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Archive for August 26th, 2008

AFGHANISTAN: strike ‘killed 60 young Afghans’

Posted by warvictims on August 26, 2008

by BBC News

There is convincing evidence that 60 children and 30 adults were killed in a US air strike in western Afghanistan last Friday, the United Nations says.

The US originally said its planes had killed 30 militants in the attack in the province of Herat.

President Karzai sacked two senior Afghan army officers over the incident. The US says Afghan forces led the operation in the district of Shindand. Read the rest of this entry »

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