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Cable suggests troops killed Iraqi civilians

admin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:40:49 +0000

The U.S. has another WikiLeaks headache on its hands – this time a diplomatic cable suggesting American troops brutally executed Iraqi civilians.

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Roadside bombs kill 17 civilians in Afghanistan (AP)

admin — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 13:58:48 +0000

AP – Roadside bombs have killed 17 people in southern Afghanistan, including 13 who died when an explosion ripped through the van they were traveling in on Saturday morning, the government said.

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Libya says NATO airstrike killed 9 civilians (AP)

admin — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 04:32:30 +0000

AP – Libya’s government said NATO warplanes struck a residential neighborhood in the capital Sunday and killed nine civilians, including two children. Hours later, NATO confirmed one of its airstrikes went astray.

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Libya says 9 civilians killed in NATO airstrike (AP)

admin — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 22:22:04 +0000

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Rights group: 757 civilians killed in Syria (AP)

admin — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:33:46 +0000

AP – A Syrian human rights group says 757 civilians have been killed in Syria since an uprising against President Bashar Assad’s regime began in mid-March.

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U.S. soldiers’ ‘kill team’ killed Afghani civilians for sport: report

admin — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:43:31 +0000

Rogue U.S. soldiers snipped the pinky off an Afghan teenager they’d murdered for kicks – and later used it to wage a bet while they were playing spades. That’s one of the shocking stories that appeared Monday in a new Rolling Stone magazine expose of the an alleged Army “kill team” that targeted innocent Afghan civilians for death.

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U.S. Soldier sentenced to 24 years in prison after admitting he murdered innocent Afghan civilians

admin — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 02:24:44 +0000

U.S. soldier Jeremy Morlock was sentenced to 24 years in prison on Wednesday for the murder of Afghan civilians, after admitting he killed three innocent people in cold blood while on tour in 2010.

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Afghan official: Bomb kills 12 civilians (AP)

admin — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:48:07 +0000

AP – A roadside bomb killed 12 civilians, including five children, in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday in an attack President Hamid Karzai condemned as “against all principles of Islam.”

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US ups pressure on Sri Lanka over slain civilians (AP)

admin — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 09:10:52 +0000

AP – The United States is increasing pressure on Sri Lanka to investigate the deaths of thousands of civilians at the end of its civil war. Human rights groups contend a Sri Lankan government commission has demonstrated no intent of doing it.

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Afghan gov’t: NATO op killed 65 civilians (AP)

admin — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:43:18 +0000

AP – Sixty-five civilians, including 40 children, were killed in a NATO assault on insurgents in eastern Afghanistan earlier this month, according to findings of an Afghan government investigation released Sunday.

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