[Marxism] Reuters: U.S. strikes killed 140 villagers: Afghan probe

[Max Clark <poeticaleconomy@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE54E22V20090516

U.S. strikes killed 140 villagers: Afghan probe 

By Hamid Shalizi and Peter Graff

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. air strikes earlier this month killed 140 villagers, an 
Afghan government investigation concluded on Saturday, putting Kabul starkly at 
odds with the U.S. military's account.

The official death toll, announced by the Afghan Defense Ministry, makes the 
bombing the deadliest incident for civilians since U.S. forces began fighting 
the Taliban in 2001, and is likely to worsen anger over the presence of foreign 
troops.

A copy of the government's list of the names, ages and father's names of each 
of the 140 dead was obtained by Reuters earlier this week. It shows that 93 of 
those killed were children -- the youngest eight days old -- and only 22 were 
adult males.

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