NATO warplanes continuing the massive offensive in the Kunar Province, which yesterday they reported has killed at least 115 “insurgents,” struck a crowd of civilians overnight, wounding at least 13 of them.
“A coalition munition fell short of the insurgents’ position,” Capt. Justin Brockhoff explained, insisting that they weren’t aiming at the civilians. He said all 13 were wounded but only three were taken to the hospital.
That’s the official position, at least. Other reports, so far unconfirmed, have suggested that some of the victims may have been killed, with one even suggesting all 10 who weren’ taken to the hospital died on the scene.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been repeatedly critical of NATO over air strikes putting civilians in harms way. Since NATO said the 115 already killed in the past week in Kunar included a large number of air strikes, this might bring more of the offensive’s victims into question as well.
Pure bloody mass murder. Obama and Bush and their whole administrations need to be hanged as war crinimals.
It's all in a day's work for NATO.
High value targets for NATO powers are the houses filled with kids, for nothing more motivates a man toward fearful submission to authority then knowing your wife and kids may be next.
Did they run out of all those "precision armaments" they always tout?
With all those 'observers' reporting on the 'fall of shot' like that, isn't there a danger of hurting a good guy?
Realizing that nobody wants to be doing this, if the Taliban would just make themselves some signs like 'bomb here' and stand still waiting for it, Afghan civilians might be a lot safer.