Slecht nieuws komt altijd laat.

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(S/NF) PRT TARIN KOWT: DUTCH ACCIDENTLY KILL CIVILIANS DEFENDING VILLAGE FROM INSURGENTS: (Source: AMEMBASSY KABUL 01019, 28 Mar 07)

Dutch direct fire on an apparent enemy target in support of a village under Taliban attack ended tragically.
Four villagers engaged in the fight to defend Chenartu were killed and another seven wounded.

The Dutch have launched an official investigation and have engaged in a proactive public relations campaign to prevent political fallout here and in the Netherlands.

Although the decision to fire was justified, the danger is that, having had this action go awry, they will hesitate in the future with negative consequences for security in the province.

The Dutch have launched an official investigation and have engaged in a proactive public relations campaign...

Gaat het hier over de parlementaire onderzoek die door de SGP uitgevoerd is met doel alles in de doofpot stoppen?

Mooi boel, Mamoon dienders.

Zit de file een beetje in te kijken en ik zie dat er heel veel aanslagen zijn met IED's, je kan niet echt rond rijden in je tankje zonder een rits Minelab metaal detectors op de voorbumpertje.

Er blijft weinig tijd over om een schooltje te timmeren.

US pers

This stash will be compared to the Pentagon Papers, and in some ways that’s right—WikiLeaks, like Daniel Ellsberg, has been accused of ignoring the national interest. (An unfair charge, unless by “national interest” one means the political interests of a particular Administration.) But the Pentagon Papers were a synthetic analysis, a history of the war in Vietnam. WikiLeaks has given us research materials for a history of the war in Afghanistan. To make full use of them, we will, again, have to think hard about what we are trying to learn: Is it what we are doing, day to day, on the ground in Afghanistan, and how we could do it better? Or what we are doing in Afghanistan at all?

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2010/07/wikileaks-and-the-war.html