For the past 6 or 7 years, I’ve kept an increasingly fat folder labelled “Atrocities.” It contained reports of abuses by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan so egregious that even the military couldn’t ignore them. I retitled it “A Few Bad Apples” when it became clear that those who got caught had to be portrayed as anomalies so as to avoid the central question of what the hell they’re doing there in the first place.


Monday, August 31, 2015

Afghanistan too (surprised?)

An investigation by the US military was probably reopened: at least 17 Afghans were probably murdered by Army Special Forces in 2012 & 2013 in Wardak province. Among the intriguing details is the role of an Afghan-American interpreter, Zakaria Kandahari, who probably tortured a man there while working with a Special Forces team. He "escaped" from a heavily guarded base before Afghan officials could questions him, but was subsequently arrested  & probably fingered his US handlers.
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