A Thursday newspaper report accuses former German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung, now Chancellor Merkel's labor minister, of having withheld information from parliament regarding a German-ordered air attack in Afghanistan which killed dozens of civilians. The opposition is demanding that Jung resign.

That Thursday was going to be a difficult day for Germany's Labor Minister Franz Josef Jung became clear shortly after 9 a.m. this morning. In parliament, the debate over Germany's Afghanistan mission had just begun when Jung, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, rose from his seat and walked over to where Merkel was sitting. Merkel, though, shooed him away with a wave of her hand.

With a look of resignation, Jung made his way back to his spot, passing Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg on the way. Guttenberg didn't even so much as glance at Jung, who quietly sat down in his minister's chair.

Perhaps for the last time.

On this Thursday, Jung was hit hard by his past. It was a past that he believed had faded forever: his unfortunate stint as defense minister. Once again, the devastating German-ordered air attack in Kunduz in early September, one which resulted in dozens of civilian deaths, was back on the agenda.