Nazim Shah returned to his home in Panjwai district from a trip to Kandahar to find his entire family killed. Sobbing into the phone, he told The Independent: “All my family is dead … We will get revenge on those who killed my family. We won’t let this rest easily.” The attack comes at a crucial time, as President Hamid Karzai and US officials, under strained relations, negotiate a future role for foreign forces after Nato troops hand over security to Afghan forces in 2014.
Witnesses and officials gave differing accounts of yesterday’s events, but it appears that the soldier, as yet unnamed, left the joint US-Afghan Zangebad base at about 3am. He walked to the villages of Balandi and Alkozai, about a kilometre away, and began the killings which left nine children, three women and four men dead. Five more were wounded.
“The US soldier attacked three different houses, killing 11 people in the first house, four in the second house and one in the third house,” said Mahammad, a tribal elder in Panjwai. “The 11 people who were first shot dead were brought together in one home and the soldier put pillows, sticks and blankets on them and burnt them.” Photographs of the victims showed burn injuries.
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Heres my atrocity timeline.
collateral murder, garani massacre, fallujah massacre, haditha massacre, Iraqi Rape Squad, Afghan Kill Squad.
things are getting worse.
In the battle for hearts and minds America just got its ass handed to it.
update: Immediate US exit?