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To: Mephisto who wrote (4104)	7/3/2002 3:07:18 AM
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Kabul wants review of army procedures Carlotta Gall The New York Times Wednesday, July 3, 2002 iht.com KABUL In the strongest criticism it has leveled at U.S. forces, the Afghan government expressed great dismay Tuesday at the killing of about 40 civilians and wounding of about 100 in a U.S.-led operation in southern Afghanistan. It called for a major review of U.S. procedures in its operations against terrorism here. President Hamid Karzai called the U.S. commander of the coalition force in Afghanistan, Lieutenant General Dan McNeill, to his office for an explanation of the attack, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday. He asked the general to take more care to avoid civilian casualties and advised the American military to assess and verify intelligence reports carefully before acting on them. Karzai was re-elected last month to a new two-year term as leader, but his sharp reaction to the casualties inflicted by U.S. forces showed his concern that such fatal mistakes could turn the population against the war on terror and play into the hands of Al Qaeda and the Taliban who remain at large. U.S. military and Afghan officials traveled to Uruzgan Province on Tuesday to conduct a joint investigation of the incident that occurred in the early hours of Monday morning in the district of Dehrawud. "Some 40 people were killed, all civilians, and some 100 people were wounded," according to preliminary reports, Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah said. He said that four villages were hit by bombs in the attack and that people had been killed or wounded in all four villages, but most were killed in the village of Kakarak, where a wedding party was under way. "Most unfortunately there was a wedding party in one village," Abdullah said at a news conference in Kabul. "Of a whole family of 25 people, not a single person is left alive. This is the damage reflected by the operation of July 1."