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Afghan local police (ALP) in Qalay-i-zal district, Kunduz province, Afghanistan August 1, 2015
Afghan local police (ALP) in Qalay-i-zal district, Kunduz province, Afghanistan August 1, 2015
The incident took place in May of 2012 at a US outpost near the village of Kalach in southern Afghanistan's Oruzgan province. Six SEALs, as well as four Army and four Navy personnel, were at the base, which was established to help train the Afghan Local Police (ALP), according to an investigation published on Thursday in the New York Times.
After their checkpoint was bombed on the morning of May 31, killing one officer, the ALP rounded up several suspects and marched them to the outpost for interrogation. At the end of the day, one of the detainees had died from his injuries. The soldiers on the base said that three of the SEALs were responsible.
Instead of putting a stop to the ALP abuse of the detainees, three enlisted members of the SEAL team joined in, witnesses said. They kicked prisoners, fired pistols next to their heads, dropped stones on them, and stepped on their heads, according to the testimonials given to the Navy's criminal investigators (NCIS). The NCIS report, with all the names redacted, was obtained by the Times through a freedom-of-information request.
Comment: The Pentagon might say 'this isn't true' but it sure as heck fits the US' profile:
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RT published a video of the purported attack: