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NATO Airstrike Accidentally Kills 2 Civilians in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- A NATO helicopter gunship inadvertently killed two civilians while attacking suspected insurgents in the northern province of Khost, NATO announced Thursday. The attack targeted was a Haqqani network leader in Tere Zayi district on Wednesday, according to NATO. "At the time of the strike, two civilians were walking near the moving targeted vehicle," NATO said Thursday. "They were previously unseen by coalition forces prior to the initiation of the airstrike. Unfortunately both were killed as an unintended result of the strike." Khost provincial police chief Abdul Hakim ...
Three Western Women Followed Their Hearts to Afghanistan, and Died There
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyThe good die young. Not surprising, since they're always running off to where the trouble is. Three weeks ago, the trouble was poverty and lack of health care in an isolated part of Afghanistan. The Kabul-based group International Assistance Mission, or IAM, put together a group of volunteers that included six Americans. The team leader was optometrist Tom Little, a New Yorker who'd lived in Afghanistan for three decades. The volunteers included three women, all from different countries: 36-year-old British surgeon Dr. Karen Woo, 35-year-old German linguist Daniela Beyer and 32-year-old ...
Data Shows Afghan Civilian Deaths Tick Up
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan (Aug. 8) -- Civilian war deaths in the first seven months of 2010 rose by 6 percent over the same period last year, Afghanistan's human rights commission said Sunday. The modest increase suggested that U.S. and NATO efforts to hold down civilian casualties were having some success. Also Sunday, the bodies of 10 members of a medical team - six Americans, two Afghans, one German and a Briton - were flown to Kabul from the northern province of Badakhshan, where they were gunned down three days ago at the end of a humanitarian mission. The Taliban claimed responsibility and ...
Does Disputed NATO Attack in Afghanistan Underscore WikiLeaks Report?
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(July 27) -- A day after WikiLeaks' release of a trove of secret Afghan war reports renewed debate over the war itself, a disputed NATO rocket attack is adding fuel to the fire. According to the Afghan government, the NATO strike Friday killed 45 civilians (with some reports as high as 52) in the village of Rigi. Witnesses told The New York Times that a firefight between the Taliban and U.S. troops forced residents of a nearby hamlet to flee to the tiny, remote village, where women and children from approximately eight families hid in one home while men took cover in the forest nearby. The ...
How WikiLeaks Works: A Primer
By Kathryn Yao - AOL News(July 26) -- It doesn't have a paid staff or office. Its founder is a mysterious, silver-haired hacker-scientist turned journalist-activist. It's the bane of politicians and governments around the world. It's WikiLeaks. Once again, the organization is dominating headlines -- this time for publishing an unprecedented leak of classified U.S. documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan. On Sunday, the Swedish "whistleblowing" website released about 90,000 classified military records covering the past six years of the war, including unreported Afghan civilian killings and covert operations ...
New Study: CIA Drones Killed Militants, Not Civilians
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(June 1) -- The CIA's drone strikes in Pakistan killed strikingly few civilians, according to a new academic study. The controversial campaign resulted in just one confirmed civilian casualty for every 22 suspected militants killed, the study reports. Those numbers, if accurate, provide more backing to those who say the drone strikes are an effective way of targeting al-Qaida and Taliban leaders. The latest study says that previous reports, some of which said that civilians constituted 90 percent or more of reported deaths, are grossly overstated. ...
US Investigates Whether GIs Killed Afghan Civilians
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(May 20) -- The U.S. military has launched a criminal probe into allegations that a "small number" of American soldiers in Afghanistan were involved in the "unlawful deaths" of as many as three Afghan civilians. The allegations also include illegal drug use, assault and conspiracy, according to a U.S. military statement issued today. One soldier has already been put in pretrial confinement, but no charges have yet been filed, it said. The Army began investigating the case after someone in the soldiers' unit came forward with "credible information" earlier this month. It didn't say how many ...
Pakistani Scholar Disputes US Drone Death Tallies
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(May 19) -- When it comes to measuring casualties and death rates, Pakistani computer scientist Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani is a world-class expert. His Ph.D. thesis looked at complex simulations calculating blast waves from suicide bombings, with an eye toward preventing mass casualties from such attacks. Now Usmani, an assistant professor at Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province who recently completed five years as a Fulbright scholar in the U.S., is applying that expertise to the contentious debate over drone strikes. And his website, Pakistan Body Count, ...
Afghans Torch NATO Vehicles After Civilian Deaths
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyNATO supply vehicles were set ablaze in eastern Afghanistan after allegations were made public that U.S. and Afghan troops killed three civilians in their home during a nighttime raid. The trucks were torched after a joint patrol fatally shot three people, including two brothers, and arrested two others, The Washington Post reported. Over 100 Afghans demonstrated against the killings in Logar province. The angry crowd blocked traffic on a main road and used grenades to set fire to at least ten fuel tankers, local officials said. NATO officials later said the men killed were insurgents who ...
U.S. Troops Fire on Afghan Bus, Killing Five Civilians
By David Sessions - Politics DailyU.S. troops fired on a civilian bus Monday in the Afghan city of Kandahar, killing at least five and wounding 18, the New York Times reports. The attack angered local leaders and drew hundreds of demonstrators to a nearby bus station, where they shouted anti-American chants and blocked the road for over an hour. The U.S. military confirmed the shooting but there were disputes over the details, such as whether the troops had first shot flares to warn the bus driver to stay back. A spokesman for the military said a military convoy traveling ahead of the bus fired three warning flares, but the ...
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