Well that's the point isn't it, what would qualify as "on purpose" for you? Like, if a US general would go on live tv and say "Watch this, I'm about to push this button that will send this missile to kill civilians in Afghanistan". Would that suffice? The end result is the same.

It you trust the US military or any military for that matter to tell you the truth then you are more gullible then me.

How many hunters are killed by fellow hunters every year because the latter thought they were shooting at an animal? Are those deaths on purpose?

And just what qualifies as "on purpose" to you?

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OTH doesn't care about civilians. When was the last time you saw him start a thread about Hamas or Hezbollah or the Iranians or even Al Quaeda killing civilians? Never. No, he just hates the US and will take every opportunity to express that hatred.

Does anybody know if there are any Finnish troops in Afghanistan?

If there are, how many?

And what are they doing or in Richards words "sowing"?

According to the wikipedia article on the International Security Assistance Force, Finland has (as of Apr 2010) approx. 100 troops stationed in Afghanistan. :hmmm:

Wha!!....not even 300 Spartans? :o

140 at this time.

I have more info than i cant tell.;)

Officially they are training the locals and starting and protecting civilian projects.:salute:

My brother and friends serve in FDF and he is talking me over to do a tour.

Finns were offered own region in Helmland but our politicians refused, the military would have wanted.
Estonian are there and Finns would fit with them and the Swedes nicely.

The FDF is trying to get the politicians to deploy special forces in larger numbers there.:03:

To start an offensive war in another nation that caused civilian casualties in that particular nation.

Hunters that get shot / shoot other people are stupid also but hunting animals doesn't quite correlate well with a war.

Ye old Fins have been hanging since 2008:

http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2008...o-afghanistan/

:hmmm:

I know a guy who has at least been there as an officer. From hearing him it's really difficult to know exactly what good might even potentially come from the whole operation. The longer the military troops from all the nations just kind of hang around there the bigger the chances are that the average people will become antagonised with them. There might even be a stronger alliance between the average Afghanis and the Taleban then the coalition. The fight for the hearts and minds is probably lost already.

Finland discontinued its prison projects in Afghanistan

The women’s prison project publicised on the YLE News broadcast of 6 May is one aspect of Finland’s activities in Afghanistan. Project monitoring has revealed that prostitution has taken place in the prison, with the involvement of the prison management. The decision to stop supporting the construction of prisons was made in April.


http://www.finland.org.au/Public/def...&culture=en-US

Looks to me like Finland is for supporting Afghanistan in a different fashion.

Yea Finns thought they were building a prison for women in Afghanistan, turned out they were building a whore house. :har:

Afghanistan: Now it’s Finland’s war, too


http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Afg.../1135246952149

:har::har: Yep!