firedoglake.com: … even the reporters there, on the ground, directly interacting with and personally interviewing the military are getting contradictory reports of what’s going on. Chandrasekaran and Phillips, for example, both datelined their stories from Marjeh, and they couldn’t be more different: Chandrasekaran says it’s less than 4,000 troops encountering heavy and unexpected resistance,...
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Archive for June, 2010
Marjah Offensive Marked by Confusion, Civilian Deaths
Team America Kills Five Kids in Marja
Huffington Post: It will be argued that the government of the United States did not decide to kill these five children specifically, and that’s absolutely true. The U.S. government did not decide to kill these particular children; it only decided to kill some Afgan civilians, chosen randomly from Marja’s civilian population, when it decided...
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NATO troops kill more civilians
PAN: More civilians have been killed in a Taliban stronghold in southern Helmand province during a huge onslaught that NATO and Afgan officials say is aimed at protecting residents and bringing them prosperity…. villagers accused the international troops of killing at least 15 residents in the Washer district of Helmand alone — the scene...
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Bodies of 12 civilians killed by NATO handed over to families
PAN: The bodies of a dozen people killed in a NATO air strike in Marja district two days ago were handed over to their families. A Marja dweller, who visited the hospital to receive the bodies of his relatives, said he lost 10 members of his family in the strike. He added his parents...
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Two Afghan women are publicly flogged by local warlord in Ghor
RAWA News: According to reports by Afgan media, ordered by a local warlord called Fazl Ahad, two Afgan women were publicly flogged in Ghor province in Western Afganistan. Spokesman of Ghor’s Governor, Abdul Hai Khatibi said these women were forcibly married in Dolina district, but later they both ran away from their husbands’ houses....
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NATO air strike kills seven Afghan policemen in Kunduz
The Telegraph: Seven Afgan policemen have been mistakenly killed in a Nato air strike in the north of the country. The government said an air strike had been ordered after a patrol including Nato and Afgan soldiers and police was attacked by the Taliban in the northern province of Kunduz. But the air strike...
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Afghan girl in comma after being stabbed
PAN: Police found a married girl stabbed in the neck inside a ruined house in northwestern Ghor province late Saturday evening, officials said on Sunday. The 16-year-old, identified as Shakar, was shifted to a nearby health facility, where doctors say the girl is still in comma. Doctors at Ghor Civil Hospital said the teenager...
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NATO Afghanistan airstrike kills 27 civilians
Reuters: A NATO airstrike in Afganistan mistakenly killed 27 civilians, the government said on Monday, hurting a campaign to win over the local population and defeat Taliban insurgents. The Afgan cabinet condemned the killings as “unjustifiable” after an aircraft fired on civilians, mistaking them for insurgents, in the south near the border of Uruzgan...
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