Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai Accuses America Over Civilian Deaths

[Purveyor]

Source: Telegraph UK

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has risked a fresh rift with his Western supporters and condemned American forces for an air attack in which his government says 76 civilians were killed.

24 Aug 2008

gnoring denials by coalition forces that any civilians had died in the bombing of Azizabad village in northwest Afghanistan, he rebuked the foreign forces for their carelessness.

"Afghan President Hamid Karzai strongly condemns the unco-ordinated air strike by coalition forces in Shindand district of Herat province which resulted in the death of at least 70 people including women and children," Mr Karzai's office said.

The US military has started an investigation, but said it was "very confident" that only 30 people had been killed - all militants.

If the Afghan government's death toll proves correct, it would mean the raid was the deadliest visited on civilians since US-led forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001.

Western reporters who visited the village, where angry locals protested against the air raid, saw the remains of houses and freshly laid graves.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/2608964/Afghanistan-Hamid-Karzai-accuses-America-over-civilian-deaths.html

[PDJane]

1. Hamid Karzai is quite correct to do so........

the US is following the same strategy as they did in Viet Nam. bomb the country to the stone age and pollute everything, then walk away.

[LynnTheDem]

2. So this is what, the 18th time Karzai has publicly denounced the USSA for slaughtering babies

and women. How many more will you allow to be slaughtered, Karzai-puppet???

[Henny Penny]

3. I doubt if he has the power to prevent any of them.

The best he can do perhaps is to try and publicise these incidents so as anti-war campaigners can use them to help bring about an end to the conflict.

If he resigns in protest it will merely merit one or two lines buried in the middle of a quality paper. The end. And he would undoubtedly be replaced by an even more tightly controlled puppet.

[bluesmail]

4. Another BlowBack? HA!

A peak into the gut of The Monster that is US.