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| Polish soldiers charged with murdering Afghans |
| 2008-02-13 |
| WARSAW - Polish military judges decided Tuesday to extend the pre-trial detentions of seven soldiers charged in the murders civilians in Afghanistan during an incident in August. According to the judges’ ruling, the “evidence gathered indicates that it is highly likely that the acts for which they have been charged took place.” Six soldiers, charged in November in connection with shootings in a village in the eastern part of the country, face up to life in prison if found guilty of the killings of six civilians, including women and children. A seventh soldier, charged with the lesser offence of opening fire on a civilian target, was also ordered held in custody faces up to five years in prison. According to an initial Polish defence ministry statement, several Afghan civilians were killed in the village of Nangar Khel in eastern Wazi-Khwa region on August 16 when Polish troops returned fire after being ambushed. But the Polish military prosecutor’s office has said the shootings in fact took place several hours after the ambush. The shootings in Wazi-Khwa region came two days after a Polish soldier had been killed by the Taleban in eastern Afghanistan, in what was the first fatality for Poland since it joined the NATO-led force in March 2002. |
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| #1 This kind of crap perpetuates, and then we expect the NATO group, who don't want to be there anyway, to send more troops. Asinine. It's time to tell Karzai that we are going to extinguish his popualtion if necessary. We're not going to keep patting collaborators on the back and telling them we're going to be good friends. We need to tell these simple asses that we're there to waste them and if we see them fart sideways they're gone. They are ignorant bastards, but they'll catch on eventually. Why do we impose this shit on our soldiers? They are there to kill and not to be killed. Get this straight or get out. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2907 2008-02-13 10:37 |