US missile murders 47 Afghan civilians, including bride, on way to wedding

[BurtWorm]

But it's ok. They're just Afghans.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/11/afghanistan.usa?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront


US air strike wiped out Afghan wedding party, inquiry finds




A US air strike killed 47 civilians, including 39 women and children, as they were travelling to a wedding in Afghanistan, an official inquiry found today. The bride was among the dead.

Another nine people were wounded in Sunday's attack, the head of the Afghan government investigation, Burhanullah Shinwari, said.

Fighter aircraft attacked a group of militants near the village of Kacu in the eastern Nuristan province, but one missile went off course and hit the wedding party, said the provincial police chief spokesman, Ghafor Khan.

The US military initially denied any civilians had been killed.

Lieutenant Rumi Nielson-Green, a spokeswoman for the US-led coalition, told AFP today the military regretted the loss of any civilian life and was investigating the incident.

The US is facing similar charges over strikes two days earlier in another border area of Afghanistan.

The nine-member inquiry team appointed by the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, to look into the wedding party incident found only civilians had been killed in the attack.

"We found that 47 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in the air strikes and another nine were wounded," said Shinwari, who is also the deputy speaker of Afghanistan's senate.

"They were all civilians and had no links with the Taliban or al-Qaida."

Around 10 people were missing and believed to be still under rubble, he said. The inquiry team were shown the bloodied clothes of women and children in a visit to the scene.

[bdamomma]

1. we have so much blood on our hands.

we are creating more and more terrorists that our children will have to contend with, there is no way these people who have been murdered and have seen their family members killed are ever going to forget what Americans have done to their families.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. "Just following orders"

"We deeply regret the loss of civilian life"

"Our investigation showed no fault.."

Etc, etc, etc.

Followed by the issuance of tinware for the pilots to sport.

[wtmusic]

3. That's English news...what's on CNN?

"EU chief to meet Iran over nuclear stand-off"
"'Jaws' site on alert after alleged shark sighting"

Ugh.

[BurtWorm]

4. US media are only interested in wars that might involve the US.

Not ones that are already involving the US.

[The Stranger]

5. Don't forget the Rec feature. Gotta get the news out somehow.

[BurtWorm]

6. I wish I could use it for this.

;-)

[followthemoney]

7. Life is cheap.

From the perspective of the precious lives of the American ruling class the battle is between our cheap lives and their cheap lives.

Nothing changes until the cheap lives realize their common interest, oppose their own sacrifice for other's profit and reject that characterization of themselves and the system that makes it.

[OneBlueSky]

8. and the families of those 47 will hate the United States forever . . .

generation after generation will hear the story of the wedding party that was wiped out by a U.S. missile, and of the 39 women and children who were killed, and each generation will continue fomenting hatred of the U.S. for decades, if not centuries, to come . . .

way to go, Bush . . . make a few more life-long enemies for our country . . .

and the worst part of it is that we know, deep inside our hearts, that George Bush, our president, doesn't give a single shit about this "collateral damage" . . . as his mother once said, why should he allow such unpleasantness to pollute his beautiful mind? . . .

[tuckessee]

9. Don't forget to thank those flyboys for their service.

Real Red Blooded American Heroes.

[OwnedByFerrets]

12. HEY!!! That coulda been

J. McSame up there....you cant discuss our war heros like that!

:sarcasm: :evilgrin:

We get hit once on 09/11/01 and most still haven't gotten over it and some never will......but AMERIKA continues to do this kind of shit on a daily basis and few here in the Land of the Brave give a rats ass.
We just don't hear about most of it. 1.2 million Iraqis don't just die from being occupied.....they have to be murdered.

[FiveGoodMen]

14. "1.2 million Iraqis don't just die from being occupied.....they have to be murdered."

It's a little long for a bumper sticker, but that's where it should be.

:applause:

[OwnedByFerrets]

17. Thank you very much...nt

[slipslidingaway]

10. :(( n/t

[barbtries]

11. why can't we end war

gawd this makes me so sick. it's so wrong. those poor innocent people. damn this administration and their incessant greed-driven warmongering.

[leftchick]

18. too profitable

for both Ds and Rs.

:(

[hvn_nbr_2]

13. Still "winning hearts and minds," after all these years. nt

[Disturbed]

15. The US Military will investigate this & let the world know

how this happened. :sarcasm:

[DS1]

16. Our military sure hates weddings