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NATO Probes Afghan Civilian Deaths Claims
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan - An Afghan official said Thursday that 10 election campaigners had been killed in an airstrike by international forces in the relatively peaceful north of the country.
Ten Afghan civilians were killed Thursday in a NATO air strike on three vehicles carrying election campaign workers in northern Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai -- seen here in July -- said in a statement. (AFP/Yuri Cortez) Two other people, including a candidate in the September 18 parliamentary elections, were injured in the alleged air raid in Rustaq district, in Takhar province, provincial government spokesman Faiz Mohammad Tawhedi told AFP.
The men were travelling in a "caravan" of vehicles when raided by "aircraft and helicopter gunships," he said.
The election campaigners were working for parliamentary candidate Abdul Wahed Khurasani, who had survived the bombing with injuries, he said.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the international counter-insurgency mission in Afghanistan, said it was "aware of the allegations".
"We're investigating to find out if it's true or not," an ISAF spokesman said.
NATO has around 150,000 troops in Afghanistan to fight a Taliban-led insurgency.
The international force has been responsible for scores of civilian deaths, many of them killed during air raids aimed against insurgents.
A recent UN report said about 20 percent of the more than 1,300 civilians killed in the first half of the year lost their lives in NATO and other pro-government troops' actions, with most of the rest killed by militants.
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Show AllIt would not surprise me in the least if this turned out to have been engineered by a political rival, using NATO as unwitting hitmen.
Or a most willing hitmen, the goal being a perpetual war to justify a perpetual containment of Russia and China.
It would be interesting to know just how far from the North Atlantic Afghanistan is?
Yep, we're winning the hearts and minds of the locals, just like we did in Southeast Asia.
Vietnam War, yes I remember it well, my best buddy was wasted in it and I became a pacifist by it.
And this war is so much identical to it, a terrorist invasion followed by a dictatorship occupation, surely stuck in a rut is our Empire.
You need to explain that! NATO has no mission statement for Afghanistan....As a matter of fact, NATO is not supposed to be there and NATO was never threatened or attacked by any Taliban.....North Atlantic Treaty Organization does not sound like Middle East Treaty Organization or Southeast Treaty Organization........Funny, the countries that should be in Afghanistan are: India, Pakistan, Iran, China etc!
So, is NATO a toy for the United States to play with and were those the same kids in Nevada watching their video screens and targetting people they thought looked suspicious????? (Kind of like the Wikileaks video of Iraqis and reporters being murdered by helicopter.)
The American people have no clue that every NATO Member has been forced to send troops.....When President Kohler of Germany stated, "We are in Afghanistan because of our economic interests." He was telling the "TRUTH"....He was immediately forced to resign.
Why did NORAD have five practice exercises on 9/11/2001 that voided the Northeast United States of all its defenses and prevented 4 hijacked planes from being intercepted? The interrogation never happened, but the lies followed and the rest of NATO marched in line behind "A Group of Liars".....Then those liars were followed by a "Group of Puppets" who have no problem murdering people.
"The Power Elite" have not and will not investigate themselves and "Their Puppets"!
Thanks for that. As if NATO would be the correct body to investigate anything. As if they would have the slightest inclination to find out or tell the truth.
Oh, yeah! I can just see the results of that "probe." The victims will probably get blamed for that one.
The figures are a total joke in the MSM and NATO IBC type propaganda, minimising to keep public perception onside.