Afghan alcohol ban after Nato staff were ‘too hungover’ to give explanation for airstrike that killed 70 civilians / By Mail Foreign Service
Alcohol has been banned from Nato’s headquarters in Afghanistan in the wake of an airstrike that killed up to 70 civilians.
US General Stanley McChrystal, head of the International Forces in Afghanistan (Isaf), decided to bar boozing after launching an investigation into the bombing in northern Afghanistan.
Staff at the Kabul headquarters were ‘either drunk or too hungover’ to answer his questions.
US troops massacre over 147 civilians in Farah Afghanistan
RAWA News / May 2009
Over 147 innocent civilians, many of them women and children, were massacred when US war planes bombed villages of Gerani and Gangabad in Bala Baluk district of Farah Province on May 4, 2009.Frishta, 7, wounded in coalition air strike on Bala Baluk (AP Photo/Fraidoon Pooyaa)
This is one out of many war crime cases committed by the US troops in Afghanistan over the past few years. The number of innocent civilians killed since Obama took office in Jan.21, reaches to 300 and his so-called “new” strategy for Afghanistan and surge in number of troops has resulted in more such terrible tragedies.
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