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Afghanistan
Pentagon Chief Says Sorry Over Afghan Child Deaths
2011-03-08
[Tolo News] Pentagon Chief Robert Gates personally said sorry to President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai at a presser in Kabul on Monday.

Hours after his arrival in Afghanistan the US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates appeared in a joint presser and described the death of nine children in eastern Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Binny's house in Chitral...
 by a Nato-led air raid as "heart breaking".

Earlier President Karzai angrily rejected an apology from General David Petraeus, the US commander of Coalition forces in Afghanistan, over the incident.

In a Nato air strike last Tuesday nine kids, under 12, were killed while gathering firewood in volatile eastern Kunar province.

During the conference President Karzai respected the apology and called for civilian deaths to be stopped.

Gates said the US troops will be preparing to start a limited withdrawal from Afghanistan in July as planned.

But he underlined that US troops will not leave Afghanistan all together after July.

Afghan cops are expected to take the lead of security in the country until 2014. But as foreign military officials have said before, all withrawal plans will be implemented based on conditions on the ground.
Posted by:Fred

#1  It is sad when children are caught in the middle of war. That said. Both the Tailban and AQ cause far more deaths amongst civilians than the U.S. & allies. The Taliban and AQ use children and civilians as shields. Islamists often use children and women for suicide bombers in the name of islam. Children are filled full of hatred in the mosques. Komeini used children to clear mine fields during the Iraq-Iran war. Qadaffy didn't mind killing children in the bombing of Pan Am 103. The 911 terrorists did not mind killing as many innocent people as they could. Women are stoned to death for what are deemed offenses against islam. Prostesters against regimes in islamic countries are often hung for dissent. It seems there is no outcry by islamics regarding their own intentional killings. When children are killed by accident in a combat situation, there is huge outcry against the West. Perhaps it is the large payments we make to the survivors of the unintentional victims that brings the large outcry. One certainly doesn't hear this outcry when the killings are muslim on muslim. So I say STFU already.
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-03-08 15:34  

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