Rogue Western forces behind killings: UN officer
Tom Coghlan; 17/5/08
Western secret services in Afghanistan are acting like South American “death squads”, a United Nations human rights expert has claimed. Professor Richard Alston of the United Nations Human Rights Council said the intelligence agencies and Afghan militias were targeting suspected insurgency leaders with “impunity”. Their missions, he said, were “unaccountable to any international military authority”. Although Professor Alston refused to identify which intelligence services he was talking about, his comments follow criticism of the activities of CIA units, often by military personnel from other nations operating in Afghanistan.
Tags: Afghanistan, Terrorism, UN, USA