NATO has issued a statement today denying a report of a June 6 drone strike in Afghanistan’s Kunar Province killing three children. The report had already been confirmed by both the Kunar governor and the UN Children’s Fund.
The strike occurred in the Manogi District of Kunar, where a US drone destroyed a house and killed three children within. Seven other civilians were wounded in the attack, all from the same family.
NATO now says the whole incident is “simply not true,” despite the very destroyed house, the very dead children, and the seven hospitalized relatives. They say the report was the result of a “misunderstanding.”
UNICEF stood by their own report confirming the incident, saying they went out and verified the incident before issuing the statement on it in the first place. Though initial NATO denials are not unusual, it is rare for them to stick to the denial after it has been confirmed so thoroughly.
Everything in Afghanistan war and occupation is a "misunderstanding" and misprinted by the news.., Afghanistan war.., what Afghanistan war.., there is no war in Afghanistan.., is a misunderstanding..?
Fong of war.
"…rare for them to stick to the denial after it has been confirmed so thoroughly…"
Have to keep the narrative positive, you know. Can't have the war effort undermined by the Truth.
After all, it's just the UN toadies and we don't answer to the UN…unless we write the report, of course.
What would US propagandists due without the ever-present euphemism? The susbsitute for the killing of children has become "collateral damage" or as with today,s example, "misunderstanding".
How the killing of innocent civilians to include children has been reduced to unsustainable euphemisms and or phonetic mascara, fabricated to assuage the public's perception of what constiitutes a just and legal US-led "war on terror" that is immoral, criminal, unsettling and an all-out assault on international treaties, conventions and law to which the US is signatory.
Deliberately on purpose,
to terrorize the Afghan population on purpose.
I found a lot of sources saying that UNICEF said that they verify all of their figures and stand by their original statement that three people were killed, but I can't find UNICEF's statement itself. Does anyone know where I can find that?
Is there a single person who believes that what NATO says is true?
America's War on Afghan Children continues. Meanwhile in the Orwellian world of America, the vaunted American free press and people continue to support their war criminal military with the kneejerk jingoism.
Support your Stormtroopers, America!