A US drone strike has killed and wounded a number of civilians in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province today, though exact numbers are as yet unclear, with officials claiming that the home at the center of the attack was owned by a suspected Taliban commander.
The putative commander does not appear to have been among the casualties, though at least four people were killed within the house, and the blast also wounded a number of people in the surrounding area. At least seven children and five women are in the hospital for treatment related to the strike.
Official Afghan statements only labeled the 12 wounded as civilians, and everyone else was not a civilian. Locals offered varying estimates, and the Taliban claimed two civilians killed and over 30 wounded in their own report on the attack.
The Nangarhar Province has been heavily targeted by US warplanes over the past several months, though generally trying to tamp down a growing ISIS faction therein. The Taliban has had a presence in Nangarhar throughout the US occupation, as indeed they have almost everywhere along the Pakistan border.
Yet another bloody heap on the Peace Prize President’s desk. He’s probably too busy pretending to care about Russians killing civilians in Aleppo or else campaigning for La Clinton to notice.
“Fighting ISIS” seems to be a popular western euphemism used to describe the act of providing daesh with air support.
Oct 16, 2016 ‘Why do they bomb us?’ Children killed in recent rebel shelling in Aleppo
Rebels in the Syrian city of Aleppo shell government-controlled areas. RT’s correspondent Murad Gazdiev spoke with survivors as rescuers dug through rubble to recover the body of a 13-year-old girl.
https://youtu.be/zK9s7LKhnbU
Of course SCOTUS ruled that ANYBODY not in the Military is in fact a civilian for the purposes of the Geneva and Hague Conventions unless their status is specifically named under the articles! All are in fact civilans according to SCOTUS! Od course we cant let the real legalities get in the way of US Exceptionalism!