German friendly fire kills Afghan troops

The Associated Press is reporting (by way of Washington Post) that German troops in Afghanistan mistakenly fired up some vehicles transporting Afghan Army troops that wouldn’t yield to the Germans’ commands that the vehicles stop;

The German military said German soldiers who were rushing from Kunduz to the scene of the fighting on Friday afternoon encountered two civilian vehicles and demanded that they stop. When they did not, a German armored personnel carrier opened fire on them, the statement said. The vehicles were later found to have been transporting Afghan troops and an investigation is pending, the military added.

Shortly before, German troops had been attacked while on a bridge-building and mine-clearing mission southwest of Kunduz city, formerly a relatively calm area in the north that has lately seen a rising level of insurgent violence.

In related news, men in Iraqi military uniforms used silenced weapons to murder 25 Sunnis from “The Awakening”. The Awakening leadership is blaming al Qaeda;

“It seems those criminal gangs of al-Qaeda in Iraq have started to become active again,” said Mustafa Kamal Shibeeb, a leader of the Awakening in Arab Jubour, a Sunni Arab area just south of the capital that includes Hor Rajib. “It was a horrific crime, killing these innocents, including women and children.”

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