03/17/10

Permalink 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

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