{"id":13031,"date":"2010-04-01T09:38:52","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13031"},"modified":"2010-04-01T09:38:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T15:38:52","slug":"allison-kilkenny-mcchrystal-admits-afghan-atrocities-press-yawns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13031","title":{"rendered":"Allison Kilkenny: McChrystal admits Afghan atrocities, press yawns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Allison Kilkenny, Unreported, 28 March 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>KABUL, Afghanistan \u2014 American and NATO troops firing from passing convoys and military checkpoints have killed 30 Afghans and wounded 80 others since last summer, but in no instance did the victims prove to be a danger to troops, according to military officials in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat,\u201d said Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who became the senior American and NATO commander in Afghanistan last year. His comments came during a recent videoconference to answer questions from troops in the field about civilian casualties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2013 <em>via New York Times<\/em>: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/27\/world\/asia\/27afghan.html?hpw\">Tighter Rules Fail to Stem Deaths of Innocent Afghans at Checkpoints<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>This is an amazing admission. Here is General Stanley McChrystal, the  highest ranking US military official in Afghanistan, openly admitting  that the US military has killed a whole lot of people,<em> none of whom  posed a threat<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/trueslant.com\/allisonkilkenny\/2010\/03\/28\/mcchrystal-admits-afghan-atrocities-press-yawns\/\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison Kilkenny, Unreported, 28 March 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan \u2014 American and NATO troops firing from passing convoys and military checkpoints have killed 30 Afghans and wounded 80 others since last summer, but in no instance did the victims prove to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13031\">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-13031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3ob","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13031","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=13031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13033,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13031\/revisions\/13033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}