Child relatives at the gravesite of five people killed, including three women, during a joint US-Afghan night raid in Paktia provinceUN Report Criticises Covert Troops Who Committed Afghan Killings -- Times Online
Covert troops who killed two pregnant women and a teenage girl in eastern Afghanistan went on to inflict “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” on the survivors of a botched night raid, a report by the UN said.
The family of the victims in Paktiya province have accused Nato of trying to cover up the atrocity after an investigation by The Times revealed that two men, who were also killed, were not the intended targets of the raid. One was a police commander and his brother was a district-attorney.
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My Comment: This is a story that begs for more investigation and disclosure. But like most incidents that go bad in Afghanistan, I suspect that many are now just trying to bury this story and move on.
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