Monday, March 7, 2011

A fatal attack by the ISAF troops in Afghanistan

A fatal attack by the ISAF troops in Afghanistan brings the population there in Rage: soldiers have killed in an air strike nine children. Hundreds of people took to the streets in Kabul. The ISAF speaks of a tragedy: Nato troops have in the past week, nine children killed in an air strike in Afghanistan.

On Sunday went so in Kabul about 500 people on the street. "Death to America, death to the Invasn" chanted demonstrators. "We do not want occupation troops," said one demonstrator, who wore a picture on Tuesday killed the children between seven and nine years. They had collected wood, as NATO soldiers fired from a helicopter with a rocket.


According to ISAF, the children were targeted by mistake, wanted to attack as an attack helicopter, the positions of rebels. A base of the ISAF troops had been previously attacked by insurgents with rockets, said the troop. The soldiers returned fire and it made the children they were therefore to attackers.

Barack Obama and the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, have apologized for the incident with President Hamid Karzai. "These deaths would have never have come," said Petraeus. Karzai replied, not sacrifice by foreign troops would be acceptable. "The people of Afghanistan," said the head of state in a declaration "by such cruel incidents are now outraged and excuses or convictions will not heal their wounds." The fact that in actions by the Isaf troops against extremists are always victims among civilians, the Afghan people to bring more against foreign troops.


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