Afghan police say victims of U.S. raid not militants »
Posted By dissent 9 months ago in NewsKABUL (Reuters) - Afghan police disputed whether five men killed in a raid by U.S. and Afghan troops on Saturday were militants.
The predawn raid took place in the Charkh district of Logar province, some 80 km (49 miles) southwest of the capital Kabul. The U.S. military said the operation aimed at disrupting a network that had been carrying out roadside bombings.
"A firefight began when armed militants engaged the force, five enemy combatants were killed in the firefight," a U.S. military statement said.
Afghan police and officials, however, said the men killed were non-combatants.
"I confirm that those killed by U.S. forces were civilians... four brothers and a father," said General Mostafa Mohseni, the police chief in Logar province.
The head of the provincial council Abdul Hakim Sulaimankhil condemned the killing of civilians.
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we live in a culture of war.
let's make it a culture of peace.
"my country is the world. and my religion is to ...
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4thchance9 months ago
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Lets see here...Hmmm...If Bush were still in power, what would the libs and democrats be saying about this?
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Here's what they would be saying.
Bush is murdering innocent woman and children in Iraq.
BUT, Bush is not in power anymore is he? No he is not, so who's to blame now? You guess it, BUSH!-
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Dionys9 months ago
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Did Obama put us in Afghanistan?
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Or is he dealing with the craphole of complexly interwoven results and reverberations of Bush's failed policies as they're manifesting on a daily basis in Afghanistan?
Here's what Bush should have done:
Sent the vast majority of troops into Afghanistan. Hunted down Bin Laden (you know -- the guy who was actually behind 9/11). Secured major cities and villages. Then flooded the country with money (instead of Haliburton), giving money to all the moderate imams to build mosques and schools, rebuilt the infrastructure and housing and established real-world work that would have resulted in an economy. We would have one of the strongest allies in that part of the world and a moderating influence on Islam in the region and wouldn't be worried about Russia moving in and taking over as it is doing now.
But what did he do? Sent the majority of troops into Iraq (for what reason? Who knows), poured billions of dollars into bombing Iraq and Afghanistan into the stone age, put fairly conservative, borderline extremist Islamists into power in Iraq, ensured that warlords and extremists would be in power in Afghanistan because he destroyed the infrastructure and didn't put anything back into place, turned a blind eye to opium truck convoys and exhausted our troops in Iraq. Thus handing Afghanistan to the Russians and Iraq to a bunch of ideological Islamists.
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gamahuche9 months ago
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Why don't you speak for yourself instead of wasting your time and our time on speculating what someone else might say?
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Is it because you have absolutely nothing worthwhile to say?
In which case perhaps you would be advised to actually read what is being said by people who are on the ground and who have some experience.
Weapons are not designed to only hit the bad guys.
What are the criteria used to identify one from the other?
Its absolutely obvious that when firefights with powerful automatic weapons or when rockets are fired at distant destinations that the danger of innocent victims is extremely high.
That has been a part of warfare from the beginning of time.
Now imagine that your next door neighbour is a notorious drug-dealer and the cops - in plain clothes of course - come calling at the wrong door and completely ignore anything that you tell them and when you try to shut the door because you don't even believe these hooligans could really be cops...
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dissent9 months ago
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let's see here.... 4th chance, incapable of intelligence, empathy or compassion... only finds enjoyment in team sport
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thus he must steer the thread into his particularly uninteresting brand of dumbed-down partisan politics so he can put his feet up on the sofa and have another beer....
.... yawn ....
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reallypsst9 months ago
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The a-hole Pakistanis cant deal with terrorist in their own country ,but are quick to blame the USA.We should let them go to hell ,no aid ,no troops.This country has to start playing hard ball and not be played like fools like the united nations!
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