“Since December, all U.S. counter terrorism and special forces missions have been Afghan led.”-Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings, U.S. Army

According to a new study, Lt Col Cummings is a liar.  Just today I questioned the daily 24 hour battle reports being given by the Afghan National Security Forces. Their reports seem canned in that it’s almost the same number of killed and wounded everyday, just about the same locations everyday, the same claims of weapons captured, and even the same claims of illegal drugs destroyed.

Either the “Taliban” are more active than we’re being told, or someone is lying about Afghan/Coalition (occupiers) military operations.

A new report by the Kabul based Afghan Analysts Network (AAN) says that many of the so called Afghan led operations are actually led by U.S./NATO forces, and sometimes no Afghan forces are involved at all!

In their report titled Death of an Uruzgan Journalist: Command Errors and Collateral Damage, the authors focus on a 2011 incident, where a suicide bomber blew up a radio station.   In the aftermath a U.S. soldier killed an innocent reporter who was a survivor of the suicide bombing.

Initially the U.S. tried to cover it up by insisting the Afghan troops were the ones who responded to the bombing.  International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) refused to comment on whether U.S. led occupying forces were the ones who responded.

The AAN report says even now ISAF continues to present the incident as an “Afghan led” response.  AAN says what they discovered in trying to find out what happened to a reporter who had been targeted in the past, by both Mujahideen and U.S. occupying forces,  is that the United States is trying to give the impression that most military operations are fully under the direction of the Afghan government, possibly to justify an early withdrawal of U.S. troops.