http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/18
One senior official who asked for the identity of the respected international organisation for which he works to be withheld said: "Expect to see secret, dead of night raids in Afghanistan, with more civilians getting hurt and no one being held accountable. It's a big tactical shift. Because of his history in Iraq we were very alarmed when we heard he was going to be in charge in Afghanistan." Mr Garlasco said that, as the top commander, Gen McChrystal "can allow the special forces to operate with impunity, or he can rein them in and use counterinsurgency tactics like (General David) Petraeus." Mr Garlasco interviewed a special forces soldier named Jeff who accused Gen McChrystal of banning the Red Cross and other investigators from entering Camp Nama, a decision which was viewed as a violation of the Geneva Conventions. "Once, somebody brought it up with the colonel," reported the soldier. "'Will [the Red Cross] ever be allowed in here?' And he said, 'Absolutely not.' He had this directly from General McChrystal and the Pentagon that there's no way that the Red Cross could get in. 'They won't have access and they never will.'" "This facility was completely closed off to anybody investigating, even to Army investigators." _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
