{"id":6266,"date":"2009-01-30T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6266"},"modified":"2009-01-30T07:00:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T12:00:51","slug":"susanne-koelbl-nato-high-commander-issues-illegitimate-order-to-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=6266","title":{"rendered":"Susanne Koelbl: NATO High Commander Issues Illegitimate Order to Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Susanne Koelbl, Spiegel Online, 28 January 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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US Defense Minister Robert Gates (right) talking with ISAF troops commander David McKiernan in Kabul. General McKiernan considers the guidance issued by Craddock to be illegal.<\/p><\/div>The approach to combatting the drug mafia in Afghanistan has spurred an open rift inside NATO. According to information obtained by SPIEGEL, top NATO commander John Craddock wants the alliance to kill opium dealers, without proof of connection to the insurgency. NATO commanders, however, do not want to follow the order.<\/p>\n

A dispute has emerged among NATO High Command in Afghanistan regarding the conditions under which alliance troops can use deadly violence against those identified as insurgents. In a classified document, which SPIEGEL has obtained, NATO’s top commander, US General John Craddock, has issued a “guidance” providing NATO troops with the authority “to attack directly drug producers and facilities throughout Afghanistan.”<\/p>\n

According to the document, deadly force is to be used even in those cases where there is no proof that suspects are actively engaged in the armed resistance against the Afghanistan government or against Western troops. It is “no longer necessary to produce intelligence or other evidence that each particular drug trafficker or narcotics facility in Afghanistan meets the criteria of being a military objective,” Craddock writes. <\/p>\n

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