[NYTr] NATO's Grisly Atrocities in Afghanistan's Helmand Province

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

sent by mart

[NATO 'Winning hearts and minds' by shooting children in their sleep
and slashing the throats of shopkeepers? The Brits "taking these 
'allegations' seriously"?? Yeah, right! These atrocities are war
crimes--  no different than the actions of the NAZI SS "Einsatzgruppen"
death squads of WWII. Of course, since any and all 'commando
operations' in Afghanistan (and elsewhere in the world as well) by  U.S
and NATO Special Forces - including those of Canada's own JTF2 'kidnap,
torture & murder' squad - are officially "top secret" -- NATO can and
is officialy at least, claiming "no knowlege" of these latest murders
of Afghan civilians. Don't hold your breath waiting for any sort of
real or actual 'investigation'.  -mart]

The Telegraph - Dec 12, 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/12/wafghan112.xml

Claims of atrocity in Helmand province

By Tom Coghlan in Kabul

The British Army says it is "taking seriously" claims that children
were shot and several adult villagers had their throats cut during a
secret military operation by unidentified forces in Helmand province.

The alleged Nov 18 mission in the village of Toube reportedly involved
Afghans and unspecified foreign soldiers.

One man claimed to have witnessed his brother having his throat slashed
as he protested that he was a shopkeeper and not with the Taliban.

Others alleged that two children were shot as they slept.

Col Richard Eaton, the spokesman for the British military in Helmand,
said: "These are very serious allegations and we have no sense of
whether they are true or not.

"There is something that took place at approximately that time and it
did cause some casualties. The initial assessment was that those were
all Taliban."

A Nato spokesman said that he was unaware of any Nato troops being in
the area on the night.

US special forces have undertaken secret missions about which Nato has
no knowledge.

But in the past Nato has accused the Taliban of inventing supposed
atrocities by Western forces.

Meanwhile, medics at the British garrison of Camp Bastion were
yesterday fighting to save the lives of a two-year-old Afghan boy and
his sister, aged around 10, injured in a mortar attack in Helmand.

British forces earlier completed clearing pockets of Taliban resistance
in Musa Qala after a major operation to seize back the only town under
enemy control.