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on 07-Dec-03 03:47 AM
I felt sick while reading this. I am sure average Americans are not bothered about this. I was never anti-American before, but I feel they should keep out of all these. Let the Afghans decide what they want- be it Taliban or whatever but they should not kill innocent children like this.
I am aware of the sentiments of 09/11 but I do not think violence is the way forward. All forms of killings are to be condemned. Americans should concentrate on tightening the security at home and if some place in earth is not safe for them, they should not go there.
Nine Afghan children die in US bombing
IANS[ SUNDAY, DECEMBER 07, 2003 11:20:26 AM ]
KABUL : Nine Afghan children were killed along with a suspected Taliban terrorist in an air raid by US forces in a southern Afghan province, the US military said here on Sunday.
The bombing by a US A-10 aircraft on Saturday morning in Ghazni province was targeted at a "known terrorist" hiding in the area, Xinhua quoted the US-led coalition forces in Bagram Airbase, some 70 km north of here, as saying.
"Following the attack, coalition ground forces searching the area found the bodies of both the intended target and those of nine children nearby," the statement said.
A US military spokesman said in Bagram that the coalition regretted the loss of the children and an US military team had been sent to the site for an investigation.
The attack was on a village house near Ghazni city, the provincial capital about 150 km southwest of Kabul .
Dozens of Afghan civilians, mostly villagers in border areas, had been mistakenly killed in several air bombing attacks by US forces in their hunting for guerrilla fighters of the ousted Taliban militia and their al-Qaeda allies in south and east Afghanistan since late 2001, when the Taliban regime was overthrown by a US-led campaign.
According to the US statement, the suspected Taliban member killed in Saturday's attack was believed to be responsible for the killing of two foreign contractors working on a US-funded road reconstruction project in the area in October.
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