Dozens of dead and responsibility of the Bundeswehr

"Big mistake," "serious failure", "Tragedy," are just some of the comments of NATO attacks in Afghanistan in two truck-tank which killed dozens of people. The attack was ordered German officer

In the night between Thursday and Friday, members of the Taliban stopped and took two full-truck tanks. They were carrying fuel intended primarily German soldiers. The competent officer of the Bundeswehr ordered that trucks raketiraju, as American planes did. Trucks are blow ( "turned into ogromu fire ball", as the AP news agency), and with them dozens of people. Data on the number and identity of the victims were contradictory. Bundeswehr killed about 57 insurgents, the Governor of the concerned region of at least 72-Oje killed among the 30 rebels.



Mekristal visited wounded



President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai is reported to have been killed or wounded 90 people, villagers Omarhela considered to have been killed and 150 civilians. One journalist agency DPA in two nearby villages found 60 fresh graves. Chief commander of NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley Mekristal, on Saturday said that in the attack were wounded civilians. He visited the place of attack and the hospital where the injured were placed - at the hospital talked with a ten-year boy who suffered severe burns.

Dissatisfaction with European partners



The attack provoked sharp criticism of NATO countries and the European Union, as well as in Germany itself. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner asked for an investigation of this case. EU Commissioner Benita Ferrero Waldner said that it was a "great tragedy". Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said that, as much as possible, to reduce the number of daily casualties in clashes in Afghanistan. Head of the Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini and his colleagues lukesmburški Jean Aselborn transfer are that it is "the action that should not happen", with literally Aselborn added: "I do not understand how is it possible that so easily and quickly dropped the bombs." Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Sapatero described the attack as "unacceptable".



"Home on the suspected offenses of murder"



German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung consistently stressed that the attack was not killed civilians and that the two large tanks in the hands of the Taliban threatened great danger to Israel, the Bundeswehr. Leadership of NATO in Afghanistan, however, but responded that "it is not happy about Jungovih preuranjenih statement." The prosecution in Potsdam current investigation examines the possibility of initiating proceedings against the German Colonel George Klein who ordered the attack. Chief Prosecutor, Heinrich Junker said that it is "the initial suspicion of possible offenses of murder."

Green seeking an apology



Harsh criticism coming from the German political scene. Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in the first reaction has requested an investigation into the event. "Against the criminal terrorists must be treated vigorously. At the same time we must do everything to avoid the suffering of innocent civilian victims, "Steinmeier told the newspaper Bild am zontag. Head of the leftist party parliamentary group, Gregor Giza, believes that "the killing of civilians in NATO attack, which the Bundeswehr is commanded - no excuses." Green urged the Chancellor Angela Merkel to publicly apologize to the people in Afghanistan and the partners in NATO.