Monday, February 21, 2011

Afghanistan: double murder of civilians

Two murders in two days in Afghanistan, with a total budget that could exceed hundreds of deaths. A U.S. raid in the mountains of northeastern Afghanistan has killed 65 civilians, including 22 women and over 30 children. He denounced the governor of Kunar province, Fazlullah Wahidi, in an interview with the Washington Post, Sunday after the President Hamid Karzai had spoken of 50 victims.


The raid, said Wahid, occurred in the district of Ghaziabad, near the tariff quota with Pakistan. "According to feedback from local, U.S. helicopters bombed the village constantly causing a huge number of civilian casualties," he added Wahidi, specifying that the affected villagers are still "trapped" in their homes.

The U.S. military has opened an investigation into the bombing in which, say, 36 militants were killed. "We take seriously the allegations and we're going down to our best," said a U.S. military source. In another NATO air strike last night is a family of six dead people. The Agence France Presse reported to local officials.

"The air raid was to hit three insurgents who were placing mines on the road. A missile accidentally struck a house and killed six civilians, all members of the same family, "the spokesman said authorities in the province of Nangarhar, on the border with Pakistan. The governor of the district of Khogyani confirmed this version of events.
Monday morning in a suicide bombing in the northern province of Kunduz has caused 26 deaths and 37 wounded. The massacre occurred in Imam Sahib district of the people in line to get an identity card anagrafe. "I was the target dell'attantatore," said the governor of the district.
The last two episodes come just two days distanzaa by the onslaught of the Taliban to a bank of Jalalabad. Saturday five suicide bombers have entered the branch of the Kabul Bank and have blown up a few hours after negotiations with the security forces causing around 38 deaths, mostly policemen.

Four bombers were killed, a fifth was caught. The government of Afghanistan believes that the attack made to the branch office in Jalalabad was designed in Pakistan. The spokesman in Kabul said the Interior Ministry, Zmaray Bashari.

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