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'Maybe mistaking them with insurgents NATO helicopters targeted the guards. Between eight to 10 guards have been killed,' he added. An investigation was underway, the police chief said.

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Robert Naiman, Truthout: 'When Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold lost his bid for re-election, advocates working to end the war in Afghanistan lost their champion in the Senate. It was Feingold s office that introduced the bill, introduced the amendment, circulated the letter, led the lobbying of other offices and led the charge in the media. Now California Sen. Barbara Boxer has reintroduced Feingold s bill requiring the president to establish a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan - a timetable with an end date. So far, Sens. Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, Kirsten Gillibrand and Sherrod Brown have signed on as co-sponsors of Senator Boxer s bill. The reintroduction of this bill is extremely timely and important, for two reasons.'

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Reporting from Landstuhl, Germany, and Helmand - Grim combat statistics that one military doctor called 'unbelievable' show U.S. troops in Afghanistan suffered an unprecedented number of catastrophic injuries last year, including a tripling of amputations of more than one limb.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/07/us-troops-afghanistan-amputation_n_846381.html



US soldiers are seven times as likely as UK troops to develop post-traumatic stress

Something is happening at the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that mental health experts are finding hard to explain: British and American soldiers appear to be having markedly different reactions to the stress of combat.

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Five civilians killed in Nato raid: Afghan Report

A probe by Afghan officials has concluded that five people killed by Nato-led troops in a raid in northern Afghanistan this week were civilians, President Hamid Karzais office said.

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Protect Your Manhood: End the War in Afghanistan
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NATO troops killed six civilians during a night raid on a house in northern Afghanistans Sar-e Pul province late, the provincial governor told Reuters.

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Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress: "America remains a nation at war, and it's important for Americans to understand the cost of its longest war in history, in Afghanistan... It is the toll among human beings that is the most incalculable. As troops deaths fail to be reported in the major media, icasualties.org continues to track the deaths among American and coalition forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan. According to its well-sourced data, 592 American soldiers have fallen in battle in Afghanistan since President Obama announced the surge of American troops in that country on December 1, 2009.'

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Nach der Schlachtung von UN-Mitarbeitern in Mazar-i-Sharif sieht die bloggende Entwicklungshelferin keine Möglichkeit mehr, die Mission fortzuführen.

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A NATO helicopter strike in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand last Friday killed seven civilians, including three children. The atrocity is the latest in a series of recent US-led bombing operations that have inflicted mass civilian casualties.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/afgh-m29.shtml



U.S. brigade murdered and mutilated innocent Afghan civilians

Military tried to pull pictures out of circulation to avoid another Abu Ghraib.
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Investigation finds 4 Afghan civilians killed in airstrike

A joint Afghan and NATO investigation team found NATO airstrikes, on Friday March 25 killed four civilians and injured three others in southern Helmand province, the military alliance said on Wednesday.

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Karzai slams US soldiers' murder of Afghan teenager

'It is a tragic story and reading it hurts our feeling. This crime committed by those soldiers who are addicted with heroin and hashish,' President Karzai said.

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NATO troops kill two Afghan civilians

Pakistan Observer [Pakistan]

04/01/11

NATO soldiers killed two Afghan civilians Thursday after opening fire on a car which the force said had tried to attack a patrol in the southern city of Kandahar, officials said. ... Kandahar deputy provincial police chief Fazel Ahmad Sherzad however said an ISAF soldier opened fire after a civilian car hit one of their vehicles in a traffic accident...

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