Afghans protest civilian deaths

Hundreds of Afghans protest against an operation by US-led troops in the troubled southeastern Afghanistan that resulted in four civilian deaths.

Angry protesters threw stones at a NATO convoy passing by the area, sources said. Local television footage showed Afghan men blocking the path of US-led NATO vehicles into the city.

The protesters were angry due to the killing of civilians by US forces on Friday night.

Khost Province Deputy Gov. Tahir Khan Sabari confirmed the raid by US troops in the Shegi village that killed four people and wounded several others.

The US military, however, said the four killed were insurgents linked to the Haqqani network, an associate group of Taliban insurgents.

The mounting number of deaths at the hand of US-led forces has created a rift between the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai and his western supporters.

Karzai has repeatedly lashed out at the US-led forces in Afghanistan over the issue of civilian deaths and their unbearable attitude toward the public and local culture.

Source: Press TV

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Says it all, doesn't it. 

Talibaan always claim responsibility for their attacks, so if they didn't, one wouldn't assume they didn't commit it. Compare them to the cowardly U.S who always try to spin us some excuse about collateral damage or misguided weapons etc.

abu_rashid wrote on Mar 9^th, 2009 at 10:28am:


What? NATO convoy is under attack and no civilian get killed.

That makes abu very, very disappointed but maybe taliban will kill few civilians later on and islamic propaganda will blaim the NATO soldiers so abu may feel happy again.