US admits to Afghan civilian deaths

[demoleft]

Source: AlJazeera

"The US-led coalition has admitted there were civilian casualties this week, but said they occurred during fighting with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan."
"At the time, Nato, which is also in the country, denied any knowledge of the raid, while the US-led coaltion said it would check the reports."
"Prior to the latest casualties, scores of civilians have been killed by Western forces in the past two weeks."
"Last week, Karzai said the patience of Afghans was running out."


Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/5895D618-8BA7-484E-A6A2-D2801EE6CAD7.htm

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"Emergency", the volunteer organization created by Gino Strada suspended operations in the area hospitals. Children die like flies and not only under the bombs. In some southern areas food and medical care cannot get to the villages.

It's terrible, terrible, terrible.

Of course, the italian media are so busy in more more serious things....

[BushOut06]

1. Another place we need to get the hell out of

What are we doing in Afghanistan? Spending years and billion of dollars on a wild-goose chase, that's what. We still haven't been able to capture Bin Laden. Honestly, I don't think they want to capture Bin Laden, he makes an excellent boogeyman, someone the rethugs can trot out whenever they want to create paranoia.

We would have been much better served simply isolating the Taliban regime as much as possible. We took this approach with Libya after the Pan Am bombing, and we eventually got the people we wanted.

[demoleft]

2. the smell of the Afghanistan mission

Every time I think of the western military engagement in Afghanistan I perceive the smell of gas pipelines, dollars and euros...
Don't you?