Posts Tagged ‘Civilians’

NATO disputes claims it killed 64 Afghan civilians (AP)

Smoke rises from a bank in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011. Gunmen wearing explosives vests stormed a bank in eastern Afghanistan Saturday as government employees were waiting to be paid, killing a number of people and wounding scores of others in a standoff punctuated by deadly explosions. (AP Photo/Shir Shah Hamdard)AP – Tribal elders in a remote part of northeastern Afghanistan claimed Sunday that NATO forces killed 64 civilians in air and ground strikes over the past four days. The international coalition denied the claim, saying video showed troops targeting and killing dozens of insurgents.


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NATO probes claims it killed 64 Afghan civilians (AP)

Smoke rises from a bank in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011. Gunmen wearing explosives vests stormed a bank in eastern Afghanistan Saturday as government employees were waiting to be paid, killing a number of people and wounding scores of others in a standoff punctuated by deadly explosions. (AP Photo/Shir Shah Hamdard)AP – NATO dispatched a team of investigators to a remote area of northeast Afghanistan on Sunday to look into claims that coalition forces killed 64 civilians there in recent air and ground strikes.


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Civilians watch over neighborhoods in Egypt chaos (AP)

Egyptians grapple with an alleged looter, right, as soldiers look on, in Cairo, Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011. The Arab world's most populous nation appeared to be swiftly moving closer to a point at which it either dissolves into widespread chaos or the military expands its presence and control of the streets. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP – When Egypt’s police melted from the streets of Cairo this weekend, the people stepped in.


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Blast kills at least 14 civilians in Afghanistan (AP)

A former Taliban fighter places a range of bullets before surrendering it to Afghan authorities, as part of a peace-reconciliation program in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)AP – A roadside bomb blew up next to a minibus at a crowded intersection on a major highway in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least 14 civilians, officials said.


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Blast kills at least 10 civilians in Afghanistan (AP)

A former Taliban fighter places a range of bullets before surrendering it to Afghan authorities, as part of a peace-reconciliation program in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)AP – A roadside bomb blew up next to a minibus at a crowded intersection on a highway in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least 10 civilians, NATO and Afghan officials said.


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Roadside bomb kills 15 civilians in Afghanistan (AP)

Afghan women , some holding  portraits of their relatives killed in the past three decades of war in Afghanistan, during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2010. Several hundred demonstrators shouted for justice and peace Friday in the Afghan capital, just hours before a suicide car bomber blew himself up in the east killing two civilians. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)AP – A roadside bomb planted by the Taliban has killed 15 civilians in a dangerous and remote region of southern Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.


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NKorea accuses South of using civilians as shields (AP)

Family members of Seo Jeong-woo, a South Korean marine killed in Tuesday's North Korean bombardment, cry during a funeral service at a military hospital in Seongnam, South Korea, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010. South Korea honored two marines killed in the artillery attack that was one of the worst bombardments of its territory since the 1950-53 Korean War. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP – North Korea on Saturday accused South Korea of using civilians as human shields at an island the North attacked this week, saying the South was publicizing the deaths of two of the civilians as part of a propaganda campaign.


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