US finds 13 civilians died in Afghanistan strike
Feb 21 01:27 PM US/Eastern
By JASON STRAZIUSO
Associated Press Writer
KABUL (AP) - An operation the American military at first described as a "precision strike" instead killed 13 Afghan civilians and only three militants, the U.S. said Saturday, three days after sending a general to the site to investigate.
The investigative team's trip to Herat came one day after the U.N. released a report saying 2,118 civilians died in the Afghan war last year, a 40 percent increase over 2007 and the most in any year since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001 that ousted the Taliban's hard-line Islamist regime.
The report said U.S., NATO and Afghan forces killed 829 civilians, or 39 percent of the 2008 total. Of those, 552 deaths were blamed on airstrikes. Militants were blamed for 55 percent of the deaths, or 1,160.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
WHY HASN'T SOMETHING BEEN DONE ABOUT THIS?
We are still killing civilians in Afghanistan and after years of doing this, I would expect these kind of strikes to be extremely rare but they aren't.
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