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At least 40 civilians were killed in a foreign forces-led air strike in Afghanistan, witnesses said on Thursday. The deaths took place in the southern province of Helmand and, if confirmed, would raise the civilian death toll at the hands of foreign troops to 110 in the past two weeks.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051007M.shtml

The killing of large numbers of civilians by American forces, through indisciplined firing or as a result of their heavy reliance on air-strikes, has been a bitter feature of the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq-just as it was in Vietnam.

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=9141410&fsrc=RSS


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Military specialists with the CIA were among a US force accused of killing more than 50 civilians during the hunt for a Taliban commander in Afghanistan.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/09/wafg09.xml


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Airstrikes called in by U.S. Special Forces soldiers fighting "insurgents" in southern Afghanistan killed at least 21 civilians, officials said Wednesday. One coalition soldier was also killed.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/09/asia/AS-GEN-Afghan-Violence.php



Afghan MPs demand end to military offensives

Afghan MPs today called for an end to military offensives by international forces amid reports that 21 civilians had died in a wave of US-led air strikes yesterday.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,2075849,00.html


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