1 afghan=$2,000 (I was wrong)
MrBrian
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I once said that the life of 1 Iraqi or 1 Afghan is worth a couple bigs macs and some hummus. I was wrong, it's infact, $2,000.. which is the amount given to the families of people killed by America during it's lastest path of destruction.
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Report: US Airstrikes Killed at Least 78 Afghan Civilians
Just one day after US airstrikes in Laghman province were reported to have killed at least 20 civilians, a much larger incident has occurred on the opposite side of the country in Herat Province.
Shortly later, Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry released a statement regarding the incident. In it they announced that 76 people, all civilians, had actually been killed in the strike. Among those killed were seven men, 19 women, and 50 children under the age of 15. The Independent quotes council member Saeed Sharif as saying the victims “were attending a holy Koran recitation” when the bombing began. The Ministry expressed “profound regret” for the killings, which they described as accidental, and promised to dispatch a delegation to conduct a full investigation.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the US attack and said his government would soon announce “necessary measures” to prevent future killings. Meanwhile, an Afghan human rights group sent a researcher to investigate and the preliminary report showed that at least 78 people were killed and 15 houses were destroyed.
In May of last year, US airstrikes in the same region killed over 50 civilians. After the incident, NATO promised to review its military tactics to ensure that similar incidents didn’t happen in the future. An American commander said he was “ashamed” of the incident, and announced that compensation of approximately $2,000 would be paid to each victim’s family.
http://news.antiwar.com/2008/08/interior-ministry-us-airstrikes-kill-76-afghan-civilians/
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Report: US Airstrikes Killed at Least 78 Afghan Civilians
Just one day after US airstrikes in Laghman province were reported to have killed at least 20 civilians, a much larger incident has occurred on the opposite side of the country in Herat Province.
Shortly later, Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry released a statement regarding the incident. In it they announced that 76 people, all civilians, had actually been killed in the strike. Among those killed were seven men, 19 women, and 50 children under the age of 15. The Independent quotes council member Saeed Sharif as saying the victims “were attending a holy Koran recitation” when the bombing began. The Ministry expressed “profound regret” for the killings, which they described as accidental, and promised to dispatch a delegation to conduct a full investigation.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the US attack and said his government would soon announce “necessary measures” to prevent future killings. Meanwhile, an Afghan human rights group sent a researcher to investigate and the preliminary report showed that at least 78 people were killed and 15 houses were destroyed.
In May of last year, US airstrikes in the same region killed over 50 civilians. After the incident, NATO promised to review its military tactics to ensure that similar incidents didn’t happen in the future. An American commander said he was “ashamed” of the incident, and announced that compensation of approximately $2,000 would be paid to each victim’s family.
http://news.antiwar.com/2008/08/interior-ministry-us-airstrikes-kill-76-afghan-civilians/
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Pfft. Optimistic today? I don't think they'd even get past airport security.
Forget that, I bet they won't even get issued an American Visa to start with.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/world/asia/24afghan.html?ref=world&pagewanted=print
"President Hamid Karzai, [the puppet], strongly condemned on Saturday a coalition airstrike that he said killed up to 95 Afghans — including 50 children — in a village in western Afghanistan on Friday, and said his government would be announcing measures to prevent the loss of civilian life in the future."