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Shocking footage that could prove 90 Afghans - not seven - died in U.S. airstrike (lots of pics)
Daily Mail.uk ^ | 08th September 2008 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 09/09/2008 9:48:09 AM PDT by yankeedame

Revealed: Shocking footage that could prove 90 Afghans - not seven - died in U.S. airstrike

Shocking images that may have forced the U.S. military to reopen an investigation into an airstrike that killed Afghan civilians have been published in the media.

The grim, eight minute clip, filmed on a mobile phone in the aftermath of the bombing, shows rows of shrouded bodies laid side-by-side in a make-shift morgue. Among them are at least 11 children, many of them toddlers.

...Afghanistan claims more than 90 people, many of them women and children, were killed in the August 22 strike....


The grainy phone video footage of the aftermath
of the attacks shows bodies lined up on the floor


The footage shows a woman bending over the body of one of
those killed in the airstrike,
which Afghanistan claims killed up to 90


The bodies were piled up against walls in the footage which
may have forced the U.S. to reopen the investigation

...New York Times said on Sunday cellphone videos and other images showed bodies of women and children laid... ut in the village mosque where the strike occurred.

...villagers dug up the last victim from the rubble, a baby just a few months old, it said.


An Afghan woman wounded in the attack lies on a
bed at a hospital. Afghanistan says up to 90 women and children were
killed in the; the US claimed it was only seven.


An Afghan woman rages against the U.S. in front of her destroyed
home in Azizabad after the air strike

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; agitprop; antiamericanism; islam; mediawar; mohammedanism; taliban; wot
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To: underbyte
Maybe it is not a good idea to be associate with people that can
get hit with a hellfire missile fired from a drone at anytime?


I don't know what sort of public warning the US Military gave
to non-combatants about the precision of killing.
Maybe the Afghanis and Iraqis saw the precision bombing of the
US forces and presumed they could safely stand next to the bad boys.
And only the bad boys would be hit/killed when US aircraft appeared.

As far as I'm concerned, the main message to Afghanis/Iraqis
should have known is it's dangerous to stand within maybe a couple
of football fields of the bad guys (roughly the lethal blast radius
of the average bombs dropped by US aircraft?).

I suspect some of the the griping (fair or not) in Afghanistan
is from not being able to repel the US forces like they did the
Soviet forces. And a long line of foreign forces that proceeded them.
Bitchin' and whinin' and propaganda about "American atrocities" are
just about the only real weapons left to them.
21 posted on 09/09/2008 10:10:13 AM PDT by VOA
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To: yankeedame
I wish I knew the motivation of the Daily Mail in creating this article, and its incendiary headline

I don't really care, nor can I generate even a hint of sympathy for the animals claiming to be victims. The reasons are clear and obvious to any rational person. Let's reiterate the obvious:

No truly human person would want their children present in a conflict, and in a location, where the enemy, justified or not, is likely to attack. Never. Not ever, under any circumstances.

The ones responsible are the subhuman parents and other adults stuck on stupid: stuck in the delusion that the "Baby Milk Plant" approach to outrage will have even the slightest effect on me, or on any other rational human being.

Whether a dozen or a hundred dozen kids are killed in an attack on savages either killing other innocents, planning to do so, or preparing munitions and explosives to do so is a disaster of their own making.

Made doubly horrible by the reality that they plan it that way, in the now forlorn hope that they can continue using the "children" (which they obviously care little about) as a weapon against us.

And the hedonistic idiots in the "west" react to the propaganda as if they never had a brain in their heads.

What is the feeling that accrues beyond "despair?"

22 posted on 09/09/2008 10:11:16 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Change is not a plan; Hope is not a strategy.)
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To: yankeedame

The Daily Mail left out the puppies and kitties.

I’m pretty sure that they also killed some puppies and kittens too.


23 posted on 09/09/2008 10:11:21 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: yankeedame

Olie North and his camera man were along on this raid....they have proof that this is made up. Check fox news


24 posted on 09/09/2008 10:13:19 AM PDT by mpackard (Read my Lip-Stick)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

“I hope no innocents were actually killed”

There is no such thing as a innocent in a war zone.


25 posted on 09/09/2008 10:15:20 AM PDT by dalereed (both)
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To: yankeedame

We should warn all those that are in that region that they will be treated as the enemy.


26 posted on 09/09/2008 10:16:28 AM PDT by Selmore (You want fries with that?)
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To: Selmore

Up to and including termination if necessary.


27 posted on 09/09/2008 10:17:04 AM PDT by Selmore (You want fries with that?)
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To: yankeedame
Isn't this text book agitprop in cold war jargon. Brilliant in fact. Any operation where two teams are trying to kill each other can go downhill very quickly. Let's see what really happened. I just won't be the one to blame America first.
28 posted on 09/09/2008 10:19:34 AM PDT by Calusa (Bajo como el Dolar. Subo como el Cafe!)
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To: yankeedame

I’m sorry - this doesn’t prove anything. And I hate to say it, but the media has a history of faking pictures so as to make their side look better.


29 posted on 09/09/2008 10:20:40 AM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Obama for President!)
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To: yankeedame

Given the obvious lack of neither dolphin nor puppy casualites, I’m rather surprised the British press bothered to cover this story. /sarc off They might have a ounce of credibility when they cover suicide bombings in Israel with the same level of concern — considering they’re not (officially anyway) at war with the Jews.


30 posted on 09/09/2008 10:23:04 AM PDT by covered wagon
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To: yankeedame

It’s interesting that the victims are all grainy and hard to make out and the angry afghan peasants are in full detail...


31 posted on 09/09/2008 10:26:32 AM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Obama for President!)
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To: yankeedame
Shocking footage that could prove 90 Afghans - not seven - died in U.S. airstrike

Were they were all wearing "baby milk factory" patches written in English?

Now THAT would be "proof"!

32 posted on 09/09/2008 10:28:28 AM PDT by RJL
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To: yankeedame
How come I get this message when I try to read the "story"?

Sorry...

The page you have requested does not exist or is no longer available.


33 posted on 09/09/2008 10:34:32 AM PDT by McGruff (Ooooooohhhh, Sarah Barracuda. Ohhhhhhhhhhhh.)
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To: yankeedame

They came to our country and killed thousands of innocent Americans. Now they pay the price and will continue to pay the price. Why we play these games on the battlefield is beyond me. Go back to WWII standards and start carpet bombing until there is nothing left.


34 posted on 09/09/2008 10:35:10 AM PDT by Dogbert41
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To: yankeedame
Not my house again!


35 posted on 09/09/2008 10:37:38 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: boycott
"If they were giving refuge to the Taliban, who cares? Not me"

I agree, 110%

It's war and if you find yourself hanging out with the participants in that war, than you are no longer a "civilian". Keep your children and family with you in that environment, and be responsible for the consequences.

36 posted on 09/09/2008 10:38:00 AM PDT by Lloyd227 (and may God bless Oriana Fallaci)
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To: yankeedame

Ho-Hum


37 posted on 09/09/2008 10:42:16 AM PDT by itches (the Dicks (politicians/governments) keep changing, but the Asses are always Ours!)
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To: CodeToad

Yep, these bodies could be from a market bombing in Iraq, Lebanon, wherever. Who can say with certainty?


38 posted on 09/09/2008 10:53:59 AM PDT by Pete98 (After his defeat by the Son of God, Satan changed his name to Allah and started over.)
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To: yankeedame

Memo to Afghanis and Pakis: Don’t harbor terrorists and you won’t have anything to worry about. Harbor terrorists and you are in the fire zone.

Have a nice day.


39 posted on 09/09/2008 10:54:16 AM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: yankeedame

Oh well


40 posted on 09/09/2008 10:54:43 AM PDT by Pajama Blogger (Pajama Power)
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