A leaked helmet camera video out of Afghanistan showing a US soldier shooting an Afghan civilian driving a truck has been removed from social media sites,and led to a promise of an investigation by the Pentagon.
The video, initially leaked on YouTube, showed a soldier’s camera view as his armored vehicle drives past a civilian truck. He then fires a shotgun directly into the driver’s side window, shattering it.
Central Command (CENTCOM) issued a statement insisting that the video was “not authorized” and that the shooting of the civilian vehicle was not in keeping with engagement policies for ground troops there.
Gen. Joseph Votel, the Centcom chief, confirmed he’d seen the video, saying he was extremely disappointed by it, and promised to get to the bottom of it and take appropriate measures against whoever was involved.
More of the same… More losses of hearts and minds, just another ugly occupation of the last place on earth any sane person would wanna occupy. Many former occupiers will concur that Afghanistan ain’t no picnic… Cocaine tells you you’ve got too much money. Afghanistan tells us we have too much military… Tell me again, why are we over there…???? Why aren’t we over in Saudi, the place where the pilots and princes who supported them came from? What did the Afghans DO to US to deserve this type of treatment…???? Pretty soon every Afghan in the country will hate us for our bad behavior and our occupation of their country… It’s just a matter of time… Then all is lost…!!!!!
“Pretty soon”? As someone who knows a lot of Afghans,I can guarantee you they already do. Even those who are officially on America’s side hate America now and are only still “allies” for their self interest. You’ll have noticed that Karzai became a shrill critic of the same occupation he was serving the moment he left his puppet office?
These same sociopaths get out of the military, come back and become cops.
I’m sure the good general was only “disappointed” by the fact the video was released. He could care less about the civilian that got shot.
The US military has murdered tens if not hundreds of thousands of innocents in Afghanistan and Iraq. Why do you think suicide rates among veterans of these war crimes are so high?