US Denies Involvement in Kabul Deaths

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US Denies Involvement in Kabul Deaths
September 02, 2008
Agence France-Presse

U.S.- and NATO-led troops in Afghanistan denied today any involvement in a weekend raid that Afghans alleged was conducted by foreign forces and which resulted in the death of four civilians in Kabul.

Hundreds of people took to the streets to protest the killing of two boys, a man and a woman in an early morning incident in a village on the eastern outskirts of the capital for which they blamed international soldiers.

NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) which leads most of the 70,000 foreign troops here, citing an "extensive investigation," said no NATO- or US-led forces were involved in the raid.

"After an extensive investigation, ISAF reports that neither it nor the U.S.-led coalitions forces were conducting any offensive operations in Kabul on the evening of August 31," the force said in a statement.

"After thoroughly checking with all ISAF and U.S.-led coalition forces, none were involved in such an operation," the statement added.


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