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| Afghan investigation finds 17 died in airstrike |
| 2013-04-15 |
[Dawn] Both Taliban cut-throats and the US military were to blame for an 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 Saturday. Karzai made his comments after an Afghan investigation into the April 6 attack raised the civilian corpse count from 11 to 17, including 12 children, four women and one innocent man. An American civilian adviser was also killed during the fighting. The Afghan report says the US strike occurred after the Afghan intelligence service came under attack by hard boyz during an operation to arrest two beturbanned goon commanders in the Shigal district of Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... . The area is a major infiltration route for cut-throats from sanctuaries in northwestern Pakistain to Afghanistan. The US-led coalition has confirmed that it launched Afghan forces came under fire with heavy and light weapons as they were about to leave the area. It was in that fighting that the American was killed, causing the Americans to call for air support to move the body from the area at the same time houses believed to be containing suspected cut-throats were bombarded for hours from the air, according to the report. It said most of the houses were made of wood and mud and collapsed under the shock of the The death of Afghan civilians caught in crossfire has been a major point of contention between international forces and the Afghan government. Earlier this year, Karzai banned his troops from requesting coalition While he said that |
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