Afghanistan: Background to the Kunduz airstrike of 4 September 2009

Index AI : ASA 11/015/2009
Date de publication : 30 octobre 2009
Catégorie(s) : Afghanistan

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.