Update 15th March 2010. (note: originally published on: Jan 16, 2010 @ 3:53) thanks to http://informationliberation.com/ :
Evidence Mounts NATO Report Lied on Afghan Civilian Killings posted 03/15/2010, 5:03 AM (Antiwar.com)
[Category: Cover-Up/Deceptions]
The February 12 night raid against a house party in Afghanistan’s Paktia Province remains shrouded in mystery, but NATO’s official story appears to be crumbling as even NATO officials concede that the claims made were not strictly true.… (more)
NATO’s official statement claimed at the time that the raid on the home led to a “fire fight” against “several insurgents
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Jan 16, 2010 @ 3:53: I posted on this recently. Since then there’s been some more developments:
Original story on ICH, December 31st 2009:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24290.htm
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11th Jan 2010, the excellent MEDIALENS
wrote of the episode: Were Afghan children Executed by US-led forces and why aren’t the media interested? (http://www.medialens.org/alerts/10/100111_were_afghan_children.php)
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15th Jan 2010, ICH post a followup to the story:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24403.htm
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This Time It’s Pregnant Women: Another US Atrocity in Afghanistan
By David Lindorff – 03/14/2010 (14th March 2010)
Another night-time raid on a housing compound in Afghanistan. Another bunch of innocent Afghans killed. Another round of lies by the US-led forces of the so-called International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Only this time, among the dead are two pregnant mothers and a teenage girl.
And once again the US media remain mute, accepting the official story, which was of ISAF forces responding to an attack which in reality appears never to have happened… continue
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