The governor of Afghanistan’s Kunar Province has reported a US drone strike against the Manogi District has killed at least three civilians, all children, and wounding seven others.
A survivor of the explosion says that the drone hit their house, knocking him unconscious. He reported seven members of his family were hospitalized, and denied that they had done anything wrong.
NATO was quick to deny the report, saying that they took allegations “very seriously,” but that their own reports on operations in the area didn’t confirm any such incidents in the province.
Civilian deaths in NATO air strikes have been a huge problem throughout the war, with the US often promising an “investigation” that never seems to actually conclude into exactly what happened.
Well, since the last one I heard about was apparently timed to disrupt peace talks … I'm agonna believe the Afghans on this one. Not that NATO has any credibility left. I doubt this business of taking-allegations-very-seriously; it's a PR concern to them and that's it.
Mission accomplished- Obama style.
Would the Sun King Obama pitch a fit if some unnamed "other" nation droned missiles on his daughters? I'm just wondering, that's all…
I suspect that he would be most irate. He might even release all the missiles currently on drones around the world.
The idea of equivalence is not welcomed by Americans. They enjoy killing but hate anyone paying them back!
How dare these people claim that children were killed in a drone strike?
Has not OBAMA claimed that only rerrorists are targetted – ipso facto – the "children" must mave been terrorists.
As NYT reports conclusively today, 'Obama has lost all credibility'. He is proactively a serial recidivist; a lawless murderer with zero moral compass. Time and again, Nobel Drone Laureate Obama has clearly proven himself, not unlike Tony Blair, as being a particularly vile specimen of the smug, arrogant, self-aggrandising, and pathological lying corporate whore. But looks certainly can be deceiving, Obama being just all that much more reptilian than simian.
President Obama, tear down these drones!