World-News

A NATO helicopter strike in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand last Friday killed seven civilians, including three children. The atrocity is the latest in a series of recent US-led bombing operations that have inflicted mass civilian casualties.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/afgh-m29.shtml



U.S. brigade murdered and mutilated innocent Afghan civilians

Military tried to pull pictures out of circulation to avoid another Abu Ghraib.
http://bit.ly/e22s8h



Investigation finds 4 Afghan civilians killed in airstrike

A joint Afghan and NATO investigation team found NATO airstrikes, on Friday March 25 killed four civilians and injured three others in southern Helmand province, the military alliance said on Wednesday.

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90851/7335617.html



Karzai slams US soldiers' murder of Afghan teenager

'It is a tragic story and reading it hurts our feeling. This crime committed by those soldiers who are addicted with heroin and hashish,' President Karzai said.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2011-03/30/content_12251616.htm


From Information Clearing House

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NATO troops kill two Afghan civilians

Pakistan Observer [Pakistan]

04/01/11

NATO soldiers killed two Afghan civilians Thursday after opening fire on a car which the force said had tried to attack a patrol in the southern city of Kandahar, officials said. ... Kandahar deputy provincial police chief Fazel Ahmad Sherzad however said an ISAF soldier opened fire after a civilian car hit one of their vehicles in a traffic accident...

http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=84170


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Afghanistan
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Helmand
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Karzai
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=ISAF
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