KILLING AN "AMAZING AMOUNT" OF PEOPLE

ISAF commander Stanley McChrystal, who was promoted to his current lofty post by the Peace Prize President after running Cheney’s death squads in Iraq, made a surprisingly candid admission a few weeks ago. Speaking about NATO troops firing from passing convoys and checkpoints, which has resulted in 30 dead and 80 wounded, he said: “We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat.”
This admission came on the eve of several other revelations of indiscriminate civilian slaughterings on the part of “the finest military in the history of the world“. Here is a brief and partial catalog of recent revelations:

NIGHT RAID ON FAMILY CELEBRATION

Bibi Saleha, Gulalai, Bibi Shirin and Haji Sharabuddin’s two sons, Dawood and Saranwal Zahir were all killed in the Special Forces attack. Shirin and Saleha were both pregnant, according to their mother, and Gulalai was only 18 years old.
ISAF and NATO spokespeople at first lied about what happened, while special forces operatives were digging bullets out of walls and possibly even the bodies of the dead women in order to cover their bloody tracks, and then smeared the journalist Jerome Starkey who broke the story. NATO spokespeople tried to pin the murders of the women on their also-murdered male relatives. More here.
According to interviews with relatives and family friends, according to the NYT:
…a large number of people had gathered for a party in honor of the birth of a grandson of the owner of the house, Hajji Sharaf Udin. After most had gone to sleep, the police commander, Mr. Udin’s son, Mohammed Daoud, went out to investigate the arrival of armed men and was shot fatally.
When a second son, Mohammed Zahir, went out to talk to the Americans because he spoke some English, he too was shot and killed. The three women — Mr. Udin’s 19-year-old granddaughter, Gulalai; his 37-year-old daughter, Saleha, the mother of 10 children; and his daughter-in-law, Shirin, the mother of six — were all gunned down when they tried to help the victims, these witnesses claimed.