ISAF: Reporter killed in Afghanistan in box of mistaken ID

(CNN) — A contributor was killed by a U.S. use member final Jul in southern Afghanistan in a box of mistaken identity, according to a formula of an review by NATO’s International Security Assistance Force.

Ahmad Omid Khpalwak — a free-lancer for a BBC and Pajhwok News Agency in Afghanistan — was killed during an mutinous dispute in a Uruzgan range city of Tarin Kowt on Jul 28. He was 25 and assimilated a BBC in May 2008 as a stringer, a network said.

“Mr. Khpalwak was shot by an ISAF member who believed he was an mutinous that acted a hazard and was about to erupt a self-murder vest makeshift explosve device,” a NATO-led force pronounced in a matter Thursday. ISAF indentified a soldiers during a stage as Americans.

“The questioning officer found that a ISAF member concerned in this occurrence complied with a laws of armed dispute and manners of rendezvous and acted pretty underneath a circumstances.”

Peter Horrocks, executive BBC Global News, pronounced a genocide is “a tragedy for his family and friends as good as his colleagues during a BBC.”

It “further highlights a good dangers confronting reporters who put their lives on a line to yield critical news from around a world,” he said. “It is essential that reporters are given a best illusive insurance while stating in dangerous situations so that a universe can hear their stories.”

Insurgents staged what ISAF pronounced was a “complex attack” on a series of targets, including a provincial governor’s devalue and a Radio Television Afghanistan compound. The Committee to Protect Journalists pronounced during slightest 22 people were killed and 37 people were injured.

Gen. John R. Allen, commander of ISAF, allocated an eccentric questioning officer to inspect a resources of a death.

The news pronounced dual insurgents gained entrance to a RTA devalue when they used a automobile explosve to destroy a embankment and a territory of a wall.

From inside a building they traded glow with uniformed Afghan army and shot during U.S. soldiers nearing during a scene. The banishment from a insurgents eventually stopped amid sharpening force by a Americans.

Afghan care told a army that dual self-murder bombers were in a RTA building and that they “were not wakeful of any civilians present,” ISAF said.

“Upon U.S. soldiers entering a RTA building, a dual self-murder bombers detonated their explosives, collapsing a front walls of a building and trapping members of a clearing group underneath complicated section debris,” ISAF said.

As some soldiers aided a injured, some continued clearing building stays and others “remained in overwatch to yield security.”

During a clearing operation, a infantryman “identified transformation of a immature adult masculine in a building by a vast hole in a damaged wall.”

“The room a masculine was in was immediately adjacent to a room where one of a self-murder bombers had detonated his self-murder vest IED, and opposite a gymnasium from a other self-murder vest detonation, only mins before,” ISAF said.

The infantryman listened a shot he suspicion was from a man’s “exact location.” ISAF pronounced “it is illusive that a shot he listened was indeed glow by a infantryman inside a building during a building clearing.”

The infantryman “assessed a particular he celebrated to be rivalry and dismissed a singular turn that did not strike him. In a highlight and coercion of a moment, it is rarely illusive that soldiers in a yard outward a building wrongly viewed that shot as carrying been dismissed by a masculine in a building.”

ISAF pronounced several soldiers suspicion a masculine was shooting, and called out warnings.

“A infantryman was destined to pierce adult to a damaged wall where a masculine was seen. As a infantryman approached he celebrated a immature adult masculine with a brave with something clinched in one of his fists and reaching for something on his chairman with his other hand.”

The infantryman assessed a actions as those of a self-murder bomber who was operative to erupt an IED that “posed a fatal threat.”

The infantryman shot and killed a man. They after detected that a masculine was Khpalwak. No arms was found on him.

“It appears that all a rounds viewed as entrance from his plcae were instead dismissed by U.S. soldiers,” ISAF said.

The BBC pronounced a “confusion surrounding a circumstances” strong “the tragedy felt by a journalist’s family and colleagues.”

“The BBC recognizes that ISAF has supposing construction that he was killed by a U.S. soldier, finale a duration of uncertainty,” a network pronounced in a statement. “We will be study a sum of a commentary and wait receipt of a full report.”

CNN’s Joe Sterling contributed to this report