Coalition forces killed three Afghan civilians and wounded four others when mortars it fired missed insurgents and landed near a village, Nato said yesterday.
A Nato statement said that the deaths occurred on Friday when coalition troops came under fire in the Pech district of Kunar province. “When coalition forces returned fire, three or four rounds landed short of the target area, near a village, killing and wounding the civilians,” it said.
US Army Colonel Rafael Torres, director of the Nato operations centre in Kabul, said: “We do everything within our power to prevent civilian casualties in the course of operations. In this case, we failed. Our thoughts and concerns are with the families.”Afghan president Hamid Karzai has repeatedly criticised civilian casualties caused by US and Nato operations. Yesterday he highlighted the importance of reducing civilian deaths, while at a Nato summit in Lisbon, Portugal.
The number of Afghan civilians killed or injured in the war soared 31% in the first six months of the year.
Tony
ReplyDeleteCp over at
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Wants to open his blog. I just posted twice on his blog.
He want to know if you also would like to be a co author on his blog.
I suggested you, and thought you would make a great contribution.
He gets endless hits.
Problem is that blogger would need an email address from you that I could submit.
Is there any way you could just make one up even if you used a different handle and avatar?
I think this would be fun, and help spread the word.
That way I could also put you on A New Era. let me know. You know my email address.
If not here it is again.
realityzone2012@gmail,com
RE:
ReplyDelete“We do everything within our power to prevent civilian casualties"
Then leave Afghanistan.
Go back to your own country.
I am sure it is also in dire straits.
RZ,
ReplyDeleteAll sounds good. I'll set up a new email account in the next few days and contact you. I feel a conspiracy coming on!
Best
T
A gmail account would be best.
ReplyDeleteThanks.
After reducing civilian casualties and still finding that Afghans blame NATO forces for Taliban attacks, it sounds like we'll be hearing a lot more of these stories in 2011.
ReplyDeleteSame goes to you James.
ReplyDeleteIf you are interested in posting on one of our blogs let me know.
The Taliban live in Afghanistan.
We do not.
No matter how much the West wishes to turn it into Afghanica. It will never ever happen.
The one in play now is.
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.
Afghans can relate to the Taliban. They can not relate to drones.
I'll sort that out by this weekend, RZ.
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