A 'black' special forces squad led by the U.S. targets Taliban and Al-Qaeda figures in Afghanistan. The team, Task Force 373, hunts for suspects on a 2,000 strong list to kill or capture, known as Jpel. The log allegedly reveals the unit has killed innocent men, women and children and Afghan police officers who got in their way.
An entry on June 11 2007 told how a taskforce set out with Afghan special forces to capture or kill Taliban commander Qarl Ur-Rahman.
In April, Wikileaks published extracts from this 2007 video showing U.S. soldiers shooting civilians in Baghdad. U.S. intelligence analyst Bradley Manning is now being held for allegedly mishandling and leaking the data
Another still from the video shows Afghans falling as U.S. soldiers encourage each other to keep shooting
They crept up in the dark but opened fire when a torch was shone on them. A AC-130 gunship was called in for back up and started shooting.
The report said: 7x ANP KIA, 4x WIA - meaning seven Afghan police officers were dead and four wounded. The involvement of TF-373 was never mentioned.
Six days later, another taskforce armed with a HIMAR - a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System - was sent out to find Libyan fighter Abu Laith al-Libi.
They aimed to fire rockets at a village where they thought he was hiding and then send in ground troops.
But they failed to find Libi and killed six Taliban fighters. Searcing a madrassa after the attack, they found seven Taliban children dead or dying in the rubble.
The coalition admitted the deaths but blamed the attack on 'nefarious activity' when it was actually to find al-Libi. It also did not mention Nato forces had fired first, rather than in retaliation.
The internal report into the incident was marked 'secret' but also 'Noforn' - meaning it should not be shared with the foreign members of the coalition.
'The knowledge that TF-373 conducted a HIMARS strike must be protected,' it said.
Months later, in October 2007, a team confronted the Taliban in a village in Laswanday. They called in air support and 500lb bombs were dropped on a house from where they had been firing.
The incident left 12 U.S. wounded and one girl, a woman and four men dead. No Taliban fighters were wounded or killed.
A statement claimed several insurgents had died and did not mention any civilians. Later it was admitted 'several non-combatants were found dead and others wounded' but there were no specifics.
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