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...Afghan officials said dozens of civilians were killed late Tuesday when NATO warplanes bombarded a village in the district of Panjwai just 20 kilometers outside the largest city in southern Afghanistan, the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. Panjwai district has been the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in the Afghan south this summer, with NATO killing at least 500 suspected insurgents in the two-week-long Operation Medusa, which concluded last month...
...Control of Panjwai, which lies so close to the political heart of the Afghan south, is vital, and it seems NATO's hold on the district is slipping. Lieutenant General David Richards called Operation Medusa a "significant success," but weeks later the Taliban have come back with a vengeance, staging large-scale attacks on NATO bases in the area and scotching NATO claims that they had driven the Taliban out of Panjwai...
...back, bombing houses where Taliban fighters had taken refuge. Eyewitnesses in the village of Zangwat said that 25 houses had been razed to the ground, and their inhabitants killed and injured as Taliban fighters took shelter behind their walls, using the local population as human shields. Niaz Mohammad Saradi, district governor of Panjwai district, said 60 people were killed, while other officials put the death toll as high as 85. NATO says it has confirmed 12 civilian casualties. Whatever the final number, the mounting bloodshed among old men, women and children in southern Afghanistan is whittling away support...
...Akbar Khakrizwal, a tribal elder and former security official in Kandahar city, said the Taliban are gaining strength in Panjwai on a daily basis. "For more than four months NATO has been fighting in Panjwai district, " he said, "and they cannot drive 500 Taliban away, or kill them or arrest them. They have the wrong strategy." He contended that NATO troops are playing into the hands of the Taliban. "NATO are very impatient when the Taliban attack them from a residential area and they reply by bombing, and that is what the Taliban want. They want to make NATO look...