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13 civilians killed in US-led strike
Afghan authorities said Wednesday that at least 13 civilians, including women and children, were killed in a US-led air strike on militants, prompting the military to order an inquiry. http://news.yaho o.com/s/afp/20090218/wl_st hasia_afp/afghanistanunres t From... ...
22 Afghan civilians killed in US-led op
"Their bodies are on the ground. If you do not believe us, you have helicopters and you should come to the area and see that these are civilians," Malik Rahman Gul, a village elder, was quoted by Reuters. http://www.press tv.com/detail.aspx?id=8355 7&sectionid=351020403... ...
US Accused of Killing 25 Afghan Civilians in Raid on Militants
http://www.commondreams.or g/headline/2009/01/22-6 http://sharenews.twoday.n et/search?q=civilian+death s ...
Karzai condemns killings by US
"Carrying out such attacks will only expand the gap between the people and the government of Afghanistan, as well as between Afghanistan and its international allies,'' Karzai said. http://english.alja zeera.net/news/asia/2008/1 1/2008111015293401391.html From... ...
Afghan probe confirms US killed 37 civilians
President Hamid Karzai had said "around 40" civilians were killed in the strike in the province's Shah Wali Kot district on Monday that followed an ambush on international soldiers. http://news.yah oo.com/s/afp/20081107/wl_s thasia_afp/afghanistanunre stcivilian From... ...
The Slaughter Continues: US Kills Dozens of Wedding Guests
By JESSICA LEEDER AND ALEX STRICK VAN LINSCHOTEN The bodies of at least 36 women have been identified, and hundreds more men and women have been injured. Local leaders have yet to establish a firm casualty... ...
Hit and miss with Afghan air strikes
Asia Times by Gareth Porter 10/21/08 Air strikes against suspected Taliban leaders in Afghanistan were halted in 2004, in the belief they were ineffectual and caused too many civilian deaths. They resumed... ...
NATO airstrike killed over 25 civilians, Afghans say
Residents claiming to have witnessed the airstrike said at least 18 bodies, all women and children - including one only 6 months old - were pulled from the rubble and taken to the provincial governor's... ...
US bombs kill 18 civilians in Afghanistan
Angry local people brought the bodies of at least six women and children, some of them badly disfigured, to the provincial capital Lashkargar and placed the bodies outside the house of the provincial governor,... ...
Pentagon source: strike killed 30 Afghan civilians
The probe found that the strikes against a "suspected Taliban compound" in the western province of Herat killed about 30 civilians - not the five to seven the U.S. originally acknowledged, according to... ...