Associated Press Forced To Erase News Footage Of Suicide Bombing
Wounded Afghans say U.S. forces fired on civilians after suicide bomb; 16 killed
Michael Hart‘s response:
I listened to most Sunday morning network news shows today but I didn’t hear a word about this one.
1 U.S. soldier was wounded in a suicide bombing in Jalalabad, and in the response included the death of 8 and the wounding of 35 — these figures do not seem to be in dispute.
An unidentified military spokesperson said that the soldiers were under fire from multiple directions and were only returning fire. There was no mention if any of the 8 dead or 35 wounded were even suspected of hostile behavior, but reports from witnesses said it was a clear case of the soldiers being in a state of panic in the response to the situation.
The local Associated Press journalists had arrived on the scene — but were even forced to erase footage from over 100 yards away in which three Afghans had been shot … all dead.
An unidentified U.S. military spokesman, not clear if this is the same one or a different one, hard to tell when unidentified, said the pictures might be used to create misrepresentations of events that had just taken place, and thus could not be allowed to exist in any manner or format.
The question remains as to whether any other footage survives and could verify, one way or the other, what happened. This doesn’t only happen in Afghanistan …
[Above reports only seen or heard via BBC and NPR.]
By the way, even right here in this cornbelt town the police have recently acted in a similar manner, stopping a project where some local photographers had started a study on whether a local police policy existed to stop drivers and/or treat them differently with the basis being their race.
And, in true coincidental form, my searches for this story got me nothing in many more searches than the above story.
