As if killing thousands of innocent men, women and children wasn’t enough, the Bush administration admits to mistakenly killing and beating the shit out of their own allies. This is the oxymoron, Military Intelligence, in action. Nice job.
I can never forgive them,” Mr. Rauf said in an interview today as he lay on cushions at his home, still clearly suffering from his ordeal. “Why did they bomb us? Why did they do this?” …
Among the men killed in the school, survivors said today, were two of Mr. Karzai’s top commanders, while in the district headquarters, two guards were killed. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld admitted last week that American forces may have killed local allies in the raid.
Despite the Afghan government’s continued support for United States operations to hunt down fighters from the Taliban and Al Qaeda, local officials here said it was time for them to end the bombing and commando raids to prevent further mistakes and loss of life. …
“I was shouting `Dost! Dost!’ — `We are friends!’ — but they were not listening,” he said. “And I was telling my men that they are friends, and American soldiers came and started to beat me.
“I was down on my knees, bent over, and they kicked me in the chest. I heard my ribs crack. Then I was lying on my side and they kicked me in the back, in the kidneys, and I fainted.”
He came round to find his hands tied and one of his men dead on the ground.