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muriel_volestrangler

(101,271 posts) Thu Apr 4, 2013, 06:18 AM Apr 2013

Nato air strike 'kills Afghan police and civilian'

Source: BBC

Four Afghan policemen and a civilian have been killed in a Nato air strike, Afghan officials say.

The air strike took place in eastern Ghazni province, where Nato planes had been called in for support.

A spokesman for the provincial governor told the BBC the policemen were in civilian clothes and may have been mistaken for Taliban fighters.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22025551

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Nato air strike 'kills Afghan police and civilian' (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Apr 2013 OP

Awful SHRED Apr 2013 #1

How to win friends and influence people. Meanwhile, another billion dollars goes poof... Comrade Grumpy Apr 2013 #2

SHRED

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1. Awful

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 08:32 AM

Apr 2013

We are creating terrorists.

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Comrade Grumpy

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2. How to win friends and influence people. Meanwhile, another billion dollars goes poof...

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Original post)

Thu Apr 4, 2013, 01:10 PM

Apr 2013

...just another drop in the trillion-dollar war bucket, and they want us to cut Social Security because we're broke.

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