The Associated Press is to complain to the US military after journalists said US soldiers deleted footage of the aftermath of an attack in Afghanistan.
President Hamid Karzai said 10 people died when coalition forces opened fire on civilians after a suicide attack in eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday.
Journalists working for AP said US troops erased images of a vehicle in which three people had been shot dead.
Khanwali Kamran, a reporter for the Afghan channel Ariana Television, said the American soldiers also deleted his footage, AP reported. “They warned me that if it is aired … then, ‘You will face problems,'” Mr Kamran was quoted by the news agency as saying.
US military spokesman Lt Col David Accetta said he did not have any confirmed reports that coalition forces “have been involved in confiscating cameras or deleting images”.
There are guys in the US military, nowadays, who can have a lifetime career denying the sun shines!
“There are guys in the US military, nowadays, who can have a lifetime career denying the sun shines!”
What?
So Eideard, do you have some reason to think the Lt. Col. had conformation that it happened?
Just because some AP stringer says it doesn’t make it so and there is the very real possibility that the Lt. Col. just hadn’t received conformation that it happened. I didn’t see anywhere in the article that anybody in the military denied that it happened.
You’ve got a bunch of 18-20 year old kids over there. These are the same kids that if they were here in the US and did something stupid you would blame everyone in the country and society in general for their screw-up. But since they put on a uniform the evil military all the way to the White House is to blame if they don’t wipe their asses properly.
#2 – Without the AP, Eideard… and most of the left… would have nothing to replace their lack of a moral compass.
#3
You prefer your news be served by Fox News?
#2 So…just because Bush, Cheney, et al, who have a LOT to gain (or lose), say it DOES automatically make it so, but when an AP reporter, who doesn’t have a whole heckuva lot to gain other than grief says it, it automatically makes it NOT so.
Ok. Got it.
(BTW…You wouldn’t happen to work for Faux News, would you?)
Os.
You guys need to come up with some new rebuttals that don’t rely solely on witless Fox News “jokes.”
#6
Okay,
I bet Rush Limbaugh is going to say “Afgan civilians attack the marines by headbutting flying bullets.”
#7, Damn you Angel, you made me chortle coffee on my keyboard. Through my nose.
I bet Rush Limbaugh is going to say “Afgan civilians attack the marines by headbutting flying bullets.”
Comment by Angel H. Wong — 3/5/2007 @ 3:53 pm
Damn, how can something so sick be so funny.
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#2, OK, so there are some 19 and 20 yr old kids. What the eff happened to their supervisors? Was there no leadership at this post? No officers or sergeants? Didn’t they have any rules of engagement?
What’s with all the serious talk?
Didn’t anybody hear about the Britney suicide attempt? Let’s get her and Anna back on the front page, where witless losers (Bush, Coulter, Rush) belong…
Anybody notice Tucker doesn’t wear bow-ties since Jon Stewart skewered him?