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Via ZeroHedge

US Accidentally Kills 17 Afghan Police After ‘Miscommunication’ During Airstrike

US airstrikes killed 17 Afghan police officers and wounded 14 others due to a “miscommunication” while fighting with Taliban forces, according to Stars and Stripes, citing Afghan officials.

A small checkpoint guarding a highway outside Lashkar Gah, in Helmand province, April 16, 2019. Via Stars & Stripes

The “friendly fire” incident, which took place in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province Thursday evening, occurred after Afghan security forces called in US air support amid heavy fire from Taliban fighters just outside the province’s capital, Lashkar Gah.

The incident began after a police officer and two of his men decided to take down a Taliban flag from a nearby water tower on Thursday night, within walking distance from a police training center. When they arrived to remove the flag, police tripped a mine, which exploded and alerted the Taliban to their presence. 

The guerrillas began firing on them. Police at the nearby training center arrived to assist the first three officers but were unable to drive the Taliban back, he said.

The police unit then requested air support. Residents of Lashkar Gah heard a very loud explosion around 8:30 p.m. Thursday, they said. –Stars and Stripes

The US military says they were told that the area was clear of allied units.

“Unfortunately, they were not and a tragic accident resulted,” said spokesman Colonel Dave Butler, adding “Afghan Security Forces as well as Taliban fighters were killed in the strikes.”

“We’re examining the miscommunication to ensure it is not repeated. We regret this tragic loss of life of our partners and are committed to improvement every day with every mission.”

The governor of Helmand province, Mohammad Yasin, said an investigation has been launched, calling the airstrike a “tragedy.”

Thursday’s attack comes about two months after miscommunication led to a U.S. airstrike that killed at least five Afghan soldiers and wounded nine others at a checkpoint in neighboring Uruzgan province, another area of heavy Taliban activity.

In that March incident, a firefight had erupted after soldiers at a checkpoint began shooting at a patrol of their own troops, who were accompanied by American advisers on a planned nighttime raid outside the provincial capital Tirin Kot. –Stars and Stripes

As Stars and Stripes notes, fighting in Helmand has claimed the lives of more American, British and Afghan soldiers than any other area of Afghanistan during the 18-year war, as insurgents have held control over more than half of it, according to US military data from October.

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Pequiste
Pequiste

Bringing Them Democracy has the occasional setback you know. Its the cost of doing business. And business has been very good in Shitholistan for, what, 18 years now.

Crawfisher
Crawfisher

The US govt just released LOGCAP V contract worth $80B for 10 years to four contractors covering Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa.

Neuday
Neuday

That amount could build one helluva wall.

Jew World Order
Jew World Order

You can’t fix the US military. It’s working exactly the way it’s designed to.

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr

This wouldn’t happen if the Command & Control of the fighting forces was coordinated by a central Hqs and all strikes called in by them. There are small portable code booklets that teams could use to talk to their Hqs and keep the Taliban in the dark (except for direction finders). Larger units could use satellite comm antennas (or LASERS) which (mainly) beam upward.

NoThanksIJustAte
NoThanksIJustAte

INTERESTING TRIVIA: The average American has absolutely no idea whatsoever how hated the United States has become nowadays by a vast majority of ordinary people all around the globe. It’s increasingly being perceived as an out-of-control bully and a murderous thug. A perception that chimes perfectly with its actions both overseas as well as within its own territory I might add.

For now, that growing hatred is mostly directed against the U.S. government as an entity and not against the population itself as a whole but given time I foresee a sea change in that aspect too as U.S. government abuses continue to pile up everywhere you look. Turns out no one likes bullies or thugs. Who knew, huh? During WWII German cities were bombed, killing scores of innocent citizens, under the rationale that “Hey, if these people support that government then they’re just as guilty!”. Well, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander my friends. I predict a coming time when ordinary Americans will be fearful of traveling outside U.S. borders for fear of personal retaliation against them for their government’s actions, just like German citizens during the Nazi Regime were hated & targeted individually when traveling overseas. It’s already happening as we speak.

Thankfully for Humanity the U.S.’s status as sole world power is rapidly unraveling, and said unraveling it is in fact perhaps the very reason why the U.S. government is currently desperately lashing out everywhere it operates (which is everywhere) just like a wild animal lashing out in its final death throes. I welcome the rise of both Russia and China as a foil to the previously unchecked power of the U.S. government …and quite frankly so should you.

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Tonymike
Tonymike

Thanks for some sanity on this chat box masquerading as a website. It is why americans don’t travel because they don’t want to hear what others think of them. Nothing for the pilot who killed the native soldiers other than a beer. No guilt, no remorse, no thought.

niebo
niebo

No, Americans don’t travel (anymore) because the cost of our healthcare forbids it. We don’t listen to other people anyway,because you are stoopid and expendable. For f*** sake, you would think you (wherever you are from) would have figured it out by now.

sheesh.

/sarc off

Miles Long
Miles Long

It may have lost something in the translation. Aye speak veddy goude English.

niebo
niebo

The US military says they were told that the area was clear of allied units.

That’s the same excuse that they will use when they bomb Detroit and Nashville.

Miles Long
Miles Long

You say that like it’s a bad thing?

TC
TC

They’re going to really love us now.

overthecliff
overthecliff

The US military got caught intentionally murdering innocent Afghani draftees sent into the target area. The murderers from commanding general to the guy who pushed the button should be prosecuted and punished for war crimes. No, it was a friendly fire incident. They have happened in every war.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy

Please explain any good reason why the American tax payer is forced to fund military intervention in Afghanistan for the past 16 to 18 years . Our young people’s blood and treasure pissed away on a shit hole that offers us what ?? More CIA heroin to fund black ops in other shit holes to continue the facade of American greatness . Wow that’s doing wonders for Main Street average Americans . That is of course if you believe the big lie of how great our economy is considering the largest employers have employees paid so low that they qualify for welfare benefits .
Meanwhile I’m supposed to give a fuck about Afghanistan , I don’t !
I have a great deal of respect for my fellow Americans that serve in our military and nothing but contempt for those political basturds controlled by the circle jerk of Wall Street to K-Street to Capitol Street . To our gold star mothers and fathers I am heart felt sorry for your loss but remember those beating a war drum really don’t give a rats ass about us or our friends and family lost on these fool hardy missions . Please keep that in mind when you put your flag out front . Perhaps we could start a movement flying our flags upside down to show the true nature of our national distress and distrust of what is allegedly our government servants !

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