Afghan Airstrike Casualties

STORY:
Children are among the wounded survivors of an Afghan wedding party that officials say was bombed by U.S.warplanes.

The bride was among dozens of casualties brought to the main hospital in Kandahar city.

Survivors spoke of carnage.

[Juma Khan, Mother Wounded]:
"Some have lost their legs and some have lost their heads, about 95 people are dead and 70 more wounded. Americans did this."

Details of the incident in Shah Wali Kot district are still emerging. Reports suggest air strikes were launched after fighting erupted between Taliban insurgents and U.S. troops close to where the evening wedding was taking place.

Most of the dead are believed to be women and children. Scores of civilians have been killed in U.S. air strikes against militants this year leading to seething resentment against the presence of foreign troops and a rift between President Hamid Karzai and his Western backers.

The Afghan leader used an address congratulating America's new President-elect to call on Barack Obama to make it his priority to stop the killing of innocents.

[Hamid Karzi, President of Afghanistan]:
"Civilian casualties must be ended in Afghanistan. My first demand to the new elected president of America when he take office is to end the civilian casualties in Afghanistan and take the war to the save havens and terror training camps."

About 4,000 people, around a third of them civilians, have been killed this year in fighting with the Taliban, who have expanded the scope and scale of their insurgency.

NATO and U.S.-led coalition troops in Afghanistan say they do their utmost to avoid civilian casualties, but try telling that to these people.

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[94rainbowx33]

For Freedom ...

[xfire7]

You kill our people with your opium profits.You harbour those who kill thousands with your bombs.You hide the ringleaders within your country to prevent justice.You claim to be true muslims in your jihad.You do all these things against peaceful people ,yet complain when they fight back.I try hard to understand why,but I cannot.I care about the loss of innocents,do you?

[realitiesupremebeing]

america is full of asswipe infidal jerks go to hell America and all americans that pay TAXES to keep the war going Americans are all ASSWIPES ! ! !

[realitiesupremebeing]

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[realitiesupremebeing]

Has to be APPROVED by the controlled media & it's Henchmen, The Money Makers Bilderbergs Rockerfellers Rothchilds & rich families agenda. The fact that any of us have to go through a clearing houst to post a video so the Afgans can really see there is EVIL here to in EVIL INFIDAL AMERICA the word JIHAD is stupid ask ALLAH to drown america in it's own EVIL monies that have destroyed my life & has kept me from enjoying the fruits of my labor signed by

HRM Caesar Saint Augustine de Buonaparte

[ManfredW]

we need their raw materials, their lithium. thats why we need to force our democratic system upon them

[94rainbowx33]

kill this fag !

[abs8khan]

WE WILL GIVE YOU FREEDOM SOON! B.LADEN

[ssvalhall]

asymmetric warfare for jews and zionistic CFR

[matthew6995]

if you people didnt need us we wouldnt be there