16 Afghan police officers were mistakenly killed in a U.S. airstrike in southern Afghanistan

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Errant U.S. Airstrike Kills 12 Afghan Police Officers, Official Says
by ASSOCIATED PRESS

KABUL, Afghanistan — An errant U.S. airstrike confirmed by the Pentagon killed 12 Afghan National Police officers and wounded two others, Helmand provincial police chief Abdul Ghafar Safi said Saturday.

The death toll in Friday's airstrike was determined after a site inspection of the compound in Gereshk District, he said.

The United States in a statement confirmed that the airstrike on the Security Forces compound happened during a U.S.-supported operation against Taliban insurgents in the area. In the statement the U.S. offered its condolences to the families of the security forces who were killed.

While much of Helmand province is under the control of Taliban, Afghan national security forces have been waging fierce battles to retake territory. NATO and U.S. troops are in Helmand to assist Afghan troops.

Related: U.S. Now Waiting Days to Announce Deaths in Afghanistan

Safi told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that the dead were police officers who were operating with the army in the area. He said they had recaptured the post from the Taliban when the airstrike occurred. On Friday, the Helmand Gov. Hayatullah Hayat said it was believed the police officers were not in uniform, which may have resulted in mistakenly identifying them as Taliban fighters.



Afghan security officials patrol after installing the national flag in a square after taking over control of the Nawa district following an operation against Taliban militants in Helmand, Afghanistan, on July 19, 2017. WATAN YAR / EPA
Elsewhere in Afghanistan in northern Badakhshan province, Gov. Ahmad Faisal Bigzad said Saturday that 11 police were killed and another six wounded during a roaring battle with Taliban insurgents in the remote Tagab region.

Related: Pentagon Weighs More Aggressive Role in Afghanistan

Bigzad said another 20 members of a local police force were missing following Friday's firefight. It wasn't immediately clear if they had been kidnapped or had escaped.

The area in which the fighting occurred is tucked inside a mountainous region where access is restricted and even telephone contact is erratic


http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/e...ls-12-afghan-police-officers-official-n785516

 

[maximuswarrior]

Must be Pakistan's fault.

On a different note, things going well in opiumland...

 

[Khanate]

Local sources are reporting over 25 deaths.

 

[maximuswarrior]

Local sources are reporting over 25 deaths.

No one will bat an eyelid. This is just the usual collateral damage.

 

[Zee-shaun]

How are they going to blame us for that?
ISI gave wrong Intel?

 

[Path-Finder]

The US last year bombed a hospital run by the French charity doctors without borders killing their staff who were looking after patients! who had no part in the fight. This is a norm I hope they blame Pakistan for their cockup

 

[Awan68]

lol u gotta clap for the yanks, they lie with utter shamelesness and the world simply has to accept their version, i wonder how do these yankees keep their faces straight, with all the survielence and precision strike capabilities the Us posseses, how might i ask these mistakes happen, lol

 

[Bratva]

The US last year bombed a hospital run by the French charity doctors without borders killing their staff who were looking after patients! who had no part in the fight. This is a norm I hope they blame Pakistan for their cockup

Afghanis at that time blamed, ISI General was directing the entire battle from the charity hospital

https://www.dawn.com/news/1213452

https://theintercept.com/2016/04/28/searching-for-ground-truth-in-the-kunduz-hospital-bombing/

 

[Path-Finder]

Afghanis at that time blamed, ISI General was directing the entire battle from the charity hospital

oh I forgot about that . obama had to apologise but the charity didn't accept that phony apology. It was deliberately bombed.

 

[simple Brain]

So now the US forces are retaliating against poor Afghan Soldiers, since killing Taliban have become an extremely difficult for them.

 

[saiyan0321]

Will be forgotten. The US has conducted such "mistakes" before both on military and civilian targets which has resulted in zero voices from the Afghan government. Afghanistan doesn't care bcz the ones running Afghanistan are only interested in their power and if the US launches Nazi Germany like concentration camps in Afghanistan filled with Afghans even then the government won't care. An occupied country.

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Bombed by US forces, but Pakistan and ISI is behind this...Ashraf Ghani.

...the reason is since US and Pak is in a coalition in war against terror and Pakistan is helping US, it means the main player behind this is PAKISTAN.

 

[friendly_troll96]

Pak did it.

 

[shahbaz baig]

U.S took revenge because Afghan Forces (not militants) killed few U.S soldiers in past 2 to 3 years.