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Headlines : "War on Terror"Almost 100 killed by U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan
It’s nice to know that the U.S. military is willing to “look into” the fact that it killed children and other civilians in its airstrikes. If it’s true that the militants ran into homes and the military proceeded to blow them up without even worrying about civilians inside, this may explain how some observers are describing 50 civilian casualties.
[Posted By senssensibilityr]Republished from Associated Press
A U.S.-led nighttime airstrike against Taliban rebels in southern Afghanistan killed up to 80 suspected militants, the coalition said Monday. The local governor said 16 civilians were killed and 16 wounded.
At a hospital, wounded residents of Azizi village described how aircraft bombed mud-brick homes where Taliban rebels were hiding, having fled there from a religious school after the airstrikes started. Among the wounded was an 8-month-old infant.In a statement, the coalition said it had confirmed 20 Taliban killed in the attack on the village in Kandahar province late Sunday and early Monday, while there were “an unconfirmed 60 additional Taliban casualties.”
U.S. commander Lt. Gen. Karl W. Eikenberry told The Associated Press that the military was “looking into” civilian casualties.
The airstrikes brought the death toll of militants, Afghan forces, coalition soldiers and civilians to as many as 285 since Wednesday, according to coalition and Afghan figures. The storm of violence that erupted last week in the south was among the deadliest combat in Afghanistan since the ouster of the Taliban regime in 2001.
At Mirwaise Hospital in Kandahar city, a man with blood on his clothes and turban said insurgents had been hiding in an Islamic…
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