One dead at Afghan demo against US-led soldiers: witnesses

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

MARCO, Afghanistan (AFP) - At least one person was killed and several wounded in Afghanistan Saturday when police opened fire to disperse a protest accusing US-commanded soldiers of killing civilians, witnesses said.

AThe clash erupted in the eastern province of Nangarhar as up to 1,000 demonstrators tried to block a road with rocks to protest against the killing of three men in a military operation overnight, witnesses said.

"Police tried to stop them, they threw stones at the police. Police then fired at the crowd. One person was killed and three others were injured," said a local, Darya Khan.

An AFP reporter was shown the body of a man whom protestors said was killed in the police action. Other demonstrators alleged three people were killed but this could not be confirmed.



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[shadowknows69]

1. Hmmm, looks like we're being viewed as occupiers in Afghanistan too

Those silly people are probably sick of us bombing weddings that we think are Taliban camps. Our fate will be the same as the Russian's the longer we stay there.

[ohio2007]

2. "three people were killed but this could not be confirmed." ?

So they report half the story and do not link the names of those killed in any military operation objective.

...... Ghafar however said that -- contrary to US-led coalition claims -- the men killed in an operation overnight in the Shinwar district were not militants or from the extremist Taliban movement.

"The coalition conducted independent operations in Shinwar and martyred three people. They were civilians," he told AFP

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Others said the dead were an elderly man shot in a mosque and two other men, employed as drivers, shot in their homes.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080510/wl_sthasia_afp/afghanistanunrestus


What does 'Ghafar' know about civilian deaths during funeral bombing operations where they say all targets are ligitimate ?

imo, any civilians killed were only innocent middle men in the drug trade but since they are not releasing any names, it's only speculation.
/sarc

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