Speaking today in a meeting with tribal elders and other top officials, Afghan President Hamid Karzai angrily condemned the US for its refusal to cooperate in the ongoing investigation into last weekend’s massacre of civilians in Kandahar Province.
“This has been going on for too long,” Karzai insisted, “this is by all means the end of the rope here.” The US has promised its own investigation of the attack, but has removed the accused from Afghanistan.
Karzai went on to say that his delegation rejected the current US narrative of a single shooter, and that “this was not carried out by one man and was a deliberate and intentional act.”
This isn’t a completely unwarranted claim. While the official US story is that a single staff sergeant committed the massacre all by himself and wandered back to base to turn himself in, multiple witnesses reported that several US soldiers were involved in the attack.
While the massacre has outraged Afghans, leading to calls for those responsible to face a public trial in the nation, the US has repeatedly sought to downplay it, saying that it mustn’t change the strategy of the occupation at all.
Officials have also tried to placate Afghan concerns by insisting that the still unnamed staff sergeant could face major punishment under US military law for the massacre, though since the Haditha massacre ended with myriad dropped charges and one man facing reduced rank, that pledge has little credibility.
Just like when American cops kill and hurt people. Technically of course it's illegal but we all know the law doesn't apply to them.
Knew they were lying about there only being 1 shooter. Just like Jessica Lynch, Pat Tillman, WMDs, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. lying isn't tough at all when you are in the business of killing people.
If you take the evidence we have, you could suppose that a bunch of soldiers lost it, pack-style, and their sergeant stayed behind, tried to destroy the evidence and turned himself in to a) take the blame for losing control or b) shift the focus away from a ruinously morale-busting group failure to a lone wolf nutcase event, which his superiors would be all too glad to affirm.
Karzai didn't really expect the US Army to turn this guy over to the Afghan authorities, did he? Really? He might actually get convicted and that's something the US Army is never going to do. they'll get him safely back on US soil and then lose him in the "system" and a year or 2 from now they'll put out an announcement about a ruling that he was mentally unstable and has been institutionalized for an undetermined length of time – and then a couple of years from now he'll be quietly tossed out.
The fact that the U.S. quickly removed the shooter and took him to the U.S. is sufficient evidence for me that there is much to hide here.
Evil men love the dark!
I hope the Afghanis kill more Americans !
As many as possible !
They'll let the public forget and then 6 months from now will sentence him to a 3 month suspended sentence with demotion and cut in his retirement benefits which will later be re-instated. Meanwhile Bradley Manning will be sentenced to life in prison for exposing American atrocities with no appeals or media sympathy.
For all but the mindless 'huha!' crowd, on the scene eyewitness testimony carries more weight than anything the US Military confabulates. Before this obscenity, there was the Jessica Lynch and Patrick Tillman fictions. Multiple shooters and premeditated murder makes more sense here.
An Afghan parliament investigation group did find, that the massacre was made by 20 drunken US soldiers ! Why this is censored everywhere?
Afghan revenge killings — Who is behind it?
Those who plant all the road-side bombs that do most of the killing of US troops, surely their not going to be standing around when Americans drive by. Still, the high command of US Army has ordered there to be 360 degree fire when any solder is injured by an IED — kids, woman or man if their visible shoot to kill.
For in the grand scheme of things, the entire War On Terror is nothing but revenge killings for 9-11, the Special Forces night raids with their squads always target the harmless civilian population, and if this massacre is ruled the act of a solder gone crazy, then all those ruling Empire USA have gone nuts, insane and crazy.
U.S. troops targeting civilians — Did Commander and Chief Obama order it?
Of course.
Obama is always promising vengeance (look at his glee over the Bin Laden assassination), just as did his spiritual daddy Bushbomber. Direct order or not, the implied orders for revenge were there.
Mr Karzai do you have time to read books ? If you do ,I recomand you read this book ;
PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, by howard zinn.
Then you will know better who you're dealing with.
Good luck mr President.
This Karzai character is not only weak and corrupt but also stupid, isn't he? Whatever in the world gave him the idea that the US would (a) investigate itself; or (b) cooperate with anybody else's investigation?
Just to play devil's advocate on behalf of Karzai, he HAS to take this line of rhetoric against the US whether he has alternate evidence or not. Why? He's already walking a tightrope between the US and the Taliban, and he knows once the US is gone his days are numbered- maybe not even days and instead hours. If he doesn't appear tough against the US it's going to damage his standing even further in his own country, and if goes too far he'll find himself with the same US government retirement plan currently enjoyed by Diem, Hussein, and bin Laden to mention a few. Karzai will rant and rail against the US, but for all practical purposes the incident is closed- the soldier in question is back in the US, the media can be controlled to spin whatever way the Pentagon wants, and you can be sure the US isn't going to honor any extradition request from Afghanistan.
Yes, sir- another proud day for America.
Trust us. We are the best people in the world. So, we'll take him back to a mid western fort where we used to massacre the Indians and we promise we'll do justice just like we always have.