Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Afghan attacks on coalition forces without injuries. The unreported truth.

From Associated Press Via Fox News.
The military is under-reporting the number of times that Afghan soldiers and police open fire on American and other foreign troops. 
The U.S.-led coalition routinely reports each time an American or foreign solider is killed by an Afghan in uniform. But The Associated Press has learned it does not report insider attacks in which the Afghan wounds -- or misses -- his U.S. or allied target. It also does not report the wounding of troops who were attacked alongside those who were killed. 
Such attacks reveal a level of mistrust and ill will between the U.S.-led coalition and its Afghan counterparts in an increasingly unpopular war. The U.S. and its military partners are working more closely with Afghan troops in preparation for handing off security responsibility to them by the end of 2014.
Go to Fox News to read the whole thing...

Information operations are a part of war.  I realize that.


I don't know if this should be classified as operationally important information to withhold from the public, information that they determined would hurt the war effort if it was released or if they simply thought the public had no need to know.

I have no idea how they'll justify this, but I'm sure they will.  I also know that the outrage that should come from the American people will not materialize.

People seem to be more concerned with Kim Kardashians big ass than they do about men fighting and dying. 

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