Canadian soldiers being returned home – Victims of US attack on our NATO Afghanistan forces at Tarnak Farm near Kandahar Air Force Base on the night of April 17/18 2002
Good Saturday morning folks. Have not posted on this blog for some time. I do have several posts on the launch pad ready to go but have been painting an artwork instead. I am almost finished my artwork and will post a photo of it when it’s finished.
In the meantime here are some comments from a thread I was recently involved in on X. I thought I would copy the comments here in a post to save them for posterity and so that that younger readers who perhaps weren’t around when this event occurred will familiarize themselves with a piece of Canadian history that has increased in relevance and poignancy since Trump leveled his “51st State” insults and threats at our nation.
Here are the comments as they occurred in order on X:
First there was the original post which accompanied the photo of the four Canadian flag draped coffins above:
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The number of times I saw non-American flag draped coffins in Afghanistan was not insignificant. The ignorance some display on X regarding what allies have done for the U.S. is embarrassing.
To which greencrow replied: This story about what happened in Afghanistan in April of 2002 needs to be known by more Canadians…to get a clearer perspective on what we’re up against with the US.
Were these coffins those of the four Canadian soldiers killed in the “Tarnak Farm Incident” of April 17th/18th 2002? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarnak_Farm_incident……That air attack on Canadian soldiers took place while they were doing live fire exercises outside Kandahar Air Base in Afghanistan.
Two US reserve fighter planes were flying wildly off their course and in restricted air space over Kandahar Air Base. They swooped down and bombed the soldiers. After they hit the Canadians the first transmission from the ground control to the pilots was:
“You’re cleared, self defense”. I know that because I was following the news very closely that night and was absolutely shocked by the attack. It woke me up to the true mendacity of the US towards Canada.
I followed the ensuing investigation into the incident closely and learned to my shock that this was the third time US pilots targeted Canadians. The other two times were near misses or aborted at the last moment when Canadians in the ground control saw what was going to happen.
The Tarnak Farm incident caused me to look at the US differently from that moment onward…to this moment in history where the US President is claiming: “Canada only works as a 51st State.”
Fellow Canadians we will have to fight like hell to save Canada.
Naval Reserve Pilot Major Harry Schmidt and wife Lisa enter the Tarnak Farms Article 32 hearing room.
Greencrow commented further: I liked then Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s words about the incident: “The Americans SAID it was an accident.”
A stupid poster responded: Your anecdotes are meaningless. Data is what matters. The U.S. lost 15x as many soldiers as Canada. 5x UK. 27x France 39x Germany 46x Italy
Greencrow responded: LOL…except that Canadians did not kill ANY Americans…Americans killed four Canadians and wounded many others in an extremely mysterious happenstance. If you’re not going to express your condolences at least STFU.
A shrewd poster responded: Killing Afghani civilians so the CIA can sell heroin is not doing anything for the US.
Darcy a Canadian poster on X responded to greencrow: Gesus, no, I don’t know anything about this, what was h t e meaning if that ground control message?
Greencrow responded: The message from the Ground Control to the US Naval Reserve Pilots was “You’re cleared, Self Defense.” This was within one or two minutes after the bombing…before any investigation of course.
The reason I remember this is because in the first 24 hours after any False Flag attack the real evidence comes out…inadvertently in many cases…and then is later buried under the “official narrative”. But I was following online the night of the incident and this came out. I was so angry and frustrated by what I had read and heard that I went on the New York Times forums for the first time ever.
I logged in and started chatting on the Afghanistan forum with American forumists who were also following the breaking news story. They were very sympathetic to my grief. I ended up being on that forum for a couple of years and made many American friends. That’s where I adopted the pseudonym ‘greencrow’. Two of my friends on that forum were redomercrow and yellowcrow.
One thing that that forum allowed that X does not is you could adopt a tagline under your name which was posted along with your name each time you commented. My tagline for years was “You’re cleared, self defense.”
Eventually, that part of the story was airbrushed out of the narrative and it was formally posted that that was not said by the ground control. But I remember it from that night and used it as a tagline for years. If I ever could go on another forum that allowed taglines…that’s the one I would choose.
Darcy responded: Harrowing. Thank you for sharing. What does the comment mean exactly? Like, they knew it was coming? Or they made a mistake not saying it sooner?
Greencrow responded: I can only tell you what it meant to my ears. Taken in context, it was the US Ground Control telling the pilots that they would not be held liable/legally responsible for the bombing of the Canadian military troop doing nighttime live fire exercises in a ditch by a farm just outside the Kandahar air base. To me, it was additional indirect evidence of pre-planning and foreknowledge…especially in light of the fact that this was at least the third time that Canadians had come under threat of possible friendly fire attack by Americans in Afghanistan. To automatically clear the pilots and say they were acting in “self defense” in a restricted air space is confounding to say the least.
Greencrow further responded: I don’t think Americans realize or realized how deeply Canadians were affected by that tragedy. I still have PTSD from it…from being online when it happened and following it minute-by-minute as the enormity of what had taken place between Canada and the US slowly sunk in. Like I say, that night changed forever the way I viewed the US. And this atrocious behaviour by Trump is bringing it all back!
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Greencrow concludes: Yes I do have PTSD from that night. But of course nothing like the young Canadian men caught in the ditch in Afghanistan who survived [some with horrific injuries] must be suffering to this day. I have always known that the Tarnak Farm attack on the Canadians was deliberate. I don’t care what the Americans say or what the investigation found. BTW, it found that the pilots must have made an “error”–due to being high on some kind of stimulant to stay awake during the long mission. But it was never made clear in the investigation or anywhere else why they had flown thousands of miles off course from their base in the Middle East and why they had not asked permission to bomb before doing as as was protocol.
Why did they do it? Well folks I think Canada has waited 23 years to find the answer to that question. The answer lies in Trump’s statement “Canada only works as a 51st state”. The US has never accepted Canadian sovereignty and has been gaming how to take us over ever since the war of 1812. Killing our soldiers was a brutal message to the leaders of Canada of their true intentions towards Canada.
We have been warned.
UPDATE: March 25th, 2025 I am going to replace this post with a newer one but before I do I’d like to add something that I mentioned in the comments on X but forgot to copy and paste above. That’s the interesting factoid that the US Naval Reserve Pilots who flew the “mission” to bomb the Canadians in Afghanistan were from the same Naval Reserve unit that George W. Bush flew in back when he was a naval reserve. George W. Bush was the president when the Tarnak Farm bombing took place. I found this highly incriminating at the time. Again it was airbrushed out of the final report and Wikipedia. BUT, when I put my comment on X I ‘Groked” it to see what Grok would say about the allegation. Tellingly, Grok did not dispute my contention about the reserve unit being George W’s unit— but it said “there’s no indication that President Bush had anything to do with the bombing”.
I found that information just too much of a coinkydynk to forget.
Greencrow as the crow flies 
WordPress refused to include the two other tags I attached to this post: United States and Afghanistan. So much for WordPress formatting options.
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