Shock and awe: About 90 killed as NATO hits Afghan fuel trucks
source: http://rawstory.com/news/afp/About_90_killed_as_NATO_hits_Afghan_09042009.html
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Published: Friday September 4, 2009
A NATO air strike on Friday destroyed two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in Afghanistan, igniting a fireball that an Afghan official said killed about 90 people -- mostly insurgents.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it was investigating reports of civilian casualties but a German army statement, putting the death toll at 56, insisted that no non-combatants were killed.
"Some 90 people were killed in this incident and most of them are Taliban. It was an ISAF force air strike," Mahbubullah Sayedi, a spokesman for the Kunduz provincial government, told AFP.
"A small number of the casualties are local civilians, including a few children who had come to take free fuel," he added, declining to give any further details.
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kstein
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kill the kids and then make them look like thieves, "take free fuel" Nato, there the ones really going after our kids.
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jeffissleeping
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Amazing that you can brush off blowing innocent children to pieces...hmm, noted.
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jeffissleeping:
Yeah i can totally see your outrage right now. How many people die every second? Granted these deaths were fairly gruesome and children dieing doesnt exactly brighten my day. However why should i care about people ive never met that live in some place ive only read about in newspapers and seen on T.V.? Its not even like it was Americans that killed these people... it was an ISAF air stike.
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idealist
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blood and oil...............
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idealist
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Oh noes a few children died... what do you expect? This is a WAR people die... including civilians. You dont like it? Then do something about it!
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No, it's not a war. Unless Congress declared war and I missed it, and I am certain that is not so.
The US has not declared war since world war II except for Vietnam and only after it was virtually over. - 2 years ago
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Ok you got me on that one... technically it isnt a war. However, when two or more aggressors are in conflict people are going to die... especially defenseless civilians.
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Yep those damn liberals totally made Bush invade Iraq and ignore Afghanistan. Man i hate trolls... especially stupid ones.
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Yep those damn liberals totally made Bush invade Iraq and ignore Afghanistan. Man i hate trolls... especially stupid ones.
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Liberal yes. pro-Obama, not so much. If he were a liberal it might be different.
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so the republicans dident do what was needed and then the liberals came?
well that sums up everything! - 2 years ago
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acontradiction:
You had seven years. Why couldn't you get the job done? Oh Right, the Bush problem.
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Nothing is ever free. Lesson learned.
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jeffissleeping
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only "a few children"?
shock and awful...
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jeffissleeping:
So far.
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samthesixth
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US and NATO out now. Not one more life.
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