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Headlines : "War on Terror"Afghan President Orders Probe of U.S. 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, it gives a unique perspective into claims that the military is using the “utmost care” in their fight against terrorism worldwide.
[Posted By senssensibilityr]Republished from The Associated Press
President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation Tuesday into the deaths of at least 16 civilians in one of the deadliest U.S. air strikes since the American-led invasion in 2001. Another 19 people, meanwhile, were killed in new violence.
In a statement issued by his office, Karzai expressed “concern at the coalition forces’ decision to bomb civilian areas” at Azizi village in Kandahar but also strongly condemned the “terrorists’ act of cowardice” in using civilians as human shields.
Karzai is on an official visit of the United Arab Emirates. The statement said that on his return to Kabul, he would summon the commander of U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan for a “full explanation.”
The coalition said 20 Taliban were confirmed killed in the air strike on Azizi late Sunday or early Monday, while up to 60 more militants may have died. It said it was looking into reports of civilian casualties. Karzai’s statement said 16 civilians were killed.
In new fighting, Taliban militants on Monday ambushed a police patrol in southern Afghanistan, killing three police but leaving 12 militants dead, officials said. Also three health workers and their driver were killed by a land mine near the capital.
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Posted by senssensibilityr on Tuesday, May 23rd 2006
See also US military massacres 80 villagers in Afghanistan (Lockheed Martin’s mouthpiece is not always the best place to get your news about US MIC Occupied Territories).
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In the latest atrocity in the US occupation of Afghanistan, US warplanes massacred at least 80 villagers in the southern province of Kandahar early Monday morning. As many as 350 people have been killed this past week in Afghanistan in an explosion of violence, the most severe since the US invasion in October 2001.
US military A-10 “Warthog” warplanes were called in to continuously strafe the village of Azizi, beginning Sunday night and ending early Monday morning. The A-10’s 30mm rounds, fired from the gunship’s colossal cannon at a rate of 4,200 per minute, were initially designed to penetrate tank armor. As such, they pass easily through all substances used in ordinary construction, as well as human bodies. The warplanes also dropped several bombs on the village.
Azizullah, an 18-year-old boy who was cut in the face and chest during the attack, described seeing “scores” of mutilated bodies as he fled the village. “One [bomb] hit my house. I was wounded and my two brothers were killed,” he told the AFP.
Attah Mohammad, also interviewed by the AFP, said that 24 members of his family were killed in the bombardment. Another man, Nasratullah, was sitting down to dinner with his in-laws when the attack suddenly began. “I managed to escape but I don’t know what happened to my in-laws,” he said.
After the planes strafed and bombed the area, Afghan security forces sealed off the area and prevented ambulances and doctors from entering the village. Because of the massive destructive power of the munitions used in the operation, an accurate casualty figure may never be ascertained.
Such was the carnage and subsequent popular outrage that even the president of the US puppet regime, Hamid Karzai, felt compelled to issue a statement calling for a military investigation into the air strike. The popular anger over these air strikes undermines the already flimsy support for his regime.
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