I like to think of myself as a man of the truth so I have to call it like I see it and this is an unfortunate incident. There were a large number of Afghan civilians reportedly killed in a nighttime raid in Nangarhar Province in Afghanistan. Now I want to ask the question; Why were so many civilians located in a known Taliban compound? The Taliban routinely uses innocent civilians whom it forces to act as human shields. Now I am not saying that this is in fact what happened because I wasn’t there. I want to believe that this is the case.
US and Afghan forces had targeted a Taliban compound in the action and killed about twenty insurgents, two of which were known Taliban commanders. Civilians should not have been there.
The assault force came under fire as they withdrew which also indicates that the raid took place in a Taliban stronghold. There have also been civilian deaths in areas where NATO and US forces say that they have not conducted operations so something is fishy here.
Now there probably are more precautions that our military ring customers need to take, but when I post about these types of incidents I speak from experience. I know the precautions that our military ring customers have to take in order to not harm innocents because I once trained to perform wartime missions.
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