NATO Airstrike Kills Nine Afghani Children

[Charleston Chew]

Run time: 02:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrDzZ_Whjk0   Posted on YouTube: March 11, 2011 By YouTube Member: theGlobalReport Views on YouTube: 33   Posted on DU: March 12, 2011 By DU Member: Charleston Chew Views on DU: 530

 
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The Global Report
Mar 11, 2011

This past week Afghan President Hamid Karzai told US General David Petraeus, the commander of international troops, that his forces' official apology after nine children were killed in a NATO air strike was not enough.

http://theglobalreport.org/?section=news&news_section=19#US airstrike kills nine Afghani children
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U.S. helicopters massacre nine Afghan children
Petraeus outrageously claims parents burned own children
By March Forward!
March 9, 2011

In one of the most shocking massacres of the nearly decade-long war in Afghanistan, nine children between the ages of 9 and 15 were killed March 2 in a NATO airstrike. The children were collecting wood to heat their homes outside of Nanglam, in Kunar province.

The only surviving member of the group, an 11-year-old boy named Hemad, recounted watching his friends killed in front of him: “The helicopters … hovered over us and started shooting. They fired a rocket which landed on a tree. The tree branches fell over me and shrapnel hit my right hand and my side. shot the boys one after another.” (The New York Times, March 2)

The uncle of one of the boys, who was part of the search party that discovered what had happened, said, “Some of the dead bodies were really badly chopped up by the rockets. The head of a child was missing. Others were missing limbs.”

http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/us-helicopters-kill-afghans.html
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[Angry Dragon]

1. How to make terrorists ........ brought to you by the

American Overlords

[SHRED]

2. Is Bush still President?

[gtar100]

3. When will this end? How is this any different from terrorism?

[cilla4progress]

4. Obama has their blood on HIS hands....

I can't believe this doesn't tear his heart out

[Mybrokenchains]

5. more proof that we need to gtfo of afghanistan...

i assume they'll just throw it on the ignore pile though