World-News

MSNBC

05/18/09

The nation’s top military officer warned Monday that the deaths of Afghan civilians caught up in U.S. combat operations could cripple President Barack Obama’s revamped strategy for the seven-year-old war. ‘I believe that each time we do that, we put our strategy in jeopardy,’ Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said...

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30815232/



Caught in a lie

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

05/18/09

When doctors started reporting that some of the victims of the US bombing of several villages in Farah Province last week — an attack that left between 117 and 147 civilians dead, most of them women and children — were turning up with deep, sharp burns on their body that ‘looked like’ they’d been caused by white phosphorus, the US military was quick to deny responsibility...

https://counterpunch.org/lindorff05182009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Panetta: Airstrikes Have Been 'Very Effective'
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/19-8



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