Afghanistan Bans U.S. Forces from Provinces after Torture, Murder Allegations
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai issued a statement Monday banning United States Special Forces from provinces where the soldiers were accused of torturing and murdering civilians.
Afghanistan’s National Security Council (NSC) had received reports that U.S. soldiers were “harassing, annoying, torturing and even murdering innocent people” in Wardak and Logar provinces, considered to be the key military gateways for Taliban-led attacks on nearby Kabul.
NSC reports said nine Afghan civilians have disappeared, and one student was kidnapped, tortured and murdered. The incidents have led to “local public resentment and hatred.”
In addition, U.S.-supported local officials are being accused of land grabbing. U.S. occupation officials in Afghanistan released a statement declining to comment, although they claim that the atrocities were led by Afghan officials working for the U.S.
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The U.S. Special Forces are being forced to leave within two weeks, and a continued foreign military presence after 2014 will be reviewed.
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