Afghanistan attack was 'legitimate' hit at Taliban: Pentagon

[maddezmom]

Source: AFP

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The US military said Monday that an attack by coalition forces in Afghanistan last week which allegedly killed dozens of civilians was a "legitimate" assault on Taliban forces.

"We continue at this point to believe that this was a legitimate strike against the Taliban," said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman.

"Unfortunately there were some civilian casualties, although that figure is in dispute, I would say. But this is why it is being investigated," he said.

Whitman declined to comment, though, on the demand Monday by the Afghan cabinet to renegotiate agreements regulating the presence of international troops following the strikes.



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Afghan cabinet demands review of international presence
by Sardar Ahmad

KABUL (AFP) - The Afghan cabinet demanded Monday a renegotiation of agreements regulating the presence of international troops in Afghanistan after more than 90 civilians were killed in US-led air strikes.

The cabinet said the review should focus on the "authorities and responsibilities" of international troops and demand a halt to air strikes on civilians, illegal detentions and unilateral house searches, a statement said.

A government commission said Sunday that more than 90 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed in air strikes in the western province of Herat on Friday.

It is one of the deadliest civilian tolls in international military action since US-led forces invaded in 2001 to topple the hardline Taliban regime after it did not hand over its Al-Qaeda allies for attacks on the United States.

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[Parche]

1. Cuz We Got The Number 2 Child....Err I Mean Number 2 Terra ist

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :hi:

[Bonobo]

2. Shouldn't it be investigated by the sovereign nation of Afghanistan as a war crime? nt

[thunder rising]

4. You'd think. My God, how many are we going to slaughter to satisfy the Christians

[Bonobo]

5. Let's not blame Christians. It has nothing to do with it.

Blame lots of people, but Christians as a group. Come on. Riduculous.

[thunder rising]

9. If the Christians don't like it maybe THEY could do what they require of all groups they don't like

and get rid of the bad eggs using the name.

[Radical Activist]

3. All bombs are a terrorist attack

because they inevitable kill innocent civilians and property.

[Bonobo]

6. No.

They are terrorist attacks because they incite terror in the general population.

Once we started accepting the bombing of civilians, the whole game change.

Now it is routine. Yawn.

[Radical Activist]

7. How about both?

Two good reasons to call it what it is.

[Bonobo]

8. Yep. Both. But the terror is almost more evil.

[LynnTheDem]

10. When one slaughters 100 women & babies, it ain't "legitimate".

Period.

[IndianaGreen]

11. And this is how we are going to lose the war in Afghanistan.

Keep killing those civilians, and the next thing you will see is our choppers ferrying people out of Kabul's Presidential Palace.

[scarface2004]

12. We continue at this point to believe that this was a legitimate strike against the Taliban,"

whatever dude....hey they were just some brown skinned nonchristian non english speaking subhumans after all..right!

[classysassy]

13. Where is the out cry?

from all of those tv ministers and the right wing talking heads?.Bush,Chaney and the criminals that turned this country into the real evil empire.If this was a real democracy all of them would be rounded up and sent to gitmo.