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		<title>AFGHANISTAN: Afghan victims of Taliban violence suffer in silence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFP
By LYNNE O&#8217;DONNELL
November 22, 2009
KABUL — The stench of sewage hangs in the air as barefoot children clamber up a suburban hillside in Kabul, past green flags that flap over the graves of Afghans killed in suicide attacks.
Perhaps a third of the tombs, each surrounded by a wrought-iron fence, are marked as the final resting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&blog=1386865&post=3244&subd=warvictims&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AFGHANISTAN: Killing civilians triggers demonstration in S Afghan province</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KABUL, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) &#8212; A crowd of Afghans came to the streets of Helmand&#8217;s provincial capital Lashkargah in south Afghanistan Thursday and denounced what they described arbitrary killing of civilians.
&#8220;Around 100 people carrying some dead bodies in Lashkargah Thursday morning accused NATO-led forces of killing nine civilians and calling on the government to investigate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&blog=1386865&post=3239&subd=warvictims&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AFGHANISTAN: Gen.: German troops OK in calling for airstrike</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
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October 29, 2009
BERLIN — A top German general said Thursday that a NATO investigation of an airstrike against a pair of hijacked Afghan tanker trucks showed the attack was appropriate even though it led to civilian casualties.
Gen. Wolfgang Schneiderhan, who is the general inspector of the German army, also said that the exact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&blog=1386865&post=3213&subd=warvictims&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AFGHANISTAN: NATO probes death of four Afghan civilians</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By AFP
October 25, 2009
KABUL — The NATO-led force in Afghanistan has launched an investigation into the deaths of four civilians it killed by firing on their vehicle in the southern city of Kandahar, the alliance force said.
NATO&#8217;s International Security Assistance Force said its troops opened fire Saturday &#8220;when the driver of a local vehicle failed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&blog=1386865&post=3204&subd=warvictims&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: Netherlands admits air strike that killed Afghan civilians</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Agence France-Presse (AFP)

Date: 02 Oct 2009

THE HAGUE, Oct 2, 2009 (AFP) &#8211; A Dutch warplane dropped the bomb which Afghan authorities said killed nine civilians and four Taliban fighters in the south of the country on Wednesday, the Dutch defence ministry said. 
&#8220;It was a Dutch F-16 that dropped that laser-guided bomb,&#8221; ministry spokeswoman [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&blog=1386865&post=3178&subd=warvictims&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AFGHANISTAN: Afghan girl killed by British leaflet drop</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters
By MICHAEL HOLDEN
LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; An Afghan girl died after a box of information leaflets &#8212; dropped by a British military plane and intended to help the local population &#8212; landed on top of her, the Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday.
The MoD said it had launched an investigation into the incident which occurred three [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&blog=1386865&post=3165&subd=warvictims&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AFGHANISTAN: Canadian forces fire on speeding motorcycle, two Afghans dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian Press
By BILL GRAVELAND
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Canadian troops in the dangerous Panjwaii district west of Kandahar city fired on a speeding motorcycle Thursday evening, killing an apparently unarmed driver and his passenger.
The incident occurred while a shura, or community meeting, was being held near a mosque in the village of Pay-e-Moluk.
Maj. Vance White, senior [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&blog=1386865&post=3163&subd=warvictims&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UN: 1,500 Afghan civilians dead in 8 months</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press TV September 27, 2009
A United Nations report has noted that a total of 1,500 civilians have lost their lives in insurgency-hit Afghanistan from the beginning of the year to August.
The UN said in a new report that NATO air strikes were to blame for about a quarter of civilian deaths across the war-ravaged country [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&blog=1386865&post=3142&subd=warvictims&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times
By TAIMOOR SHAH and SABRINA TAVERNISE
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan tribal elders said eight people were killed in an airstrike in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, at least five of them civilians.
An American military spokeswoman, Capt. Elizabeth Mathias, confirmed the airstrike, in the Nad Ali district of the troubled province of Helmand, but declined to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&blog=1386865&post=3140&subd=warvictims&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US: McChrystal: More Forces or &#8216;Mission Failure&#8217; Top U.S. Commander For Afghan War Calls Next 12 Months Decisive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bob Woodward
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, September 21, 2009
The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan warns in an urgent, confidential assessment of the war that he needs more forces within the next year and bluntly states that without them, the eight-year conflict &#8220;will likely result in failure,&#8221; according to a copy of the 66-page [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&blog=1386865&post=3115&subd=warvictims&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Institute for War &#38; Peace Reporting
A year after her family died in an airstrike, a young girl still lives in the same village, alone and constantly in fear.
By Mustafa Saber in Azizabad
Seven-year-old Zahra looks like a typical Afghan girl in her traditional long dress and scarf, her short black hair peeking out from her head covering. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&blog=1386865&post=3112&subd=warvictims&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UN News
September 17th, 2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed a joint proposal to hold a United Nations-led international conference on Afghanistan as he expressed concern about the country’s ongoing instability and insecurity despite large-scale assistance since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
To read the rest of the article please click on this link: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32101&#38;Cr=afghan&#38;Cr1=
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aljazeera.net
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Dozens of Afghan civilians, troops and police, and five US soldiers, have  been killed in a wave of violence around Afghanistan, officials have said.
Roadside bombs, gun battles and a suicide attack took place on Saturday in  all corners of the country, including the north and west, which had been  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&blog=1386865&post=3094&subd=warvictims&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sharif Khoram (AFP)
14 September 2009
KABUL — Thirty Afghan civilians and 69 Taliban were killed in a NATO air strike on fuel trucks hijacked by militants in northern Kunduz early this month, a government-appointed investigator told AFP Sunday.
The bombing in the increasingly restive province on September 4 revived controversy about civilian casualties in Western military [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&blog=1386865&post=3090&subd=warvictims&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreign Policy
By ERICA GASTON
In the two months since Gen. Stanley McChrystal assumed ISAF command, we have seen a serious shift in thinking about civilian casualties and Afghan community concerns. This is most clearly embodied in the July Tactical Directive&#8217;s much stricter guidelines on airstrikes and other uses of force that could risk civilian losses. The latest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&blog=1386865&post=3081&subd=warvictims&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By THE TIMES OF INDIA
DAHANEH (AFGHANISTAN): The US Marines came uninvited to Abdul-Hamid’s home in this southern Afghan town and made their presence felt.
They blew holes in the mud walls that surround the several small buildings in his family’s compound, broke through rooms hunting for weapons and militants, and handcuffed and blindfolded the men. Their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&blog=1386865&post=3079&subd=warvictims&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:51:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times
By LAURA KING
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and Istanbul, Turkey &#8212; The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Saturday visited the scene of a deadly NATO airstrike, a highly unusual gesture apparently meant to signal how seriously the alliance takes civilian casualties, which have been one of the most contentious issues in the war.
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By BBC NEWS
Sameer Ahmad Tahseen, a Kabul university student, was at his home in Kunduz province when dozens of people were killed by a Nato air strike last Friday.
He describes the anger among local residents following the attack.
I heard about the incident in the mosque. But the reports were all confused and it wasn&#8217;t clear [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=warvictims.wordpress.com&blog=1386865&post=3069&subd=warvictims&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters
By JONATHAN BURCH
HOW HAS IT AFFECTED FOREIGN AND AFGHAN RELATIONS?
Civilian casualties have become a deep source of friction between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Western backers, largely stemming from an incident in August 2008 in which Afghan and U.N. investigators say U.S. strikes killed 90 civilians.
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph
By BEN FARMER
A German commander who ordered an air strike on fuel tankers that killed dozens of Afghans used intelligence from a single observer in a possible breach of tactical rules.
An American warplane dropped 500lb bombs on the tankers after they were hijacked by Taliban militants and then became stuck in a river.
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