| Submit your comments on this article |
| Terror Networks |
| Civilian Casualties and the Nature of the Enemy - ThreatsWatch.org |
| 2008-08-19 |
| Tucked away at the end of a piece on Ayman al-Zawahiri's latest speech, his first in English, is this in Australia's Herald Sun. In southern Afghanistan, eight civilians being held in a compound by the Taliban were killed in an air strike by US-led troops that also killed 25 rebel fighters. Militants ambushed coalition troops in Uruzgan province on Sunday and then fled to a compound where they held "hostage" 11 civilians, including children. The coalition said it did not know civilians were inside. "An anonymous eyewitness told coalition forces the civilians tried to escape, but the militants beat them and refused to let them leave," it said. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #2 Al Q takes advantage of anything it can. It has two things going here - the respect for civilian concept of the infidels - the large body of leftists who will blame America for any civilian deaths |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-08-19 09:26 |
| #1 The implication being that we should quit fighting the Taliban because civilians my be killed in the process. That's just a shitty consequence of any human endeavor I'm afraid. |
| Posted by: Gerthudion Thelet1028 2008-08-19 08:39 |