US-led strike killed Afghan civilians

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2009/February/international_February1371.xml§ion=international

18 February 2009

HERAT, Afghanistan - Afghan police said on Wednesday that a US-led air strike killed six women and two children in western Afghanistan, but the US military said up to 15 militants died.

The bodies of eight men were found after Monday's strike on the outskirts of the city of Herat, the police chief for western Afghanistan, Ikramuddin Yawar, told AFP.

Three of the men appeared to belong to the "armed opposition" but the identities of the other five were unclear, the police officer said.

Those five bodies were found near the dead women and children, who were from a nomad tribe and killed close to their tents, he said.

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1. oh yeah... sending more troops over there is going to be so helpful

I'm sure those folks in Afghanistan just feel so liberated and secure every time we blow them up or raid their house.