US airstrikes kill 65 civilians

From correspondents in Lashkar gah, Afghanistan July 01, 2007 02:00am

• NATO denies toll as high as 65
• News agency sees bodies of children
• Worst civilian death toll since 2001

ANTI-TALIBAN air strikes by US- and NATO-led forces in Afghanistan killed 65 villagers, including children, a local official said today, amid growing anger over civilian deaths.

Family flees destroyed village.

US probes Afghan civilian deaths

By Charles Haviland BBC News, Kabul

The US-led military coalition in Afghanistan says a number of civilians appear to have died in air strikes in the southern province of Helmand.

Collateral damage.

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By CHRIS ALLBRITTON 06/28/2007 01:49 AM ET

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“What causes the documented high level of civilian casualties — 3,000 – 3,400 [October 7, 2001 thru March 2002] civilian deaths — in the U.S. air war upon Afghanistan? The explanation is the apparent willingness of U.S. military strategists to fire missiles into and drop bombs upon, heavily populated areas of Afghanistan.”

Professor Marc W. Herold   Ph.D., M.B.A., B.Sc.

 The percentage of innocent to combatant casualties is unacceptable.  These are not BATTLEFIELDS they are people’s HOMES!

The hateful mantra “let God sort ‘em out” should held prosecutable!  Such a FINE example of American Values we are spreading throughout the tortured world.  Shove this example of Democracy down their throat with bullets!  Call it Christian compassion? Or Inquisition!  Oh NO! It’s about Christian OIL! 

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