Why say NATO raid, and not US raid?

[ghundal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/13/world/asia/13afghan.html

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An Afghan boy from the neighbourhood stands next to the body of a girl killed during an operation by foreign troops in the Surkhroad district of Nangarhar province May 12.(Reuters)

Foreign troops shot dead Afghan policeman, girl in night raid / PHOTO
US-led foreign troops shot dead an Afghan policeman and an unarmed young woman during a raid on a compound in eastern Afghanistan overnight, officials said on Thursday.




US-led foreign troops shot dead an Afghan policeman and an unarmed young woman during a raid on a compound in eastern Afghanistan overnight, officials said on Thursday.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it was conducting an operation with Afghan troops in Surkh Rud district of eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday to capture a Taliban leader.
ISAF released an "official" statement that describes details of night killings in the occupied country.

(An Afghan policeman (C) inspects a house after an operation by foreign troops in Surkhroad district of Nangarhar province May 12.)

When the troops arrived at the suspected compound of the Taliban leader, they called for all the people inside to exit peacefully, ISAF said in a statement.
"One man then threatened the security force with a pistol; the security force defended themselves, killing the man. After initial assessment, it was discovered that he was employed by the Afghan National Police," it said.
Following the shooting, the troops moved inside the compound to secure the area when a woman thought to be carrying a weapon ran out of the back of the compound, ISAF said.

(Afghan police stand near the body of a girl killed during an operation by foreign troops in the Surkhroad district of Nangarhar province May 12.)

"The security force mistakenly identified what they suspected was a weapon on the individual and engaged. Later, the force discovered the individual was an unarmed Afghan female adolescent," it said.
The spokesman for the provincial governor, Ahmadzia Abdulzai, said the troops had arrived by helicopter during the night and killed the man, a police detective, inside his house, adding the incident was under investigation.
The latest civilian deaths come at a time of high anti-Western sentiment, a month after protests against the burning of a Koran by a fundamentalist U.S. pastor turned violent, killing seven foreign U.N. staffers.
US-led troops invaded Afghanistan, then toppled its Taliban government in late 2001 and Nato has around 150,000 foreign troops deployed in the occupied country.
The Taliban this month announced the start of a "spring offensive", vowing to carry out operations against western occupation.
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[ghundal]

This story has got some attention in the media, mostly due to the fact that the man they killed was an Afghan police representing the puppet government.

This happens all the time.

In one day, peoples lives change. Yesterday, this 12 year old girl was alive, and today she is dead with her father.

All Afghans are innocent, and against these foreign aggressors who have committed every single war crime. They killed thousands of Afghans. Afghans resent them.

The more crimes they commit, the more disgraceful their defeat.

Why is the media so frikin biased? Can we raise this issue?

They say NATO because they want readers to detach themselves even more. Most NATO troops don't even take part in combat operations that much.
'THIS is a US war. US troops killed this girl and her father.

They even insult death. Does this media have no shame in not reporting the truth?

[ghundal]

and I never figured how much of a house slave obama is? No word from him here. No, "we" made a mistake. "we" are losers and cowards who kill Afghan civilians because "we" sick.

Master "sick" we "sick"

[faye]

they shoot to kill, never to wound and then interogate. therefore they know there is nothing to learn from that person otherwise they would want that person alive. the girl was probably shot in the back. these people learn to shoot, i assume they are experienced marksmen, yet they rarely just wound, they kill.

[Catya Sher]

Of course NATO is a big cover.
This tactic was used in the First Gulf War - also contrived, from
what sources later seem to reveal.

Bush Sr got together a "coalition" of European nations to join the US
in pushing back Saddam from Kuwait.
THAT made it acceptable supposedly in the world's eyes.

The lingo always is "The US-led Coalition"- what a joke.

This is what I mean, Obama is PURE EVIL and should be banished
from this country forever, he has done so much harm.

"The Man of Peace" has been even more vicious in his wars
and drone attacks by far than megalomaniac Bush Jr and cohorts.

[kakargirl]

evil=usa+nato

[faye]

the neoconservatives in the think tank, ''foreign policy initiative', can't stand obama. they think he is not aggressive enough, they pushed him to go into libya and are annoyed that he is 'leading from behind', that is not the image these war mongers are wanting for america. they also diapprove of him cutting back on defence spending. the head of this think tank is robert kagan. his brother michael kagan and wife were partly responsible for designing the surges in iraq and afghanistan.