Top US officer warns of Afghan civilian deaths

MSNBC

05/18/09

The nation’s top military officer warned Monday that the deaths of Afghan civilians caught up in U.S. combat operations could cripple President Barack Obama’s revamped strategy for the seven-year-old war. ‘I believe that each time we do that, we put our strategy in jeopardy,’ Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said...

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Caught in a lie

CounterPunch
by Dave Lindorff

05/18/09

When doctors started reporting that some of the victims of the US bombing of several villages in Farah Province last week — an attack that left between 117 and 147 civilians dead, most of them women and children — were turning up with deep, sharp burns on their body that ‘looked like’ they’d been caused by white phosphorus, the US military was quick to deny responsibility...

http://counterpunch.org/lindorff05182009.html


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