The embarrassment and the apologies keep coming for NATO troops in Afghanistan today, after an overnight raid in the tiny village of Karz, in the Kandahar Province, attacked the home of a cousin of President Hamid Karzai.
The cousin, Yar Mohammed Karzai, was 60 years old and a lifelong resident of the village, the Karzai family’s ancestoral home. He was shot in the head and killed by NATO troops. His son was briefly arrested as a suspect but later released. Troops also captured three bodyguards and two neighbors who came over to see what the ruckus was, terming them “suspected insurgents.”
The bodyguards, according to President Karzai’s half brother, Kandahar Provincial Council Chair Wali Karzai, were assigned by him after an attack by militants killed Yar Mohammed’s other son. They remain in custody.
NATO reported in the wake of the killing that he was not the “prime target” and insisted that they had already apologized to the Afghan government for yet another botched killing of an innocent man.
Such apologies have been coming all too regularly lately, however, and given that President Karzai just got done spurning an apology over the weekend for killing nine children in Kunar, the news of his cousin’s death is unlikely to be shrugged off.
More Natoism. Rhymes with Nazism.
Mr. Hammid Karzi.., lately you been talking to much…, they did send a dead fish to you but you didnt get the message.., do you get the message now…, that you are nothing and they are the one ruling Afghanistan.., they giving you their second warning.., do you get the message now.
Everybody: Please read and re-read Jamal's comment. This is how the empire operates.
Empire = Mafia
Obama = Bush
What the hell is going on?!!! Stupid is as stupid does is evidently the meme NATO has embraced as its mission statement. I'm no fan of Karzai, the puppet hack, but damn it all… this doesn't make him any more a friend.
They don't want a friend. They want someone who will do as they are told. Or as Jamal describes above, perhaps the next "accident" won't be a quite so distant relative… The absolute last thing they want is someone they installed who thinks he's in charge.
In charge as in like Saddam Hussein was?
Hey Hamid?
♬"that's why I say hey man nice, nice shot
what a good shot man."
You know, from that Filter tune?
That'll teach Karzai to complain about us killing children in his country.
NATO — no fly zone
Hamid…..Dude… Yaa, sorry …… Yer cousin…..?? Yaa gotta B kiddin,, Really…??? WTF…
Part of the Petraeous surge in Afghanistan seems to have been the re-introduction of the Viet Nam Program called Phoenix. It was designed to kill off or capture the leaders of the Viet Cong and it's estimated that 50,000 people were killed. The military just bragged that they have killed 900 top commanders of the Taliban, but they have not told us how many innocents have been killed as collateral damage in these bungled raids. It doesn't help to use 500 lb bombs to blow up a house, when it blows up ten others and kills 20 innocents.
Friend of mine back from Afghan said the US had the most, undisciplined troops, the sorriest intelligence and coordination and the most incompetent leadership from top to bottom he had seen in his 30 years in the military.
A decade of stupid, worthless wars like these would wreck the morale of any army.
Most of the people know that most of what we hear about why we are fighting are lies. The troops still get 9-11 propaganda, and are told they are going to Afghanistan to fight the terrorists who attacked us. So, what do you think happens to their morale when they get there and discover they've been fed a pack of lies?
WAY TO GO, TEAM NATO !!!
Oh, wait- this was a 'mistake', right? Just like the 9 kids blown away a few days ago? I'm sure a simple apology is all that required in this case, just like the one with the kids, right?
Now, when will we be let in on the secret of which NATO nation the troops in question were from?
Cpl. Loren M. Buffalo, 20, of Mountain Pine, Ark., died March 9 in Kandahar province, Afghanistan from an IED attack. At least eight US soldiers have died in the last three weeks in Kandahar province.
Recently Us generals have claimed the Taliban have been pushed to the fringes of Helmand and Kandahar provinces.
It was a night operation – only the "A" team gets to go out at night…maybe even one of those "black arts" teams or was that blackwater, I fergit…
well you have to understand that to them the "enemy" is the American people and anyone who informs them is an enemy.
"Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself."
William Shakespeare
I will be evn happy if the traitors like Karzai are also killed.
Actually the face of NATO forces is exposed every day but they are shameless and the war for killing will continue.
Good people should not question the superior masters' deeds. Their mission in life is to learn to love them, prasise them and support them! Now finally we get to develop the real super-humans – of course still of inferior value to the spider-masters of America. Long live the Master Spiders of the new world! Hail, Hail! The spider at top, the willing weaver at middle, and the slaves at bottom! Halleluja! THAT WILL BE PARADISE ON EARTH! Just you ask any spider assistant! And kill anyone answering the wrong way!
Our crack intel people are at it again. They couldn't see 9-11 coming (but knew who did it by lunchtime?). They couldn't see the fall of the Berlin wall coming. They thought Saddam had WMD's. They couldn't see unrest in the Arab world coming.
So, now we put them in charge of 'targeting' for ops like this one. Yeah, that was always gonna work.
In these tough times, the best thing we could do for our budget is to completely zero out everything connected with 'intelligence'. Being in the dark would be better than always being wrong.