January 03, 2005

Taking Fewer Prisoners in Afghanistan

Thanks to Cybrludite there's a story on how U.S. troops are not taking as many prisoners in Afghanistan as they used to. Part of it is to get along better with Afghanis but another reason is to get anti-war lawyers off the military's back. It's come to the point where the Afghan operation is starting to look like an episode of Cops:

On Sunday, a U.S. soldier and a former militia leader were killed in a gunfight when American troops tried to search the man's home in western Herat province. McCann said the Afghan, Mullah Dost Mohammed, was a "known anti-coalition militant" and had fired first.

"U.S. Taking Fewer Prisoners in Afghanistan"