BOTCHED U.S. RAID FOLLOWED BY LIES, COVER UP, EXPOSE, APOLOGY

On February 12 of this year, U.S. forces entered a village in the Paktia Province in Afghanistan and, after surrounding a home where a celebration of a new birth was taking place, shot dead two male civilians (government officials) who exited the house in order to inquire why they had been surrounded, and then shot and killed three female relatives (a pregnant mother of ten, a pregnant mother of six, and a teenager) who sought to help the victims. The Pentagon then issued a statement claiming that (a) the dead males were "insurgents" or terrorists, (b) the bodies of the three women had been found by U.S. forces bound and gagged inside the home, and (c) suggested that the women had already been killed by the time the U.S. had arrived, likely the victim of "honor killings" by the Taliban militants killed in the attack..."
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/05/afghanistan/index.html

"... Two pregnant women, a teenage girl, a police officer and his brother were shot on February 12 when US and Afghan special forces stormed their home in Khataba village, outside Gardez in eastern Afghanistan... US special forces soldiers dug bullets out of their victims' bodies... then washed the wounds with alcohol before lying to their superiors about what happened... Brigadier-General Eric Tremblay, a Nato spokesman, said: "We deeply regret the outcome of this operation, accept responsibility for our actions that night, and know that this loss will be felt forever by the families."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7087637.ece