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US-led strikes killed 47 Afghan civilians
Samoon Miakhial
AFP
Friday, July 11, 2008
An official investigation has found that US-led
air strikes a week ago struck a wedding and killed 47 Afghan civilians,
most of them women and children, an official said Friday.
The US-led coalition had said that only militants
died in the July 6 strikes in the mountains of eastern Nangarhar
province. But spokeswoman Lieutenant Rumi Nielson-Green told AFP
Friday the force was investigating and regretted the loss of any
civilian life.
It is facing similar charges over strikes two days earlier in
another border area.
A nine-member team appointed by President Hamid Karzai to look
into the Nangarhar incident found that only civilians were killed
in remote Deh Bala district, said the head of the mission, Burhanullah
Shinwari.
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"We found that 47 civilians, mostly women and children,
were killed in the air strikes and another nine were wounded,"
said Shinwari, who is also the deputy speaker of Afghanistan's
senate.
"They were all civilians and had no links with Taliban or
Al-Qaeda," he told AFP.
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