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 count because many of the victims remain buried beneath rubble, said Abdul Hakim Khan, a tribal elder from the district.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21153.htm
US Airstrike kills 90 in Afghan wedding party
"It was a mistake - they hit the wedding party and thought it was the Taliban," Gov. Rahmatullah Raufi told a late afternoon news conference.
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/530904
From Information Clearing House
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Don't Let Barack Obama Break Your Heart
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "On the day that Americans turned out in near record numbers to vote, a record was set halfway around the world. In Afghanistan, a US Air Force strike wiped out about 40 people in a wedding party. This represented at least the sixth wedding party eradicated by American air power in Afghanistan and Iraq since December 2001."
http://www.truthout.org/111208B
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Entering the Soviet Era in America
By Tom Engelhardt
Even if the world can't imagine what a bankrupt America might mean -- it's far clearer that, in the titanic struggle of the two superpowers that we came to call the Cold War, there were actually two losers, and that, when the "second superpower" left the scene, the first was already heading for the exits, just ever so slowly and in a state of self-intoxicated self-congratulation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25746.htm
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=air+strike
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt
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 count because many of the victims remain buried beneath rubble, said Abdul Hakim Khan, a tribal elder from the district.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21153.htm
US Airstrike kills 90 in Afghan wedding party
"It was a mistake - they hit the wedding party and thought it was the Taliban," Gov. Rahmatullah Raufi told a late afternoon news conference.
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/530904
From Information Clearing House
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Don't Let Barack Obama Break Your Heart
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com: "On the day that Americans turned out in near record numbers to vote, a record was set halfway around the world. In Afghanistan, a US Air Force strike wiped out about 40 people in a wedding party. This represented at least the sixth wedding party eradicated by American air power in Afghanistan and Iraq since December 2001."
http://www.truthout.org/111208B
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Entering the Soviet Era in America
By Tom Engelhardt
Even if the world can't imagine what a bankrupt America might mean -- it's far clearer that, in the titanic struggle of the two superpowers that we came to call the Cold War, there were actually two losers, and that, when the "second superpower" left the scene, the first was already heading for the exits, just ever so slowly and in a state of self-intoxicated self-congratulation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25746.htm
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=air+strike
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Tom+Engelhardt
rudkla - 6. Nov, 08:22
