WASHINGTON — Defense Department officials are debating whether to ignore an earlier promise and squelch the release of an investigation into a U.S. airstrike last month, out of fear its findings would further enrage the Afghan public, Pentagon officials told McClatchy on Monday.
Shortly after the May 4 air attack, which killed dozens of Afghans, the military promised to release the report, and the Pentagon reiterated that last week. U.S. officials also said they would release a video military officials said shows Taliban fighters attacking Afghan and U.S. forces and then running into a building. Shortly afterward, a U.S. aircraft dropped a bomb that destroyed the building.
However, a senior defense official told McClatchy Monday: “The decision (about what to release) is now in limbo.” McClatchy Newspapers
