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If people keep their children near "known terrorists" bad things like this are going to happen. The palestinians regularly use standers by to remove weapons from the scene to justify a claim of innocents. I find it hard to believe that if, for instance, they were five year old girls, the AP writer wouldn't have made the most of it. I don't know, of course, but I can't help wondering if these were teenage boys, and possibly even terrorists in training. This reminds me of the statistics liberals are constantly nattering about: the huge numbers of American children killed by gun violence. It sounds frightful, until you learn that most of them are teenage drug dealers or teenage gang members who shoot each other. Just curious, but if coalition forces could search the area after the bombing, why could not a ground attack have been utilized? Sort of like the operation used to rescue Pvt Lynch (sp), except in this case obliterate a bad guy? Gee, we're just trying to control the overpopulation of the country and have "zero-growth". Afghanistan 's Taliban guerillas have threatened to step up attacks ahead of the traditional Loya Jirga grand assembly this month to approve a new constitution, and said those attending deserved to be killed. A bomb exploded in central Kandahar, causing an undetermined number of injuries, an official said. A new cycle of violence, much of it claimed by defiant Taliban insurgents and increasingly targeting civilians, is threatening plans for a national election aimed at cementing Afghanistan's emergence from anarchy. Also Sunday, officials said two Turkish engineers and an Afghan had been kidnapped in Afghanistan, bringing to five the number of workers who have been abducted in Afghanistan in the last three days. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said he was "deeply saddened" by the "tragic loss of innocent life," and had spoken to Afghan President Hamid Karzai about the attack that killed the children. He said it had targeted a former Taliban commander named Mullah Wazir. West told The Associated Press that the suspect was killed in the attack, which saw an American A-10 aircraft strike an area south of the city of Ghazni, 100 miles southwest of the capital, Kabul. Air Force AC-130 gunship in Uruzgan province, which borders Ghazni province. Another air strike in Nuristan province in eastern Afghanistan on Oct. Coalition forces "will make every effort to assist the families of these innocent casualties and determine the cause of the civilian deaths," West said. During the Taliban regime, Wazir was a local district commander and was not known as a major player in the Taliban resistance. Afghan officials said the site was sealed off by coalition forces on Sunday. Masood said it was unclear if the 10 victims were Wazir and his family or their neighbors. Another official, deputy governor Khial Mohammed Husseini, said Wazir's immediate family lived in Pakistan. The Afghan officials said the attack took place in the village of Atla, just north of where the two Indian road engineers were kidnapped. The Turkish engineers and an Afghan colleague were abducted Friday when unidentified men burst into the office of a Turkish construction company southeast of the capital, said Nick Downie of the Afghanistan NGO Security Office, which protects aid workers. The Ministry of the Interior and the Turkish Embassy were both investigating the abduction. On Saturday, suspected Taliban kidnapped two Indian engineers working on the road. Taliban recently freed a Turkish engineer from the project after a month in captivity. The engineers were working for an Indian contractor helping resurface part of the Kabul-Kandahar road, a reconstruction project mainly funded by the United States. Four construction workers were killed in August, and de-mining operations along the road were suspended last month after a carjacking. In other violence Saturday, a bomb in Kandahar, the main southern stronghold of the Taliban, ripped through a bustling bazaar, wounding 20 Afghans. Taliban fighters claimed responsibility, saying the blast was aimed at American soldiers but went off late. International aid agencies have reduced operations in Afghanistan's south and east due to escalating violence, including the Nov. SITE=DCTM S&SECTION=HOME Prayers going out for our troops involved in this strike who risk their lives to save such children daily from enemies who continue to intentionally place the innocent in harm's way to most damage our heroes in the eyes of the watching world. Bush, Baghdad) 80 Post Reply | 81 Private Reply | 82 To 1 | 83 View Replies To: Ragtime Cowgirl Bump! Note to Afghani parents: Don't hire Taliban babysitters! If we discover "known terrorists" living in an apartment block in NYC, it's OK to level that apartment block to the ground, and serve anyone else in the building's right for "choosing to live near terrorists". It amazes me that posters like you would rather fight the terrorist in this country rather than kill them over there before they get over here. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
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