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Afghanistan
Officials Divided on Civilian Deaths from Logar Airstrike
2012-06-07
[Tolo News] At least 13 civilians, including women and kiddies, were killed in a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
Arclight airstrike in central Pashtun-infested Logar province, local officials said Wednesday.

However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
while Isaf reported the Arclight airstrike, it said only two civilians were maimed.

Pashtun-infested Logar provincial front man Mirwais Mirzakwal told TOLOnews that a joint Afghan and Isaf security force had launched a military operation in Pashtun-infested Logar's Baraki Barak district to capture a Taliban capo Sardar.

The troops came under fire while trying to capture the commander and they called in an Arclight airstrike, which then killed nine children and four women, he said.

Two NATO soldiers and an Afghan soldier also were maimed in the operation, he added.

Meanwhile,
...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings...
Isaf released a statement saying that a joint Afghan and Isaf troops operation in Baraki Barak on Wednesday sought to detain a Taliban leader.

Isaf said that during the operation, beturbanned goons attacked the Afghan and coalition troops with small-arms fire and a grenade. The security force returned fire and requested a precision Arclight airstrike.

"While conducting a follow-on assessment, the security force discovered two women who had sustained non-life-threatening injuries. The security force provided medical assistance and transported both women to an Isaf medical facility for treatment," it said.

As a result of the operation, multiple beturbanned goons were killed and the Afghan and coalition security force seized several weapons and a quantity of explosives, Isaf added.

A NATO front man Major Martyn Crighton told AP that there were no civilians killed in the district operation.
Posted by:Fred

#2  If you lie down with dogs, you get up with shrapnel... assuming you get up.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-06-07 12:01  

#1  Did the women and kiddies stop firing after they were bombed?
Posted by: gorb   2012-06-07 02:54  

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