[Peace-discuss] collateral damage

[Dlind49 at aol.com]

and civilian- noncombatant, called collateral damage, deaths and injuries and 
ilnesses due to exposures of uranium contamination and other toxuc byproducts 
of war continue unabated with increasing frequence while accountability  is 
nonexistant...

when will everyopne speak up to stop the slaughter.. each act is making so 
called "enemies" for American warriors. But the sad part is their anger is 
justified.......  





January 19, 2004
Afghanis: U.S. Copter Bombing Kills 11
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
 
Filed at 9:24 a.m. ET

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- A U.S. helicopter attacked a house in a village 
in southern Afghanistan, killing 11 people, four of them children, Afghan 
officials said Monday.

There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military.

The attack occurred at around 4 a.m. Sunday, a day after U.S. forces hunting 
for Taliban insurgents had searched Saghatho village, where the home is 
located, said Abdul Rahman, chief of Char Chino district in Uruzgan province.

``They were simple villagers, they were not Taliban. I don't know why the 
U.S. bombed this home. We have informed our authorities,'' he told The Associated 
Press by telephone in the southern city of Kandahar.

Maj. Steven R. Moon, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Kabul, had no 
immediate comment.

The governor of Uruzgan, Jan Mohammed Khan, confirmed Rahman's account that 
four men, four children and three women were killed in a U.S. bombing.

He said U.S. authorities had told him they seen ammunition in their search of 
the village, which apparently raised suspicions. During the search, ``the 
people were afraid, they started running,'' Khan said.

``The Americans bombed this home,'' he said.

Rahman said the 11 victims were buried Sunday in the village, where residents 
were ``very afraid and very angry.''

About 100 Afghan forces and between 20 and 30 U.S. soldiers have arrested 10 
suspects in an operation in the Mahmara and Saghatho areas of Char Chino 
district in the past two days, he said.