Posted on 07/29/2002 10:12:28 AM PDT by wimpycat
The Afghan Government has warned against any cover-up in the investigation into a US airstrike which killed nearly 50 people at a wedding party at the start of July.
The warning came amid reports that a preliminary United Nations investigation into the bombing had found that US officials removed vital evidence from the site after the incident.
The UN probe is said to have found that US troops cleaned the area - removing shrapnel, bullets and traces of blood.
According to The Times newspaper, the UN report says there was no corroboration of the US claim that the aircraft that launched the attack had first been targeted from the ground.
Weeks or hours?
The Afghan Government says that 48 civilians died and more than 100 others were injured when US planes bombed targets in central Uruzgan Province on 1 July.
The Pentagon insists it chooses targets carefully
The American side said it needed several weeks to collect evidence and make a full report.
But locals say US officials arrived just hours after the raid, taking photographs and filming the scene and the bodies.
The UN investigation is also reported to have found that women at the bomb site had their hands tied.
Inquiry continues
A spokesman for Afghanistan's foreign ministry says it is premature to judge whether or not there has been a cover-up, as investigations are still ongoing, but warned there should be no cover-up from any side.
He said the Afghan Government is continuing to look into the matter, and says it is taking the allegations that women's hands were forcibly tied very seriously.
A spokesman for the United Nations in Afghanistan stressed the UN report is only preliminary and neither fully documented nor sufficiently substantiated.
But he added that an in-depth investigation would be completed to ensure that such a tragedy did not happen again, and that the protection of civilian lives becomes a primary concern in the fight against terror.
The American embassy in Kabul had no comment on the report.
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...Then why did anyone bother writing an article on it? The US was very clear in the beginning of the investigation that we were removing evidence, such as cartridges and blood for analysis.
The UN has known this all along, and it has access to said evidence. The only reason to stick it in this article, in THIS context, is to give the impression that the US is covering up something...total BS....just like the claim that the UN found "evidence" that womens' hands were tied...uh...DUH!
Unless the UN was AT the site within a couple of hours of the attack, no such evidence exists. If any does, odds are it's fabricated, and considering these people's backward nature, they'd be lucky to have one operational camera among them.
This article is bogus. Thanks for the barf alert.
Well, it looks like we walked right into it. Again.
That's one of the things that gets me. There were an AWFUL lot of cartriges in the area. And a lot of bullet holes in walls. We didn't attack with rifles. We used rockets. Oh, then there was the Reuters photo of the natives proudly standing around what they claimed was a ctater made by a rocket during that attack. There was no ejecta, no scorching...and there was GRASS growing inside the hole.
Besides, the initial Afghan claims of 400 hundred killed, and transported by a hospital with no transport facilities, make everything else they say suspect.
LOL! You answered your own question further along in your post.
The Eurosnot press has no problem reporting anything from unnamed sources or dubious sources, or preliminary unsubstantiated UN reports. No problem at all. And those already predisposed to believe the U.S. automatically lies about any and everything will believe this.
Notice how the part about the report being preliminary and unsubstantiated is buried in the story.
It's typical for these bozos to write a screaming headline such as "US COVERS UP EVIDENCE OF MASSACRE" and then in small print somewhere deep in the story, ...according to a preliminary, unsubstantiated report that relies on shadowy, nebulous, unnamed "eyewitnesses."
Typical, token disclaimer, added for no reason except for the publication to point to should the US take offence at their publishing of incitement propaganda.
This statement speaks volumes and reassuredly so.
These Afghan subhumans can no longer play both sides, grin and claim a "wedding party" or new order supporters are going off in a caravan bristling with weapons...
And the US will simply nod and pat them on the butt and send them on their way.
The foreign infidel actually has not only the means to think, but to deliver retribution as necessary, for duplicitous conduct.
That is certainly reassuring.
We need more accidents.
There is that kindergarten phrase again: I want.
Perhaps you and Jane Fonda can go to Afghanistan and pick up all the answers first hand?
Unarmed, of course. Just you, your wits and your morally superior posturing.
Let us know how it goes.
It means those clever two-faced Afghanis actually managed to have some westerners "find" the evidence of "war crimes" that they so carefully manufactured.
If it weren't so tragic it would be comical.
In this part of the world, haven't you noticed certain patterns that don't seem to occur anywhere else?
Just in muslim countries?
I know I have...and have been really peeved for a lot of years that so few, even in our own government, ever noticed. Until now that is. To President Bush's credit, he mentioned the other day that Pali homocide bombings seem to be deliberate responses as attempts to derail impending peace and cease-fire agreements.
The president is right. They are.
Something similar, if a bit more extreme, is also practiced in certain corners of San Francisco, New Orleans, and other interesting cultural centers. But that apron stuff sounds kinky even for those crowds.
-archy-/-
You most certainly arent an earthling but from a planet situated much lower in the system as reflected by your views and language.
Get a passport to Planet earth and come to the forum we have classes forming for those who are ill educated to post in a foum.
Good bye !!
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