RebeldePorLaPAZ
12th December 2003, 01:09
BBC.com
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asi...sia/3305837.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3305837.stm)
Last Updated: Wednesday, 10 December, 2003, 14:39 GMT
The US military in Afghanistan has revealed that six children died in a raid on suspected militants in the eastern province of Paktia last week.
News of the deaths came shortly after the US apologised for killing nine children in a separate raid in the neighbouring province of Ghazni.
However, the US has warned it will not be deterred by civilian casualties.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has sent investigators to Ghazni amid concern the raids are alienating local people.
A US spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Bryan Hilferty, told reporters in Kabul on Wednesday that the bodies of six children were found under a collapsed wall at a compound 20 kilometres (12 miles) east of Gardez, in Paktia province.
Two adults' bodies were also found at the scene when ground forces searched the area on Saturday.
The US spokesman said there had been no indication that civilians were at the scene and he suggested the victims were partly to blame for being at a site used by militants to store munitions.
"If non-combatants surround themselves with thousands of weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition and howitzers and mortars, in a compound known to be used by a terrorist, we are not completely responsible for the consequences," he said.
FULL STORY
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--Paz
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Last Updated: Wednesday, 10 December, 2003, 14:39 GMT
The US military in Afghanistan has revealed that six children died in a raid on suspected militants in the eastern province of Paktia last week.
News of the deaths came shortly after the US apologised for killing nine children in a separate raid in the neighbouring province of Ghazni.
However, the US has warned it will not be deterred by civilian casualties.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has sent investigators to Ghazni amid concern the raids are alienating local people.
A US spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Bryan Hilferty, told reporters in Kabul on Wednesday that the bodies of six children were found under a collapsed wall at a compound 20 kilometres (12 miles) east of Gardez, in Paktia province.
Two adults' bodies were also found at the scene when ground forces searched the area on Saturday.
The US spokesman said there had been no indication that civilians were at the scene and he suggested the victims were partly to blame for being at a site used by militants to store munitions.
"If non-combatants surround themselves with thousands of weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition and howitzers and mortars, in a compound known to be used by a terrorist, we are not completely responsible for the consequences," he said.
FULL STORY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asi...sia/3305837.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3305837.stm)
--Paz