Charity: US troops stormed through Afghan hospital

Associated Press ^ | 09/06/2009 | KAY JOHNSON

[JrsyJack]

KABUL — A Swedish charity accused American troops Monday of storming through a hospital in central Afghanistan, breaking down doors and tying up staff in a search for militants. The U.S. military said it was investigating.

[JrsyJack]

AP takes another cheap shot at US forces in Afghanistan. Nowhere does this story mention the Taliban's habit of hiding among civilians.

[Paladin2]

Aren’t the Taliban pretty much civilians by definition?

[Berlin_Freeper]

They They BROKE a door??

[Yorlik803]

The AP was pissed because no US solider was shot.

[2banana]

When you harbor the enemy or do not abide by the geneva convention yourself, you lose all protections.

[Venturer]

Gee!! That’s awful

How many did they find?

[ladyvet]

They They BROKE a door??

Yeah, one I'm sure we paid for in the first place and will pay for again.

[muawiyah]

The official count of dead in the airstrike on the gas tankers dropped to about 50 people with maybe 6 of them civilians. This AP article is citing the older "propaganda number" of "70 civilians".

Read with caution ~ once AP knows the numbers and continues to report the higher but otherwise discredited numbers that puts AP over the line into the enemy camp.

I don't know if that allows us to go shoot AP reporters but maybe it does. At a minimum it ought to allow local governments to round up AP personnel pending disposition ~ deportation, trial, defenstration, whatever.

[Berlin_Freeper]

it was a door but is now a door no more

i shall be perfectly inconsolable for the rest of the day

[JrsyJack]

I don't know if that allows us to go shoot AP reporters but maybe it does.

With this story and the AP's recent publishing of the picture of a dying young Marine, I would not be at all comfortable on the front lines if I worked for AP.

[muawiyah]

Hey, if I were an AP puke I’d be leary of parking my car in a space rented by the company.