Ninety Percent of Captured "Taliban" Were Civilians
Submitted on June 13, 2011
By Gareth Porter - June 13th, 2011
The deliberate confusion sowed by [U.S. Afghanistan commander General David] Petraeus by referring to anyone picked up for interrogation as a captured rank and file Taliban was a key element of a carefully considered strategy for creating a more favourable image of the war...The deceptive nature of those statistics...raises anew the question of whether the statistics released by Petraeus on killing of alleged Taliban were similarly skewed.
