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Afghanistan
Taliban report blames US, Afghan forces for most civilian casualties in 2018
2019-01-06
[DAWN] The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
blamed US and Afghan forces for almost 90 per cent of civilian casualties in 2018, in a report released on Friday that suggested Afghanistan's largest hard boy group was not responsible for a single death or injury.

The data ‐ which NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
's Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan dismissed as "propaganda" ‐ follows a record year of bloodshed in the Afghan war, which by some estimates overtook Syria as the world's deadliest conflict zone.

The figures, which the Taliban release every year and are based on "witnesses and primary sources", showed a total of 4,170 civilian casualties ‐ 2,294 deaths and 1,876 maimed ‐ last year.

US and "stooge" Afghan government forces caused 3,705 casualties, while the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group and other "unknown" entities were responsible for 465, the Taliban claimed.

Posted by:Fred

#2  You reap what you sow, not a complicated formula.
Posted by: Thaise de Medici4233   2019-01-06 11:49  

#1  “Its because they hit me back.”
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2019-01-06 10:12  

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