NP? nasty, if true

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Mon Jul 29 09:20:14 CDT 2002


http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0729-01.htm
Published on Monday, July 29, 2002 in the Times of London

US Accused of Airstrike Cover-Up

by Dumeetha Luthra in Kabul

 
AMERICAN forces may have breached human rights and then removed evidence
after the so-called wedding party airstrike that killed more than 50 Afghan
civilians this month, according to a draft United Nations report seen by
The Times.

A preliminary UN investigation has found no corroboration of American
claims that its aircraft were fired on from the ground, and says there were
discrepancies in US accounts of what happened.

If the findings are upheld by a second, more detailed, UN investigation,
they will cause huge embarrassment to the Pentagon.

UN sources said that the findings pointed to an American cover-up, and
suggested that American investigators were dragging their feet hoping that
the issue would pass. [...]



http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,764347,00.html
Well, they look like Al-Qaeda



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