Afghanistan: Background to the Kunduz airstrike of 4 September 2009

Index Number: ASA 11/015/2009
Fecha de publicación: 30 octubre 2009
Categorías: Afganistán

This briefing on the Kunduz airstrike, which occurred in the early hours of 5 September 2009, is based on Amnesty International’s field research in Kunduz. It provides a timeline of events in which two fuel tankers belonging to the German Provincial Reconstruction Team were hijacked by the Taleban and subsequently bombed by fighter jets under German command.