Posted by warvictims on July 14, 2008
By BBC
The BBC’s Alastair Leithead is the first journalist to reach the scene of a US air raid which Afghan authorities say killed about 50 civilians in the east of the country on 6 July. He reports on what he found:
On a hillside high in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan there are three charred clearings where the American bombs struck.
Scattered around are chunks of twisted metal, blood stains and small fragments of sequinned and brightly decorated clothes – the material Afghan brides wear on their wedding day. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on July 14, 2008
By Agence France Presse
Nearly a week after a suicide car bomb tore a hole into his family, Khan Mohammad is distraught and disillusioned with the government he voted for at Afghanistan’s first presidential election in 2005.
The retired colonel lost a daughter, three grandchildren — including twins aged three years — and a daughter-in-law in the blast at the Indian embassy in Kabul. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on July 14, 2008
By BBC Worldwide Monitoring
Text of report by Afghan independent Tolo TV, on 11 July
[Presenter] Tamim Nurestani, former governor of Nurestan Province, said that there are security problems in a number of districts in that province. Mr Nurestani said that there are reports about conflicts in the Barg-e Matal District of that province. Meanwhile, security situation is not good in Do Ab and Waigal Districts too.
Tamim Hamid has report on this. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by warvictims on July 14, 2008
By Agence France Presse
Official investigations have found that US-led air strikes a week ago killed 64 people, most of them women and children, the heads of separate investigation teams said Friday.
The US-led coalition has denied killing civilians in the strikes on July 4 and July 6 in remote, mountainous areas near the border with Pakistan but said it was looking into the allegations. It says only militants were killed. Read the rest of this entry »
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