US bombing kills six civilians - Afghan officials

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That's rhetorical, I'm sure you know the rest

This is no "accident" - The Americans have done this before, same place, same method


How the U.S. Killed the Wrong Afghans

Wednesday, Feb. 06, 2002
Uruzgan nestles in a pristine valley ringed by snow-capped peaks that form a natural fortress in the mountains north of Kandahar. Its orchards climb peacefully to the snowline, a spectacle of pastoral tranquility that belies the village's emergence as the site of the largest U.S. ground operation of the Afghan conflict — and the most tragic.

Once a Taliban stronghold, the area today is tentatively controlled by forces loyal to the new government in Kabul. On Jan. 23, a military commission sent by the governor had been gathering Taliban weapons at the village's meager Sharzam High School, anticipating the imminent surrender of three senior Taliban commanders holding out in the mountains. But it was not the Taliban that came, in the early hours of the following morning.

Hamdullah, an anti-Taliban militiaman was woken at 2am for his shift on guard duty that day. Around him all was still, the compound asleep. Helicopters buzzed overhead, but that didn't much perturb the sentry — their sound had filled Uruzgan's night sky for the past two weeks. Then came an explosion, "not like any that I have heard before, not a rocket or a grenade", he says. He could make out only a strange vehicle, and a dot of red light that disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. He rushed back to alert the others, before diving into a ditch, where he cowered for ten minutes, listening as his friends were shot. "I could hear them crying, 'Allah help me,' " he says, "They were saying, 'For the love of Allah do not kill us.' " According to one translation of Hamdullah's account, he claims to have heard the men plead, "We surrender."

Hamdullah was the only survivor left behind in the school grounds that night. Villagers say two wounded were taken to hospital in distant Tarin Kowt. Among the dead were two men with their hands tied behind their backs. The narrow plastic zip ties bore the markings: "US Pat. No. 5651376. Other Pat. Pending".


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And get this:

Afghan civilians killed in US bombing

Saturday 20 March 2004, 19:30 Makka Time, 16:30 GMT

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US military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Bryan Hilferty said he was unaware of any civilian casualties.

He said US planes had pounded suspected Taliban positions in the area on Friday morning in retaliation for the killing of two US soldiers on Thursday, and not on Friday night.


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Retaliation - so this is at "temper" thing - not "intelligence" ? ?

Ah, I get so disgusted sometimes I could scream!

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sorry about that chief.

actually, the story will change to the soldiers assisting an iraqi woman give birth. no death toll, one more alive person.