Six Children Are Killed by NATO Airstrike in Afghanistan
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Six children were among seven civilians killed in a NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Thursday.
The deaths occurred on Wednesday in the Zhare district of Kandahar Province, an area described by coalition forces as largely pacified in recent months, and two insurgents were also killed, the Afghan officials said.
A spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, Master Sgt. Christopher DeWitt, said the authorities were aware of the strike and had sent a team to the district to investigate. He said the assistance force had not previously issued a news release on the deaths.
Zalmai Ayoubi, a spokesman for the governor of Kandahar, said that a NATO reconnaissance aircraft spotted five militants planting mines in the village of Siacha, in the Zhare district, on Wednesday. The plane targeted the insurgents, killing two and wounding a third, and then pursued the other two suspects as they carried their wounded comrade away.
“The plane chased them, the insurgents entered a street where children were playing and, as a result of its shooting, seven people have been killed, including six children, and two girls also have been injured,” Mr. Ayoubi said. The victims were members of two families.
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Where are the attacks on that Neo-con Obama????
Where are the attacks on the "reckless military"???
Where are the declarations of this administration's war crimes????
Where are the media roundtables questioning the strategies and announcing administration incompetence????
You know...I'm starting to have a little more respect for the far-far-left-wingers...The ones who take a position and STICK TO IT, unlike the moderate and far-lefties who decided that certain crimes and actions are only considered crimes when their political enemies are in charge, but when it's THEIR GUY, they become "unfortunate instances"...
(For the record, they're unfortunate instances under BOTH admins IMO)...
11-25-2011, 01:28 AM
Six Children Are Killed by NATO Airstrike in Afghanistan
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