Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

April 5, 2010

After lying about the matter for nearly two months, the U.S. military command in Afghanistan has grudgingly admitted that U.S. Special Forces slaughtered five Afghan civilians ? including two pregnant women and a teenage girl ? in a February 12 nighttime raid.

The original story disseminated by officials of NATO ? the UN affiliate directing the Afghan occupation ? was that the women had been found ?tied up, gagged and killed.?

This wasn?t true. In fact, the home was hosting a gathering of relatives to celebrate the naming of a newborn child. Among the guests who were killed in the raid were a local police chief and a prosecutor who had cooperated with the US-led occupation.

The survivors were forced to stand barefoot and unprotected in the cold for several hours while bullets were dug from the bodies of victims and other steps taken to cover up the crime.

This atrocity and cover-up provoked widespread ? and understandable ? hostility toward foreign troops who weren?t invited into Afghanistan and are not welcome there. Would we react any differently?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.