Afghans Rally Against U.S. After Military Strike Kills Two

[Better Believe It]

Afghans Rally Against U.S. After Strike Kills Two
Associated Press
February 2, 2009

KABUL, Feb. 1 -- Hundreds of Afghans demonstrated Sunday against an overnight U.S. military raid that one villager said killed several civilians, the latest incident to stir up Afghan ire against foreign forces accused of killing bystanders. The American military said its forces killed two insurgents.

The U.S. military said the overnight raid in southeastern Ghazni province targeted an insurgent who coordinates attacks using roadside bombs and other weapons. It said coalition forces conducting the operation called out for all inhabitants to leave the targeted home, but several people barricaded themselves inside one building.

Coalition troops forced their way in and killed two insurgents, the U.S. military said in a statement.

Protesters gathered near the site of the raid on the main highway linking Kabul and the southern city of Kandahar.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/01/AR2009020102283.html

[pleah]

1. I wonder if we will ignore them, like Iraq, when they tell us to get the hell out.

:shrug:

[Winterblues]

2. I notice our enemy has changed once again. No longer Al Qaeda or Taliban

It is now as in Iraq "Insurgents"....We just seem to need to be killing people...I had hoped this would come to an end under Democrats but apparently it is going to continue. How is this supposed to increase esteem of USA?