Human rights update: 40 people reported to have been killed in US airstikes in Afghanistan.
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This is how to spread human rights:
A suspected US missile strike has killed at least eight students at a religious school in north-western Pakistan, witnesses say.
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Human rights update: A woman and three children amongst those killed by US strike in Pakistani tribal areas.
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Oi! Palin: The US military justifies killing 33 Afghan civilians. Perhaps it is just conincident that 30 deaths is the magic number for US military calculations?
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How many civilians did John McCain kill in his time as a War Hero?
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One in the eye for Taliban-supporting morons: 55 percent of civilian deaths in Afghanistan during 2008 have been caused by the Taliban. Obviously, this doesn’t remove the culpability of American and pro-government Afghan forces who are also guilty of indiscriminate attacks against civilians, but I don’t want to hear it from Taliban-supporting fanatics with Brummie accents.
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Afganistan arrests three people in connection with providing “wrong information” to authorities which led to the deaths of some 90 civilians in Azizabad.
And what kind of headline have the editors chosen for this Peter Bergen article? Absurd.
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The battle for human rights in Afghanistan:
“We will welcome them if they visit our bombed village to investigate. But we should have a deal first, if the Americans are proved wrong, then they should leave Afghanistan in shame…”
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Human rights update from Afghanistan: Two more civilians killed in operations by US forces. And AFP report that a former Afghan cricketer was also killed by international forces.
Really, this campaign for hearts and minds is going swimmingly.
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Human rights watch, Afghanistan:
The Times has some more, including a video of the aftermath. Note who the US military thinks acts as ‘independent evidence’:
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On America’s failure to win “hearts and minds” in Afghanistan.
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Human rights news just coming from Afghanistan: An Afghan police chief has “accused German soldiers of killing two children and a woman in Kunduz after opening fire on a civilian car that didn’t slow down at a checkpoint”.
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An update on human rights in Afghanistan: U.S.-led coalition troops have have killed eight Afghan civilians in an air strike in the western province of Farah during a raid against suspected militants, the U.S. military said.
