Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Afghan probe excluded key witnesses

By Gareth Porter and Ahmad Walid Fazly
Asia Times

"Eyewitnesses who saw US troops digging bullets out of the bodies of two Afghan mothers and a teenage girl after a botched Special Operation Forces raid in February were not interviewed in a follow-up investigation ordered by General Stanley McChrystal.....

Yarmand told the New York Times that his investigation had concluded that "there was evidence of tampering in the corridor inside the compound by the members" of the SOF raiding unit.

Within 24 hours of the publication of Yarmand's revelations, McChrystal's spokesman was telling reporters that McChrystal had ordered a new US investigation, even as he was continuing to deny that there was any evidence of SOF tampering with the evidence."

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