Officials: NATO Troops Kill Four Students in Khost
Troops Killed Children for Driving Near Convoy
Afghan government officials today confirmed that an overnight NATO shooting in the Khost Province left four students, one of them as young as 11 years old, dead. The Afghan Education Ministry confirmed that all four were students, but other reports suggest the eldest, an 18 year old, may have been working as a police officer as well.
NATO confirmed the shooting but was quick to insist that two of the children were “known insurgents” and the other two were “suspected insurgents.” Initial claims said the attack came at a “checkpoint” but later it was revealed the vehicle was on the open road and simply hadn’t stopped when a military convoy flashed its lights at them.
At the same time, both NATO and the Khost Provincial police confirmed that none of the students were armed, meaning the attack was just the latest in a long series of virtually random attacks by NATO convoys against vehicles that happen to be traveling on the same road.
The attack brings to mind a similar story from only a week ago, in which US forces attacked a busload of civilians in Kandahar Province for the same reason: they were traveling on the same road in the opposite direction and didn’t pull off the road fast enough. NATO’s own figures show the number of civilians they have killed so far in 2010 dramatically dwarfs the number they killed in the same period of 2009.
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E. A. Costa
April 21st, 2010 at 7:32 am
Yep, war of National Liberation it is.
MoT
April 21st, 2010 at 8:24 am
If NATO, and that essentially means the U.S., is "liberating" anyone of anything they're liberating them from this mortal coil.
E. A. Costa
April 21st, 2010 at 8:37 am
Afghans rather liberating themseves from the US and the North Atlantic Ocean.
Ghouri
April 21st, 2010 at 10:06 am
It,s dilema that the NATO will loose it,s ground and will have the same reputation of killers.
If the west money instead of war on cilian work will pay out. If the West had agreed to the demands of then Taleban Govt. to give more money for oil pipeline would have saved so many lifes even so called self made 9/11 from Bush.
In the world history peace can deliver more than war. Still is time to rethink. I read a novel of Geoge Bernaud Shah" arm and the man in my college" he says 99 out of hundred soldiers are by birth fool and these fools are ruling the world.
God may bless all of us.
ghouri, Berlin
Anonymous
April 21st, 2010 at 2:30 am
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uysss
April 21st, 2010 at 11:53 am
Oil Oil and Oil , mother fucker west
MvGuy
April 21st, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Let's not forget REAL the problem with these killings…. The western troops are COWARDS, COWARDS, COWARDS and MORE COWARDS..!!! Why else would they shoot these boys..?? They are AFRAID to let any vehicle get close enough to them to be able to blow them up. In Israel they built separate roads for THEM only… It cuts down the frequency of these "mistakes" Maybe the Apartheid scenario works better that the "Frightened troops slay more innocents" one.
There is no "NICE" way to conquer, especially OTHER PEOPLES land. It's always murder..!! But when the conquerors are afraid of everything and everyone (cowards) these incidents will occur again and again..!!!
Strawman
April 21st, 2010 at 3:40 pm
Americans are seeing similar cowardice by the actions of its domestic law enforcement officers. Grandmothers, pregnant women, paraplegics being tasered on a daily basis. Many of these LEO's are former military and demonstrate the same cowardice on the home soil as they do in foreign lands. These foreign and domestic atrocities must end.
Allawi Owned
April 21st, 2010 at 4:28 pm
War Criminals
E. A. Costa
April 21st, 2010 at 8:01 pm
China, Afghanistan, India, Iran, perhaps even Pakistan at some point–with Russian blessing, will have their pipleline eventually.
THEIR pipeline. Not US and British and Dutch Oil's.