A disastrous pair of airstrikes, one by the US and one by the Afghan Air Force, have killed at least 29 civilians in Helmand Province. Almost all of the slain from both strikes were members of the same extended family.
Amid a multi-day offensive in the contested Sangin District, the ground
troops called in air spport. Among these strikes, the Afghan Air Force
inexplicably attacked a civilian house, killing 16 members of the same family.
Which would have been bad enough, but the major funeral organized for
the 16 people killed by surviving members of their extended family, was
also attacked. According to the provincial government, the US attacked
as male family members were in the process of burying the dead, killing
13 more people, bringing the civilian toll to 29.
While bombing random funerals isn’t exactly unheard for the US forces in
Afghanistan, it’s also not something they’re particularly proud of.
That’s likely why the US military spokesman is claiming it didn’t
happen, saying it must’ve been “Taliban propaganda.”
There is no sign the Taliban even addressed the matter, however, with
reports of the civilians slain coming from provincial officials,
including members of the Helmand parliament.
Go home yanks-PLEASE!!!
America the Pitiful
Making America great again, one dead Muslim child at a time. Classy.
“Classy”
Don’t forget “exceptional” and “indispensable” !
How could I? What with the constant reminders. That’s how I know walls and razor wire are “Beautiful”. Gaza must be so picturesque, surrounded by all that “Beauty” and “Exceptional” power. We should all be so lucky.
Maybe it should be Make America Gaza Again!?
Or should we go the Saudi route? It’s not like there isn’t support for a Christian fascist theocracy in the US.
Just look at our VP !
If this story is true then count on at least 100 lifelong enemies of the United States. This Afganistan war is making us less safe in addition to wasting money and being the longest war in our history. Maybe one or two of those 100 newly spawned lifelong enemies will at some time in their lives be in a position to plan an attack or at least spread a message or help others attack us.
All you got from this story is how this will come back to bite you degenerates, later? How about now, the innocents who got slaughtered, and those who live to mourn them?
F’ing pu$$ies.
PSHR,,relax, we do not know if this is truth or Taliban propaganda.
We are one sick puppy. Always have been.
So many funerals, and so many weddings, occassional birthday party, and teenage slleepover — all potential tertorists gatherings. Superior intelligence. But now, mercifully, new war profit center is opening in Venezuela. It is for the health of stockmarket. For as long as our purchasing power diminishes, and eare underconsuming, the only profit center is military gear, hardware, doftware, ligistics, contractors for everything, from food to sanitation. Think jobs, jobs, jobs. Yet, to the IQ challenged elite, investing in science and technology would not come to mind as priority. After all, doing it all lazy, same way, with no creativity involved — is the way they like it.
And how are we going to fix Huawei problem? Our only producer of network hardware gear, Cisco, stopped producing it a few years ago. Inly Sweedish Erricson and Finnish Nokia are in the business and Huaeei is beating them. Now that Huswei is rolling out 5G — it suddenly matters. It is easier to raise a stink over Huawei, arrest some, ask others not to buy — then to admit a catastrophic security failure in strategic technologies. One cannot stop science and technology advances — you cannot beat them join them. At this point, caught with our underware down, it will take some creativity. Like knowing their red lines.
Bianca, concerning technology and the USA, and after decades of research and evidence on my part and by many others, EITHER the USA has made vast, stunning technological advances in flight, propulsion, and energy technology, or we are now, and have been, visited on a regular basis by advanced beings from another star system. ONE or the OTHER scenario is fact and when the truth is revealed our lives will change radically, either for the good or bad. 5G will be a none event.
Typical US bravery & precision bombing. Praise our heroes who serve.
Hellfire rockets cost around $115,000 each the average number of weapons released in an airstrike is 2.2.
All of this money thats been stolen by the MIC/Corporations/Banks that profit from war, the puppet politicians wealth from bribes, should all be seized and returned to the taxpayer, reparations paid to these people who’s lives have been destroyed, repair their infrastructure thats been destroyed.
War should not be a business, and thats exactly what this is about, follow the money. CIA heroin coming back to America, destroying even more lives. Welcome to the final stage of capitalism. One day they’ll be doing this to us. Imagine how much better life on earth would be for everyone if the merchants of death were using these trillions of stolen dollars improving living conditions instead of destroying everything people have built.
America=Evil Empire
If you want to maintain forever wars you have to constantly create new enemies…..think of all the new terrorists this attack will create while it boosts the stock prices of the “defense” contractors…..
Mass murder economics 101…..
The US is a master in cowardly murdering people, also at funerals. Finishing of the remaining surviving members of a previous US airstrike, shows the sickness of the US. MSM is of course silence.