Thursday, January 28, 2010

Somebody is trying out for a job with Blackwater.

From the WaPo:
Soldiers in a military convoy shot and killed a local imam as he was sitting in his car with his children here Thursday morning, according to the U.S. military and several Afghans who live near the scene of the shooting.

The nationality of the soldiers was not immediately clear. U.S. officials said only that the convoy was part of the U.S.-led coalition, without specifying the country. Residents said the soldiers were American.

U.S. officials expressed regret for what they called "an unfortunate incident" and said in a statement that soldiers in the convoy "fired on what appeared to be a threatening vehicle." Neighbors said the imam did nothing to provoke the shooting, but was in his car, with three children in the back seat, waiting for a fourth son to get into the vehicle.
When we talk of hearts and minds , the idea is to win them and not to aim at them.
"A lot of innocent people have been killed by the Americans," said Shabaz Khan, 20, a high school student who attended the mosque. "How long can they keep doing this? The people will bear it for a day, or two days, or three days. Eventually everyone will stand against them and fight the jihad."

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