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March 06, 2007

‘Delete them, or we will delete you”

Controversy swirling over Sunday's civilian deaths. Did the U.S. forces have something to hide, or were they merely acting out of a misguided default? This from Tom Zeller's "Notes on the News":

The circumstances of the incident on the highway are hotly contested, as Carlotta Gall reported for The Times yesterday. The American military says that the killed and injured civilians simply were caught in the crossfire between coalition troops and the militants who had snarled traffic with a suicide-bomb attack. MORE

Afghan witnesses and some authorities, on the other hand, accused the Americans troops of indiscriminately shooting at civilian vehicles in anger after the explosion.

Whatever the reality, as outrage over the incident mounts in Afghanistan — including a stern condemnation from Afghan President Hamid Karzai — this detail from yesterday’s Associated Press report is among the headlines today:

U.S. forces near Sunday’s bombing later deleted photos taken by a freelance photographer working for The Associated Press and video taken by a freelancer working for AP Television News. ...

A second reporter, Khanwali Kamran, who was working for the Afghan channel Ariana Television, said the American soldiers also deleted his footage.

According to Mr. Kamran, he was warned that if footage was aired, he would “face problems.” The A.P. also quoted Taqiullah Taqi, a reporter for Afghanistan’s largest television station, Tolo TV, sayintg that American troops told him and his crew to delete images in no uncertain terms: “According to the translator, they said, ‘Delete them, or we will delete you,” he said.

Posted by Carl Robichaud on March 06, 2007 at 12:45 PM in U.S. Policy |

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