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A recent Nato air strike in an eastern Afghanistan valley killed at least 62 civilians including women and children, an Afghan government investigation said on Thursday.

http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?236717



NATO to look into killings of five Afghan civilians

The dead included a father, his 12-year-old son and 13-year-old nephew, Omari said.

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The security situation in Afghanistan has worsened to its lowest point since the toppling of the Taliban a decade ago and attacks on aid workers are at unprecedented levels, a UN envoy said yesterday.

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=175320


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MSNBC

02/22/11

The village-level fighting forces the U.S. is fostering in hopes of countering the Taliban insurgency ? the concept that turned the tide of the Iraq war ? are having a rocky start, with complaints that recruits are not consistently vetted for ties to criminals and warlords. The Associated Press talked to elders, police officials and community leaders from 12 of the first 25 districts in the Afghan Local Police program and found reactions ranging from glowing praise to condemnation and fear, suggesting that promised safeguards aren't always applied...

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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/02/21



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Local media reports say the deadly strike took place in Kunar Province on Friday. NATO has confirmed the incident, claiming that they were targeting "a prominent Taliban militant," a Press TV correspondent reported.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/165845..html



Karzai says NATO air raids killed 50 civilians

President Hamid Karzai on Sunday accused NATO troops of killing more than 50 civilians in a troubled province of eastern Afghanistan, as international troops pledged to probe the allegations.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110220/wl_afp/afghanistanunrestnatocivilians


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19. Februar 2011

Die Vorsitzenden der LINKEN, Gesine Lötzsch und Klaus Ernst, erklären zum Tod dreier Bundeswehrsoldaten in Afghanistan:

Der Tod dreier junger Männer ist eine Tragödie. Wir trauern mit den Angehörigen. Dieser Vorfall zeigt einmal mehr, dass der Krieg in Afghanistan nicht zu gewinnen ist. Terror kann man nicht mit Krieg bekämpfen. Wir wiederholen deshalb unsere Forderung: Schluss mit dem Krieg in Afghanistan! Die Bundeswehr hat dort nichts verloren. Der Abzug der deutschen Truppen muss sofort beginnen. Der Abzug der Bundeswehr aus Afghanistan ist das Beste für die Sicherheit der deutschen Soldaten.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/schluss-mit-dem-krieg-in-afghanistan/



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/18-3



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The US-led forces fired a missile which missed its target and hit the residential building. Parts of the structure were damaged in the incident, a Press TV correspondent reported on Wedneday.

http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2011/02/16/helmand-operation-leaves-4-dead


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A report says that Washington spends $300 million of American taxpayers' money on Afghan war per day, and this comes as the US has failed so far to establish security in the war-torn country.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/165283.html


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MSNBC

02/09/11

An average of two children per day were killed in Afghanistan last year, with areas of the once peaceful north now among the most dangerous, an independent Afghan rights watchdog said Wednesday. The Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) said in a report that, of the 2,421 civilians the group registered as killed in conflict-related security incidents in 2010, some 739 were under the age of 18...

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