By IRNA,
Berlin : Germany’s defense ministry on Wednesday stressed that unlike US troops, German soldiers are not involved in target killings of Taliban leaders in Afghanistan.
Defense ministry spokesman Christian Dienst told media representatives in Berlin that German special forces were exercising “self-restraint” in their hunt for Taliban leaders by merely capturing and not killing them.
The German official’s remarks followed a report by online whistle-blower WikiLeaks , saying that the American elite force Task Force 373 had reportedly been involved in target killings in northern Afghanistan which is under German military command.
The secret US files detailed six years of the Afghanistan war revealing damning details of unreported cases of Afghan civilian deaths and a widening insurgency abetted by Pakistan.
The secret US military records about the war in Afghanistan were leaked to the media by WikiLeaks, and published by the New York Times, British daily The Guardian and German weekly Der Spiegel.