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| Four Afghans killed in anti-US protests | |
| 2011-05-15 | |
| [Iran Press TV] Security forces in troubled eastern Afghanistan open fire on anti-US protesters, killing at least four people and wounding several others. The deaths come after hundreds of angry Afghans staged a protest against the killing of innocent civilians at the hands of foreign forces, a Press TV correspondent reported.
...on the main road from Lovely Peshawar. The capital is Jalalabad. The population of 1,334,000 consists mostly of Pashtuns with a few Arabs and Pashais... Province on Saturday. The protest comes after NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... troops killed a 12-year-old boy in an overnight raid in Nangarhar. In a separate incident on Thursday, a 12-year-old girl was killed in the same province after foreign troops hurled a hand grenade towards her. Hundreds of civilians have bit the dust in US-led Civilian casualties have long been a source of friction between the Afghan government and US-led foreign forces. The loss of civilian lives at the hand of foreign forces has dramatically increased anti-American sentiments in Afghanistan. The surge in violence comes despite the presence of 150,000 foreign troops engaged in the so-called war on terrorism. The war in Afghanistan, with civilian and military casualties at record highs, has become the longest war in US history. | |
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