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Washington Post January 30, 2010 Four Afghan soldiers killed in friendly fire incident with NATO soldiers By Joshua Partlow KABUL: Mistaking one another for the enemy, NATO forces and Afghan soldiers battled in the morning darkness Saturday in a shootout that left at least four Afghan soldiers dead and prompted the Defense Ministry to call for the perpetrators to be punished. A joint patrol of Afghan and coalition forces took gunfire around 3 a.m. while on a mission in the Sayyidabad district of Wardak province, according to statements from NATO-led coalition and Afghan militaries. After returning fire and calling in an aircraft attack, coalition forces later realized that the initial shooting had come from an Afghan National Army outpost. The Afghan Defense Ministry condemned the friendly fire incident, which they said wounded other soldiers in addition to the four killed. "After the investigation is completed, the Defense Ministry wants to bring those responsible to justice," the ministry statement said in a statement. .... The governor of Wardak, Haleem Fedai, sent a delegation out to the scene Saturday to collect information about the fighting. .... The coalition forces statement called Saturday's attack a "regrettable incident." .... Special correspondent Javed Hamdard contributed to this report. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://english.ruvr.ru/2010/01/30/4027970.html Voice of Russia January 30, 2010 NATO fights Afghan Army units in Wardak The troops of the NATO peacekeeping force in Afghanistan went into action against servicemen of the Afghan Army units in the Wardak province, northwest of Kabul, last night. According to an official spokesman for the central Afghan province authorities, NATO troops called in air support following a fierce shootout. Four Afghan Army servicemen were killed and six others wounded in an airstrike on an Afghan checkpoint. An ISAF official in Afghanistan has confirmed that the incident did take place, but refused to elaborate. =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato Blog site: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to: [email protected] or [email protected] Daily digest option available. ============================== --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bNM5nn.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [email protected] For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------
