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| Afghanistan |
| Airstrikes kill 107 including 45 Afghan civilians |
| 2007-07-02 |
| Elders in an area of southern Afghanistan pounded by foreign forces’ air strikes against the Taliban said they had recovered the bodies of 45 civilians with 62 rebels also dead, while a suicide bomber blew himself up near a NATO convoy, a mayor said on Sunday. The toll was the latest in a series of conflicting claims about how many people were killed in the US-led coalition and NATO bombing raids in Helmand province on Friday. The mayor of Girishk district, Dur Alisha, told AFP on Saturday that 65 civilians and 35 Taliban were killed, according to an initial investigation. On Sunday he amended the figure by saying that only 45 bodies of civilians had been recovered. “People are digging under the rubble for more bodies. There’s a possibility that more people might be under debris,” he added. Twenty-three civilians were wounded, said Alisha, head of a commission comprised of government officials and villages elders appointed to investigate the bombing in the villages of Haidarabad and Mandawa. Village elders provided the figures, he added. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said its numbers were “significantly lower” than those provided by local officials but it would not give details. Meanwhile, a suicide bomber blew himself up on Sunday near a NATO convoy in Grishk, officials and a witness said. Two Afghan passers-by were also wounded in the bombing, local police commander Amanullah told AFP. Another official said a vehicle of NATO’s ISAF was on fire but he had no information about military casualties. “It was a suicide bombing on a NATO convoy. One NATO military vehicle is in flames right now,” Alisha told AFP. The ISAF media office in Kabul could not immediately confirm the attack. A witness named Feda Mohammad said the vehicle had burst into flames. “I could see a NATO car in flames. It was burning,” Mohammad told AFP. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #13 Taliban are totally integrated with opium growers. Under Karzai - a Pashto - Afghans finally began producing heroin. Talk of "Summer Offensives" means: assertion of claims to the Taliban's now traditional 5% of proceeds from the trade of Euro-ruination. Karzai has to go. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2007-07-02 20:53 |
| #12 All 107 are civilians. By definition. We do not oppose an actual nation's armed force, but a collection of armed civilians of various nationalities. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-07-02 18:11 |
| #11 No, "Muslim Statistics Manufacturing" |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-07-02 16:09 |
| #10 MSM = muslim statistics manipulation? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-07-02 11:43 |
| #9 Did they recover a shutter gun? |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-07-02 11:30 |
| #8 Maybe they used the 2000lbers from our new line of prOkOrdnace™ |
| Posted by: Mike N. 2007-07-02 11:04 |
| #7 'mouse, could also be terrorturds using civilian hamlets as concealment &/or staging areas. Either with or w/out the consent of said civilians. I know a lot of the Iraqi-terrorturds like to emplace mortar positions in alleys or streets between family dwellings. They know our reluctance to send counter-battery IDF if there are many civvies in the area. (they also love to park stuff next to schools and mosques - go figure) I have no idea what happened in this particular afghan case however. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-07-02 10:41 |
| #6 Once again, I ask the MSM (Muslim Statistics Media) how you tell the difference, in Afghanistan, between a Talibunnie and a civilian. Fred has pictures of both and they all look the same to me - especially from 12k feet. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2007-07-02 10:22 |
| #5 Time to reevaluate how soft & gillible the Great Satan really is, honored elders of Islam. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-07-02 08:43 |
| #4 A feature, not a bug. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-07-02 07:55 |
| #3 Even if we got 1 Taliwhacker and 106 civies, I'd call that a success. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-07-02 07:54 |
| #2 Elders in an area of southern Afghanistan pounded by foreign forcesÂ’ air strikes against the Taliban said they had recovered the bodies of 45 civilians with 62 rebels also dead I guess it begs the question as to why civilians were congregating in large numbers with a large group of terrorists...but I digress. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2007-07-02 06:21 |
| #1 It's getting to be kinda like RAB and the Tales from the Crossfire Gazette. |
| Posted by: Elmereter Hupash6222 2007-07-02 00:50 |