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Karzai: NATO Airstrike Killed Eight Children
 [An Nahar] A NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... said Thursday. The president "strongly condemned the aerial bombing by foreign troops that killed a number of children in Nejrab district" on Wednesday, said a statement from his office. "Based on information by (the) provincial governor, as a result of an air strike conducted on February 8... eight children were killed," the statement said. Karzai had assigned a delegation "to launch an all-out probe into the NATO bombing in the province of Kapisa", it added. A NATO front man said he could "confirm there has been a situation. A joint assessment team went there to identify the situation". The Afghan president, who has a strained relationship with his Western allies, has regularly condemned NATO for civilian deaths in the decade-long war against Taliban bully boyz fighting to overthrow him. Kapisa district police chief Abdul Hamid Erkin told Agence La Belle France Presse: "Two nights ago foreign special forces carried out a raid on a house in Geyawa village in Nejrab district. "The next morning their plane carried out an He said commanders of French troops who operate in the area "claimed that the target was a group of Taliban controllers, but we checked the area and there were no Taliban. "In fact the people in the area have very strong anti-Taliban feelings. We filmed the victims, who were children, and showed it to the French commanders," Erkin said. Posted by: Fred 2012-02-10 |
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