Afghans appalled Marines not charged in killings

[brooklynite]

Source: AP

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Afghan officials expressed outrage Saturday at the decision by the U.S. military not to charge U.S. Marines involved in a shooting spree that left 19 Afghan civilians dead in 2007.

U.S. military officials said Friday that no criminal charges will be brought against two U.S. Marines officers in a unit accused of firing indiscriminately at vehicles and civilians after their convoy was hit by a suicide bomber on March 4, 2007, in eastern Nangarhar province.

"I am very angry," said Kubra Aman, a senator from Nangarhar. "This is too much. They are killing people. First, they say it is a mistake, and after that they let them go without charges."

Afghan witnesses and a report by Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commission concluded that a unit of Marine special operations troops opened fire along a 10-mile (16 kilometer) stretch of road, killing up to 19 civilians and wounding 50 other people.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/24/afghan.outrage.ap/index.html

[msongs]

1. american war criminals get away with murder every day...like bush and cheney nt

[ohio2007]

2. Suicide attack kills 4 Afghan soldiers, child in eastern Afghanistan

Just wondering how many the old Talban rulers killed in 2007 using civilians as human sheilds?


Suicide attack kills 4 Afghan soldiers, child in eastern Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan: A suicide bomber killed four Afghan soldiers and a child in eastern Afghanistan Friday, when he blew himself up as an army convoy drove past, an official said.

Four other soldiers were wounded in the attack, about 8 miles (12 kilometers) west of Khost city, said Defense Ministry spokesman Zahir Azimi.
Insurgency related violence has killed more than 1,200 people — mostly militants — so far this year,
Suicide bombers frequently target military convoys, but civilian passers-by are often killed in such attacks.

In eastern Kunar province, meanwhile, deputy police chief Abdul Sabor Allayer said a rocket hit a schoolyard on Wednesday in Asmor district, killing one student and wounding four others. The victims were between eight and 14 years old.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/23/asia/AS-GEN-Afghanistan-1st-Ld-Writethru.php

They say "all targets" are ligitimate, there are no civilians .

Why is that?

This is what Barak will be dealing with this time next year.

[SpiralHawk]

3. "So?" - VP Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney (R)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

4. ofcourse when we wage a religious war, no one brings up the same things they

do when its followers of islam who kill people.

[raystorm7]

5. I am becoming NUMB to stories like this =(

[bluereality]

6. There is no justice for poor people

Even in America. Ask Sean Bell.

[Bigmack]

7. Tom Lehrer.... old time highbrow comedy guy..

had a song "Send the Marines"...

"The members of the Corps... all hate the thought of war... they'd rather kill them off by peaceful means... don't call it oppression.... we hate that expression... The UN and OAS, they have their place, I guess... but first... Send the Marines."

Note: For those of you who might be offended by any slur on the Marines... I earned the right to say things about the Marines. The hard way.