BERLIN, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- German special forces deployed to Afghanistan in 2002 did not fire a single bullet that year, according to a German parliamentary commission.
The roughly 100 soldiers of Germany's elite KSK force suffered from boredom, a source said before a parliamentary commission, according to Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
The commission probes the KSK's role in Afghanistan, after a former terror suspect, Murat Kurnaz, in 2006 claimed KSK soldiers abused him during his stint in a U.S.-run secret prison camp in Kandahar.
It surfaced that the German soldiers took part in a few arrest missions, and then proceeded to support ISAF troops or went on exploration missions.
From March 2002 on, there were no more meaningful missions, a German military source said before the commission. Observers say the KSK troops were deployed mainly to please Washington, after Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, immediately after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, had promised to stand by America's side in the war on terror.
The sources admitted meeting Kurnaz in the prison camp, but denied having abused the inmate.
The KSK's current tasks include hunting for terrorists responsible for attacks on German soldiers, German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported recently.
