Reuters: U.S.-led forces kill 76 Afghan civilians: ministry August 22, 2008
Posted by revolution in : AfghÄnistÄn, News, United States of Losers , trackbackSounds like a typical American operation in Afghanistan.
They can’t kill enough Mujaahideen, so they go after the civilians and say, “We thought they were terrorists.”
And somehow, the world pardons them and nobody cries “terrorist.”
But if the Taliban make a mistake in an operation against the Americans - and a few civilians are killed, and they apologize with deep sympathy - everyone cries “terrorist.”
The following is taken from Reuters:
U.S.-led forces kill 76 Afghan civilians: ministry
By Sharafuddin Sharafyar
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition forces killed 76 Afghan civilians in western Afghanistan on Friday, most of them children, the Interior Ministry said.
The coalition denied killing civilians. Civilian deaths in military operations have become an emotive issue among Afghans, many of whom feel international forces take too little care when launching air strikes, undermining support for their presence.
“Seventy-six civilians, most of them women and children, were martyred today in a coalition forces operation in Herat province,” the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Coalition forces bombarded the Azizabad area of Shindand district in Herat province on Friday afternoon, the ministry said. Nineteen of the victims were women, seven of them men and the rest children under the age of 15, it said.
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