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igotthisguitar · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:30 am Post subject: The Terror Of War

US "Friendly Fire" Airstrikes Kill 14 Civilian Afghan Workers
By AMIR SHAH, Associated Press Writer

KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S.-led coalition troops killed 14 road construction workers in airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan after receiving faulty intelligence, Afghan officials said Wednesday.

The coalition said it was looking into the incident in Nuristan province, but did not immediately comment. NATO's International Security Assistance Force said it has conducted airstrikes against Taliban fighters in the area, but did not say when.

"ISAF was engaged in Nurgaram and Du Ab (districts), and in those places we used airstrikes against (Taliban)," ISAF spokesman Brig. Gen. Carlos Branco told a news conference. "The situation is ... not clear at all ... at this stage. We are carrying out the investigation ... and trying to get ... a clear picture."

The engineers and laborers had been building a road for the U.S. military in mountainous Nuristan province, and were sleeping in two tents in the remote area when they were killed Monday night, said Sayed Noorullah Jalili, director of the Kabul-based road construction company Amerifa. There were no survivors, he said.

"All of our poor workers have been killed," Jalili said. "I don't think the Americans were targeting our people. I'm sure it's the enemy of the Afghans who gave the Americans this wrong information."

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PGF · Joined: 27 Nov 2006

friendly fire, civilian casualties.....

part of war. war is ugly.

it's always tragic when stuff like this happens.

What may be worse though is when tribesmen march into a village and slaughter women and children of their own country because they speak a different dialect, have a different ideology, follow a religious doctrine slightly differently or just want to raid a village for young recruits.

What some think is even worse than that is when the UN stands by and watches and does nothing......

cambodia, somalia, rwawanda, angola, mozambique, ethiopia, eritrea, sierra leonne, democratic republic of the congo, uganda, sudan . . . . and on and on.

i don't have an opinion.