[Marxism] US airstrike kills Afghan Villagers, says Danish aid group

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

www.aljazeerah.info/
US Airstrike Kills 8 Afghan Villagers, Aid Group Says

Agence France Presse, Arab News

KABUL, 1 September 2004 - Eight Afghan villagers were killed and an
Afghan aid worker injured when planes of the US-led coalition bombed a
northeastern village after a firefight with militants late Monday, a
Danish aid group said yesterday. Our staff said "there were eight dead
villagers," Gorm Pedersen, director of the Danish Committee for Aid to
Afghan Refugees, told AFP.

Pedersen said the eight villagers at Waradesh in Pech district in Kunar
province were killed in the US bombardment, which was ordered after
fighting between Afghan government forces and militants in the district.
"There was no fighting in the village," he said. Danish staff operating
a water pipeline project said their supply compound was also bombed and
an aid worker injured.

The US military in a statement confirmed there was an air strike in
Kunar late Monday. "Coalition attack aircraft and coalition ground
personnel suppressed the insurgents' fire and attack during last night's
firefight."

In an earlier statement, the US military said seven children, two Afghan
soldiers and one US soldier were wounded in the fighting late Monday
between Taliban fighters and US and Afghan forces in Pech district.

Meanwhile, Afghan President Hamid Karzai yesterday moved a powerful
northern warlord from a key military post and gave him a government job
in a bid to curb the power of regional militias before landmark
presidential polls.

Gen. Mohammad Daud, a key Mujahedeen fighter who served as commander of
7th Corps in northeastern Kunduz province, has been appointed as deputy
interior minister, Rafiullah Mujadidi, one of Karzai's spokesmen, told
AFP.








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