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...NATO air strike hit an insurgent base in southern Afghanistan Friday, knocking out some 30 Taliban. The air strike was in retaliation for a militant attack on nearby police posts, but it also killed 25 civilians in the process, including 9 women, 3 children and a village mullah, according to local police...
...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...
...Government officials say that more than 90 civilians 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...
...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," he said. "We can try to prevent suicide bombers, but it's difficult." Despite this sudden surge in violence, Paktiawaal denies that he is worried...
...word on foreign policy: beware those candidates who speak glowingly, uncritically about multilateralism. Clearly, a new era of international cooperation is necessary, given the rise of viral nonstate threats like terrorism, global warming, transnational criminal gangs and corporate powers, and actual viruses like hiv. But the failure of our NATO allies to fulfill their military quotas in Afghanistan raises a real question about which if any countries will be ready to stand with the U.S. when military action is necessary-a difficult problem for the next President...