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Taliban fire on Afghan officials at attack site
Taliban militants opened fire Tuesday on a delegation of senior Afghan officials — including two of President Hamid Karzai’s brothers — visiting villages in southern Afghanistan where a U.S. soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians.
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AP source: Afghan shooter was from Stryker brigade
A U.S. soldier suspected of killing at least 16 Afghan civilians in a nighttime assault is from a brigade that was the first in the Army to use the Stryker, a nimble eight-wheeled, light infantry vehicle built for a post-Cold War era.
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Sixteen Afghan civilians killed in rogue U.S. attack
A U.S. soldier was detained after 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, were shot dead in what witnesses described on Sunday as a night-time massacre near a U.S. base in Afghanistan’s violent south. While U.S. officials rushed to distance the apparent rogue shooting from efforts by a 90,000-strong U.S. force in Afghanistan, the incident is sure to fan Afghan anger after U.S. soldiers inadvertently burnt copies of the Koran at a NATO base last month. The soldier in custody was described by one U.S. …
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Factbox: Shooting adds to U.S. incidents in Afghan, Iraq wars
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. soldier’s shooting of over a dozen Afghan civilians represents another flashpoint from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that could inflame sentiment against the United States abroad. Local officials said 16 civilians, including nine children and three women, were killed in a nighttime shooting spree on Sunday near a U.S. base in southern Afghanistan. U.S. officials said an American staff sergeant from a unit based in Washington State was in custody after the attack on villagers in three houses. The incident, believed to be one of the worst of its kind since the U. …
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U.S. serviceman in Afghan rampage
An American service member snapped in Afghanistan Sunday and went on a murder rampage, walking into civilian homes at 3 a.m. and shooting the occupants – mostly little kids – as they slept. Officials said he killed at least 16 villagers, including three women and nine children, in three homes.
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US soldier suspected of Afghan shooting spree
Senior U.S. officials were scrambling Sunday to determine what caused an American Army soldier to leave his base in southern Afghanistan and allegedly gun down as many as 16 Afghans in the early morning weekend hours.
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U.S. service member opens fire on Afghan civilians: official
A U.S. service member walked out of his base in southern Afghanistan on Sunday and started shooting Afghan civilians, the provincial governor said. People were both killed and wounded in the early morning shooting spree in Panjwai district of Kandahar province, Gov. Tooryalai Wesa said, though he did not provide numbers.
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