Liberty Star
09-14-2008, 08:25 PM
How sad:
Afghanistan: US killed civilians after false tip
By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writer
Sun Sep 14, 1:14 PM ET
KABUL, Afghanistan - An American bombing that killed up to 90 Afghan civilians last month was based on false information provided by a rival tribe and did not kill a single Taliban fighter, the president's spokesman said Sunday.
The claim contradicted a U.S. contention that the Aug. 22 raid on the western village of Azizabad killed up to 35 Taliban fighters.
"There was total misinformation fed to the coalition forces," Humayun Hamidzada, the spokesman for President Hamid Karzai, told The Associated Press.
Afghan police arrested three suspects accused of giving the U.S. military false intelligence that led to the bombardment, the Interior Ministry has said.
An Afghan government commission found that up to 90 civilians were killed, including 60 children, a finding backed by a preliminary U.N. report.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080914/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan
This reminded me of an old news report, was Iraq war also started based on false tips?
Ahmad Chalabi: Iraq's master manipulator
Excerpts of Aram Roston's book, ‘The Man Who Pushed America to War’
NBC News
updated 6:01 a.m. ET, Tues., April. 8, 2008
Aram Roston
Investigative producer
His inner circle called him The Doctor, because of his Ph.D in mathematics. Some of his operatives called him Our Big Brother. The Central Intelligence Agency called him by a code name — which intelligence sources reveal as Pulsar One. Whatever you call him, Ahmad Abdul Hadi Chalabi, a shrewd Iraqi Arab from a family of Shiite bankers, literally changed the world. The United States, which he referred to so respectfully as a “strategic ally,” had sponsored him, flown him and his people to Iraq, even toppled Saddam Hussein for him, as he would boast. The Iraq War has many critics and some fierce defenders, but many insiders on both sides of the debate agree on this: without Chalabi there would have been no war.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23906686/
Afghanistan: US killed civilians after false tip
By JASON STRAZIUSO, Associated Press Writer
Sun Sep 14, 1:14 PM ET
KABUL, Afghanistan - An American bombing that killed up to 90 Afghan civilians last month was based on false information provided by a rival tribe and did not kill a single Taliban fighter, the president's spokesman said Sunday.
The claim contradicted a U.S. contention that the Aug. 22 raid on the western village of Azizabad killed up to 35 Taliban fighters.
"There was total misinformation fed to the coalition forces," Humayun Hamidzada, the spokesman for President Hamid Karzai, told The Associated Press.
Afghan police arrested three suspects accused of giving the U.S. military false intelligence that led to the bombardment, the Interior Ministry has said.
An Afghan government commission found that up to 90 civilians were killed, including 60 children, a finding backed by a preliminary U.N. report.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080914/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan
This reminded me of an old news report, was Iraq war also started based on false tips?
Ahmad Chalabi: Iraq's master manipulator
Excerpts of Aram Roston's book, ‘The Man Who Pushed America to War’
NBC News
updated 6:01 a.m. ET, Tues., April. 8, 2008
Aram Roston
Investigative producer
His inner circle called him The Doctor, because of his Ph.D in mathematics. Some of his operatives called him Our Big Brother. The Central Intelligence Agency called him by a code name — which intelligence sources reveal as Pulsar One. Whatever you call him, Ahmad Abdul Hadi Chalabi, a shrewd Iraqi Arab from a family of Shiite bankers, literally changed the world. The United States, which he referred to so respectfully as a “strategic ally,” had sponsored him, flown him and his people to Iraq, even toppled Saddam Hussein for him, as he would boast. The Iraq War has many critics and some fierce defenders, but many insiders on both sides of the debate agree on this: without Chalabi there would have been no war.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23906686/