Nederland en Afghanistan 56

Radio Free Europe bericht: 'Infant Reportedly Among Afghans Injured By U.S. Military. Reports from Afghanistan say a number of civilians, including a newborn baby, were injured after a U.S. military patrol opened fire on their vehicle in the southeastern Afghan province of Khost. Local officials say the incident took place late on April 17. The governor of Khost Province, Mayrajuddin Patan, told RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan that the U.S. patrol opened fire on the car after it ignored instructions to stop. "Reports of some news agencies, particularly Khybar TV, that American forces killed seven civilians, are false and based on rumors," Patan said. "What really happened is that U.S. forces patrolling at night ordered a car to stop, but the car didn't stop.[U.S. soldiers] thought that those people might be terrorists and a soldier fired one bullet and that one bullet injured three people. It was really an accident."
Some reports say up to six civilians were injured, including a baby. In another part of Khost, a five-year-old boy and another youngster were wounded by U.S.-led troops on April 18.
There has been no response from the U.S. military in Afghanistan.' Lees verder:
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/04/3ff35273-32fc-4e9b-abc9-fbc5348f05f4.html De Dow Jones Newswires bericht: 'US, Afghan Forces Kill 5 Militants In Kunar Province. KABUL (AP)--U.S. and Afghan soldiers have killed five militants during a large-scale operation targeting Taliban and al-Qaida fighters in a volatile eastern region of the country near Pakistan, the U.S. military said Tuesday. The renewed violence in Kunar province came as Afghanistan urged neighboring Pakistan to do more to curb militancy on their shared frontier, drawing an angry rebuke from Islamabad which has deployed 80,000 soldiers to the region. Coalition forces shot dead five "terrorists" Monday near the Kunar provincial capital of Asadabad, about 170 kilometers northeast of the capital, Kabul, after a patrol spotted a group of seven militants, the U.S. military said in a statement. It was unclear what happened to the remaining two militants. Some 2,500 American and Afghan soldiers are waging an ongoing campaign, dubbed Operation Mountain Lion, to hunt down extremists allied to this country's toppled Taliban regime and their al-Qaida allies, along with armed criminals active in the region.' Lees verder:
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