Yes - another precision strike. Their quick acknowledgment that the airstrike killed more than a dozen Afghan civilians - not the 'insurgents commanders' originally claimed -- shows how their propaganda has been working for years. NATO is losing public support, one slaughtered civilian at a time. U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Public Affairs Office originally said last week that the precision strike' had killed an Islamic insurgent leader and 15 of his men. Ghullam Yahya Akbari, known as the Tajik Taliban, was targeted using "credible reports provided by concerned Afghan citizens," the office said. At the weekend, a new statement acknowledged 13 non-combatants had been among the casualties, and U.S. forces say now they do not know whether Akbari was among the dead."Coalition forces could not confirm that (Ghullam) Yahya Akbari was among those killed during the operation," U.S. Forces-Afghanistan spokeswoman Capt. Elizabeth Mathias told United Press International in an e-mail message. I could confirm the position from here without being near the situation. It's the same position as all the other massacres and spin-routines.
It was a 'precision strike'. No problem there, then.
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Yes - another precision strike. Their quick acknowledgment that the airstrike killed more than a dozen Afghan civilians - not the 'insurgents commanders' originally claimed -- shows how their propaganda has been working for years. NATO is losing public support, one slaughtered civilian at a time. U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Public Affairs Office originally said last week that the precision strike' had killed an Islamic insurgent leader and 15 of his men. Ghullam Yahya Akbari, known as the Tajik Taliban, was targeted using "credible reports provided by concerned Afghan citizens," the office said. At the weekend, a new statement acknowledged 13 non-combatants had been among the casualties, and U.S. forces say now they do not know whether Akbari was among the dead."Coalition forces could not confirm that (Ghullam) Yahya Akbari was among those killed during the operation," U.S. Forces-Afghanistan spokeswoman Capt. Elizabeth Mathias told United Press International in an e-mail message. I could confirm the position from here without being near the situation. It's the same position as all the other massacres and spin-routines.
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