Nato apologises for killing nine Afghan civilians

[egbert]

Some times "I'm sorry" doesn't cut it...fuckers.

And how about THIS -

Washington Post:

KABUL - To the shock of President Hamid Karzai's aides, Gen. David H. Petraeus suggested Sunday at the presidential palace that Afghans caught up in a coalition attack in northeastern Afghanistan might have burned their own children to exaggerate claims of civilian casualties, according to two participants at the meeting.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/2 ... 26410.html

That's some "apology", huh!

[egbert]

Once again, American blood is boiling over the killing of two of their military personnel by someone who is suspected to be an Islamic extremist. The anger is not just expressed on lunatic anti-Muslim websites like Robert Spencer’s Jihad Watch or Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs, but palpable in the general masses of U.S. citizenry. How could these Muslim savages kill two of our brave U.S. servicemen? Thoughts of retaliation–perhaps even using a Samson Option (nuking Mecca, Medina, and/or other Muslim-majority cities)–are certainly considered, if but fleetingly.

Meanwhile, hardly any Americans are aware that on this very same day the U.S. military slaughtered nine children in a country we occupy. Over the course of the next few days, we will get to know the intimate lives of the two fallen U.S. soldiers. They will become very personal to us, living and breathing people–nay, young boys–proudly serving their country. Do you think that your government-subservient propaganda machine you call mainstream media will ever spend any time personalizing the nine dead Afghan children, telling us about their childhoods and getting to know their bereaved mothers?

http://www.yanabi.com/forum/Topic415485-18-1.aspx

[Atheist-Lite]

Their almost Western in their reaction to child slayings. Make's me thankful to be a Brit, only hope the lynch mob recognises the difference?

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre722 ... civilians/

KABUL, Mar. 6, 2011 (Reuters) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai told General David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, on Sunday his apology for a foreign air strike that killed nine children last week was "not enough."

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