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Karzai berates US over more civilian deaths

Turkmenistan News.Net
Thursday 8th January, 2009

Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, has rebuked US/Coalition forces for running an operation that killed 17 civilians, including women and children.

The US led operation had been aimed at stopping the Taliban's roadside bomb network in the eastern Laghman province, but during the fighting, 17 civilians were killed among the militants.

Mr Karzai, who has been leading Afghanistan since US-led troops overthrew the Taliban government in 2001, has repeatedly warned foreign forces of the mounting civilian casualties.

Last year, during operations by foreign and Afghan forces, over 700 civilians were killed.

Civilian deaths caused by foreign troop operations have caused Mr Karzai to insist there should be an end to such incidents.

 

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Anonymous
01-08-09, 08:19 PM

Karzai berates US over more civilian deaths

Yep, there should be an end to such incedents, how? simple let him pick his hot coals outof the fire, instead of depending on coalition forces to do his dirty work, than the Taliban will be back in no time, and Karzi will have litterely nothing left to pick with, after the Taliban has given himk his just desert

1dark1
01-09-09, 02:25 PM

sad

I do understand the anguish of leaders watching their civilians being injured and killed. However for him to blame it soley on the US and coalition forces is unrealistic. When the enemy you are fighting have equipment and forces hidden in mosques, hospitals, houses ect. the only way to kill THEM is just do it. If President Karzai has a way to win the war without killing civilians, he is hiding very well. You cannot fight a war where the enemy hides among the innocent without some of the innocents being casualties. It cannot be done. So, Mr. Karzia either take the bad with the good or surrender to the enemy (who is NOT know for civil behavior) It does make me sad, but this is the only choice you have. The only way.

Anonymous
01-08-09, 09:02 PM

In any conflict civilian suffer most. They can prevent incidents like that. If Karzai do not appreciates all thing being done for his country it is time for all forces to pull out and let him take of it.

Sham.
01-08-09, 10:30 PM

Mr. Kazai and foreigners troops.

Mr. Kazai is rigth. You drive the killer out of Afghan and then the Taliban goes after those killer and they will learn how they kill civilian. Foreigner troops are poor training and un skills soldiers. Good and skills soldiers never kill civilian. Mr. Kazai keeps them out now. And let them went home shame. They are murdered and they kill your brothers and sisters.

Anonymous
01-09-09, 01:30 AM

Sham., what book did you read brother? Ever since mankind found out that they could kill, there have been wars, and in those wars civilians have always drawn the shortest stick (hope you know what that means), and as far as the Taliban is concerned, they did not need a war to kill, just look what happened in Afghanistan when they were in power!

Anonymous
01-09-09, 02:29 AM

Unregistered;122937:
Sham., what book did you read brother? Ever since mankind found out that they could kill, there have been wars, and in those wars civilians have always drawn the shortest stick (hope you know what that means), and as far as the Taliban is concerned, they did not need a war to kill, just look what happened in Afghanistan when they were in power!

Capital punishment like in the USA! Systematic deconstuction of the black American People put into prisions. Violation of geneva convention and UN mandate, unjust wars etc Ya I know what you mean!

Sammy
01-09-09, 02:44 AM

Throw all foreign forces out of your country

If the Afghani leader wants peace and does not want Innocent deaths in his country, all he has to do is to tell all foreign forces to leave his country, it is that simple.

But many think that the Afgani leader is not the real leader of his country, because he is just a caretaker of the invading forces that really control, and pull all the strings to make Afghanistan move into the direction that they wish it to move.

So, I believe that it will be more convinient for the so, called leader of Afghanistan to just not come up with such statements when really he cannot do anything to stop these abuses.

Sammy

gedanken
01-09-09, 03:43 AM

the decline and fall of the western societies

WITHIN TWO YEARS FROM TODAY THE WESTERN MURDERS WILL BE BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.THEY WILL BE JUDGED BY CHINA AND RUSSIA AS THEY JUDGED THE GERMAN ARMY IN 1945.AFTER WHICH THEY WILL BE SEND TO SIBERIA TO DEVELOPE THE ICE RIDGE FOR THEIR MASTERS.THIS IS KNOWN AS THE DECLINE OF THE CRUSADERS.

Guesswho
01-11-09, 02:04 AM

All in a days work . . .

It’s obvious that the U.S. government doesn’t value civilian lives, or better known as collateral damage, all in a days work for the good 'ol boys profit. The U.S.'s backing of Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian’s in Gaza, blocking any UN resolution to stop the killing (which brings to the fore a fundamental flaw in UN law when the entire world can scream “STOP” the killing and one country, always the U.S., can veto to keep the killing going, there should be a mechanism for majority concensus to take precedence.) is testimony to their condoning the killing of innocence, why would you expect Afghans to be treated any better, or U.S. citizens when they were attacked and murdered on 9/11 by their own government committing treason and have not been held accountable, there’s plenty of evidence proving the Bush administration’s guilt. The Afghans are being held hostage by the U.S just as much as the Palestinians are by Israel and their modus operandi’s are equally violent and cruel. What most people are unaware of is the invisible hand behind all the killing and crisis' in the world is a secret society that Bush belongs to called “Skull and Bones”, and by definition is an conspiracy and an act of treason against the U.S. Constitution; by which, it is illegal for them to even serve in the government. I hope Obama resolves this constitutional violation which will go a long way to solving what ails the world.


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