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...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30815232/
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
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Panetta: Airstrikes Have Been 'Very Effective'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/19-8
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Mullen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leon+Panetta
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=air+strike
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=phosphorus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
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...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30815232/
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
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Panetta: Airstrikes Have Been 'Very Effective'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/05/19-8
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Afghanistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Pakistan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Mike+Mullen
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Leon+Panetta
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=air+strike
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=civilian+deaths
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=phosphorus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Dave+Lindorff
rudkla - 19. Mai, 10:09
