit that civilians had been killed, following a report by an Afghan local government official. Full story...

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