Kabul, Afghanistan
A U.N. mission in Afghanistan has accused U.S. troops of removing evidence from the site of the Afghan wedding that the U.S. mistakenly bombed last month, the London Times reported. The U.N. mission did not release its report on the incident, but the Times said it had a draft copy that claimed U.S. officials arrived on the scene just hours after the bombing and began taking photographs and collecting shrapnel and traces of blood. Col. Roger King, a commander in Afghanistan, told MSNBC that the troops were simply collecting evidence for the U.S. investigation, just as police would at a crime scene. “No coverup was involved at all,” he said. The U.N. said the Times’ draft version contained “judgments that were not sufficiently substantiated.”
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