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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Thu Sep 19, 2019, 06:45 PM Sep 2019

At Least 30 Die When US Drone Misses ISIS, Hits Farmworkers

A US drone missed its target—an ISIS hideout—and killed at least 30 farmers and laborers sitting around a bonfire in eastern Afghanistan this week. Another 40 people were injured, Reuters reports.

The workers were collecting pine nuts in a mountainous region in the eastern part of the country. "The workers had lit a bonfire and were sitting together when a drone targeted them," a tribal elder said. US and Afghan officials confirmed the Wednesday night strike but would give no information on the casualties. Residents of the area protested the US attack as bodies were carried out Thursday morning.

On Thursday, a suicide bombing by the Taliban killed at least 20 people in the south of Afghanistan, per the Guardian. Fighting across the country has killed hundreds of civilians since the US-Taliban peace talks were called off earlier this month. In the first half of the year, the UN says, almost 4,000 civilians were killed or wounded in Afghanistan.

https://www.newser.com/story/280667/at-least-30-die-when-us-drone-misses-isis-hits-farmworkers.html

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At Least 30 Die When US Drone Misses ISIS, Hits Farmworkers (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Sep 2019 OP
Oh My! malaise Sep 2019 #1
I seem to remember trump claiming he had wiped out ISIS dixiegrrrrl Sep 2019 #7
That did happen malaise Sep 2019 #8
Does anyone in the US even care?? It seems we love to kill folks in the name of "freedom". walkingman Sep 2019 #2
We are so screwed. SleeplessinSoCal Sep 2019 #3
To which Trump replied ... lpbk2713 Sep 2019 #4
That'll win hearts and minds world wide wally Sep 2019 #5
Well, as long as we didn't blow up an oil well.... sinkingfeeling Sep 2019 #6
Ahh shit. pwb Sep 2019 #9

malaise

(269,008 posts)
1. Oh My!
Thu Sep 19, 2019, 06:47 PM
Sep 2019

This hasn't even made network news - just brown people!!!

Ah well - blame Iran or whoever is the flavor of the day

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
7. I seem to remember trump claiming he had wiped out ISIS
Thu Sep 19, 2019, 09:13 PM
Sep 2019

and it was no more.

Am I crazy or did that happen?

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,122 posts)
3. We are so screwed.
Thu Sep 19, 2019, 06:58 PM
Sep 2019

My half sister said after 11/16, "it's just 4 years." After that every day has brought to light more horror. Now we can't even talk about him.

Amerika is complete.

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