Afghan villagers slain as they took cover

[JohnyCanuck]

By John Swain

Tears streaming down her face, the Afghan woman sat in a corner of a room with no roof and broken windows, mourning 19 of her closest and dearest relatives. “They were parts of my heart,” she said.

Six weeks after American warplanes bombed her village in Farah province, on Afghanistan’s remote western border, mistakenly killing dozens of innocent women and children, the terror of the moment when the bombs fell and the ground erupted, turning one mud-walled house after another into rubble, still lives in her mind.

“I lost them all at a glance. Why am I still alive?” the 62-year-old woman asked.

The dead men, women and children, many of them her relatives, now lie in graves. The survivors still wonder why their families were wiped out by American airmen with whom they had no quarrel.

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Last year the Americans killed 90 civilians in a bombing raid on Azizabad. An investigation by Dispatches, to be broadcast on Channel 4 tomorrow, will show that the Americans carried out the raid on the basis of faulty intelligence provided by an Afghan to settle a score with a rival. He is now on death row. But the American military has still not admitted the truth.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6493665.ece

[BobRossi]

1. Enough, it's way past time to leave.

We should never have invaded that hell-hole. Shit, Osama is still free. Just what has been gained by all this killing?
Some 'change'.

[Mari333]

2. of course this should be all over the MSM in the United States

but we cant have anyone getting in the way of our empire can we.

[Solly Mack]

3. K&R

[kenny blankenship]

4. Hey if they've got nothing to hide, they have no reason to take cover!

That's what the enemy does. Time and again we hear this complaint. And every time it has to be explained, slowly and in the plainest English,Of course we shot them: they were running! It's like they're not even listening.

We are the fairest most charitable people in the history of the world. Don't they understand they have nothing to fear from us?

[Mari333]

5. did you forget your sarcasm tag? nt

[RC]

7. What sarcasm? It's the truth.

Don't you know English is spoken all over the world?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. We're killing them for no purpose other than political CYA.

It's a war that can't be won. It has accomplished nothing other than to strengthen the very people we are fighting and produce even more instability into the region and beyond.

All for the sake of being "tough on terrorism" like the Republicans.

[Mari333]

8. we are the bad guys

lot of people dont want to believe that but its true.

[ProgressIn2008]

9. I don't think we're supposed to talk about this "war" stuff anymore. Focus on the puppy. nt

[Octafish]

10. ''They were parts of my heart.''

Hey, Obama! Is the oil that important?