'Up to 100 dead' in Afghan raid

Up to 100 Afghan civilians may have been killed during an air raid by US forces during a joint operation targeting suspected fighters, a provincial governor has said.

If the claims are verified, the deaths in Farah province on the western border would be the largest loss of civilian life in a single incident since US-led forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001.

Rohul Amin, the governor of Farah province, said on Wednesday that he feared that 100 civilians had been killed in the Bala Baluk district of the province, about 600km from Kabul, the capital.

Amin said that the Taliban were reportedly using civilian homes to take shelter during the fighting.

Earlier reports had said that 50 civilians had been killed in Monday's raid.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/05/20095672330997508.html

I had a lot of faith in Obama but it is ebbing

Seeing this and the Senators laughing at people requesting a single-payer advocate be at the table make my stomach turn.

:shrug:

That certainly makes the mass slaughter of innocent civilians OK.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5603013&mesg_id=5603013

sank like a stone...its Obama's occupation now...maybe thats why

I feel very hopeless about the terrorism we are inflicting against the Afghan/Pakistan people. As with our monstrous bombing of Iraq, we all go about our business here (me, too, no excuses) while our "heros" are incinerating and dismembering infants and children. What is wrong with us?

Get the fuck out of Afghanistan and Iraq

Collateral damage. Culture of life.

I thought Obama was supposed to be the smart one.

The unintended consequence of our brutal Occupation of Afghanistan is that it is driving Pakistan to the FANATICS.

The new justification for the killing is a rehash of the "falling dominoes" threat popularized by LBJ and Nixon.

Even if you really believe "Al Quaeda" attacked us on 9/11. Are we really so scared shitless of "terrorists" that we will be ok with this shit?

to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge and that's why we have to keep torturing and fighting in Afghanistan. I have no idea where he got this idea - probably Faux, which is his exclusive source for 'news'. He does not support President Obama in anything other than the Afghanistan strategy, which says a lot.

Those damn videos are probably produced by the CIA. They could convince people that Somali Pirates are going to invade the US and rape all our women.

So how many of them are civilians and how many are "fighters" or "Taliban?" Is there a seperate number of "Taliban" dead or are they being counted amongst the "civilians?"