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| 3 Afghans said dead in foreign forces' air strike | |
| 2014-12-27 | |
| [Ynet] An Afghan official says at least three people have been killed in an air strike by US-led coalition forces but villagers in the remote area dispute the official version, saying the dead are civilians who were protecting their land from nomads. Din Mohammad Darwesh, front man for the governor of Pashtun-infested Logar province, says a delegation has been sent to find out exactly what happened in Baraki Barak district Friday morning. He says that the US-led coalition has told the governor's officers that the dead, and another five who were maimed, were Taliban murderous Moslems.
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... air strike on Friday killed five civilians and maimed six others, just days before the US-led military coalition ends combat operations in the country. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) did not immediately confirm the strike on Pashtun-infested Logar province, south of the capital Kabul, but always stresses that it tries to avoid civilian casualties. "At around 3:30 am, U.S. forces conducted an air strike in Aab Josh village of Baraki Barak district," said the district governor Mohammad Amin. "The air strike hit a residential house killing five and wounding six civilians," he told AFP. Niaz Mohammad Amiri, Pashtun-infested Logar province's acting governor, said the incident happened as US forces tracked Taliban fighters that have been waging a deadly insurgency since late 2001. "U.S. forces were chasing down Talibs, but mistakenly bombarded a house. As a result, civilians were victims of the attack," Amiri said. | |
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