{"id":10639,"date":"2009-09-08T19:15:39","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T00:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10639"},"modified":"2009-09-08T19:15:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T00:15:39","slug":"drinking-bombing-other-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10639","title":{"rendered":"Drinking &#038; bombing &#038; other war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Afghan alcohol ban after Nato staff were &#8216;too hungover&#8217; to give explanation for airstrike that killed 70 civilians \/ By Mail Foreign Service<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alcohol has been banned from Nato&#8217;s headquarters in Afghanistan in the wake of an airstrike that killed up to 70 civilians.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Staff at the Kabul headquarters were &#8216;either drunk or too hungover&#8217; to answer his questions. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailonsunday.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1211736\/U-S-forces-Afghanistan-dock-counts-storming-hospital-airstrike-death-70-civilians.html#ixzz0QYxZZ7Td\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>US troops massacre over 147 civilians in Farah Afghanistan<br \/>\nRAWA News \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawa.org\/temp\/runews\/rawagallery.php?mghash=dc96d38caecd6694eb17fc894bb73212&#038;mggal=6\">May 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><div id=\"attachment_10640\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=10640\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10640\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10640\" data-attachment-id=\"10640\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?attachment_id=10640\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Frishta-7-and-Afghan-girl-who-was-wounded-in-coalition-air-strike-in-Bala-Baluk-AP.jpg?fit=320%2C213\" data-orig-size=\"320,213\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;AP&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Frishta, 7, an Afghan girl who was wounded in coalition air strike on Monday night in Bala Baluk district of Farah province, cries in a hospital in Herat, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 9, 2009. A joint U.S.-Afghan investigation has found that civilians were killed during a battle in southern Afghanistan, but officials have not been able to determine how many.(AP Photo\\\/Fraidoon Pooyaa)&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1241827200&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Afghanistan&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Afghanistan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Frishta, 7, an Afghan girl who was wounded in coalition air strike on Bala Baluk (AP Photo\/Fraidoon Pooyaa)&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Frishta-7-and-Afghan-girl-who-was-wounded-in-coalition-air-strike-in-Bala-Baluk-AP.jpg?fit=300%2C199\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Frishta-7-and-Afghan-girl-who-was-wounded-in-coalition-air-strike-in-Bala-Baluk-AP.jpg?fit=320%2C213\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Frishta-7-and-Afghan-girl-who-was-wounded-in-coalition-air-strike-in-Bala-Baluk-AP.jpg?resize=300%2C199\" alt=\"AP Photo\/Fraidoon Pooyaa\" title=\"AP Photo\/Fraidoon Pooyaa\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Frishta-7-and-Afghan-girl-who-was-wounded-in-coalition-air-strike-in-Bala-Baluk-AP.jpg?resize=300%2C199 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Frishta-7-and-Afghan-girl-who-was-wounded-in-coalition-air-strike-in-Bala-Baluk-AP.jpg?resize=150%2C99 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Frishta-7-and-Afghan-girl-who-was-wounded-in-coalition-air-strike-in-Bala-Baluk-AP.jpg?w=320 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frishta, 7, wounded in coalition air strike on Bala Baluk (AP Photo\/Fraidoon Pooyaa)<\/p><\/div>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;new&#8221; strategy for Afghanistan and surge in number of troops has resulted in more such terrible tragedies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan alcohol ban after Nato staff were &#8216;too hungover&#8217; to give explanation for airstrike that killed 70 civilians \/ By Mail Foreign Service Alcohol has been banned from Nato&#8217;s headquarters in Afghanistan in the wake of an airstrike that killed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=10639\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2LB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10639"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10660,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639\/revisions\/10660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}