Afghanistan - Afghan journalist was killed by US soldier who mistook him for Taliban

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders calls on the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF) to take greater care to protect civilians during clashes with the Taliban after the ISAF revealed yesterday that an Afghan journalist who was killed during a Taliban attack in July was in fact shot by a US soldier who mistook him for a Taliban. The journalist, Ahmad Omid Khpalwak, who worked for the Afghan news agency Pajhwok and the BBC, was killed during fighting in Tarin Kot, in (...)

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