**U.S. Troops Mistakenly Kill 4 Afghans **
American troops guarding the U.S. Embassy in Kabul shot and killed four Afghan soldiers Wednesday, apparently mistaking them for assailants, Afghan officials said.
Once again, the troops shoot without having any knowledge of victim. Is there any end to it? What has been done with past blind shootings?
Yup, more impulsive action by dumb American troops.
That reminds me of that British soldier in Iraq when he was fired upon by a yankee John Rambo killing two other brits. Just days before he recievd a letter from his father asking him to take care of himself and come home soon and don’t worry about those Iraqis ** but look out for those damn yanks ** 
Yeah, and he was quoted as saying, “I was trained to fight the enemy, I wasn’t trained to check if an American was shooting at me”.
The troops mistook the Afghans for nuns otherwise they would have bagged a sh*t load more.
Life has no meaning to the US and the British at this time.
Over 10,000 Iraqi were worth nothing compared to the money that Bush Cheney and Blair are going to make personally out of this war.
Anti-U.S. protest turns violent in Kabul
The trigger happy nature of American terrorists continues unabated.
Anti-U.S. protest turns violent in Kabul](http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030524/80/e0qx7.html)
KABUL (Reuters) - About 200 people have chanted “Death to Americans” and thrown rocks at the U.S. embassy in Kabul in protest against the killing of four Afghan soldiers by U.S. troops at the same spot earlier in the week.
The protesters also smashed windows of cars belonging to the international peace-keeping force parked nearby. U.S. special forces guarding the embassy on Saturday pointed guns at the crowd but did not fire.
The crowd later dispersed and there were no immediate reports of any injuries.
U.S. troops shot dead four Afghans and wounded four outside the U.S. embassy on Wednesday when they mistakenly thought they were about to come under attack.
The protesters, who initially numbered almost 50, were joined by more people as they moved towards the U.S. embassy.
They chanted and threw rocks and bricks at the mission building.
They also shouted slogans against U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai and called for the withdrawal of U.S. forces.
“We want (revenge for the) blood of our martyrs,” some shouted.
The shooting on Wednesday came just after Washington raised its terror alert status to high after bombings in Saudi Arabia and Morocco. The embassy said it regretted the incident.
This long article is written by Peter Oborne - whose documentary, “Afghanistan: Here’s One We Invaded Earlier” will be shown on the UK’s Channel 4 on 31 May.
On the roads of ruin, The Observer, 25 May 2003
…] Eighteen months have now passed since the West made a series of unequivocal promises to Afghanistan. As invasion loomed before the Labour conference in 2001, Tony Blair promised: ‘We will not walk away from Afghanistan, as the outside world has done so many times before.’
The following month the Prime Minister told Parliament that he supported ‘an inclusive, democratic political structure’ for the country. Last month, during the Iraq war, Britain and America held up Afghanistan as the model for the elimination of a rogue state.
As British and coalition forces closed into Baghdad, documentary filmmaker Paul Yule and I flew into Kabul for Channel 4. We wanted to find out whether Britain and the West are keeping the pledges we made. We wanted to find out whether Afghanistan is on course for the secure and prosperous future promised by Tony Blair, or whether it is heading back into the horror and barbarism of the past 25 years, which has killed 1 million Afghans and spawned the terror movement that struck at New York on 11 September. To find out we visited warlords, ranged out far beyond Kabul, spoke to soldiers, policemen, farmers, refugees, aid-workers and diplomats. First we visited acting President Karzai in the presidential palace.
…] Out in the provinces the US army continues to arm and to pay the warlords who help them in their battle against al-Qaeda. Even as Hamid Karzai battles to establish his national army, he is being undermined by his allies. Hopelessly under-funded, without the security he pleads for, crippled even by his American backers, the Afghan President is perilously isolated. He, and Afghanistan, are being daily betrayed by Britain, America and the West.