We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/dueling_informa_1.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:23:15 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/dueling_informa_1.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/dueling_informa_1.html Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:58:56 -0600 U.S. Forces Afghanistan, ISAF doesn't appear to have much to do with it.

Pajhwok Afghan News  looks to be the only Afghan media reporting online in English about civilians killed, and their story requires subscription to see.

Dead Taliban look a whole lot like dead civilians once their weapons and accouterments are taken off.  They learned from Hamas to surround themselves with women and children as either human shields or involuntary martyrs whose tragic deaths at the hands of infidels with the temerity to shoot back when fired upon can be used to increase the outrage of the Muslim street and the hand wringing of the bedwetters in the West.

We need to start these investigations as soon as the smoke clears, before the Taliban or the locals can contaminate the scene, have COMCAM video the mess and the ANA LNO who should have been attached to witness the operation testifying on tape in Pashto and Dari about what happened.

Some of these PGM's ought to be coming out of ANA tubes.  Let an indig  pull that lanyard.  Have the JTAC let the ANA rep push the button.  It's their country.  Let them bear some responsibility for who gets killed.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/dueling_informa_1.html#comment-83207 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2009/01/dueling_informa_1.html#comment-83207 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:16:36 -0600