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Wilko

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The funny thing is that this documentary was shown on German and Dutch
TV almost two years ago, not too long after the invasion of Afghanistan.
I posted about seeing it in a thread about the war in Afghanistan on
Boatertalk, and got a wave of resentment and being called a liar

because
it wasn't shown on any U.S. TV station, therefore it wasn't true.

Excuse me, but the incident was covered by the American press, even had an
investigative piece in Newsweek on it. The only difference is that it was a lot
less judgemental of the US role in the tradegy than the video linked in the
article. No one disputes the basic facts, that Taliban prisoners of the
Northern Alliance were transported in closed trucks and many of them died. What
I do dispute is the role the US played in it. We provided advisors, in
particular fire control and forward air controllers, to the Northern Alliance.
The US did not command the unit nor have control over the action of its troops.

I suspect the actual casualties were somewhat less than protrayed in the video.

I find it somewhat interesting to note that the Special Operation training
program have a similar situation built into the Robin Sage, their final
training exercise. What do you do when you have to support people that play by
different rules than you do?
The reality is that you advise them to do the right thing and deal with the
fact that they often do not.

SYOTR
Larry C.