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...innocent people are becoming victims of careless operations of NATO and international forces," he said. "We are thankful for [the international community's] help to Afghanistan, but that does not mean that Afghan lives have no value. Afghan life is not cheap and it should not be treated as such...
...died this week as a result of NATO and US operations, part of the 230 that a consortium of aid agencies, including CARE, Save the Children and Mercy Corps, estimate have died since the beginning of the year due to ill-planned military operations. The Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief (ACBAR), which represents nearly 100 Afghan and international humanitarian and development groups, released their scathing report mid week, saying, "We strongly condemn the operations and force protection measures carried out by international military forces in which disproportionate or indiscriminate use of force has resulted in civilian casualties...
...half, according to press accounts and human rights groups. About 1,500 were civilians. While suicide bombs and other insurgent activities have killed the bulk of those civilians, comparisons between international and insurgent-inflicted death tolls insufficiently address the issue, says Dr. Sima Samar, Chairwoman of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. "We expect the International forces to do better," she says. "The Taliban do not abide by international human rights and humanitarian law. The international forces and the Afghan National Army have to be more cautious than the Taliban. Otherwise they will lose the trust of the people...
...Ahmadzai is no conspiracy minded country bumpkin; he's a former prime minister, educated in the US and the UK. While it's clear that NATO and coalition forces have absolutely no intention of killing civilians, the fact that otherwise intelligent Afghan opinion makers have been persuaded of foreign ill intent marks an alarming trend in Afghanistan. Few Afghans outside of the South, where the insurgency rages the strongest, want the foreigners to leave just yet, but there has been a strong push in Parliament for reconciliation with the Taliban. "They are human beings, they are the people of this...
Within two hours of the attack Taliban spokesman Qari Yusuf Ahmadi claimed responsibility, identifying a 25-year-old Kabul resident named Hasim as the bomber. "This is part of our ongoing ambush operations," he said. "The more we kill foreigners and Americans, the more we will kill Afghan forces who are working as their slaves." Ahmadi was making a reference as well to a suicide car attack on Saturday on a NATO convoy that killed four and wounded five. General Paktiawaal, watching the announcement on the TV in his office, looked harassed and angry. "This is a terrorist attack...