Afghan protesters burned tires to block the main highway between Kabul and Jalalabad yesterday. (Parwiz/Reuters)
Why are they be doing that?
"Suicide bomber kills 4 in Afghanistan; Security officials targeted; raid by NATO protested" by Alissa J. Rubin, New York Times | August 19, 2010
KABUL — Violence struck southern Afghanistan yesterday, with attacks on government and security officials. There were also allegations that NATO forces had killed two civilians in a night raid in the northeast, although the military sharply disputed that....
The disputed raid occurred early yesterday in the Surkh Rod district of Nangarhar province, about nine miles from Jalalabad, the largest city in eastern Afghanistan. It was at least the third raid in the district in four months, and in each the military’s account and that of local people have been sharply at odds, with local residents insisting that those killed were civilians and the military asserting that there were Taliban present.
Who do you think I am believing?
Hundreds of suburban residents of Jalalabad blocked its main east-west highway yesterday to protest the killings.
Getting ANY IDEAS, Americans?
Local residents said that the two men killed were both civilians, while a NATO military spokesman said that they were shot by US troops after opening fire themselves....
Who do you think I'm believi....
The Nangarhar provincial police complained that they had not been consulted, nor had the Afghan national security forces, and said that there was no evidence that those killed were combatants....
Colonel Ghafour Khan, the spokesman for the provincial police chief.
“They were father and son. They were innocent civilians,’’ he said, adding that the NATO forces should be held accountable “for the subsequent consequences.’’
Like a WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL?
A Parliament member from Nangarhar province, Safia Sidiqi, owns a house in the district where an elderly civilian man was killed in a raid April 28. She denounced the latest raid as an unwarranted attack on civilians. She also accused the soldiers of beating the two men before they were shot to death.
Just WINNING HEARTS and MINDS!
“The Americans say that, ‘We were looking for a Taliban commander by the name of Yusuf,’ ’’ she said. “This is just an excuse, and in the name of these things, they go to people’s houses and kill innocent people.’’
And then AmeriKans wonder they we are hated.
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In Kandahar province, a district police commander and three officers were killed when a suicide bomber exploded near a police patrol in the early evening.
In Zabul province, gunmen assassinated Atta Khan Qadir Wal, 50, the director of the province’s office of tribal affairs, as he returned from evening prayers at a mosque in Qalat, the provincial capital. He was a highly respected elder, said Mohammad Jan Rasool Yar, a spokesman for the Zabul governor.
Doesn't pass the smell test for me, readers.
