Posted on 03/11/2012 5:35:47 AM PDT by DCBryan1
A US soldier has killed 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, after entering their homes in Kandahar. Sky sources said the Afghan victims also included women and elderly men.
Minister of Border and Tribal Affairs Asadullah Khalid, who is investigating the incident, said the soldier entered three homes, killing 11 people in the first one.
The Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) coalition confirmed the incident but did not release the number of killed or injured.
Sky defence reporter Mark Stone said: "Details are still sketchy and various death tolls have emerged.
"It appears to be an isolated incident and the soldier is believed to have been a staff sergeant."
Isaf Deputy Commander Lt Gen Adrian Bradshaw said: "I wish to convey my profound regrets and dismay at the actions apparently taken by one coalition member in Kandahar province.
"I cannot explain the motivation behind such callous acts, but they were in no way part of authorised ISAF military activity."
According to the Panjwai district governor office, seven people died and up to 17 injured were injured in the rampage.
The injured have been treated for their wounds at Nato medical facilities.
Protests were held over the Koran-burning incident
The US embassy in Kabul attempted to quell expected Afghan unrest by also issuing an apology.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
All hell is going to break loose.
This is what happens when people deny reality and try to define WAR as something it is not. Changing a definition does not change reality. Innocent people die in war. Pretending otherwise only prolongs it.
Does anyone really think that we would have been attacked, with all we have in our arsenal, if our enemies believed that we defined war as war?
Libs are having an orgasm over this.
I wonder if the individual is a muslim.
As expected, I’ve read reports of purported eyewitnesses who say they saw a group of drunk and laughing Americans.
I heard Harry “The War Is Lost” Reid use the plural when referring to the alleged shooter. I tried to find his quote online, but the word (”soldiers,” I believe) has been replaced with an editorial singular “service member.”
Since World War II the United States has been fighting “wars” that are “police actions” to maintain order.
Phrases like the “New World Order” have been used by leaders like Bush 41 to describe it.
Rumsfeld himself said the “war” after September 11th is not like the ones fought in the past.
The war in Afghanistan is what conservatives I listened to as a child in the 1970’s called a “no-win war.”
Vietnam was such a war with “rules of engangement” to prevent a conventional military victory like World War II.
Afghanistan is a higher-tech, lower casualty version of Vietnam.
And yet now we have these liberal people pushing us to get fight in Africa to get this Kony guy.
[Can someone tell me why were there?]
Just Bidness?
" Obamas First Order: Dont Hurt the Heroin "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2287687/posts
"Afghanistan still world's top opium supplier, despite 10 years of US-led war
Despite increased eradication efforts in Afghanistan, opium cultivation rose by 7 percent in 2011 as compared to last year, according to a new United Nations report. Production is up 61 percent."
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2011/1011/Afghanistan-still-world-s-top-opium-supplier-despite-10-years-of-US-led-war
I had an Iranian room-mate for a few months while in college in the 70s. He was one of the nicest guys you could meet. And he hated and feared BOTH the Ayatollah & the Shah. He said both only wanted personal power, and both were evil men. He wanted to stay in America, because America has religious freedom. He told me I didn’t know how good I had it, as a Baptist, to be free to worship the way I believed.
However, you wouldn’t find many of that opinion in rural Afghanistan. It is a place where men are willing to die for the right to kill their women - wives and daughters - if they feel like it. There are pockets of extreme evil. And having spent 6 months in Afghanistan, I can now understand those passages in the Bible where God commanded the Jews to kill everyone...
Michael Yon on Twitter usually has good info from his many contacts in country; he posts both on Twitter and on his Facebook logs as well as his own website. He's concerned.
A) If true, Major PR Crisis putting troops including friends of mine in that hell hole country in the Marines at risk.
B) Another Obama Apology Tour, maybe with Sandra Fluke as his opening act.
C) If this guy did go nuts and shot a bunch of people for no reason, he should face the same consequences as any other war criminal.
D) I know a lot of folks here are heated but by making disgusting comments you embarrass everyone who calls this site home. Thank you mods for deleting lunatic comments!
Opinion polls in Egypt and elsewhere has shown 80% support for stoning adulterous women and killing those who convert to Christianity.
That is the real face of islam. The vast majority of muslims are not peaceful in any real way. Thety just refrain from fighting now that they can’t win. Once that changes... Welll, just see how they treat non-muslims anywhere they rule.
The peaceful majority is nothing but fantasy.
My wife is currently under the evil stares of the Afghan Nationals at this very moment and would strenuously object to your description.
“We are making Afghanistan safe for “Bacha Bazi”, which the Taliban opposed, instead of just leaving after the training camps were wiped out. http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/afghan-pedophilia-a-way-of-life-say-u-s-soldiers-and-journalists"
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Any of you folks still wonder why Obama and his “friend” went to Pakistan and environs? Remember, the Democrats/Progressives considered that Afghanistan was THE GOOD WAR. Barack probably still has fantasies about his “butt-boy” days.
Students in high school are said to be behind the Kony video that came out this week.
There’s a lot of moralistic indocrination going on in schools about anything and everything from climate change to multiculturalism etc. etc.
“Caring about the world” becomes more important than any notions of caring about one’s own country.
I wonder what his name was.
This Kony thing comes across more like the Emmanuel Goldstein “Two Minutes of Hate” in 1984.
Some have said it earlier, I will say it in my words
When ONE American says something, Muslims kill each other and threaten to kill ALL Americans because of the action and WORDS of ONE American.
We are told we MUST try to understand the rage and how WE caused the bad wwords or actions.
When will someone tell MUSLIMS that THEIR words and actions cause this and that THEY must consider what their words or actions were that caused these events?
Yes. We should have engaged in total war from the very beginning.
Students would tend to use “drama” like they do with their digital devices to get attention and force others to join in the fray.
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