A deadly US-led strike on a wedding party in southern Afghanistan has left at least 36 civilians killed and some 28 others injured.
The Tuesday wedding ceremony came under US-led forces’ aerial bombardment in Wocha Bakhta village some 80 km (50 miles) north of the southern city of Kandahar in Kandahar province.
A local member of parliament told the BBC that as many as 38 people may have died in the air strike. However, Afghan President Hamid Karzai slammed the attack while putting the death toll at 40.
The President “condemned the air strike which killed around 40 and wounded another 28 civilians in Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar province,” a statement from his office said, AFP reported.
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Meanwhile, some media reports put the death toll higher, saying that some of the injured are in a serious condition and the death toll may rise even further.
The US military acknowledged there were casualties in the area and said it was launching an investigation into the incident.
International forces in Afghanistan have come under increased criticism since Afghan and UN officials discovered that a US-led military operation in the village of Azizabad in August killed 90 civilians, including children.
Seven years of western military presence in Afghanistan has led to more insecurity and a sharply upward spiral of civilian lives lost to errant American air strike and suicide bombers. More than 4,700 people have been killed in insurgency-related violence in the country this year.
November 5th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
i think that the leaders of the military are getting a bit trigger happy
November 5th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
They target an “insurgent” (someone fighting against them taking over everything)
They send a message, dont resist…..your people are worthless too us.
Weddings and funerals are perfect, because they target an entire family(s) leaving less recruitment for insurgency via revenge factor.
Realise what you live in.
November 5th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Look at all this infotainment. All this dyer news about THE NWO! The END GAME is near. Right
next to 9898794404 ads, subscriptions, films to make Alex Jones rich. Some revolutionary eh.
He really wants to help and to save people. He wants you to know what “they” are really
doing. He knows more than “they” do. Would’nt “they” have already silenced Alex Jones? Maybe
Alex is “they”.
Oh whoa its the NWO! the CIA! the Mossad! Open your eyes sheeple! Poor Alex. Upset because
he was laughed out of the republican party. He has resorted to fear mongering and selling
3rd rate infotainment to any kool-aid drinker who’ll listen. He is so terrified that since
Obama has been elected that he won’t have that large base of fear to exploit for his own
monetary gain. Lets see the end game was coming in 1999, then it was 2000, then it was 2004,
2006. But surely it will be in 2009! Or the next 1000 years maybe. Never ending conspiracy.
First it was JFK, then the Branch Davidians, then Bilderberg, Bohemian Grove. Anybody else
noticing a pattern? Obama just got elected and hes already a puppet of that evil NWO. He
spent alot of time trying to build up a fellow republican from Texas. In the end he killed
Dr.Paul’s chances. Just by being endorsed by Alex. It was much easier for MSM to laugh at
him with Jones’ support and that of the InfoWarriors. Yes Alex is a card carrying Texas
republican who deals in infotainment. Alex has even run for office in Texas. This is to news
what professional wrestling is to sports. Stop making this quack rich. He is a text book
fraud.
Question everything Alex Jones says. Question everything ANYONE says. Stop Following men and allow yourself to lead
November 5th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Never4fear, how can Alex get rich giving away the movies he makes? You and your contrarian ass can download any and all of his films right now, which, by the way, little child, COST MONEY TO PRODUCE! You think you’re the first one to assert that he or any documentarian is in it for the bucks? If you listen to him talk—not the way he says things, but what he says—you’d understand better. Ah, but Alex-bashing is more fun, I guess. Well, run along and play.
November 6th, 2008 at 1:10 am
I suspect those “errant” attacks are not really “errant”.
the guy who claims this site as infotainment has many names just like his boss.