Taliban Forces Given Guns and Food by Nato by accident?!!

Source: guardian.co.uk.

We should be well aware in this country that the relationship between the Taliban,United States and Nato Forces has not always been that of enemies. At one time United States supported the Taliban during their war with Russia. So now we get this story about how arms and food were given to Taliban forces by accident. Smells really fishy!! Read below:

Nato forces mistakenly supplied food, water and arms to Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, officials today admitted.

Containers destined for local police forces were dropped from a helicopter into a Taliban-controlled area of Zabul province.

The coalition helicopter had intended to deliver pallets of supplies to a police checkpoint in Ghazni, a remote section of Zabul late last month.

By mistake they were dropped some distance from the checkpoint where it was taken by the Taliban, the Internal Security Affairs Commission of the Wolesi Jirga — the Afghan parliament’s lower house — was told.

Hamidullah Tukhi, a local politician from Zabul, told the parliamentary commission that the consignment had been taken by a local Taliban commander.

A Nato spokesman said the pallets were carrying rocket propelled grenades, ammunition, water and food.

Afghan politicians have said they do not believe the drop was an accident.

Nato’s General Carlos Branco blamed it on “human error” when the navigator confused two very similar grid references.

A spokesman at Nato headquarters in Brussels denied the suggestion the alliance had deliberately armed the Taliban. “We are aware of it but we are not fired up about it. It sounds like someone made a mistake. It was a cock-up rather than a conspiracy.

“The forces on the ground are working to get the message across that we do not deliberately supply the Taliban with arms.”

~ by streetknowledge on April 21, 2008.