10 Afghan children 'killed by Nato air strike in Shigal'

[CaseyJones]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22058455


Up to 12 civilians - 10 children and two women - are reported to have been killed in a Nato air strike in eastern Afghanistan.

A further six women are believed to have been injured in the incident in Shigal district, Kunar province.

Villagers and officials told the BBC that the casualties were inside their homes when they died.

Nato confirmed that "fire support" was used in Shigal after a US civilian adviser died in a militant attack.

It did not have any reports of civilian deaths, but photographs apparently sent from the scene to international news agencies appeared to show the bodies of several dead young children, surrounded by Afghan villagers.

more at link ^

[A Son of Liberty]

Would someone kindly remind me why the US government is still sending their subjects into the paths of wasps they've kick up? And also, while at it, why they're still kicking up swarms of wasps - and by, "kicking up swarms of wasps" I mean, of course, bombing innocent people to death?

[MRK]

Would someone kindly remind me why the US government is still sending their subjects into the paths of wasps they've kick up? And also, while at it, why they're still kicking up swarms of wasps - and by, "kicking up swarms of wasps" I mean, of course, bombing innocent people to death?

Because those benefiting from it are disproportionately bearing the benefits and aren't bearing proportionate personal costs even though they are citizens of the United States and bearing costs like the rest of us.

For example even if war puts you and everyone in your family 500,000 in debt in the future, what do you care when you're profiting over 10 million from the war?

[FSP-Rebel]

The more people participate in Bitcoin, the less they use the money system that funds and perpetuates the MIC and their serial killings.

[jkr]

wOr my A$$!!!

THIS is GENOCIDE IN slooOoow motion

[presence]

wOr my A$$!!!

THIS is GENOCIDE IN slooOoow motion


meh... just state sponsored terrorism

[Anti Federalist]

Meh, amirite?

They should have had better fathers, amirite?

They would have grown up to be terrorists, amirite?

Fuck...



NATO airstrike said to kill 10 children in Afghanistan

http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-afghanistan-nato-airstrike-10-children-killed-20130407,0,6644610.story



April 7, 2013, 9:28 a.m.



KABUL, Afghanistan -- A NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan killed 11 civilians, 10 of them children, in addition to the Taliban militants it was trying to hit, Afghan officials said.


The strike late Saturday in the Shigal district of restive Kunar province near Pakistan was called by coalition forces after they and their Afghan counterparts came under an attack that killed one American advisor and badly wounded four Afghan troops.

The American death was reported on Saturday, but details of the alleged civilian casualties only surfaced Sunday.

Wasifullah Wasifi, spokesperson for the governor of Kunar province, said the strike killed seven Taliban militants who were its target. In addition to the 10 children, one civilian woman was killed and five other women were wounded, he said.

Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said in a statement that six Taliban were killed in the airstrike. Accounts among different Afghan agencies sometimes differ.

Two of the dead, Taliban commanders Ali Khan and Gul Raouf, were the main planners and organizers of terrorist activities, armed assaults and explosions in the district and other parts of Kunar province, the ministry said.

NATO's International Security Assistance Force said it was investigating the airstrike and couldn’t immediately confirm reports that a large number of children were killed.

"We are still assessing the situation," said John Manley, an ISAF spokesperson. "We’re aware of the allegations that civilians died. We take these seriously."

Initial reports were that the strike took place away from buildings, Manley said, adding that he had no immediate information on how many insurgents were killed or the type of aircraft involved in the airstrike.

On the same day as the airstrike, six Americans died in attacks in Afghanistan, making Saturday the deadliest day for Americans in the country since last summer.

The attacks included a car bomb that killed three U.S. soldiers, a young American diplomat and a U.S. Defense Department contractor in the southern province of Zabul. Another American was killed in an attack in eastern Afghanistan, authorities said.

Civilian casualties caused by NATO forces have been a highly contentious issue in Afghanistan and a source of growing tension between Washington and the administration of President Hamid Karzai. Karzai has forbidden Afghan troops from calling for airstrikes, and NATO advises crews not to drop bombs or fire in populated areas.

Wasifi said relatives of the dead children brought their bodies to the district governor's offices Sunday to protest.

"These airstrikes should be stopped in Afghan villages," said Abdul Wahid Taqat, a Kabul-based military analyst and a former general. "The real Al Qaeda and Taliban problem isn’t here, it’s on the other side of the border in Pakistan and airstrikes should be targeted over there."

Taqat said Pakistan receives huge sums of money from foreign governments to fight terrorism, but its intelligence agency often routes the money back into training insurgents.

"Pakistan receives money from the West to fight terrorism, but in fact helps terrorists," he said. "Our neighbors are trying to increase instability in our country to further their interests."

[TheTexan]

If their fathers weren't terrorists already, I bet they are now

[enhanced_deficit]

Time for his puppet masters to get another Nobel Peace prize for hypocrite in chief?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8HnZHDgrbg

[Sola_Fide]

"That's the breaks." -Peter King

[Anti Federalist]

Now, damn it, I searched "10 children killed NATO airstrike" prior to duplicating this post and got nothing.

Search function FAIL.

Oh well, the more who see it the better.

[VoteRandPaul2016]

.... God help us.

[Sola_Fide]

.... God help us.

He is judging us. And we haven't seen the beginning of this judgement yet.

[enhanced_deficit]

Wonder if knowledge of acts like these has any connection to these shocking numbers where a returning vet is commiting suicide every 65 minutes. These are stats since Obama escalated war.



Military Suicides Hit Epidemic Levels

March 27, 2013 AFP

With what must be one of the strangest statistics in the history of wartime, the Pentagon has released the fact that more soldiers are dying overseas by committing suicide than from combat wounds —about one a day. July 2012 was the worst on record, a month that saw 38 soldiers take their own lives and with 349 recorded for the year. These figures have doubled in the past decade.
More alarming yet is the report that America’s returning vets are committing suicide at the unprecedented rate of more than 20 each day—“one every 65 minutes,” reported (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/u-s-vets-commit-suicide-alarming-rate-study-article-1.1253900) Daily News of New York City—but there is no official answer as to why this happening.

http://americanfreepress.net/?p=9458

[Anti Federalist]

Notice that it is never a "US airstrike" when these things happen.

It's a "NATO" airstrike.

[enhanced_deficit]

He is judging us. And we haven't seen the beginning of this judgement yet.

Men's revenge often sees God with them on both sides.

On a different note, this site of 1991 US bombing of Iraqi shleter that reportedly burnt alive over 400 children/women/men was visited by 9/11 families on a peace mission:

Iraq shelter bombed by US remains frozen in time
BAGHDAD, (AFP) - A bleak civilian bomb shelter where hundreds of Iraqis were killed by US missiles 20 years ago remains frozen in time, occasionally visited by relatives of victims who come to pray. The February 13, 1991 bombing of the Al-Amriyah bunker in western Baghdad during the first Gulf War killed 403 men, women and children. It hit world headlines and was trumpeted by Saddam Hussein as a symbol of US "barbarity".

The first smart bomb tore through the 2.5-metre (8-foot) thick roof, and a second followed with deadly force, transforming the shelter below into a fatal furnace. A deep cavity in the floor, charred walls and thick pieces of mangled metal mark the force of that historic blast.


http://www.sundaytimes.lk/110220/Timestwo/t2_24.html

[Brian4Liberty]

Nato confirmed that "fire support" was used in Shigal after a US civilian adviser died in a militant attack.

The article is not clear if this was an active firefight, or revenge after the fact for the death of a mercenary. Did they wait for the fighters to return home and then bomb their houses?

[HOLLYWOOD]

"They HATE U.S. for our Freedoms" Freedoms to; Invade, pillage, rape, steal, kill in all other countries...

US military rebuttal:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc4ZN7XzxhA

[itshappening]

Will Obama weep for these children?

Probably not.

[enhanced_deficit]

The article is not clear if this was an active firefight, or revenge after the fact for the death of a mercenary. Did they wait for the fighters to return home and then bomb their houses?

Seems like the bold part.

Obama's handlers seem to be trying to compete with over 5000 years old Afghan tradition of Badal/revenge. As Afghans have lot less to lose than US, equation works in their favor even if both parties had same zeal and memory..which they don't.


Suicide bomb attack on CIA was 'revenge for drone killing' - Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/6957619/Suicide-bomb-attack-on-CIA-was-revenge-for-drone-killing.html)www.telegraph.co.uk (http://www.telegraph.co.uk) › News (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/) › World News (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/) › Asia (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/) › Afghanistan (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/)
Jan 9, 2010 – The Jordanian suicide bomber who killed seven CIA operatives in Afghanistan vowed revenge on the US in a posthumous video appearance ...



CIA swears revenge for Afghan attack - Times Of India (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-01-02/us/28145325_1_afghan-army-afghan-soldier-suicide-bomber)articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com › Collections (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/)
Jan 2, 2010 – WASHINGTON: The CIA has sworn to avenge the killing of seven of ... Within hours of the massacre, there were two US drone attacks ... There is some confusion over whether the suicide-bomber was an Afghan soldier or not.


America seeking revenge in Pakistan for CIA raid - Reuters (http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/2010/02/02/america-seeking-revenge-in-pakistan-for-cia-raid/)blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/.../america-seeking-revenge-in-pakista...
Feb 2, 2010 – America seeking revenge in Pakistan for CIA raid ? ... Khalil Abu-Mulal Al-Balawi, the suicide bomber who killed CIA agents in Afghanistan, ... Therefore, it is believed Afghanistan-based American drones will continue to hunt ...