World-News

Connecticut Post

03/28/10

Hundreds of Afghans have protested a NATO airstrike in the country’s north that killed seven policemen. Separately, the government says six civilians were killed in weekend explosions. The demonstrators stood outside a district government building in Kunduz province Sunday, shouting for justice...

https://tinyurl.com/yj838vl



Afghanistan: NATO airstrike kills four civilians

Daily Times [Pakistan]

04/07/10

A NATO air strike in southern Afghanistan targeting suspected Taliban mistakenly killed four civilians, including two women and a child, the military alliance said on Tuesday. … Separately, Afghanistan’s military said 27 Taliban were killed in ground fighting and air strikes in a western province on Tuesday, in what appeared to be a major blow to Taliban influence in the region...

https://tinyurl.com/yzc888w


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Pacified

Kathy Kelly, Truthout: "If the US public looked long and hard into a mirror reflecting the civilian atrocities that have occurred in Afghanistan over the past ten months, we would see ourselves as people who have collaborated with and paid for war crimes committed against innocent civilians who meant us no harm."

https://www.truthout.org/kathy-kelly-pacified58143

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Afghanistan: Four civilians killed in Nato airstrike

An air strike by Nato jets killed four civilians including a child during a fire fight with Taliban militants in occupied Helmand province Afghan officials have said.

https://snipurl.com/vbap7


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Helmand
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kunduz
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=NATO+airstrike
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Taliban
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=atrocities
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