A Saturday evening NATO air strike against a village in Paktia Province, Afghanistan, has killed a family of eight, including six children. The strike is the latest in a growing series of attacks against civilians.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into the attack, and provincial officials confirmed that the only adults killed, a man and his wife, had no connection to any terrorist factions.
NATO initially rejected the claim of an attack, saying there was “no evidence” of any civilians actually being among the slain. NATO later retracted the statement, however, and instead said that it was responding to an attack and was “aware” of the civilian deaths.
Karzai has repeatedly demanded that NATO stop launching air strikes against populated areas, but NATO officials have rejected this, saying that the UN rules of engagement don’t allow Karzai to restrict the types of attacks it launches.
I am so ashamed of this country that I am sick. Tomorrow is the day I should be celebrating the service of my father and other ancestors who served in the US Military. However, these continuing atrocities now make be sick. This is not the 'Land of the Free and Home of the Brave." We ARE The Terrorists.
You sound as if you think this is something new. From the genocide of native Americans to torture in the Philipines and the murders carried out during our prep for war with Germany, uh I mean our invasion of Mexico; the US military is simply carrying on tradition.
Let’s hope for the disintegration of EU due to financial problems thereby making NATO automatically disappear.
Traditionally, the Europeans were not thought of as being stupid. Perhaps there is a change in IQ from one generation to the next. Older Europeans would not have allowed their country to be puppets of the US, and their citizens to be used as cannon fodder for America in far off lands.
Thank you Larry; I feel sad too. Such an event would absolutely devastate the rest of that family.
You begin to wonder, after so many incidents like this, if they (CIA) are deliberately targeting civilians. But Why? I think maybe to instill Terror, in much the same way that Israel has done for decades among the native Palestinians.
Tell me again why America was attacked, they hate us for our freedom?
I wonder if Mrs Clinton will get all flustered, take off her high heels and shoe-bang them on her desk at the UN and demand an investigation of this barbaric NATO action the same way she became all hysterical on account of the Syrian massacre.
Guys, remember — this is just "collateral damage" and it's the "terrorists" fault for living in the same country as all those civilians we drop our bombs on.
So we send our unemployable grunt out there in hopes he'll get close enough to some terrorist leader that the guy'll order his bodyguards to shoot at him. Then he's to call in the position for an air strike that cripples the enemy but good. Of course he's scared, the equipment fouls, the NATO clerk doesn't speak Arkansaw, and the pilot's coming in hot and high and scared of getting wasted in a pointless exercise so he drops fast and dirty and…whoever actually fired the shots has been gone for 20 minutes. But hey, it's brave defense of our liberties, boys!