ROAD WATCH - U.S. Army Corporal Shane Rager, left, provides security during a quality assurance check of the new road that extends from the Tani district center to Narizah village in Khost province,Afghanistan, April 5, 2010. Rager is an infantryman assigned to the Khost Provincial Reconstruction Team. The new road will provide a safer and more efficient route through the countryside. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Julianne M. ShowalterInquiry Puts Spotlight On U.S. Special Forces In Afghanistan -- L.A. Times
A joint U.S.-Afghan investigation into a raid in February may shed light on the secretive role of Special Forces, who are said to account for a disproportionate number of civilian deaths.
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan.
In nearly nine years of warfare in Afghanistan, U.S. Special Forces have done their fighting in the shadows, governed by rules largely of their own making. Now, these elite and secretive troops, their actions long shielded from public scrutiny, are the focus of a high-profile investigation that could shed unprecedented light on their methods and tactics.
American and Afghan officials are probing a possible attempted coverup in the deaths of five Afghan civilians in February in a raid carried out by U.S. Special Forces accompanied by Afghan troops. Three of those killed were women and among the charges is that the bodies were tampered with by coalition forces to conceal the cause of death.
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