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...Afghanistan won't be an easy place to set right. In large pockets of the country, military action continues unabated, with all its attendant risks. An American AC-130 gunship last week apparently raked a wedding celebration in the Deh Rawod village of Kakarak, about 70 miles north of Kandahar. Afghan authorities say more than 40 people were killed. President Bush called Afghan President Hamid Karzai to express his sympathy for those who lost loved ones, and the two leaders committed themselves to a full investigation of the tragedy. But the deaths prompted the first anti-American demonstration in Kabul...
...officials are investigating the incident, which is now believed to have resulted when a U.S. gunship fired on an enemy anti-aircraft position in the village of Kakarak, and may have hit villagers attending a nearby wedding. The Pentagon said the U.S. plane had been called in to support U.S. and Afghan ground forces that had come under fire in the area. The incident occurred in Uruzgan province, near the ancestral home of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. The U.S. has been particularly embarrassed by its failure to capture the peasant mystic-turned-insurgent since he is believed to have...
...became commonplace. And when 5,000 rebels attacked two police bases in the midwestern district of Dang on April 11, they press-ganged children and old people from nearby villages to serve as human shields. The tactic failed: the police and army fired back indiscriminately, even using a helicopter gunship equipped with American-supplied night-vision goggles. Ninety-two policemen and about 100 Maoists died in this, the deadliest battle...
...many Palestinian women and children must die at the hands of an Israeli gun, bulldozer or U.S.-supplied Apache helicopter-gunship before Americans begin to take Israel to task? Israel is, of course, a friend and ally to America, but there ought to be limits on what our friendship must endure...
...attack by hiding in a ditch, told TIME he heard men inside the school plead, "For the love of Allah, do not kill us. We surrender." According to villagers, the Americans shot most of their victims at close range. After two hours, the commandos choppered out; an AC-130 gunship hovering overhead then incinerated the school and several former Taliban vehicles with howitzer cannons and machine guns. "The cars were burning," recalls Abdul Salam, a soldier who crept into the school three hours later, "and all my friends were dead...