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FROM: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1004952.htm
Last Update: Sunday,
December 7, 2003. 8:57am (AEDT)
US kills nine children
in Afghan bombing
American
forces have admitted bombing a house in southern Afghanistan in which
nine children are reported to have been killed.
"Following the attack,
coalition ground forces searching the area found the bodies of both
the intended target and those of nine children nearby," the US
military said in a statement released early Sunday from the coalition's
Bagram Air Base headquarters north of Kabul.
The US military say coalition
aircraft opened fire on a suspected "terrorist" at about 0600
GMT on Saturday near the town of Ghazni, 130 kilometres southwest of
Kabul.
"Coalition forces
acted after developing extensive intelligence over an extended period
of time that determined the known terrorist was at the isolated rural
site," the military said.
"Coalition forces
regret the loss of any innocent life."
The suspect was believed
to be responsible for recently killing two contractors working on the
Kabul-Kandahar-Herat ring road, the US military said.
The attack on what seems
to have been innocent Afghans is certain to anger the local population.
In many parts of the
country, Afghans welcome the presence of American troops and other foreigners
but in some areas of southern and eastern Afghanistan there is sometimes
resentment at what is perceived as American heavy-handedness.
The US military said
a commission is being set up to investigate the deaths and said its
forces "follow stringent rules of engagement to specifically avoid
this type of incident while continuing to
target terrorists" in Afghanistan.
Scores of civilians have
been killed in US-led bombing since the start of the campaign against
the Taliban regime and al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan in October 2001.
The US has not previously
offered compensation to families of innocent victims killed in a "war
zone".
FROM: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1004952.htm
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