Posted on 03/04/2007 4:53:37 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
KABUL, Afghanistan - A "complex" ambush involving a suicide car bomb and militant gunfire killed 16 Afghan civilians and wounded 25 people during an attack on a coalition convoy in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said. Several wounded Afghans said they were shot by U.S. forces fleeing the scene.
The suicide bomber hit the American convoy with an explosives-packed minivan, said Noor Agha Zawok, the spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, and militants then fired gunfire from several directions, the U.S. military said. Coalition forces returned fire in defense of the attack, the U.S. said.
It wasn't immediately clear if the Afghans were killed by the militants gunfire or that of the U.S. soldiers. One U.S. soldier was injured in the attack.
Hundreds of Afghans gathered to protest the violence, blocking the road and throwing rocks at police, with some demonstrators shouting "Death to America! Death to Karzai," a reference to President Hamid Karzai.
Maj. William Mitchell, a U.S. military spokesman, said the suicide attack was a "complex ambush," with militants firing guns at the soldiers from three different points, meaning Afghan civilians could have been killed or wounded by militants.
"We certainly believe it's possible that the incoming fire from the ambush was wholly or partly responsible for the civilian casualties," he said.
The incident was under investigation, the coalition said.
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Gee, thank you.
Bashing the media around here reminds me of the Seinfeld AIDS Ribbon episode.
"You don't want to wear the AIDS Ribbon? Why don't you want to wear the AIDS Ribbon?"
"You don't want to acknowledge bias in the MSM? Why not?"
The American Free Press is just fine the way it is. In fact, I want more of it. The answer to free speech is more free speech. It's messy, deal with it.
Americans getting killed or Americans shooting innocents. Take your pick of stories written by the press.
Yeah ... tortured, too, no doubt.
We are? By who? You?
Can you document this?
I am frankly tired of seeing this straw-man trotted out. It is intellectually lazy.
Another Stage-Managed Scene?
Qana?
Jalalabad borders on Pakistan. That area is the Wild West of the East.
Taliban country
Read more!
Travel!
Listen!
Read again!
Capitalists?
The Democrats at the national level and most of the liberal MSM especially the AP have not only openly encouraged America's military efforts in the War on Terror to fail they have also attempted to talk the American economy into failure. This last, thankful did not work.
Why?
So they could use the military and economic failures politically against president Bush and the Republicans. You see, The Dems and the MSM are willing to sacrifice everything in order to regain power.
Now. Did you just arrive on the planet? They've been trying to trash the economy with every bad piece of news since Bush came in. They've been screaming quagmire, tens of thousands of body bags will be needed since Oct. 2001. Always highlighting the failures in an attempt to turn public opinion against America's military efforts. Every American death serves their cause.
Right! It's all a giant conspiracy.
Your hyperbolic absolutes are a bunch of jive, and speaking of another planet, your the mother ship is waiting.
You scare me.
Okay, so the Associated Press and the others in the MSM have NOT been attempting to turn public opninion against the War on Terror? You know, by highlighting the bad news, running pictures of the American dead.
Have they or have they not?
What scares me after doing this for years a majority of the 40% of registered voters (maybe 22% of registered voters, the American people have spoken!) put the Democrats in control of Congress.
There is no such thing as the MSM. It's a throw-away line for radio talk show hosts and people who buy their schtick. I defy you to define it. To try to define it is to say that all those who you put into this mythical MSM think as one. Thousands of people thinking as one is an agenda . . a conspiracy. Wake up, Hank. Life ain't that simple and most people are smart enough not to buy into your bogeyman theory.
okay, there's no MSM There are MANY in the media who have been promoting failure in the WOT for years. have you really not noticed this?
I don't deliberately look for skunks but occasionally I see a skunk and when I see the skunk I do not deny that it IS a skunk because I am not looking for skunks.
Who said anything about denying that bias exists?
It exists, but does that mean it has to be hysterically pointed out at every turn?
Someone is hysterical?
In general. Watch some of the threads. It's a waste of bandwidth.
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