Afghan civilian casualties have been sharply rising, and a southern Afghan police chief confirmed on Thursday that a US airstrike killed five farmers picking their cucumber crop at night. District police chief Niaz Mohammad Sarhadi said the five were trying to move their cucumber crop from the rural Zhari district to the city of Kandahar.US military said the men were 'insurgents' but offered conflicting accounts throughout the day of the reason an American helicopter opened fire.NATO refused to comment saying there would be an 'investigation'. Yeah, right.
The Blackwater / Xe mercenaries are beginning to commit the same atrocities in Afghanistan. Ring a bell with Iraq?
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