U.S. killing Afghans and Iraqi innocents right along with the 'terrorists'

[bigtree]

. . . Afghanistan's turn . . .


Airstrikes kill scores of Afghan civilians

Reuters | Monday, 9 July 2007


NATO and US airstrikes have killed scores of Afghan civilians this week, residents and officials said, deaths likely to deepen discontent with foreign forces and the Western-backed Afghan government.

NATO-led and US forces said there were heavy clashes in Farah province in western Afghanistan and Kunar province in the east, and that troops in both places had called for air support.

Several residents and the head of a district council in Farah said an air attack in the Bala Boluk area had killed 108 civilians.

"Women and children have been killed and 13 houses destroyed," said Bala Boluk council head Haji Khudairam. "In the bombing, in total, 108 civilians have been killed."

Residents of Kunar and provincial officials said airstrikes there killed three dozen civilians.

Eleven civilians, including nine family members of a man called Mohammad Nabi, were killed in an airstrike on Thursday after two US-led troops were killed in a clash with the Taliban, residents and officials said.

Then 25 more civilians were killed in another airstrike on Friday while they buried the bodies of those killed on Thursday.

More than 300 civilians have been killed by Western air strikes in Afghanistan this year, according to Afghan officials and international aid groups.


report: http://www.stuff.co.nz/4120817a12.html

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. Our "tools of freedom" are so very blunt. We've trashed our reputation in the world. nt

[Benhurst]

2. No, bigtree, you just don't get it.

Any dead Iraqi or Afghani, regardless of age or gender, is by definition a terrorist.