European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition pages commandant chafes at apology for marines by Jeff Schogol and Leo Shane ill stars and stripes Marine corps commandant James Conway chided an army colonel thurs Day for apologizing for an incident in which special operations marines allegedly overreacted and killed 19 that a suicide bomber in a minivan struck a Marine injuring witnesses said the unit responded with heavy shooting at any perceived threat for Miles up the by late the entire 120man company was redeployed out of the last John commander of the 3rd brigade combat 10th Mountain Divi told reporters that the military had made Repa rations payments and issued a formal apology to the families of afghans killed and wounded in the March 4 Nicholson said that part of his apology i stand before you today deeply ashamed and terribly sorry that americans have killed and wounded innocent afghan on Conway called Nicholson apology saying commanders make such reparations payments All the but they Are not meant to imply when you take it to the next step and Start Mak ing pronouncements about guilt or of the parties to my Way of that goes against the sort of tried and True element that says any Serviceman or woman is innocent until proven guilty and senior military officials dont talk about those things while there under con Way asked if he would have preferred that Nicholson issued the payments but not the Conway that s what i would have Marine special operations command regrets the ambush reaction involving about 30 special operations marines and has offered its deepest sympathy to the afghan civilians said maroc spokesman Cliff in the interest of preserving the presumption of innocence that All service members deserve when facing allegations of we will not characterize the until we have All the said Gilmore on the maroc web Gilmore described the marines in the special operations platoon that was ambushed As exp combat proven warriors who Are former Force reconnaissance in the Force recon marines who formed the dash direct reconnaissance platoon of the first Marine special operations com Pany completed a 1521 week process that thoroughly screened and selected them for the desired at tributes of effective judg ment and Gilmore co ways comments come after a lawmaker demanded a Public apology this week from army officials for their comments following the March expulsion of special forces marines from Walter whose District includes Camp the Headquarters for the corps special operations said recent comments from the army seemed to blame marines for the deaths of civilians following an not Only has the presumption of innocence been but the reputation of these marines May be he wrote in a letter to acting army Secretary Pete please explain Why the presumption of innocence does not apply to these in his Jones called Nicholson words contemptuous and he called for a writ ten apology to the Marine and a Promise from the service to refrain from any additional pub lic comments until an investigation is As Secretary of the your responsibility is to ensure that your subordinates disseminate the proper information to the especially if it involves an other Branch of the armed he army officials had no comment on the email Jeff Schogol at  email Leo Shane at  lighting up the sky soldiers from the 2nd 5th Cav is Cav division fire illumination mortars toward a town next to Abu Gharib located approximately 20 Miles West of Zeken Maya stars and stripes Allauddin afghan firefighters Spray water on the soldering wreckage of a truck that was hit first by a Remote control bomb in on two bomb blasts 15 minutes apart on a Road in Kandahar City on thursday killed seven including three police Ira style dual blast kills 7 in Afghanistan by Noor Khan the associated press Afghanistan a coordinated dual bomb attack on a Kandahar City Road thurs Day killed seven including three in an Ira style tactic that is rarely seen in Afghanistan and came Days after the death of the Taliban top Field hours a suicide car bomber rammed into a Convoy of vehicles the Kandahar governor usually travels in an apparent assassination attempt that killed three civilians on the Street and wounded four government including the afghan information and culture minister and one of the governors the governor was not in the the Taliban claimed responsibility for the two bomb attack in their former Southern afghan saying that the Sec Ond blast had been timed to hit just As More police arrived on the the first blast a Remote con trolled bomb targeting a pickup truck killed four private Security said Esmatullah Kandahar provinces police about 15 minutes a Sec Ond Roadside Remote controlled bomb killing three policemen and wounding Al Izai several journalists covering the aftermath of the primary explosion were splattered with blood from the deafening two journalists working for Al Nazeera television were slightly taking shrapnel in the backs of their afghan president Hamid Karzai condemned the attackers As enemies of say ing the militants were harming police and average through these attacks they Are trying to disrupt the process of development and reconstruction of but the peo ple of Afghanistan Are confident that the enemy will fail in their he said in a the first bomb sent the pickup truck cascading off the Road and left it a burning the second ripped nearby police and civilians were barred from the officers shouted and wept As they carried bodies away in the Kandahar has been hit before by such double a tactic often used by insurgents in but they Are still comparatively rare in Qari Yousef a purported Taliban said the at tack was planned to target police responding to the first first we set off a Remote control explosion on a police then we were waiting for the police to arrive on the then we did a second Ahmadi said by satellite phone from an 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