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Afghanistan
US airstrikes kill five Afghan civilians in eastern province
2012-05-19
[Iran Press TV] The United States has carried out overnight Arclight airstrikes in Afghanistan, killing five civilians in the eastern province of Wardak, Press TV reports.

The US military officials in Kabul said on Friday that they targeted eight beturbanned goons on Thursday night as they were planting roadside kabooms to attack US military convoys in Wardak's Sayedabad district.

Local Afghan villagers, however, rejected the statement, blaming the US forces for killing harmless civilians with no links to any krazed killer groups.
"Sure, from up there it looks like mayhem with malice aforethought, but down here on the ground we could see they were actually playing with fluffy bunnies."
Local authorities have reportedly launched an investigation into the identity of those killed in the two US attacks.
Posted by:Fred

#1  You'd think that after 10 years the civilians would have learned it is a bad idea to gather up the wife and kiddies and go dig wild roots along the roadside in the middle of the night. Maybe by the next generation Darwin will have weeded the slow learners out.
Posted by: Glenmore   2012-05-19 11:36  

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