Afghan military officials have reported that a pair of soldiers were arrested in the Helmand Province in connection for an attack earlier this week on a wedding party.
The incident happened on Wednesday, with initial reports saying the rockets were fired during a fight with the Taliban. The earlier reports were coy about whether Afghan government or Taliban fighters fired the rockets, but it was later apparent it was the former. 28 civilians were killed, and 51 wounded.
Gen. Sultan Mahmoud, the Army’s top Helmand officer, says that in addition to the two who were already arrested, eight other soldiers are still being investigated, and could be arrested as well.
The incident fueled outrage among civilians from the Sangin District of Helmand, and hundreds of people traveled to the provincial capital to protest outside of the home of the governor.
Vengeance — Pure profit for our military
Making children into body parts at weddings and funerals, surely this creates the maximum vengeance, which creates the maximum terrorism and the maximum justification for our military demanding more funding from Congress.
What about their sovereign impunity? Jeez, I mean, there they were–"Serving Their Country"…but because measly flying chunk of high explosive mutilates a wedding you're gonna spit all over them?
Yeah, like as if it was Americans who were doing the dying?
Yup. AS IF!!!!!
Rank has all the privilege — Rank has all the guilt
No rank given for the solders, so being at the bottom of the pecking order, if ordered to do it only the officer in charge is guilty. And if by accident, in live combat how can there be guilt for any kind of accident?