War casualties 'increasing' ahead of Afghan assault

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Wednesday February 10, 2010

The Red Cross warned on Wednesday that war casualties were increasing around a Taliban bastion where US Marines are gearing up to launch a massive assault.

Thousands of Marines, NATO and Afghan soldiers are massing around the town of Marjah in Helmand province, where military officials have predicted an impending offensive will be one of the biggest of the eight-year US-led war.

The flow of residents fleeing the imminent offensive has slowed, provincial officials said, after loaded-down cars, trucks, tractors and buses clogged roads to the provincial capital Lashkah Gar for days.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warned that "the current upsurge in military operations in Helmand... has resulted in a marked increase in the number of casualties requiring emergency medical treatment."

"Staff working at the ICRC's first aid post in Marjah have been seeing increasing numbers of war casualties," it said in an operational statement.

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[howard112211]

1. At least this time the US isn't bombing the convoys like in the first gulf war.

...or it is happening and we are not hearing it...

[Echo In Light]

2. _

http://deoxy.org/wc/warcrime.htm

http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt04.html

[howard112211]

3. yup...