This is a Nazi tactic.

And it did not work for them, either.

An air raid by the US air force has killed 100 civilians in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, the provincial governor has said.



Governor Assadullah Wafa said a village in Sangin district of Helmand province was bombed by the Americans late on Tuesday in revenge for the death of one of the coalition troops.

"Twenty-one women and children as well as other civilians, were killed," the governor said.

Wafa said the coalition forces had told him that for every one coalition soldier killed they would kill 100 civilians in return.



He said there had been intense fighting in Sangin in recent days and one soldier was killed and a number injured.

despite the overmatched military and all the hardware of a 'super' power.

Freemen can only be killed, never conquered.

We are the new nazis and our children the inheritors of our evil and complacency, God help them.

I remember the ruins of the 3rd reich in Germany and the misery their compliance and hubris caused them.

The nazi influence in the present day American political is endemic to the nature of their arrogant assumption that might is right. Historically this has been challenged by the successful resistance of a determined majority.

The nazis were wrong.

Power is not strength.

And the ruling class families that financed Hitler are still in power, no matter their crests or name. Anyone who believes that they have more right to life and liberty than some other group may as well call themselves nazis as there is only a difference in nomenclature. The goals remain the same... as do the end results.

Catastrophe,ruin, humiliation and misery from the long hard fall from its perch of self superiority.

every time someone resorts to insults and other childish tantrums, instead of reason, they get hidden.

not everyone in Germany was a nazi. But the ones who remained silent may as well have been.

Just like the self absorbed and petty individuals who think they are on the winning side regardless of the morality of their cause, here ( assuming that we are talking to a U.S. resident ) or anywhere.

this is why we are here, or at least there.

21 civilians killed in Afghan airstrike

NOOR KHAN

AP

Tuesday May 08, 2007

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Airstrikes called in by U.S. Special Forces soldiers fighting with insurgents in southern Afghanistan killed at least 21 civilians, officials said Wednesday. One coalition soldier was also killed.

Helmand provincial Gov. Assadullah Wafa said Taliban fighters sought shelter in villagers' homes during the fighting in the Sangin district Tuesday evening, and that subsequent airstrikes killed 21 civilians, including several women and children.

The U.S.-led coalition said militants fired guns, rocket propelled grenades and mortars at U.S. Special Forces and Afghan soldiers on patrol 15 miles north of Sangin.

Maj. William Mitchell, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, said troops killed a "significant" number of militants.

"We don't have any report of civilian casualties. There are enemy casualties — I think the number is significant," Mitchell said without releasing an exact figure.

A resident of the area, Mohammad Asif, said five homes in the village of Soro were bombed during the battle, killing 38 people and wounding more than 20. He said Western troops and Afghan forces had blocked people from entering the area.

Death tolls in remote battle sites in Afghanistan are impossible to verify. Taliban fighters often seek shelter in Afghan homes, leading to civilian casualties, and it is often difficult to determine if people killed in such airstrikes were militants or civilians.

The battle left one coalition soldier dead, the U.S. military said. The military did not release the soldier's nationality, but it was likely an American Special Forces soldier.

Sangin, a militant hotbed in the heart of Afghanistan's biggest opium poppy region, has been the site of heavy fighting in recent weeks.

The soldier's death brings to 48 the number of NATO or coalition soldiers who have died in Afghanistan this year

The report of civilian casualties comes less than a week after Afghan officials said that 51 civilians were killed in the western province of Herat.

It also comes one day after the U.S. military apologized and paid compensation to the families of 19 people killed and 50 wounded by U.S. Marines Special Forces who fired indiscriminately on civilians after being hit by a suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan in March.

Afghanistan's upper house of parliament on Tuesday passed a bill calling for a halt to all international military operations unless coordinated with the Afghan government, action seen as a rebuke of the international mission here.

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