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Afghan villagers protest US air strike deaths
Karachi News.Net
Saturday 23rd August, 2008
Afghan villagers have launched protests against all allied forces after claims that 76 civilians, most of them children, were killed in US-led air strikes against Taliban rebels.
The US military previously said that only 30 militant fighters had been killed in the strikes, but later admitted it was launching investigations into civilian deaths.
About 250 villagers gathered in the angry demonstration on Saturday night, hurling stones at Afghan troops.
The police chief for western Afghanistan, General Akram Yawar, said his officers had fired shots into the air to disperse the crowd.
Two people were wounded after police were forced back into their compound.
The protests centred around an incident in the village of Azizabad, about 120 kilometres south of Herat city, an area which is considered a stronghold of Taliban and other militants.
If the death toll from the new incident is confirmed it would be one of the highest for civilians in Afghanistan.
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Anonymous
08-24-08, 04:37 PM |
Been in that book again eh.
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Sammy being Sammy
08-24-08, 01:37 PM |
Try again!
No invaders=paece? How about the pre Taliban foreign invaders as rulers! Guarantee peace and tranquility? What pipe are you smokin” Sammy? Do you have any idea how many tribes exist in Afganistan and how hate each other? And what planet do you come from that states that the Afganis would just love to embrace U.N. peacekeers to smooth the waters and build an illustrious economy. Can you spell I-M-P-O-S-S-I-B-E. Here let me help you! Sammy being Sammy
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Sammy
08-24-08, 01:48 AM |
Afghan villagers protest US air strike deaths
The Afghani people should bring to the International Criminal Court all of those countries who have invaded their country, and should have their country back so that they can live in peace as they wish,
Also the United Nations, which Afghanistan is a member, should be able to guarantee these people domestic tranquility, and a chance to choose a government of their free choice without outside interference.
I believe these people have the right to live in peace, without being invaded, protected, or abused, hoping that the United Nations will clean its house of child abusers, and will send if necessary soldiers representing the UN peacekeepers with high moral standards.
Sammy
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wow
08-24-08, 03:48 AM |
Sammy get bent.
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Sammy
08-24-08, 04:36 PM |
Surely not the opium pipe
Sammy being Sammy
08-24-08, 01:37 PM
Yes, Afghanistan produces 90 per cent of the world’s opium, and everyone wants to control the opium trade, and as long as the Afghani people raise opium they will never live in peace.
The other alternative is for the UN to eradicate their opium planting, and substitute it with productive farm products, giving them training on how to produce good farm products instead.
I believe that during the Teleban era the opium planting was forbidden, or somewhat controlled, but now under the invadors it is in full production, and the Teleban are benefitting by financing their resistence to the invading forces with the proceeds from opium.
The Afghani are a blend of different races who are divided in various tribes, or little kingdoms, and surely it will be very difficult to have them grouping into one melting pot, and work togheter as a nation, because they will always fight among themselves to dominate one another for the control of the country.
But I assure you, that if it was not for the control of the opium trade, the country would not be worth invading.
Sammy
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