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Eugene

(61,935 posts) Fri Jun 8, 2012, 10:24 AM Jun 2012

Nato apologises for Afghan civilian deaths in Logar

Source: BBC

8 June 2012 Last updated at 13:56 GMT

The commander of international forces in Afghanistan Gen John Allen has apologised for civilian deaths in an air strike on Wednesday.

It is the first time that Nato has admitted civilians died in the air strike in the southern Logar province, which had targeted Taliban commanders.

Afghan officials said 18 civilians had died in the incident.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned the air strike, calling it "unjustifiable".

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Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18370331

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Nato apologises for Afghan civilian deaths in Logar (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2012 OP

The US would be a more credible voice for human rights... Comrade Grumpy Jun 2012 #1

"massacres" of our own.? where are these 'massacres' Comrade ? n/t may3rd Jun 2012 #5

One of them is the subject of this thread. Comrade Grumpy Jun 2012 #7

... Solly Mack Jun 2012 #2

Face it, NATO is an EPIC FAIL! Dont call me Shirley Jun 2012 #3

The apology would be meaningful only if this never happened again. Prometheus Bound Jun 2012 #4

glimpse of life after Nato in Afghanistan's wild east " Deal done" may3rd Jun 2012 #6

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

1. The US would be a more credible voice for human rights...

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jun 8, 2012, 12:18 PM

Jun 2012

...if we weren't busy engaging in "massacres" of our own.

may3rd

(593 posts)

5. "massacres" of our own.? where are these 'massacres' Comrade ? n/t

Reply to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 9, 2012, 10:04 AM

Jun 2012

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)

7. One of them is the subject of this thread.

Reply to may3rd (Reply #5)

Sat Jun 9, 2012, 12:27 PM

Jun 2012

Eighteen dead civilians.

Solly Mack

(90,778 posts)

2. ...

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jun 8, 2012, 02:10 PM

Jun 2012

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)

3. Face it, NATO is an EPIC FAIL!

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jun 8, 2012, 04:41 PM

Jun 2012

Prometheus Bound

(3,489 posts)

4. The apology would be meaningful only if this never happened again.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jun 8, 2012, 10:20 PM

Jun 2012

But we all know the same thing will happen again in a day, week or month, so the apology is meaningless.

may3rd

(593 posts)

6. glimpse of life after Nato in Afghanistan's wild east " Deal done"

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Sat Jun 9, 2012, 10:12 AM

Jun 2012

Deal done

For a man who says he has "no choice" but to grow poppy, Haji Zerak looks relaxed as the labourers lay into the green bulb-heads nodding in the wind.
It is the eradication workers who look worried.
Several eradication workers have been shot and killed in recent weeks on these slopes abutting the Pakistani border.

With a foreign television crew filming this time, their nerves are understandable.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18118781

This will become an Iranian and Russian problem. We need to wash our hands of their local problems .

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