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Archive for March 19th, 2008

AFGHANISTAN: US Raid Kills 6 in Afghanistan

Posted by warvictims on March 19, 2008

US Raid Kills 6 in Afghanistan
By AMIR SHAH
Associated Press

U.S. forces raided a village near the border with Pakistan early Wednesday and killed six people, including two children and a woman, villagers and a government official said.

The raid came a day after NATO said it killed about 12 insurgents in an airstrike in southern Afghanistan, denying accusations from two Afghan lawmakers that civilians were among the dead.

Three men were also killed in Wednesday’s raid, including one who used to work as a border policeman patrolling the region in between Afghanistan and Pakistan, said Mirza Gul, a villager from Hom in Khost province, where the violence took place. Read the rest of this entry »

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