General Stanley McChrystal reins in special forces after raids kill civilians
The commander of US and Nato troops in Afghanistan has issued new rules to rein in special forces after a spate of botched operations left scores of civilians dead. Days after an investigation by The Times revealed that two pregnant women and a teenage girl were killed in a night raid by American special forces, General Stanley McChrystal admitted that troops under different commands were sometimes working at cross-purposes. AWIP: Afghan family killed as special forces defy night raid ban + Nato ‘covered up’ botched night raid in Afghanistan that killed five + This Time It's Pregnant Women: Another US Atrocity in the Bush-Obama War in Afghanistan + US military created private spy and murder squad in Afghanistan + Many Thousand Gone





