NATO Troops Kill Three Aghan Women

Source: Al Jazeera

Two women and a girl have been killed and two men injured after Nato troops opened fire on a car in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. Afghanistan's interior ministry said that the victims were travelling on a highway in Zabul province on Friday when foreign troops opened fire, killing three of the five civilians in the car.

"A foreign forces convoy opened fire on a vehicle coming the other way, thinking they were Taliban," Zemarai Bashary, the interior ministry spokesman, said. "Two women and one girl were killed and one other woman was wounded."

'Investigation underway'

A spokesman for the Zabul governor said the troops were part of Nato's US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and had stopped on the road to defuse a bomb. "ISAF had to defuse a roadside bomb near a bridge when a small vehicle approached. ISAF told them to stop, fired a warning shot, then shot at the car," Mohammad Jan Rasul Yar, the spokesman, said.

Eyewitnesses said that the troops, were carrying out house-to-house searches in a village, opened fire first without firing warning shots.


Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/04/2010430161625170956.html

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Busy, busy, winning hearts and minds all over the place.

people in Afghanistan are more than ready to drive into a hail of bullets after being given a warning to stop and then given a warning shot to stop, but proceed without regard for their safety, anyway?

"If it doesn't make any sense then it is NOT TRUE," shouted Judge Judy!!!

God bless the troops and the sterling job they're doing defending our freedom. I can't see any blowback or repercussions from this whatsoever. Unless I actually think about it. But like a good acolyte in the High Church of Redemptive Violence, I don't think.

jeez, don't you know it's only a tragedy if the taliban kills afghanis?

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Or so we are told by those in power and influence.