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SPD wants to hear Merkel as a witness

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Saturday, 27 March 2010 23:56

The SPD wants to Chancellor Angela Merkel in Kunduz, to speak of inquiry as a witness. Merkel will not they accused had not cared enough to explain. The CDU defense expert Andreas Schockenhoff takes her under his protection.

The SPD wants that Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Kunduz-committee hearing as a witness. The background is that the chancellor had immediately after the deadly bombing of two fuel trucks by e-mail evidence of civilian casualties. And "There are issues that can ultimately only be answered, the Chancellor," said SPD chairman Rainer Arnold the Bild newspaper.

The CDU defense expert Andreas Schockenhoff took Merkel defended and defended himself against accusations that she had not taken care of early enough for an explanation. Schockenhoff pointed out that Merkel early as 6 September and had publicly emphasized in the following days on the possibility of civilian casualties in the attack.

"The claim that Angela Merkel was not openly dealt with the bombing in Kunduz and its consequences is wicked," said Schockenhoff the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. The SPD is just about going to attack the chancellor and CDU chairman in North Rhine-Westphalia election.

Schockenhoff was responding to remarks made by the SPD group managing director Thomas Oppermann. He had said, Merkel had not exercised its responsibilities in educating the Kunduz affair. Also in the Chancellery had arrived a few hours after the air strike in Afghanistan about civilian casualties, "said Oppermann New Osnabruecker newspaper.

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