Pentagon officials promised an investigation into an incident today in which a US soldier in a watchtower opened fire on an Afghan boy, shooting and killing him outside the Bagram airfield in Parwan Province.
Details are still scant on the incident, but the soldier claimed the boy had “what looked like an automatic rifle” when he fired. Officials never did say what the object turned out to be, though it was evidently not a gun.
The killing added to tensions around the airfield, which has seen numerous incidents riling locals, and villages from the surrounding area organized near the base to protest the killing, though they have since been dispersed.
Though the US presence at Bagram isn’t as large as it once was, the site has been a source of controversy for years, and in 2012 sparked a massive protest when US military personnel were caught burning Qurans at the base.
Was this soldier a former “law enforcement” officer in the US by any chance? Or when he’s done with his Afghan stint will he get to kill American kids who happen to have a pencil in their hands?
Let me guess, the fake investigation will conclude that the killing was more than justified.
Who trains these people anyway, israeli “medics”?
A pencil is a dangerous weapon in the hands of a 10 yr old, specially if he’s literate. That’s what the Americans fear.
The US Empire Is not some old ladies benevolent aid society, we train and arm humans to kill any percieved threat to not only US lives but primarily it is their capital investments they are hired to protect.
The police and US security forces shoot and kill , beat and assault children bof dark pigmented skins on a daily basis.
It is not true that Black or Brown of skins lives matter within or outside of US so why should it matter if some male in a whitemans uniform kills on Afghan Iraq, Syria, Lybia or African nations, it is all done to protect the economic system, has no human morality beyond that.
Color of skin disapears in uniforms because the. Color of the wages is green, and power.is one very cruel master that gets off by harming the less powerful.
“…Pentagon officials promised an investigation into an incident
today in which a US soldier in a watchtower opened fire on an Afghan
boy, shooting and killing him outside the Bagram airfield in Parwan Province…..”
Do you understand what an “investigation” is?
“….some male in a whitemans uniform,,,,”
Does the US military wear the standard white sheets and hoods?
DO I KNOW WHAT AN INVESTIGATION IS?
As to military yes I do, and those that cannot see beyond red white and Blue know dam. Wellvbut do not giveba fln’ pig about justice. MY VIET era friends repeTedly turned in evidence of USmmilitary group callednTigers atrocities, 30 years later “,”O so sorry we.took so long”; even better kept secrets than agent orange and other i vestigations in hat once green land.
Colin Powel the token Military turned neocon who hid and tried to hide many more MivLai’s and then more lies that ook us to Iraq.
A Black man in white mans clothes, wether it was Bushies Power suits or cammys..
The military no longer represents a Constitutional Republic, It is run by the Executive Branch through Dept of State and Defense The only real job for congress as to making war is to get bribes for allocating funds.
The whole US military is no lo ger citizen soldier they are hired killers andnhey no longer work on the cheap, earning higher wages than 50% of non military or gov employed working famlys.
Do not give a damn who they kill overseas as we now live under the tyranny of a police State forna Corporate form of National Sicialism.I worry more about cops capping americnsEach year they kill more Americanz than our military lose i combat.
Heck, it’s killing civilians no matter, cuz wherever our modern mercenaries go the red white and blue of empire makes the lands run red with blood.
USbisba criminal State and you know what I wonder how one crook judges another.
How large arenthe bribesband advances in military paygrades?
POWELL MADE 30 MILLION between Gulf War I and II sellng new Euro nations the weapons they would neednin order to join NATO.
He retired with high six figure salary from military and almost the same from State pensions and speaking fees.
Screw your Investigations the populCevaeenlikebthe Blind trying to figure out an elephant.
And as thenHero Colin Powell lied to leaf us toh look here we are so sorry.
Interesting bellicose reply to my pointing out that there is an investigation into what happened whose details and results have not been announced.
Your rant about Colin Powell and “white man’s clothes” is off the wall.