The “Lone Gunman” story being peddled by the USA explaining how another dozen or two Afghan civilians got wasted during just another night raid in the AF-PAK war has several witness accounts saying it was a group of American soldiers that were part of the massacre.
As in just another night raid, because what fighting unit lets it sergeant go off the base at night fully armed, all alone?
CYA, cover your ass, as they say in Uncle Sam’s Army, you know “the one crazy guy” hard sell.
But some real journalists did their jobs, witnesses got interviewed, the interviews got out and even Euronews satellite channel confirmed reports that it was a US military unit during 7:00–10:00 GMT news broadcasts on March 12.
Just another night raid in the AF-Pak War with so many massacres of women and children over the past decade that even the Afghan’s themselves have lost count.
With the Pakistan border still closed to the Western occupation army’s Afghanistan’s supply lines, the Urination Scandal, the Qur’an Burning disaster and now this latest massacre under the infamous “night raid program” so vociferously defended by the Pentagon? I guess we should have expected the “Lone Gunman” pitch by the senior US diplomat in Afghanistan.
We can’t have the world thinking that murdering civilians is standard operating procedure can we?
Lone gunman or just another night raid in the AF-PAK war? You be the judge.
Thomas C. Mountain is the only independent Western journalist in the Horn of Africa, living and reporting from Eritrea since 2006. He can be reached at thomascmountain at yahoo dot com.
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Afghan massacre: Lone gunman vs. just another night raid
Posted on March 16, 2012 by Thomas C. Mountain
The “Lone Gunman” story being peddled by the USA explaining how another dozen or two Afghan civilians got wasted during just another night raid in the AF-PAK war has several witness accounts saying it was a group of American soldiers that were part of the massacre.
As in just another night raid, because what fighting unit lets it sergeant go off the base at night fully armed, all alone?
CYA, cover your ass, as they say in Uncle Sam’s Army, you know “the one crazy guy” hard sell.
But some real journalists did their jobs, witnesses got interviewed, the interviews got out and even Euronews satellite channel confirmed reports that it was a US military unit during 7:00–10:00 GMT news broadcasts on March 12.
Just another night raid in the AF-Pak War with so many massacres of women and children over the past decade that even the Afghan’s themselves have lost count.
With the Pakistan border still closed to the Western occupation army’s Afghanistan’s supply lines, the Urination Scandal, the Qur’an Burning disaster and now this latest massacre under the infamous “night raid program” so vociferously defended by the Pentagon? I guess we should have expected the “Lone Gunman” pitch by the senior US diplomat in Afghanistan.
We can’t have the world thinking that murdering civilians is standard operating procedure can we?
Lone gunman or just another night raid in the AF-PAK war? You be the judge.
Thomas C. Mountain is the only independent Western journalist in the Horn of Africa, living and reporting from Eritrea since 2006. He can be reached at thomascmountain at yahoo dot com.