Wednesday, 18 May 2011

12 Killed At Protest Over Nato Raid

One of the victims of the Nato raid in Taloqan
The violence appears to have begun when protesters angered over the night-time raid by American and Afghan forces placed the bodies of those killed in the main square of Taloqan.

They chanted slogans against the US and President Hamid Karzai and threw stones against a German military base and a police office.
Some of the crowd carried axes and shovels. Reports say two German soldiers were injured in the unrest.
The Nato-led mission says that two women and two men were killed in the night raid on the outskirts of the city. It alleged that the women were armed, one with an assault rifle, the other with a pistol.
The BBC's Quentin Sommerville in Kabul says that female insurgents are rare. More here (Health Warning -contains perfunctory Nato bullshit press release).

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2 comments:

  1. Cirze18 May 2011 at 10:47

    Thanks so much for publishing this.

    I've been on tenterhooks (so to speak) as to when this type of reaction would begin.

    And what response it would meet.

    Again, thanks!

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  2. TONY18 May 2011 at 11:51

    Welcome, Suzan. I will continue to publish the sad litany of these endless atrocities.

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