NATO officials today announced that they launched an air strike against “insurgents” in the eastern Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan, killing at least 27 of them in an early morning attack.
The Taliban has yet to give its version of the incident, but NATO says the insurgents attacked an “international military patrol” and were targeted by the air strike “immediately.” Officials say there were no civilian casualties in the attack.
The attack is the first major incident in Nangarhar in awhile, and came in the wake of a NATO force launching a raid targeting “a Taliban facilitator.” The Pentagon reported a large number of “suspects” had been detained in the operation on Tuesday.
The air strike occurred in the Nazyan District, in the province’s far south, not far from the Pakistan border. The Pakistani side of the border is in the Khyber District, which has also been under attack from Pakistani forces in recent weeks.
ty for saving us from those 8 year old insurgents…
Day after tomorrow reports will hit the fan that "27 insurgents" are in fact, 15 women and 12 children. Score another win in the "hearts and minds" category.
Good point Skulz , and the hightech NATO bombers will have created 270 lowtech anti-NATO bombers.
Which will prevail, technology or the human spirit?
Apparently it's quite acceptable For American and Nato forces to butcher, murder and destroy by the thousands the people of Afganistann, Pakistan, Libya and sundry other countries that have been honoured with receiving the ongoing gift of democracy from those pathalogical thugs. Yet, hypocritically, those thugs, referring to themselves as members of the "civilised" world, object strenuously to countries like Syria killing their own citizens by trying to put down the trouble created by those very same civilised countries to destabalise them. Vulgar hypocrisy, thy name is Police State Amerika.
There is absolutely no longer any doubt in my mind that America is now, by far, the very personification of an evil empire. An empire presided over by a tyranical mass murdering thug and a plethora of some 535 other mini blood-thirsty psychopaths residing in the once hallowed halls of Congress.
Trying to look at any positive side to fascist amerika's terrorist atrocities against the World ! The empire will fall sooner, and the World have a chance to be peaceful !
Tatiana, you are quite right. America is an evil empire. Its leader, Obama, has just left my country, Australia, having gained the right to put marines here as well as to use our naval bases and airfields.
Australia has become part of the Evil Empire and no Australian citizen was asked. The world has to rebel against this warmongering empire before we become its slaves!