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NATO air-strike kills 12 Afghan
civilians: governor
Reuters
Wednesday November 28, 2007
NATO air-strikes killed 12 civilian road workers
in eastern Afghanistan, a provincial governor said on Wednesday,
an incident bound to fuel Afghan resentment against the presence
of international forces.
NATO has tightened procedures for launching air-strikes after
Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned of rising anger over mounting
civilian casualties, but military commanders say some civilian
deaths are almost inevitable in any conflict.
Foreign forces have a limited time to weaken Taliban rebels and
allow development to undercut the insurgency before Afghans turn
against the international presence and Western public opinion
demands troops be brought home, security analysts say.
"So far we know that 12 people have been killed by U.S.
bombardment," Tameem Nooristani, governor of the eastern
province of Nooristan, told Reuters. "They were only poor
and innocent road construction workers."
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U.S. troops had been tipped off that a feared local Taliban commander
was in the area, he said, but hit the wrong target.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said
air-strikes had been launched against entrenched Taliban positions
in the area on Tuesday and an investigation was underway to determine
of civilians had been killed.
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