Report: U.S. Marine Unit Killed Hundreds of Afghan Civilians
The Independent reported Saturday that a single group of American troops, the U.S. Marines Corps' Special Operations Command, otherwise known as MarSOC -- a creation of one Donald Rumsfeld -- was responsible for "at least three of Afghanistan's worst civilian casualty incidents" to date.
The Independent reported Saturday that a single group of American troops, the U.S. Marines Corps’ Special Operations Command, otherwise known as MarSOC — a creation of one Donald Rumsfeld — was responsible for “at least three of Afghanistan’s worst civilian casualty incidents” to date.
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Troops from the US Marines Corps’ Special Operations Command, or MarSOC, were responsible for calling in air strikes in Bala Boluk, in Farah, last week — believed to have killed more than 140 men, women and children — as well as two other incidents in 2007 and 2008. News of MarSOC’s involvement in the three incidents comes just days after a Special Forces expert, Lieutenant-General Stanley McChrystal, was named to take over as the top commander of US and Nato troops in Afghanistan. His surprise appointment has prompted speculation that commando counterinsurgency missions will increase in the battle to beat the Taliban.
MarSOC was created three years ago on the express orders of Donald Rumsfeld, US defence secretary at the time, despite opposition from within the Marine Corps and the wider Special Forces community. An article in the Marine Corps Times described the MarSOC troops as “cowboys” who brought shame on the corps.
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