Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Obama: U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Must Do More Than Kill Civilians
"Asked whether he would move U.S. troops out of Iraq to better fight terrorism elsewhere, he brought up Afghanistan and said, “We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.” …
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NATO air strike kills 33 Afghan civilians
by Waheedullah Massoud
February 22, 2010
KABUL (AFP) – A NATO air strike killed up to 33 Afghan civilians, including women and a child, sparking fresh anger from Kabul on Monday against US-led forces pressing a major offensive to defeat the Taliban.
Top US commander Stanley McChrystal, who has made winning Afghan hearts and minds the focus of plans to end the eight-year war in Afghanistan, was forced into another apology over civilian deaths
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by Jason Ditz, April 03, 2009
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/04/03/us-drones-kill-at-least-13-in-north-waziristan/US drones launched a missile attack against a home in North Waziristan on Saturday morning, killing at least 13 and wounding at least eight others. Officials say that civilians were among the casualties caused by the two missiles. One intelligence official said that foreign militants were staying in the home at the time of the attack.
That attack occurred in the Datta Khel area, at around 3 AM. It was the latest in a growing number of attacks launched by the Obama Administration over the past two months.
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-06-24-karzai_N.htmAfghan civilians reportedly killed more by U.S., NATO than insurgents
6/24/2007
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S.-led coalition and NATO forces fighting insurgents in Afghanistan have killed at least 203 civilians so far this year — surpassing the 178 civilians killed in militant attacks, according to an Associated Press tally.
Insurgency attacks and military operations have surged in recent weeks, and in the past 10 days, more than 90 civilians have been killed by airstrikes and artillery fire targeting Taliban insurgents, said President Hamid Karzai.
On Sunday, another civilian may have been killed when British troops opened fire in a populated area after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, officials and witnesses said.
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http://cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm"What causes the documented high level of civilian casualties -- 3,000 - 3,400
civilian deaths -- in the U.S. air war upon Afghanistan? The explanation is the apparent willingness of U.S. military strategists to fire missiles into and drop bombs upon, heavily populated areas of Afghanistan."
March 2002
When U.S. warplanes strafed the farming village of Chowkar-Karez, 25 miles north of Kandahar on October 22-23rd,killing at least 93 civilians, a Pentagon official said, "the people there are dead because we wanted them dead." The reason? They sympathized with the Taliban"
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Posted on Tuesday, 03.02.10
Airstrikes kill fewer Afghans, but civilian deaths still high
By NANCY A. YOUSSEF
McClatchy Newspapers
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Even as U.S. forces take steps to reduce the number of Afghan civilians killed by aerial attacks, other civilian casualties remain stubbornly high - deaths in so-called "escalation of force" incidents, in which edgy American troops fire on civilians who come too close to their convoys or roadblocks.
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