Ninety Percent of Petraeus’s Captured “Taliban” Were Civilians
By Gareth Porter*
WASHINGTON, Jun 12, 2011 (IPS) – During his intensive initial round of media interviews as commander in Afghanistan in August 2010, Gen. David Petraeus released figures to the news media that claimed spectacular success for raids by Special Operations Force. Only now it emerges that over 90% of those arrested were later found to be innocent.
The deceptive nature of those statistics, as now revealed by U.S. military data, raises anew the question of whether the statistics released by Petraeus on killing of alleged Taliban were similarly skewed.
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Comment…”These are the heroes of the computer games, and everything was done to create a false macho mystique around the falsified reports. Logically we can extrapolate that 90% of the over 2000 people announced killed by the wonderful Special Operations Forces in the period were also innocent! The true story of the horrors of these boys rampaging with impunity, against the equally brutal Taliban, has yet to be told” The Free
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