Germany's armed forces on Friday said they had called the Nato airstrike on two hijacked fuel tankers in northern Afghanistan that burned more than 50 people to death.
Well, thats's certainly going to give the MSM a new problem to solve.
A German army spokesman told news agency dpa that a German reconstruction team based in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan had requested the attack, which caused jet fuel in the tankers to ignite.
Scores of people were killed in northern Afghanistan when Nato aircraft struck fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban. A Nato spokesman said it was investigating reports of civilian deaths.
Mohammed Omar, the governor of Kunduz, told the Financial Times by telephone that the Taliban had stolen the vehicles, which exploded as villagers gathered near a river-bank in the middle of the night to collect fuel.
Everyone knows that 2:30 in the morning is the best time to collect fuel.
First you collect fuel, then a half-hour later you stage a cross-fire ...
However, the German defence ministry said it did not believe that bystanders were among the dead. German aircraft were not involved in the attack.
"After observing that only insurgents were in the area, the local ISAF commander ordered air strikes which destroyed the fuel trucks and killed a large number of insurgents," a spokesperson for Nato's International Security Assistance Force told Reuters. "The strike was against insurgents. That is who we believe was killed."
"And if we're wrong about that, it wuz the evil Americans that made us do it. Or maybe the Joos." |