Afghans don't like being killed
Odd. It seems the Afghans don't like being killed by our troops:
Hamid Karzai, the president of Afghanistan, has said he is enraged at the killing of scores of civilians by Western forces hunting Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.I mean, really, we got 136 bad guys and only killed 50 good guys doing it. What have they got to complain about? That's a 2.72 to 1 ratio! What more could you ask for?
Karzai summoned the US ambassador and Nato's senior commander to his presidential palace in Kabul on Wednesday to tell them that the death of civilians is "not acceptable anymore".
He said: "We can no longer accept civilian casualties the way they occur. It's becoming heavy for us."
Karzai's complaints followed a spate of high-profile incidents in which local people accused US and other Western troops of killing large numbers of Afghan civilians.
About 50 civilians have reportedly been killed in raids by US-led coalition troops in the past week, sparking four days of anti-American and anti-Karzai protests around the country.
The US army recognised that civilian deaths had occured in the raids and said that more than 136 Taliban fighters were killed in the clashes.
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