NATO Airstrike Kills Up to 40 Civilians, 90 Dead

On September 4, 2009, NATO forces in Kunduz, Afghanistan conducted an airstrike on two stolen fuel tankers in a village, killing scores of civilians.

Today's strike comes as the U.S. debates massive troop increases in Afghanistan. Data shows, however, that troop increases do not decrease civilian deaths, either in total or just those caused by coalition forces.

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[EvolutionAFact]

Aw that's too bad. If those towel heads would stand up to the Taliban and not allow them in their communities then they wouldn't be blown to peaces by an air strike.

[Dhaune]

you know each person dies only once in a lifetime, there are no re-spawn points in afghanistan ;)

[EvolutionAFact]

@saurabhdelft I know about the history. I know we told Islamic people from all over to come to Afghanistan and gave then money with no oversight. But the Islamic people of that region molded the Taliban into the terrorist origination it is today. I don't agree with allot of things my country does, ESPECIALLY when it's motivated by religion.

[VpR81]

Well, up to 40 dead civilians and up to 90 dead overall. Means, up to 50 dead taliban. Why does nobody talk about the killed taliban bastards? The germans are the scape goats now. Even an american general visited the survivors of the attack and told them how sad he feels for them and that no american troops ordered that attack!?? Where the fuck is that general when american troops kill civilians, who so often??? Ha? Where the fuck does he hide then? Double moral, nothing more.

[CRANKYGERMAN]

in reply to frogstomp

[CRANKYGERMAN]

1. Col. Klein took this decision after hour-long consideration

2. You disregard the fact that there was a threat at hand, a rolling bomb that could have killed even more people

3. There is only ONE combat company in Kunduz which was engaged around the time of the bombing - politicians here are very concerned about the "peaceful" image of ISAF.

Fact: 57% of Germans are against the ISAF mission. Yet we are still in Afghanistan, and I start wondering wheter I live in a democracy...

[Dhaune]

you are right, there are countless ways of how peace can come about, people need to be educated not politically but spiritually, but before that happens there is no way of creating and preserving a better world, knowledge is everything

[Dhaune]

what is war other than stupidity, its the work of governments and sick power hungry bastards

[Dhaune]

so the politicians and the governments in power achieve their sick plans

[scaurus]

You and i want only good for the afghans though we differ on how that good will come

about.You say withdraw because we shouldn't be there, us being there gets innocents killed and eventual stability will come. Afghanistan was left to it's own devices once after the soviet-afghan war and it's continual instability and resulting tenure to extremists caused the global community and the afghans to pay for it years later through our apathy and indulgence.

[scaurus]

For us civilians at home, we can make opinions and criticisms of the war and it's participants, but based on hindsight, along with second hand accounts, and declarations from the taliban themselves; which are obviously self-serving.Also we sometimes fail to acknowledge that incompetency, fog of war, and yes, stupidity, play their role to tragedies in this conflict, despite our sophisticated tech