I'm as liberal as they come, but if you're in a country that's officially a war zone, and soldiers come into your home, expect to get shot if you point a gun at them. There are very few rules in war but that's pretty much one of them.  I expect that a lot of right-wing nutjobs are going blog in here defending what those guys did as always.These people are so horrifically insensitive to the suffering caused by this obscene war that it's absolutely sickening.And all this bla-bla-bla about how sorry they are will heard over and over again and that "war is war".How would they like it if some foreign troops came to their place and shot their relatives///  Hey Daniel-2, do you think troops should be trained to do nothing when threatened with a gun?  Death by force is repulsive. To enter a man's home under force of arms and expect obsequious compliance is not real. We have the power, we do the killing, we must answer for our crimes. Obviously, we were the instigators of this action. But its okay, Americans can busy themselves whining about Catholic Priests touching little boys to take their minds off death dished out by their minions.  Oops – shudda droipped the weapon as instructed. BTW – Daniel-2 and Tommy are idiots.  the soldiers were doing their job, why did a man come out with a weapon raised? and a relative of the governemnts parliament? definatly some corruption there.  Look at it like this, WHY did he pull a weapon on them? what is he hideing? what was he thinking, sorry but he had one gun against how ever many people with how ever many guns..use some common sense if there is any left in the world! All of you bleeding heart cry babys need to shut your mouth and open your eyes. there is a war going on, people are going to die, esp when they do dumb things. And i personaly believe that the nut jobs brother, mife and kids be taken in for questioning as to why he did what he did. they know something.  oops, meant to say wife, not mife..haha  "Killem all. Let Allah sort them out"  This is a war zone. Not Palm Beach California. House raids...no matter how intrusive must be conducted in this semi urban war. Often times in CQB in a large scale will produce collateral damage and Sadiqi was one of them. He could have prevented this of course if he hadn't pulled a gun on a group of soldiers trained to kill anything with a gun.  i GUESS THE LESSON SHOULD BE, IF YOU THINK YOUR SOME ONE SPECIAL AND YOUR STUPID ENOUGH NOT TO DROP A GUN WHEN TOLD SO REPEATEDLY, WHEN IN A COMBAT ZONE. YOU BETTER BE BULLET PROOF, BECAUSE STUPIDITY IS A COMMON CAUSE OF DEATH  GOD HOW DID W SURVIVE ALL THESE YEARS  Just going to say to the Just Wondering Person...I would vote for you to be president. Love your vision on it, matches mine greatly.  im a marine trust me u stupid tree huggin liberal a person points a gun at you and you tell them to put it down naturally your going to kill them. This guy did nothing wrong so shut up  You tell them Scott. My son is a Marine and in fact has just deployed for the first time. I know that if someone points a gun at him that person will die. You bleeding heart liberals should all be dropped over there and left. Maybe you can fix whats wrong over there! And when you're done, don't come back here. Just stay there cause we don't want you here!  Hey, Lorri Just exactly why do need to fix a foreign country? We back to needing colonies? and please dont give me your 911 crap there were no airplane trainers in Afghanistan they learned to fly here.  Where's the outrage when a roadside IED bomb kills 12 civilians???????????????? Guns kill people. When you point a gun at other guns; expect to kill or be killed–its that simple. I've been there in rooms with Afghans who do not understand the English language; its a very tense situation. I've even injured and killed in the name of war, battle, survival. This person died because he did not discard his weapon as ordered by ANA personnel. Try pointing a gun at police officers anywhere on this planet and see if you fare any better; and police officers are not even in a war combat situation. Misguided, uneducated, and very easily manipulated minds are what NATO and ANA troops are facing. As for Daniel-2 and Tommy, Id like to get you in a mud hut room with idiots and guns and then see if your pussy attitude and latitudes change. I do the world a favor and pop both of you in the feet or knees as a wakeup call.  nato got a confirmed kill.congrats  Lori–we don't need to "fix" Afghanistan; the people there can take care of themselves without American help; after all, they were taking care of themselves for hundreds of years before the first European settler even set foot on North American soil. James and Scott–if America wasn't at war in Afghanistan, no one over there would be pointing guns at American soldiers. If you genuinely care about protecting American soldiers, demand that they be brought home immediately so their lives will no longer be endangered by Afghan people defending their own homes.  My husband is in Afghanistan, and let me just say don't believe everything you read. The media is always biased be it for or against the war. I hate to see "innocent" people die, but if a man is pointing a gun at my husband in a war environment I pray that the decision is made to fire on him before he or one of his men is killed...liberal or conservative if its your family you may see things differently...  Steven, i will agree with you 100%. We cant win war against terror, because you can't kill an idea. We kill one and 10 more will show up. i fully understand that. But im VERY proud to be an American. So even if you don't support the war, does not mean you can't still support our troops. and ANYONE who does not not support our country and our troops, and hates us for that, well the best thing about America is its free, and you always have the right to get out!!! i am not an extremist for either side, i simply see things the way they are.  This is just a cultural misunderstanding. In the middle-east, pointing a gun at someone is the same as saying "Hello, how are you?". The troops just need more sensitivity training. This would all be moot if the warmonger baby-killers Obama, Reid, Pelosi, and Feinstein would just end the war like they promised instead of making profits off of it for themselves and rich liberal friends.  As a Canadian reading many of your comments, I can now understand why some people want to floy planes into your buildings. This wasn't the first account of a civillian being killed over there, it's one of thousands. Maybe it was because he was holding a gun that he was shot, but it dosn't seem to matter if it's a gun, a camera, or nothing at all. You people expect the civillians in the country you occupy will just accep it when you kill their own? How would you feel if another country bombed an aparetment complex in Detroit, then said that you should be happy because even though we killed a few families, we also killed a drug dealer or high ranking gang member? Would that be okay?  As far as supporing the soldiers, no problem. But what about the ones who raped and murdered that girl in Iraq along with her family? And still you don't get why other countries don't like you?  So for all the feble minded why say 'kill em all, let Allah sort it out'. Don't cry to the world the next time you see a plane flying through the window of your office building.  Sorry Mr.Canada, im not even sure how to "floy" a plane. Can you tell me what thats all aboot? And we were not bombing anything, we where searching the buildings, last time i checked they were the ones blowing things up..soooo your retarded. And as far as the rapeing goes, hey there is always going to be a few bad ones. So Kev! Hop on a moose and go fish in an ice hole and STFU!!! Canada..really? What good have yall ever done for anyone?  Hey the same thing happens is Chicago , This was a night raid, witness said that Sadiqi's brother-in-law thought intruders were breaking in. Obama's continued Bush like stance on war and power. What are we going to accomplish in Afgan anyway? More hatred directed towards the USA.. I am sicken by Obama and his score keeping of "we killed X this week".  Hey the same thing happens is Chicago , This was a night raid, witness said that Sadiqi's brother-in-law thought intruders were breaking in. Obama's continued Bush like stance on war and power. What are we going to accomplish in Afgan anyway? More hatred directed towards the USA.. I am sicken by Obama and his score keeping of "we killed X this week".  if you don't like obama's stance on the bush war , maybe you shoiuldn't act the fool and elect him again, maybe hard not to though since now with the supreme courtt ruling, big bussiness will be able to buy into his pockets and not just the fools who voted for him.  by the way just what did you get? higher taxes , a finding of thefts from the big bussiness he bailed out, with your higher taxes. a health care program the majority of congeresss didn't read. a promise to pull troops out and bring them home .. when? remember the pied piper and who follwed him? obama voters.  if it bothers you that an "innicent" person got killed blame the leadership. the troop didn't ask to be their he has nothing to gain, now but the leadership does, sits in his rear area office , donna get a sweet pentagon job after this, maybe more rank, maybe even be bought by Goldman Sachs..  God Bless those ground pounders.  and for the rest of you, well you won't get enlightened in time to not vote for the peid piper.........  Another Vietnam! When will we learn. 90% of the world hates us so what have we gained? No WMD in Iraq and the Taliban is an internal issue and by the way they do not like Al Quiada. I love America and served three years but I am honestly thinking of going back to Canada.  Another murder of a civilian and another fake appology would be issued by NaTo and then it will be back to business of killing civilians again. Go and kill more innocent civilians NATO in the shadow on hunting Mullah Omer, or OBL or Zawahiri.  All these foriegners need to get out of that region and let the people sort their own business but before they do that they need to take their stooges with them namely Karzai, Zardaris, Hosni Mubaraks, Abdullahs etc.  A Terrorits is a one who kills and innocent civilian and a Terrorist is a Terrorits whether its wearing a uniform or not. Just becasue you say sorry and you are wearing a uniform doesnot make you any less guilty of killing innocent civilians. Both of your are Terrorists whether NATO or Taliban.  All are welcome without guns, no one is welcome with guns....!  if you get in the way of a us army soldier and point a gun at him, expect to get shot. Afghanistan is a war zone and last time I checked, pointing a gun at someone will get you killed.  Every AK-47 should have a warning label. WARNING: Pointing this at U.S. Military personel can be hazardous to your health.  Well at least people like and others Lorri would have no problem with there loved ones being killed. I mean the NATO troops go in pointing guns at everyone so when they are killed it 100% justified. Right? Sure it is, your own logic (sic) proves that point. Does your family know you support the people killing our soldiers? I mean as you said  "I know that if someone points a gun at him that person will die."  So the flip side is of course ok.  James you are a radical self-centered idiot that is a liability to this country. So I wish you'd exercise your freedom to get out of the country befor you and the rest of the people who actually don't care about the America only the image (which is why you need to have so much symbolism to make up for you anything concrete) lead us to that same blind nationalism that arose during WWII ara. I expect you respond with name calling as you obvilously never matured mentally beyond 8th grade. Sorry to the 8th graders I may be offending.  And Scott you are a marine and have been professionally brainwashed and your view skewwed so you opinion is going to viewed as such. Thank you for your service you did what was asked. The fact that you were asked is where the fault is.  Lastly, saying you can't support the troops and have anything but a rosy opinion is like saying you don't love your children whenever you scold them or correct them. After all if you really loved then you would let them do whatever they wanted without ever saying a negative word. Wouldn't you?  I don't blame him. If I were living in a country that was invaded by a bunch of imperalis, civilian killing, nazis, I would take aim too.  Posted by: Treason to the Patriot Act  For those of you who say the soldiers were doing their job... Who employed them to do the killing? Not the villagers, but an alien tribe who sent this invasion force to do their bidding for their own motives. Every Afghan villager has a right to defend his property, family and community. An alien trespasser has no right to self defense, legally or morally. You can kill the man, but you can never win over the Afghan people, without whom you can never win. So watch your back. America could not win after 8 years. It cannot win after 80. Radical conservative, red necked Americans are drowning this country with their stupidity and false pride. The Taliban will win the country back. We are only delaying the inevitable by butchering humanity. Get the troops out of there NOW.  You children need to quit name calling and try to learn to play together. I'll bet your mother would spank your butts if she knew you acted like this.  Complain, complain is what the Afghan people like to do. I say let's pack up and leave. They can complain then to the Taliban.  For all the people begging for our troops to come home and for all the wars to stop. Here is what you need to do. Pay attention to the people who might be running in the upcoming elections right now. Listen to what they are saying and to whom is threatening Iran. Troops are already being brought out of Iraq. Afganistan is in full force right now and whining on a forum board wont do jack squat to help. Iran is around the corner though and if you really want to see the wars stop, you will pay attention. Forget about liberals and democrats and republicans and all that b.s. Vote for the people who are tired of seeing our troops constantly overseas fighting wars that should not directly involve us. That is the only way to stop it. As long as the US is divided up by "right and left wings" and democrats and republcans then the push to prove the other side wrong will always show to be a higher priority then stopping the wars. Vote for who you truely believe in and not just because he/she is in a certain party.  I agree that if an over powering & numerically superior force tells you to drop your weapon or be shot the smart thing to do is drop your weapon. And for those who keep saying it was American soldiers read the article, The Afghan Army was there & their guys also fired on this man. May GOD bless & keep us all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Unfortunately, the guy refused to put down his weapon. How hard is it to put down your weapon? Really? Look, you wish to be sensitive towards the sorrows of the people in the middle of all this then fine. But you should know we did not start this war. Do you really think that living in fear is better than death. I would take death any day. These people need to revolt and overwhelm the terrorists. They need to take control of their own lives, own freedoms... only then will all this accidental killings end and the US can go home.  Sometimes i wonder about the people in MY country i am defending. COMMON SENSE dictates that if you point a gun at someone in a warzone, well i hope youve made peace with your maker. Alot of you out there say that the soldier did his job, I AGREE and thank you for your support. For those who think that only liberals cry and whine, i am a moderate but i lean dem for a reason. The REPS step on their own feet and cant keep theire shit straight. I support the President and his decisions and its better than the last 8 yrs. PERIOD. For all you people that say that it is wrong and blah blah, put some boots on, pick up an m4 and come out here, i wanna see what your reaction would be.  As a marketing person I find it interesting that Levitra has the prime uppper right position on this forum page.  @Daniel-2; They didnt shot an unarmed man dumbazz. If you read the article he had a gun and approached them. he didnt lay down his weapon as asked to do. Guess what daniel lets see what would happen to you if you went out in to main street with a gun and approached police officers that said to lower your weapon and you kept it up and continued walking towards them. WOW YOU WOULD GET SHOT. Man thats amazing how that works. guess he should have dropped the gun.  Okay, I understand the fact that he was defending his family. But why would you point a gun at soldiers that WILL kill you even if you shoot at them. Sure you might kill 1 or 2, but in the end you will just be killed along with more frantic gunfire that could potentially kill more people in the general vicinity.  Of course they don't want us in their country... innocent people are getting killed. When we went over there to try and find our enemy, did you all think that the cities would be evacuated and that no civilians would be hurt or killed?  This isn't a "for the moment" thing people. This is about the future of their society. I know they don't want us there, and having our troops die for their future sucks! But the enemy that attacked us is hiding over there among civilians. Not to mention that it's very corrupt over there, I mean, a lot of things are run based on fear over there... They don't want us, but they'd be glad as hell to get those psychos out of there in the long run.  If you disagree, then you are disagreeing with the fact that people would like to live in a CIVILIZED society.  I dont get it ... when the Taliban rapes thier daughters, burns thier schools, beheads ALL of the leaders, steal thier food and kills the family dog they cower and hide ... they do not protest, what am I missing here?  There is so much ideological hate in this country. Does every world event have to become a conservative vs liberal issue? Personally I have views in common with both sides most US citizens do.  This guy got shot because common sense eluded him at a very bad time.  well duh, protocol says your are supposed to serve tea, cheese and olives when asking a person to kindly lower their gun. A gift of 50 rounds would also go along way in getting the person to comply.  For all you thinking that the parliament member that was shot was wrong, ask yourself what would you do if your life was threatened at gunpoint? Its a MUCH different story when your life is on the line. I believe the soldiers made the right decision. Its easy to bash troops, try bashing the IED's that take the lives of troops that are just on patrol and waiting to come home. No one in the sandbox wants to be there, they're just doing a job. Soldier's or not, they're still human beings, husbands, fathers, brothers, they're still human beings with family's too. So if held at gunpoint by a man who's gonna possibly take my life away and any chance I have of seeing my wife and daughter than yeah, I'd have shot him to. Who wouldn't have shot a man holding them at gunpoint? Anyone who wouldn't have pulled the trigger would have been killed and possibly one of their buddies next to them would have been killed too.  Would you talk it out with a guy that probably won't understand a word you're saying.  Troops have been doing raids for nearly a decade. Its no secret that troops are trained to shoot everything that's holding a weapon in a combat scenario. He should have put the weapon down or never drew the weapon in the first place.  @ Truth Commission Its amazing how CNN and news agency bashes what our troops do. CNN didn't put a single report up when the Taliban was abusing and beheading the people, raping their daughters, etc. On a daily basis. The soldiers were being held @ gunpoint. Asked the parliament member to lower his weapon. (Personally, I wouldn't have asked him. As soon as he raised the weapon I would have shot him) He didn't lower his weapon. They shot him. What would you do if someone pointed a loaded gun at you?  There is always two sides to any story, and the truth is only known by the ones directly involved in the incident, of course you don't pull a gun on a group of soldiers, but at the same time it sounds too unreal that this guy didn't want to put the gun down, why would I keep a gun up if I won't use it. What really concerns me is that I know that if the military admits to be wrong they would loose the little bit of the handle they have at the moment, we know that many different kind of violations are being committed on the so called war zones, which technically are invasion zones, but we forgot that, I don't recall not one from those countries asking for help. I think that the best solution would be to stop these non sense war that is costing so much to everyone involved except for the corporations of course.  It appears to me that some people on this blog must think that we intentionally try to kill civillians. It is just the opposite. Our rules of engagement have been tailored to reduce the amount of colateral civillian damage and casualties. Having said that, in a war such as this, there is no way to avoid a certain number of unfortunate deaths like this. Especially when the bad guys don't wear uniforms and intentionally hide amoung the innocent civillian population. Anyone who has any knowledge of previous wars (and other, current, ongoing wars – CAN YOU SAY AFRICA), would know that relative to this one, the amount of colateral civillian damage is DRASTICALLY lower than in any other war we, or most countries, have been involved in. Do you think that when we bombed and shelled Normandy prior to the invasion of Euorpe in 1944 that we thought there were only German troops there? Did we fire bomb Tokyo and Dresdan with the same notion? Of course not, but those were different times and we accepted the fact that, in a war, people will die, and not only those in uniform. Compared to the rest of the wolrd, I think the US Military is, by far, more concerned with unintended (read that word again UNINTENDED) civillian death and damage. Just think, if we didn't care so much about this, we would have had the brutal, archaic taliban and the hellbound, foreign fighters/terrorists already in the ground and burning for eternity (along with a huge number of civillian deaths). Do you think that any of these people would take as much care to avoid these incidents? HELL NO! That is how they fight. Look up the definition of terrorism. God Bless our Military and God Bless the Untited States.  wow im sorry,but im sorry this, i dont really like this because what has this world come to??? lik ewe fight over nothing, and starts riot because our presidents are courruot, i dont really enjoy what i see going on in this worl, cant we just live in peace!!!  This is what's wrong with muslims the world over. Let one unfortunate person get killed accidentally by the folks trying to make their lives better and riots, pillaging and mayhem ensue but let the Taliban stone, burn, and shoot scores of people to death and not so much as a whimper is heard from the muslim masses. I'd hate to see what they would have done if NATO had name a Teddy Bear Mohammed.  It's totally ridiculous that you all think our country is trying to "make Afghanistan better".. I pity your lack of education. It's about an oil pipeline. Get over it Patriots. They probably won't post this anyway though cause CNN is a propaganda machine and they never let me post anything that isn't pro military.  And, for your information... Osama Bin Ladin was a guest of Afghanistan, allowed to be in the country by them, but much of the Taliban disagreed with targeting America, and starting a war. The Taliban are merely a domestic Islamic movement that took power of their own country. THEY did not plan 9-11.. Osama Bin Ladin did 'supposedly'. Even if that's true, it doesn't justify a war on a Nation. Think about it! Think think think... I recommend a great documentary called "The Power of Nightmares". It's a three part series that covers much of the modern history of the Middle East. These wars cannot be thought of outside the context of the history of the 20th century. Your school or University is not likely to teach you this history. You gotta get up off the couch, turn off the TV and go to the Public Library!  seriously people... the economy is in the dump, and im sick of all you liberal keyboard jockeys telling me how to do my job. you think you can do a better job of fighting the war than i can, be my guest. until you sack up and raise you right hand, leave the fighting to me. get off of cnn.com, go to work, put in some overtime and see what you can do about fixing the domestic issues here.  Posted by: headed for afghan  Alexis Mitchell: Drink yo juice, drink yo juice now, Alexis. Why don't you go live with your bff's called the Taliban and see how long you last. Hmph. Be sure to sing Kumbaya. . . that'll pacify 'em. Bet you're not buying a ticket to IslamLand anytime soon are ya, Hero?? And what about secular teachers, labor organizers, health workers, democrats, all those working to build a secular, civil society. We encouraged them to help create a real alternative to religious fundamentalism. You want to give everything back to your bff's the Taliban?? Brilliant!!  oh, and for cnn itself. the only reason i came on this site is because i want to see what the hell is going on in afghanistan before i get there, could you pretty pretty please with sugar on top do some REAL reporting and actually give us an update on events rather than scouring the country side to find instances of some poor 18 year old kid who got put into a life or death situation and did what he had to do to keep his face intact. before you go demonizing the troop on the ground think about this one for a sec, hes a person too, hes in a worse hell than any nightmare you could possibly imagine. he eats crap food, hasnt showered in 9 weeks, hes going to be out for 3 more, and he only has 2 more pairs of fresh socks. now let this one sink in, he your son, your brother, the kid you went to high school with, that nice neighbor kid who used to mow your lawn. think about that before you start calling him a murderous monster, you want somebody to blame? blame the guy he was sent there to protect innocent people from, the guy who imposes totalitarian rule over a people who have for years been globally renown for their hospitality to foreigners. you want a bad guy cnn? hes in a cave just outside of kabul, happy hunting.  Posted by: headed for afghan  What amazes me is that only 300 people protested (out of the millions in Afghanistan), and only 59 people (out of many million readers) have posted comments to this article.  Posted by: Archer D. Bowman  Lets not forget we are an invading army, uninvited, entering a man's home.  I think if the roles were reversed, and this happened in Texas, there would be violent outbursts as well.  I don't question the actions of the soldiers. I'm former military and have served in the Gulf. I would have shot as well under the same circumstances.  But before we call a man stupid for attempting to defend his home against foreign invaders, let's consider the context. I know many Americans, including myself, that would do the same if a foreign soldier who I did not want in my country in the first place kicked in my door.  I guess the moral (if you call it such) is this:  Occupation forces are free to do whatever they want. If anyone ask questions, make sure you plant or gun on the dead body and accuse them of attacking you first. Also remember to pull bullets out of dead bodies.  daniel,i said it before and i will tell you again,you are a idiot,thank god we dont have people like you serving in the military.when someone points a weapon at you,and they refuse to put it down,you kill them,had it been me that he pointed the weapon at,i would have killed him,no questions asked.  What makes the grass grow .  Well put,Kevin Brooks.I noticed that on Sept.11,2001 when Al Qaeda flew planes into our buildings we cried to the rest of the world about how horrific it was.Yey during the Vietnam war,we bombed cities and villages in North Vietnam like clockwork,but where was the outrage???And now we're using those ungodly drones agains both "militants" and civilians alike,where is the outrage???  Wow.Thats getting funny now.The guy comes at them with a raised weapon and does not drop it after being warned.He gets shot and killed.Now there is a major protest?These people are now pushing it too far with their "outrage".I hope NATO troops do this every single time someone approaches them with a weapon and does not drop it.Does this make me evil?Who cares.....  Those people will get even in spades . They will hide people They will hide explosives guns . They will work as spies . If they just dont kill you out right and they have forever to do it  Last week the Taleban used two children riding a pack-laden donkey as unwitting bombers to attack a police post in the neighbouring district. “They detonated the device at the checkpoint right outside the house of Fazluddin Agha, a famous elder,” police Lieutenant-Colonel Abdul Qadir said. “The children would never have known they were riding aboard a bomb.” – Times Online  How come no one seems to be offended by this and yet a guy killed while raising a weapon at a soldier is deemed offensive??  You have the right to bear arms, you have the right to defend yourself, home, and family. But only if your white.  The guy got what he was asking for you dont't point a gun at someone if all they want to do is search your home on suspected terorist actions. If the guy wasn't guilty then he had nothing to worry about but no he was probably trying to hide something and now all those people rioting. It's the guys fault and now NATO just has bad plubicity.  Posted by: Daiel-2 I expect that a lot of right-wing nutjobs are going blog in here defending what those guys did as always.These people are so horrifically insensitive to the suffering caused by this obscene war that it's absolutely sickening.And all this bla-bla-bla about how sorry they are will heard over and over again and that "war is war".How would they like it if some foreign troops came to their place and shot their relatives///  Daniel-2 –Daniel-2 I have some relatives I wouldn't mind having shot. If you got a foreign uniform hit me up and I'll give you the list. Their physical locations are TX and CO, so you could make a holiday out of it. No really I’m in agreement with other posters; if you are in a war zone, in a suspected insurgent house (easily identified if you have men in uniform coming at you with weapons drawn), put your weapon down and you will survive. I’ve learned not to take chances and risk getting killed; as a Hispanic if I get pulled over by a cop, I keep my hands where the officer can see them and do not move them until he tells me. I haven’t been arrested or shot yet.  WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE, IF YOU FELT THREATEN WITH HOME INVASION?  YOU WOULD GET YOUR GUN, RIGHT!!! EXACTLY! JUST AS AMERICANS TAKE GREAT LOVE TO BARE ARMS; SO, SHOULD INDIVIDUALS IN OTHER COUNTRIES. WHAT THE MAN DID WAS JUST HUMAN NATURE. HE DECIDED TO BARE ARMS AND PROTECT HIS FAMILY BECAUSE HE FELT HIS HOME WAS BEING VIOLATED. NOW, HE IS DIE AND HIS KIDS WON'T HAVE A FATHER.  THE SAME CAN AND HAS HAPPEN IN AMERICA, WHERE POLICE OFFICERS RAID PEOPLE HOMES WITHOUT WARNING AND SHOOT INCIDENCE CITIZENS.  I MEAN, THE FIRST THING YOUR GOING TO DO IS GET A GUN, BAT, TENNIS RACKET, OR SOMETHING TO ARM YOURSELF.  NOW, THE REASON THE GUY PROBABLY DIDN'T DROP THE GUN IS BECAUSE HE WAS UPSET OR JUST WAS IN SUCH A SHOCK THAT HE COULDN'T OR WON'T LET THE GUN GO, PEROID!!!  Lets just leave this crappy country, these people are barbarians living in the same conditions they had in the 14th century. Leave them to there own misery, stop wasting lives and money on them, they dont want us there anyway.  Well put garyg,since we haven't any business there in the first place despite what all these stupid right-wing nutjobs say.More likely than not,9/11 was some kind of an inside job as it provided President Bush with the perfect pretext for the invasion of Afghanistan back in 2001.Now these thugs keep up their bla-bla-bla about how we need a victory there.  Ron Mexico and Soldier First got it absolutely correct. A small amount of common sense could have save that guy's life. You point a gun at someone, either shoot or expect to be shot.  Nixs; you just plain don't get it. No, we can not live in peace, so long as there is one party out there that wants to make war, then you either give in to them or you fight them. If you give in, you lose whatever control of your own destiny that you may have had. If you fight them, then you may control your own destiny, but it is never a sure thing. For me, I will fight.  daniel,stop your crying,when you can say you walked a mile in a grunts shoes,then you can complain all you want.  Those idiots that back night raids conducted by the U.S that leave relatives of families dead is unaceptable and should be condemned in the strongest terms. The U.S army is a coward brand of fighters.Raids at nights is not the best types of fighting when the U.S army knows full well that there are civilians(men and women) living in these areas. How many people in the U.S that have arms eventhough we are not at war, but we bear arms under the pretext of defending ourselves, so why can't someone in a warzone defend him or herself. So you idiots shurt the hell up and continue to eat your burgers,for one day you will be in some of these people situation.  Moral of the story, don't approach them with a gun! Simples!!!  you have really no right to say anything about this unless u are here. so i suggest those who dont know about anything like you wo have never even been here keep yoour mouths shut.  and really those of us who took the oath foreign and domestic. yeah i would enjoy the domestic part very much. remember we protect the nation not the people.  those who say they have a right to defend their homes from our troops they must have the right to DIE for their homes. its simple really a life even thousansds of lives dont mean a damn thing. you are just a number.  @Quite well put,Joanna.It does get old seeing these right-wing nutjobs defending what the US Army did and like you said,it shouldn't be acceptable.But I guess they'll only whitewash the who thing as always.  My favorite above: "Every AK-47 should have a warning label. WARNING: Pointing this at U.S. Military personel can be hazardous to your health."  Correct me if I'm wrong but the article said NATO forces...and never once did it mention Americans. For all we know the French did it...but then again that'd be asking too much from the French...wait maybe the Germans...or the Turks. Or any number of the 45 other nations there at the moment....I dunno something to think about for the sake of argument. But as a soldier myself...Americans were there at some point.  Don't these people celebrate weddings and new cattle with random bursts of gunfire into the air. I saw that CSI episode once..bullet went up and had to come back down, poor girl didn't expect it....Gravity's a doozy.  New moral of story: The sky was falling.  Wiki up the current NATO forces by country. Ireland's got a whopping 7 dudes there...Austria sent 3 guys...must be mini Schwarzeneggers...gotta love those "36 other countries" and their contributions.  The Afghan people will love to have the Taliban back after this is all over. Only people with a very twisted mind believe that the Afghans will ever appreciate having gun wielding foreign occupation troops running through their backyard every day and shooting at everything looking suspicious. This is going on for too many years now. There will be no clear end to it and the present occupation forces will leave like the Russians did, having killed too many innocent bystanders, declared by the 4 stars as unavoidable collateral damage and getting killed too many of their own for people who absolutely never ever appreciated them to be in their country in the first place. This war is so stupid. Most know it, even the guys who use it as a career opportunity and as a business to get richer. America is unfortunately a war and military economy. Wallstreet booms whenever a new US war starts. In the meantime we all know what sort of funny people manage Wallstreet though. That is why a lot of European countries want to get out. That war just absolutely does not make sense no matter from which angle you look at it.  The usual Catch-22 logic. We've seven thousand miles from our own country, in someone else's country, blowing the crap out of it and when we get shot at, it's their fault, and we're comletely innocent. We're nine years into a war. Our foe has no navy, no airforce, no drone bombers, no armor, no tanks. We've spent more on this war than we stent fighting WWII. Are we winning?  US Method: conduct police style raid, detain suspects. When threatened with lethal force, respond in kind. When a demonstration occurs, work with locals to quell disturbance peacefully with as little loss of life as possible.  British Colonial method: Hire locals or foreign mercenaries to kill the suspect. Get out before demonstration starts.  Soviet Method: Conduct assault, kill every male in the compound, sometimes the women and children too. Burn everything. When crowds form to demonstrate, shoot them to disperse them.  The folks who think our coalition troops are being too harsh should do a little historical research, first.  Did I miss something here? The article says "NATO-led troops." Why is everyone assuming they were all Americans?  I am a republican...its Obama's afult  Every soldier wants to come home after their tour, every field commander wants all of his troops to go home after their tour, so they eliminate any threat they encounter. Further, islamist believe that they will be instantly ensconced in paradise if they die fighting the infidel, so some of them can be quite suicidal. My friend who is an Israeli veteran of the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War told me of being rushed at by fanatical fools yelling "Alahu Akbar" or whatever as fast as his unit could cut them down. Islamic fundamentalists are unfathomable lunatics. When our troops do finally leave, they will just redirect their energy to killing each other.  Well that makes one more pro-taliban village, way to go NATO  If their own country could police themselves incidents like this wouldn't happen. Unfortunalty for this family deadly physical force was threatened and it was met by the same force.  It's so hard to believe there are so many brainwashed, bloodthirsty, heartless people in this country. When will they wake up? No Afghani was involved in 911. We are there for the oil pipeline, 300 billion in opium, and to have a military position near China and Russia to prop up our military empire. "The chickens will eventually come home to roost", and I'm afraid the majority of Americans will get exactly what they deserve. If you think killing, maiming and torturing people half way around the world is going to make you safe at night, you are in for a shock.  @mxr.You certainly hit the nail on the head! Like I said before,if one took a look at the blogging of these warmongering sickos,one would have to believe that we ceased to be a Christian nation.All this right-wing lynch mob mentality gets to be sickening and only proves that we live in a sick society.Enough said!  If you point a gun at police or soldiers, they will presume that you intend to shoot. This is true for ANY country, now matter how primitive or civilized. It's true for whether the forces are native or foreign, friendly or hostile. It was true a hundred years ago, and it will be true a hundred years from now.  Posted by: Brian from Chicago  daniel,these are your words,if it wasnt for warmongers like myself and my brothers,you would not be free to write these stupid opinions you post,you and your bozo friends donot have a clue.  Well, I dint know there was a war in Afghanistan. I dont recall they declared was to US, and I dont recall US declared war to Afghanistan. I recall a terrorist train camp over there that launched the attackd to NYC by mostly Saudi Arabian men. So you are telling me if a foreign power, say China, comes to usa with their weapon raised you as and an american you wouldnt defend yourself? If in the future we discover there is a terrorist camp in UK like we discovered one here in USA, should we invade UK and have an undeclared war for 7 years against them? Not logical right? so why is it logical when we talk about an eastern nation?? Afghanistan is a free country and we there illegally. Prove me otherwise. When an afghany person hurt or attacked an american or USA before we invaded their country? It is their right to show up at the door with a weapon. We are the illegal ones. We got not bussiness to be there. Ty  It amazes me how many uneducated, illeterate, cry babies that livie in America. Whaa haa haa, Boo hoo. How they got this way is beyond me. Probably due to a little demasculinization of the 90's males had a something to do with it. That guy that said "pointing a gun at someone is like saying hello in that country" did crack me up. IIts life get over it. You will likely not make it long in this country little less over there. And I will lose no sleep over it. And you freaks from other countries whineing about it, give me a break. You let everyone push you around. And when Americans are asked to come help you, you turn on us like vermin. Then we leave and some other punk dictator or regime takes over and it starts all over again, You guys need to grow some and handle your own business.  @Clark.Americans helping people over there???Give me a break! To set the record straight,we're not there to "help" anybody but along with Great Britain and France to conquer the region and build the American Anglo-French Empire.  I am not argueing that. I agree. They are our enemy. They hate us. They are weak and ignorant. End of story. It has always been the way of the worlf. All your crying about the unfairness will not change it. So go back to hideing under your bed.  you guys are the most brainwashed people I ever saw. First, he was in his home. Second, he was in his country. Third, there is no evidence he pointed a gun, and it is common sense that he wouldn't do that in the presence of his kids and family. They just lie to you and you being so brainwashed cannt use any common sense.  1. It did not say these were US troops and considering the province it happened it, very likely it could have been a different nation.  2. He obviously wasn't too smart. If my country was invaded, whether or not invaders are in my home, i'm a bit smarter than to approach them with a gun in my hand.  And you are just a coward Ben.  To Ben, Everybody in the world is good, except those bad Americans. How sad.  Generally, the term 'Nato Led' means local troops under the leadership of Nato commanders...ie: Afghans.  an armed enemy combatant was take out. That is all. Dometic enemy sympathisers trying to make more out of thanit is. They should all be arrested.  Again being so indoctrinated you are incapable of understanding a very simple point. Those who killed him say that he pointed a gun at them. That doesn't make it so. Some are simply happy that he was killed and any excuse is good. What good is that doing to our country? It is because of this kind of thinking that we are stuck there with no benefit at all for us. Nobody can do anything to a superpower like us. Our stupidity however can destroy it.  no only your cowardice and enemy sympathizing can. why dont you go ove there and help out your friends.  no only your cowardice and sympathy for the enemy can. why dont you go over their and help out your friends. I am sure they have a vest that will fit you.  No Mr Clark, they use morons like you to do that kind of job. I do not sympathize with the enemy, nor do I like people who can't use their brain like you even when they try to appear very patriotic.  when you sympathize with an enemy who only wants to kill us bcause we are different i.e infidells, then you are the one who has no brain and the more there are the more of a drain on our goverment you instill making it weaker and encouriging every other nut group to take a shot at us and our country. but you know that dont you. it is the plan. but we are on to you and your kind,  Ben,you are right,but the reason we're in Afghanistan is help Great Britain and France build an empire and gain control of the Middle East and help the right-wing thugs in Washington make money and get their people reelected.  hehe right france... what a joke.. when is the last time the fought for anything  Blaming NATO for this guy charging them with weapon in hand is like blaming police for crime.  Posted by: Brian from Chicago  to all you cry babies out there that say we are wrong for doing a job we were sent to do,you should spend one day over here and go on a patrol,you would crawl into a ball and cry like a baby as soon as the first rounds coming down range at you started cracking around your head.  This topic has been talked to death, and none of you are listening to the other.  The simple fact is IF you are going to have a war, the object is to enforce your will on the other party. That means civilians are going to get killed. In WWII, church doors were pulled open, grenades were thrown in, and the doors closed. Everybody in the church got killed. If you didn't want to get killed, you got out of the town before the fighting started, and you went to a refugee camp. The Allies burned Dresden to the ground; just like the Axis destroyed Coventry. War is about killing.  In the early stages of the Iraq fight, Iraqis had women and children form lines and march down the street so the men could hide behind them and shoot the USA soldiers. When the soldiers were FORCED to shoot women and children, Iraqi doctors would show the media the injured children and complain about the cruel military.  If you "liberals" (and I hate that term as I am one) wanted to keep us out of Iraq, you should have fought tooth and nail to keep us from going into Iraq. BUT the 'stan had to be attacked. They PROTECTED and HID bin Laden from us. THE FRIEND OF MY ENEMY IS MY ENEMY. If they wanted peace, all they had to do was give him up. The Taliban didn't believe we would attack them because of the 'bleeding heart liberals.' Well, they found out wrong. What's happening to them should be even worse that it is. Afterward, we should make a parking lot of the place as the Romans did to Carthage as an example to the world. You leave us alone, and we'll leave you alone.  sorry this is so long. think first and then act.  Can the knee jerk liberals read the article before commenting on how bad the US military is. This raid was conducted by NATO not the United States. Get your facts straight please  USMCForever get your facts straight please.  The USA is part of NATO. The NATO Suppreme allied commander in Afghanistan is U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis. Therefore the US does bear some if not all of the responsibility for NATO actions in Aghanistan.  NATO is a multinational force I agree!, But to see people on here implying that this was the result of just the US and US alone is ridiculous! Yes we are part, again PART of NATO but not the sole military presence during this raid. It amazes me that the majority of people who bash the military have never served. I have served and trained with NATO so I do have a background but lets even out the blame and not just have an opportunity to denounce the US military.  Good. I say let the military do its job and let's not tie their hands. We need to finish this thing up and get ready for future conflicts.  Funny, the taliban throws acid in the faces of their children and blows up people by the hundreds every week, but let the US or nato forces kill one nut with a gun and the locals want to riot. Kinda tells you who's side those cavement are really on  Nothing new here SoS. Thankfully I got out the military when all this Crap went down in Iraq and Afghanistan. I feel bad for our own forces but honestly I could really care less about NATO...I say its about time that organization get disbanded because there waste of space. they screw up and we get the blame as usual....Can someone remind me again what purpose NATO serves again???  How many times has this happened over there? A man has a gun because he has a family and he is living in a country that is “at war”. Of course he has a weapon. I wonder if they spoke his language. I am betting no one told him to put down his weapon. Even if they did, how could he know for sure that they were the ”good guys” coming to rescue him, instead of one of the “terrorists” who might want to harm him or his family.  Let me get this straight. A man was shot and killed for holding a gun when threatened by NATO that barged into his home with guns? Then we comment on the fact whether he was stupid or deserved it or is hiding something? I am ashamed to call myself American when we promote violence because "war is war". This man had a family, regardless of his connections. His family is now broken, grieving and we can only point at his "stupidity". Our ignorance of other people perpetuates the need for these wars because we want to force a set of principles on a population that may not even be ready for them. Try to see their side of the story instead of being comfortable in your chair.  I am a x marine and i to belived every thing i was told was true. Funny when you get older you realize that all the BS they told you is not true. We are not over there fighting for our freedom. I was not in Vietnam fighting for our freedom. The last time i checked we are still free no matter what happens in any other country.  A Weapon + Pointed at Soldiers = Get shot and possibly killed Any Questions?  Posted by: Soldier over here
KABUL, Afghanistan — Hundreds of residents rioted in a village in eastern Afghanistan after a NATO raid there left a relative of a parliament member dead, police and the lawmaker said Thursday.