Monday, August 9, 2010

Feds should push U.S. to investigate military log in secret military Afghan doc leaks


The Canadian government has a duty to ask the U.S. to investigate and reveal the origins of a military log that reopened wounds from the 2006 combat deaths of four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan with its claim they were killed by a U.S. bomb instead of enemy fire, says a Liberal MP and a former Canadian army officer.

Retired Col. Michel Drapeau and Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh (Vancouver South, B.C.) told The Hill Times that despite an internal inquiry at the time by the Canadian Forces, which included a review of Canada's own combat reports on the deaths and the subsequent investigation by Military Police, Canada should ask the U.S. government to conduct its own investigation and explain how it is the U.S. forces in Afghanistan produced a combat report that was completely at odds with the Canadian version of the Sept. 3, 2006, battle in which the Canadians died.

They said that would be the only way to ease the anguish that was caused last week, to the families of the four soldiers who were killed, after the CBC and other media reported the U.S. log was among more than 90,000 U.S. military documents on the Afghanistan war that were sent anonymously to Wikileaks.

Source: The Hill Times

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