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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rock_nj who wrote (507105)	12/10/2003 10:06:03 AM
From: jackhach	Respond to of 769670

How to win friends & influence people by GW Bush ...now in paperback ---- Six Children Killed in Assault By U.S. in Eastern Afghanistan Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan -- Six children were killed during an assault by U.S. forces on a compound in eastern Afghanistan, an American military spokesman said Wednesday, the second time in a week that civilians have died in action against Taliban and al Qaeda suspects. The children died during an attack Friday against a complex near the eastern city of Gardez where a renegade Afghan commander, Mullah Jalani, was believed to have stocked weapons, said Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty. "The next day we discovered the bodies of two adults and six children," he said. "We had no indication there were noncombatants" in the compound, he said. The news comes on the heels of a tragic U.S. military blunder in neighboring Ghazni province on Saturday. Nine children were found dead in a field after an attack by an A-10 ground attack aircraft that was targeting a Taliban suspect. The U.S. apologized for that incident. In Friday's attack, Mr. Jalani wasn't at the Gardez site, 12 miles (20 kilometers) east of Gardez, but Col. Hilferty said nine other people were arrested. Col. Hilferty said that U.S. warplanes and troops attacked the compound in a nighttime raid, setting off secondary explosions. The bodies were discovered the following day. They appeared to have been crushed by a falling wall, he said. He expressed regret over the death of civilians in Afghanistan, but said it was impossible to completely eliminate such incidents. "We try very hard not to kill anyone. We would prefer to capture the terrorists rather than kill them," Col. Hilferty said. "But in this incident, if noncombatants surround themselves with thousands of weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition and howitzers and mortars in a compound known to be used by a terrorist, we are not completely responsible for the consequences." Col. Hilferty said he wasn't sure if the wall collapsed because of U.S. fire or the secondary explosions caused by weapons stored at the site. There was no word of U.S. casualties in the operation. U.S. officials have apologized for the Ghazni incident, in which nine children were killed Saturday. They originally claimed that the attack killed the intended target, a former Taliban district commander named Mullah Wazir suspected of recent attacks on road workers. But U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad on Tuesday said they were no longer certain. Villagers say the man killed was a local laborer who had just returned from Iran and that Mullah Wazir had left the area days before the attack. The Ghazni deaths produced outrage and concern, from Afghan villagers to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who said he was "profoundly saddened" by the deaths and urged a full investigation. Afghan officials warned that such mistakes will undermine support for the U.S.-backed government of President Hamid Karzai and tolerance of foreign troops. "I can't guarantee that we will not injure more civilians," Col. Hilferty said. "I wish I could." Copyright (c) 2003 The Associated Press Updated December 10, 2003 2:59 a.m.

To: Rock_nj who wrote (507105)	12/10/2003 10:12:27 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Well, maybe those children wouldn't have died if the U.S. stopped sticking it's nose into other country's business Always America's fault, right? That is how you sympathizers operate right? Remember 9/11? I knew it would not be long before some of you leftists would come to terms that you believe it would have been ok for AlQaida to just keep on controlling Afghanistan using the Taliban as task masters, and terrorizing the world.. Did you actually set up a website to send aid to the Taliban?