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Afghanistan
Karzai: NATO Airstrike Killed Eight Children
2012-02-10
[An Nahar] A NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
Arclight airstrike killed eight children in Afghanistan's Kapisa province northeast of the capital Kabul, President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
said Thursday.

The president "strongly condemned the aerial bombing by foreign troops that killed a number of children in Nejrab district" on Wednesday, said a statement from his office.

"Based on information by (the) provincial governor, as a result of an air strike conducted on February 8... eight children were killed," the statement said.

Karzai had assigned a delegation "to launch an all-out probe into the NATO bombing in the province of Kapisa", it added.

A NATO front man said he could "confirm there has been a situation. A joint assessment team went there to identify the situation".

The Afghan president, who has a strained relationship with his Western allies, has regularly condemned NATO for civilian deaths in the decade-long war against Taliban bully boyz fighting to overthrow him.

Kapisa district police chief Abdul Hamid Erkin told Agence La Belle France Presse: "Two nights ago foreign special forces carried out a raid on a house in Geyawa village in Nejrab district.

"The next morning their plane carried out an Arclight airstrike on a house in the village as a result of which seven children and one adult were martyred."

He said commanders of French troops who operate in the area "claimed that the target was a group of Taliban controllers, but we checked the area and there were no Taliban.

"In fact the people in the area have very strong anti-Taliban feelings. We filmed the victims, who were children, and showed it to the French commanders," Erkin said.
Posted by:Fred

#13  Watching BBC news re Syria tonight.Guy in Homs says we call on the Arab League to help us.We call on muslims to help us.Still no help.We now call on Obama to help us.ie Last resort to ask non muslims!.The Sunnis have spent the rest of the year slagging us off/fighting us in Afghan/Iraq etc.Horrible hypocrites th lot of them!

As I've said before, the Gulf kingdoms aren't about to help the Muslim Brotherhood come to power in Syria, given that its long-term goal is to create a caliphate via military conquest that incorporates their kingdoms under its rule, before turning its attention to the infidel.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2012-02-10 20:51  

#12  What was the baby duck and baby bunny count, Hamid?
Posted by: OldSpook   2012-02-10 20:05  

#11  Watching BBC news re Syria tonight.Guy in Homs says we call on the Arab League to help us.We call on muslims to help us.Still no help.We now call on Obama to help us.ie Last resort to ask non muslims!.The Sunnis have spent the rest of the year slagging us off/fighting us in Afghan/Iraq etc.Horrible hypocrites th lot of them!
Posted by: Paul D   2012-02-10 16:00  

#10  #9 He is an ungrateful S.O.B!
Posted by Paul D


Islamic "gratitude" is a bit different than that which we are accustomed to.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-02-10 14:20  

#9  He is an ungrateful S.O.B!
Posted by: Paul D   2012-02-10 13:56  

#8  Karzai has conveniently forgotten the 4 French soldiers that were shot and killed by his ANA soldier within the last 2 weeks. Not that that excuses any deaths of noncombatants that cannot be supported by Additional Protocol 1 sections 52 to 58. In short one NEVER targets children, unless they are doing something that makes them a military target, or they are too close to a mil target - where discrimination and proportionality come into play. Human error is, however, always a factor ---and well we are dealing with the French here - not that any other coaltion country can claim a perfect record. It only takes some misunderstanding as to the coordinate numbers to dial in the wrong place. Oh - so that might mean a language issue between French and English over the secure net?? Oh. Like thats not a possibility.
No matter -these things do get investigated to the teeth each and every time. And now with Afghan investigators too.
Karzai is on thin ice there. He knows the above. He just has to say it for the masses, or so he thinks. It would be better if he fully explained the process to his people. They might even start to believe him.
Posted by: Northern Cousin   2012-02-10 11:21  

#7  "One of the children left a hastily-scribbled note: 'Exterminate them all. The Horror! The Horror!' is all it said..."
Posted by: mojo   2012-02-10 10:38  

#6  OK, maybe we should get out. But bomb Karzai first.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2012-02-10 10:23  

#5  Bush was a lousy judge of character.

Assumes there were some with character Bush could have picked but overlooked. The whole problem with this cesspool that is south west Asia is that assumption is incorrect. That is why we should get out and buy oil from whatever potentate wants to sell and ignore everything else until they change.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2012-02-10 09:52  

#4  All I can say is that Bush was a lousy judge of character. Everyone he picked in Iraq was defective in some way, with Maliki being outright anti-American and some kind of dictator-wannabe, and Karzai appears to be a high-functioning drug addict of some kind. We should have guessed as much, given the gushy things he said about Putin.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2012-02-10 09:32  

#3  But bombing girl schools and kidnapping (and likely raping) Korean women is still ok right?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2012-02-10 08:16  

#2  A learning event.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-02-10 05:39  

#1  and a baby milk factory...
Posted by: Iblis   2012-02-10 00:15  

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