US 'killed 47 Afghan civilians'

[Jaga]

I found the information about it first in Polish press, I did not see it in Washington Post.

Here is from BBC:

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7501538.stm

A US air strike in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children, an Afghan government investigating team says.

Reports at the time said that 20 people were killed in the airstrike in Nangarhar province. The US military said they were militants.

But local people said the dead were wedding party guests.

Correspondents say the issue of civilian casualties is hugely sensitive in Afghanistan.

President Hamid Karzai has said that no civilian casualty is acceptable.

[Jaga]

The group was targeted twice on Sunday, as they walked along with the bride from her village toward the groom's house in another village, Shinwari said.

[freetobe]

Jaga,
The killing of innocent civilians in wartime (even illegal wars, when are wars ever right) is not acceptable. Just think how the loved ones of those murdered on 9/11 felt. I still remember my neighbor in Brooklyn running back and forth to the subway station looking for her daughter who never came home. She was killed in the terrorist attack. Her mother was never the same and died shortly there after. President Karzai should have thought about the innocent American civilians who lost their lives while Afganistan harbored Bin Laden before he opened his mouth.

[Jaga]

Jul 12, 2008 21:46:59 GMT -7 @freetobe said:

President Karzai should have thought about the innocent American civilians who lost their lives while Afganistan harbored Bin Laden before he opened his mouth.

Do you suggest that killing Afghani is not that important comparing to killing Americans?

You said in the first sentence that killing civilians is unacceptable