Tuesday, March 06, 2007
9 Die in U.S. Strike
9 From One Family Die in U.S. Strike Near Kabul
By CARLOTTA GALL and ABDUL WAHEED WAFA
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 5 — Nine members of a family, including five women and three children, were killed in an American airstrike in central Afghanistan late Sunday during a battle with militants, Afghan officials said Monday.
The American military acknowledged that it dropped two 2,000-pound bombs on a compound on Sunday night, but said that it could not confirm the casualties.
The strike occurred 12 hours after American forces in eastern Afghanistan fired on civilians following a suicide car bombing next to an American convoy. The American fire killed at least 10 people and wounded 25, Afghan officials said. In response, protests on Sunday blocked the main highway in the area.
On Sunday night, American forces at a small base in Tape Ahmed Beg, in Kapisa Province, northeast of the capital, Kabul, came under rocket fire at 9 p.m., the United States military said in a statement. When two men with Kalashnikov rifles were spotted entering a compound, the Americans called an airstrike, which ended the engagement, it said.
“Coalition forces observed two men with AK-47s leaving the scene of the rocket attack and entering the compound,” Lt. Col. David Accetta, a military spokesman, said in the statement. “These men knowingly endangered civilians by retreating into a populated area while conducting attacks against coalition forces.”
“We did this in self-defense,” said Gen. Muhammad Eiwaz Masloom, the police chief of Kapisa Province, whose men work beside Americans at the base. “The enemy of Afghanistan is trying to use different tactics to destroy the peace and stability in our area, especially in the districts of Tagab and Nejarab, and they have repeatedly attacked our bases.”
He said that members of the Islamic Party, which is led by the renegade mujahedeen commander Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and Taliban supporters were active in the area.
But a local representative of the provincial council, Suraya Bahadur, who comes from Nejarab district, where the bombing happened, condemned it. “I condemn both the suicide attacks and the rocket attacks by the enemy of Afghanistan, and also I condemn these type of mistakes,” by American and NATO forces, she said. “We never want our civilian people to be killed.”
This article from the NY Times, dated March 6, 2007.
US forces see to enemy soldiers run into a compound after a brutal rocket attack and we return fire. Nine civilians get killed because the enemy chose to hide behind the skirts of women and children.
WELL DONE TO THE U.S. FORCES FOR DOING THE "RIGHT THING"!!
The Left Centrists of this country need to understand that in order to win a war, some civilian casualties will happen AND especially if the enemy chooses to hide within the area of civilian populations. The "Rules of Engagement" apply when the enemy fires upon your position and U.S. forces return fire. If civilians get killed. So freaking what?!
The enemy is putting their families and country men, women and children in danger. Not the U.S. military. Wars are won by military superiority and brute force and until the Liberals of our country understand this, we cannot win.
3,000 civilians killed in attacks on September 11, 2001. In one 30 minute time frame 3,000 people working in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave were slain at the hands of an unknown enemy. Piloting 4 civilian aircraft from U.S. airports, planes slammed into the WTC towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
By CARLOTTA GALL and ABDUL WAHEED WAFA
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 5 — Nine members of a family, including five women and three children, were killed in an American airstrike in central Afghanistan late Sunday during a battle with militants, Afghan officials said Monday.
The American military acknowledged that it dropped two 2,000-pound bombs on a compound on Sunday night, but said that it could not confirm the casualties.
The strike occurred 12 hours after American forces in eastern Afghanistan fired on civilians following a suicide car bombing next to an American convoy. The American fire killed at least 10 people and wounded 25, Afghan officials said. In response, protests on Sunday blocked the main highway in the area.
On Sunday night, American forces at a small base in Tape Ahmed Beg, in Kapisa Province, northeast of the capital, Kabul, came under rocket fire at 9 p.m., the United States military said in a statement. When two men with Kalashnikov rifles were spotted entering a compound, the Americans called an airstrike, which ended the engagement, it said.
“Coalition forces observed two men with AK-47s leaving the scene of the rocket attack and entering the compound,” Lt. Col. David Accetta, a military spokesman, said in the statement. “These men knowingly endangered civilians by retreating into a populated area while conducting attacks against coalition forces.”
“We did this in self-defense,” said Gen. Muhammad Eiwaz Masloom, the police chief of Kapisa Province, whose men work beside Americans at the base. “The enemy of Afghanistan is trying to use different tactics to destroy the peace and stability in our area, especially in the districts of Tagab and Nejarab, and they have repeatedly attacked our bases.”
He said that members of the Islamic Party, which is led by the renegade mujahedeen commander Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and Taliban supporters were active in the area.
But a local representative of the provincial council, Suraya Bahadur, who comes from Nejarab district, where the bombing happened, condemned it. “I condemn both the suicide attacks and the rocket attacks by the enemy of Afghanistan, and also I condemn these type of mistakes,” by American and NATO forces, she said. “We never want our civilian people to be killed.”
This article from the NY Times, dated March 6, 2007.
US forces see to enemy soldiers run into a compound after a brutal rocket attack and we return fire. Nine civilians get killed because the enemy chose to hide behind the skirts of women and children.
WELL DONE TO THE U.S. FORCES FOR DOING THE "RIGHT THING"!!
The Left Centrists of this country need to understand that in order to win a war, some civilian casualties will happen AND especially if the enemy chooses to hide within the area of civilian populations. The "Rules of Engagement" apply when the enemy fires upon your position and U.S. forces return fire. If civilians get killed. So freaking what?!
The enemy is putting their families and country men, women and children in danger. Not the U.S. military. Wars are won by military superiority and brute force and until the Liberals of our country understand this, we cannot win.
3,000 civilians killed in attacks on September 11, 2001. In one 30 minute time frame 3,000 people working in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave were slain at the hands of an unknown enemy. Piloting 4 civilian aircraft from U.S. airports, planes slammed into the WTC towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.3,000 civilians!!
Latest figures put the civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Irag at 63,573. However, this is not the fault of the U.S. led military. It is the fault of the enemy and radical muslim faction waging war against the U.S. Coalition forces.
If we win, then there will less civilian casualties because it will be OVER! So Congress, let the military fight the war and win.
AND STAY THE HELL OUT OF IT!
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