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Killing Of Imam In Kabul Prompts Protest, Probe

January 28 2010

Afghanistan

NATO says it is investigating an incident in Afghanistan involving the alleged killing of a civilian by ISAF forces.

Afghans say that U.S. soldiers in a military convoy shot and killed a local imam Thursday morning as he sat in his car in Kabul, the Washington Post reports.

Locals said that Mullah Mohammad Yunis was sitting in his vehicle, with three children in the back seat, waiting for a fourth child when a military convoy passed. Gunfire came from the third or fourth...

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