{"id":26566,"date":"2011-09-12T09:34:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T08:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=26566"},"modified":"2011-09-12T09:34:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T08:34:02","slug":"afghanistan-bbc-stringer-killed-by-us-soldier-nato-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=26566","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: BBC stringer killed by US soldier, NATO reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A BBC stringer who was\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship - Afghanistan: Journalist killed in Taliban attack\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/2011\/07\/afghanistan-journalist-killed-in-taliban-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\">killed in Afghanistan<\/a>\u00a0in July was shot by a US soldier who mistook him for a suicide bomber during a battle against insurgents, <a title=\"Journalism.co.uk - BBC Afghanistan stringer killed by US soldier, Nato admits \" href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.co.uk\/news\/bbc-afghanistan-stringer-killed-by-us-soldier-nato-admits\/s2\/a545965\/\" target=\"_blank\">NATO has said<\/a>.\u00a0Releasing the findings of its investigation into the death of\u00a0<a title=\"Index on Censorship - Ahmed Omed Khpulwak\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/ahmed-omed-khpulwak\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ahmed Omed Khpulwak<\/a>, the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force\u00a0<a title=\"ISAF - ISAF Releases Findings of Army Regulation 15-6 Report on Death of Khpalwak\" href=\"http:\/\/www.isaf.nato.int\/article\/isaf-releases\/isaf-releases-findings-of-army-regulation-15-6-report-on-death-of-khpalwak.html\" target=\"_blank\">issued a statement<\/a>\u00a0expressing its condolences for the killing, but said its forces had complied with the laws of armed conflict and acted reasonably.\u00a0According to the statement, US forces shot Khpalwak in order to \u201cdetonate a suicide vest IED\u201d, after mistaking him for an insurgent.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BBC stringer who was\u00a0killed in Afghanistan\u00a0in July was shot by a US soldier who mistook him for a suicide bomber during a battle against insurgents, NATO has said.\u00a0Releasing the findings of its investigation into the death of\u00a0Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force\u00a0issued a statement\u00a0expressing its condolences for the killing, but said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[51,3778,905,3779],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26566"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26610,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26566\/revisions\/26610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}