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US soldier kills 16 Afghan civilians in Kandahar

A US soldier in Afghanistan has killed at least 16 civilians and wounded five after entering their homes in Kandahar province, senior local officials say.

BBC 11 March 2012 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17330205
He left his military base in the early hours of the morning and opened fire in at least two homes; women and children were among the dead.

Nato said it was investigating the "deeply regrettable incident".

Anti-US sentiment is already high in Afghanistan after US soldiers burnt copies of the Koran last month.

Local people have reportedly gathered near the base in Panjwai district to protest about Sunday's killings, and the US embassy is advising against travel to the area.

- US officials have apologised repeatedly for the incident at a Nato base in Kabul, but they failed to quell a series of protests and attacks that killed at least 30 people and six US troops.

- US soldiers 'killed Afghan civilians for sport and collected fingers as trophies'

2010 - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/09/us-soldiers-afghan-civilians-fingers

Soldiers face charges over secret 'kill team' which allegedly murdered at random and collected fingers as trophies of war.

- Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret "kill team" that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies.

Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for sport in separate attacks this year. 

Seven others are accused of covering up the killings and assaulting a recruit who exposed the murders when he reported other abuses, including members of the unit smoking hashish stolen from civilians.

In one of the most serious accusations of war crimes to emerge from the Afghan conflict, the killings are alleged to have been carried out by members of a Stryker infantry brigade based in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan.

Leaked Video Shows US Contractors
Randomly Killing Civilians

Infowars - April 10, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1trSD3Auyo&feature=player_embedded

Employees of the US military contracting group are seen in new leaked video shooting their machine guns at random citizens while driving through the streets of Baghdad.

Sadly, when the US government finds the person who leaked these videos the whistleblower will suffer the same fate as Bradley Manning and be charged as an enemy combatant providing support for Al-Qaeda.

Employees of the US military contracting group Academi (formerly Xe, Blackwater USA and Blackwater Worldwide) are seen in new leaked video shooting their machine guns at random while driving through the streets of Baghdad, crashing into other cars and even running over a pedestrian without hesitation. Academi received a $250 million contract by the Obama administration to provide military services in Afghanistan.

Watch the videos:
http://harpers.org/archive/2012/04/hbc-90008515

What is Academi (aka Blackwater)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi

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- Record number of Afghan civilians
killed in war last year: UN

Reuters | Feb 4, 2012, 12

KABUL: More than 3,000 civilians were killed in the war in Afghanistan in 2011, the fifth year in a row the number has risen, the United Nations said on Saturday in a report likely to revive tension between the Afghan government and its Western backers.

Civilian deaths undermine support both in Afghanistan and the United States for the US-led war, and are one of the biggest causes of friction between President Hamid Karzai and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

Bombs planted on roads, and increasingly deadly suicide attacks that targeted civilians, killed more people than any other type of attack, according to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).

"The tactics of choice of anti-government elements subjected Afghan civilians to death and injury with increasingly lethal results in 2011," UNAMA said in a statement accompanying the report.

"Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were the single largest killer of Afghan children, women and men in 2011."

Forces fighting against Karzai's government and its ISAF allies killed 2,332 civilians in 2011, 14 percent more than in 2010, while security forces battling the militants killed 410 civilians, down 4 percent from the previous year, UNAMA said.

The total number of non-combatants killed last year was 3,021, it said.

Bombs, including roadside mines detonated by people stepping on them or vehicles driving over them, accounted for 967 deaths, UNAMA said, the biggest single killer of civilians.

The "anti-government elements" referred to by the United Nations include the Taliban and allied Haqqani network, among others.

NATO air strikes

In November last year, Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar called on his fighters to avoid killing civilians, but only days later, a suicide bomber killed several civilians outside a mosque.

"While the number of suicide attacks did not increase over 2010, the nature of these attacks changed, becoming more complex, sometimes involving multiple bombers, and designed to yield greater numbers of dead and injured civilians," UNAMA said.

"Targeted killings of civilians by anti-government elements also increased in 2011, with UNAMA documenting 495 such killings across the country," it said.

Air strikes launched by the NATO-led force were its biggest killer of civilians, with 187 of them killed.

Sixty-three people were killed in 2011 in so-called night raids, searches for insurgents usually by U.S.-led forces that have enraged communities and been singled out for criticism by Karzai. That death toll in the raids was down 22 percent from the previous year.

In total, fighting has killed almost 12,000 civilians since 2007, UNAMA said.

Security is an increasing concern among Afghans as foreign combat troops prepare to leave in 2014.

US defence secretary Leon Panetta surprised Kabul this week by saying American troops -- which form the vast majority of the 130,000-strong NATO fighting force -- would stop taking the lead in combat operations before the end of 2013, ahead of a well-publicised end-2014 deadline for the exit for foreign combat forces.

http://cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm

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