From: William Gladys <william.gladys@tiscali.co.uk>
Date: Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:58 PM
Subject: Fw: Officials: NATO Kills 16 Civilians in Afghan Air Strike
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Cc: Al-Hilal <Al-Hilal@sky.com>
http://news.antiwar.com/2011/07/12/officials-nato-kills-16-civilians-in-afghan-air-strike/
Officials: NATO Kills 16 Civilians in Afghan Air Strike
NATO Confirms Strike But Not Deaths
by Jason Ditz, July 12, 2011
The latest in a growing number of such incidents, Afghan officials today confirmed that NATO air strikes in the Logar Province killed some 16 civlians. NATO confirmed the strikes but provided no indication of civilian deaths.
The story is remarkably similar to those in the past, with NATO's official story reporting that "numerous" insurgents were slain in an air strike in a remote district with only nominal government control. Shortly thereafter, the bodies of the women and children dug from the rubble began to turn up.
The local MP claimed that four Taliban had also been killed in the strike, while provincial officials put that number at seven. The attacks apparently targeted a meeting at a house but also destroyed a neighboring house.
The attack is the deadliest civilian killings in the nation in weeks, and comes just days after a strike in Khost Province killed 14 civilians. The US has dramatically escalated the number of air strikes since the ouster of Gen. Stanley McChrystal last year, and civilian deaths have seen a commensorate rise.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/188802.html
US-led raid kills 16 Afghan civilians
Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:25PM
US-led forces during an air patrol in Afghanistan (file photo).
A US-led airstrike in the troubled eastern Afghanistan has killed at least 16 people, mostly women and children, officials say.
The causalities come after an airstrike targeted residential areas overnight in the Azra district of Afghanistan's Logar province.
"Twelve civilians, including women and children, were killed last night when NATO planes targeted two houses," AFP quoted a regional police chief as saying.
The official also said that the bodies of four Taliban militants had been recovered from the rubble.
Last week, the death of two children in a US-led airstrike sparked demonstrations in southern Afghanistan. NATO says it is investigating the incident.
The United States is pressing ahead with its attacks in Afghanistan despite continuous protests from the Afghan people and government.
President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly condemned attacks on civilians, saying NATO must stop searching for suspected terrorists in Afghan residential areas.
Hundreds of civilians have lost their lives in the US-led airstrikes and ground operations in various parts of Afghanistan over the past few months, with Afghans growing frustrated over the seemingly endless number of deadly assaults.
The attacks have left a large number of Afghan civilians dead since the start of the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
The surge in violence comes despite the presence of 150,000 foreign troops, which are engaged in the so-called war on terrorism.
The war in Afghanistan, with civilian and military casualties at record highs, has become the longest war in US history.
JR/PKH/HJL
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