Baraki Barak District governor Mohammad Amin reported that an overnight US airstrike destroyed a home full of civilians in Afghanistan’s Logar Province, killing five civilians and wounding six others.
Provincial Governor Niaz Amiri confirmed the incident, saying the US troops had been tracking Taliban in the area, but hit a house by mistake during the search.
The Taliban had been active in the Logar Province earlier this month, so it is unsurprising that the US would be searching for them. The strike against a village, however, reflects the US continuing to spurn calls to end airstrikes against populated areas.
NATO would neither confirm nor deny the incident, but insisting they are always trying to avoid killing civilians. When they do, however, there is little more than an expression of “regret.”
Two wrongs do not make a right — Two fictions do not make a fact
To keep the people in fearful submission long enough so that we can win our war, we are deliberately killing civilians. Now you Empire builders can argue until your blue in the face that the ends justify the means, but the fact will always remain a fact, on purpose and in cold blooded murder we are deliberately killing civilians.
On Media Outlets That Continue to Describe Unknown Drone Victims As “Militants”
“Mr. Obama embraced a disputed method for counting civilian casualties” of his drone strikes which “in effect counts all military-age males in a strike zone as combatants…unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent.” The paper noted that “this counting method may partly explain the official claims of extraordinarily low collateral deaths,” and even quoted CIA officials as deeply “troubled” by this decision: “One called it ‘guilt by association’ that has led to ‘deceptive’ estimates of civilian casualties. ‘It bothers me when they say there were seven guys, so they must all be militants. They count the corpses and they’re not really sure who they are.’”
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/18/med…
Dear, dear, dear, what a horrible reality they live in. Just knowing about this is horrible enough.