United States vs. Manning

2009-05-04

		Secretary of State Clinton, President Obama, and new U.S. ambassador to Kabul Karl Eikenberry have all apologized for the civilian deaths in Garani. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, those killed include 'an Afghan Red Crescent volunteer and 13 members of his family who had been sheltering from fighting in a house that was bombed in an air strike.' [...] Locals tell Human Rights Watch that most of the fighting had died down. Nevertheless, over the course of the next three hours, the F/A-18s dropped five more 500 pound munitions on compounds and a grove where insurgents had gathered. 'It was like Judgment Day,' Habibullah, a health worker, tells Human Rights Watch. 'Words cannot describe how terrible it was. Who can bear to see so many killed, from a two-day-old baby to a 70-year-old woman?'
	Name(s:)	Noah Shachtman
	Title:	Reporter
	Agency(ies):	Wired
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	Archive:	http://archive.is/WkfBP

	Classification:	Unclassified
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	Title:	Afghanistan: US Should Act to End Bombing Tragedies, Civilian Death Toll in May 3 Airstrikes Shows Previous Measures Inadequate
	Authoring or Creator Agency:	Human Rights Watch
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