[An Nahar] A NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization....
air attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed 10 children, officials said Sunday, the latest case of civilian casualties which provoke great anger in the war-torn country.
The children were killed during a joint Afghan-NATO operation in the Shigal district of restive Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
bordering Pakistain late on Saturday.
An Afghan official involved in the operation who did not want to be named said air support was called in after local and coalition forces came under attack, resulting in the death of an American and injuries to several Afghan soldiers.
The official said the force did not know there were women and kiddies in the houses that were hit.
Civilian casualties caused by NATO forces have been one of the most contentious issues in the 11-year campaign against Taliban krazed killers, provoking harsh criticism from Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid
Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai
... 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
Pashtunface 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...
and angry public protests.
"Ten children and eight forces of Evil were killed in the strike, six women were maimed," Wasifullah Wasifi, the front man for Kunar province, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
Shigal district governor Abdul Zahir confirmed the corpse count. He said people had brought the children's bodies to the center of the town and the maimed women were taken to Kunar's central hospital.
Sayed Rahman, security commander of Shigal, said one women was also among the dead. "We have reports that 10 children and one woman have been killed in the air strike," he said.
A front man for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed the strike but said up to 10 women and kiddies were maimed in the attack rather than killed.
A U.S. civilian died in a jihad boy attack at the scene, he said.
The interior ministry said in a statement the attack by coalition forces killed six Taliban including two senior commanders.