U.S. special forces killed nearly 500 people

In just three months there were 1410 operations by U.S. special
commandos in the German area of ​​responsibility in northern
Afghanistan. 485 people died, 2169 were arrested.
U.S. special commandos have at 1410 covert operations alone between 28
January and 29 April 2011 in the area of ​​the German-led northern
regional command in Afghanistan killed 485 suspects.
German Bundeswehr soldiers train for the mission in Afghanistan. Ten
percent of the "capture or kill" operations take place in the country
in the Regional Command North, which is under German leadership in
2169 people had been arrested. 479 operations were (capture or kill)
the aim of "capture or kill" served. This is a question of Mr
Hans-Christian Ströbele out (Green) to the federal government. He
wanted to know whether the government can confirm these figures and
whether German support for the - gave U.S. commando raids - often
criticized. Both were denied.
From a study of the press releases of the International Security
Assistance Force for a period of almost two years shows that on
average only ten percent of the "capture or kill" operations in
Afghanistan in Regional Command North to take place.
Alex Strick van Linschoten, the publicists and Felix Kuehn noted for
the Afghan Analysts Network, that have been reported in 22 months of
such special missions of ISAF in 2365. They assume, however, that
there were actually more, because the event or unsuccessful
applications were not made known separately.


Every day more than two deaths in special operations
In their study, presented in mid-October they come to the
cynical-looking results that were killed during the study period each
day at 2.38 persons "capture or kill" operations. In total there were
1594, which the authors add that "in view of developments,
particularly the last few months, no longer perform precise figures,
the current and the total number of people killed or prisoners is
probably greater."
Since U.S. President Barack Obama is, the number of covert operations
by leaps and bounds, as Jonathan Masters from the Council on Foreign
Relations, a U.S. think tank, wrote in late October: from 679 in 2009
to nearly 1,900 this year. And he quotes the ISAF Commander John
Allen, who has announced that in view of the troop reduction
"anti-terrorist operations, especially this type of special missions,
play a prominent role."
Here this night operations by U.S. special forces such as Navy Seals
and Delta Force are being criticized. The stakes are often based on
little-duty Secret Service findings that can be checked independently
and hardly ever meet again or innocent civilians. Afghan dignitaries
criticize that leave the details of abuse as a killer force in
internal Afghan disputes between tribes, clans, drug lords and corrupt
governors by making false accusations on the basis of their
operations.

Karzai had already called for the end of the inserts
President Hamid Karzai after the accidental killing of his 65-year-old
cousin Yaar Mohammad Khan by U.S. special forces in March caused more
than his spokesman, "these irresponsible night operations, in which
innocent Afghans die to end".
Already last autumn, the role of Germany fell in the "capture or kill"
operations in the criticism. The Special Forces Command, KSK presents,
for the soldiers, Task Force 47 and is alone on the "capture"
committed. Targeted killings are forbidden the German soldiers. But
Germany announces the names of suspects for the JPEL, the joint target
list of NATO. And, according to the federal government can not be
excluded that the recommended course of action "arrest only" is
ignored by the allies.