Nato apologises for Afghan civilian deaths in Logar
Source: BBC
8 June 2012 Last updated at 13:56 GMT
The commander of international forces in Afghanistan Gen John Allen has apologised for civilian deaths in an air strike on Wednesday.
It is the first time that Nato has admitted civilians died in the air strike in the southern Logar province, which had targeted Taliban commanders.
Afghan officials said 18 civilians had died in the incident.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned the air strike, calling it "unjustifiable".
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Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)...if we weren't busy engaging in "massacres" of our own.
may3rd
(593 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Eighteen dead civilians.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Prometheus Bound
(3,489 posts)But we all know the same thing will happen again in a day, week or month, so the apology is meaningless.
may3rd
(593 posts)For a man who says he has "no choice" but to grow poppy, Haji Zerak looks relaxed as the labourers lay into the green bulb-heads nodding in the wind.
It is the eradication workers who look worried.
Several eradication workers have been shot and killed in recent weeks on these slopes abutting the Pakistani border.
With a foreign television crew filming this time, their nerves are understandable.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18118781
This will become an Iranian and Russian problem. We need to wash our hands of their local problems .