Tuesday, July 03, 2007

It Would Be Funny...

...if it weren't so damn unfunny.

A report was released confirming that yet another Canadian soldier in Afghanistan was killed by an allied American soldier, who also killed an American in the same fray and injured several allies.

What struck me as tragicomical was the first hand account of what happened when Canadian Pte. Robert Costall and American Sgt. John Thomas Stone were shot in their backs while crouched behind walls during a battle with Taliban insurgents.

"One witness, a sergeant, recalled how a special forces security unit in one corner began shooting toward the perimeter of the battle.

"I immediately realized the [special forces] was shooting at the Canadian position," the sergeant, identified only as Witness 1, said in the report.

He said he whistled to signal the special forces soldiers to stop firing.

"The [special forces] security then turned his weapon 100 to 140 degrees from its original position and began firing in the direction of the American ETT compound," the witness said, referring to the location where Stone was hit."
Maybe if they stopped feeding their soldiers amphetamines they'd be able to control and aim their damn weapons.

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