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US Airstrike Kills 23 at Wedding Party


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KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an inquiry into allegations that 15 civilians were killed in a U.S. military strike targeting militants.

An Afghan boy believed to have been injured in a coalition bombing is placed in a stretcher Sunday.

The probe into Friday's incident on the border of Konar and Nurestan provinces came as local officials said another coalition bombing in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed at least 23 people and wounded 10 others who were walking to a wedding party.

U.S. military Capt. Christian Patterson said he had heard no reports that civilians had been killed in Friday's incident.

Karzai's office was told that attack killed 24 militants, spokesman Siamak Hirawi said Sunday, but he said local officials alleged 15 civilian lives were lost. Karzai called for an investigation to sort through the conflicting reports, Hirawi said.

Among the civilians that were reportedly killed in Friday's U.S. helicopter attack were five members of one family: a doctor and at least two children, the spokesman said.

"The wedding party was supposed to be going from one village to another to take the bride to the house of the groom," Gul said. "You will have to ask the Americans whether these were terrorists. So far as I know they were men, women and children traveling to a wedding."

The incident is still under investigation, according to Col. Tanwar, the head of the anti-terror police unit in Nangarhar. He noted that the time of the incident "seems very early for a wedding party."

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Why do these idiots keep bombing wedding parties...some General disgruntled with his divorce settlement or something?

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Why do these idiots keep bombing wedding parties...some General disgruntled with his divorce settlement or something?

Sadly... the official claim will be, as usual, that the insurgency fighters were using the bride, groom as well as the whole wedding party as shields so destroying everybody, including Mom, Dad

, grand parents, children and pets is warranted and justified.

... next inquiry, please.

... next!

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are we 100% sure it was a wedding party, the very last sentence at the end of the post says, "according to Col. Tanwar, the head of the anti-terror police unit in Nangarhar. He noted that the time of the incident "seems very early for a wedding party" so something is amiss,

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are we 100% sure it was a wedding party, the very last sentence at the end of the post says, "according to Col. Tanwar, the head of the anti-terror police unit in Nangarhar. He noted that the time of the incident "seems very early for a wedding party" so something is amiss,

Oh? now we got rules when the groom and entourage is supposed to walk to the next village to get the bride? I thought that depended on the distance.

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Oh? now we got rules when the groom and entourage is supposed to walk to the next village to get the bride? I thought that depended on the distance.

well, i dunno, but lets see what the report finds, before the Yanks get another bashing,

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July 11, 2008

Afghan government says 47 civilians killed when US bombed wedding party

Tom Coghlan, Kabul

An Afghan government investigation has concluded that 45 women and children and two men were killed when a US aircraft bombed a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan last Sunday, .

The nine-man investigation team appointed by the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, found that only civilians were hit during the airstrike.

Burhanullah Shinwari, the leader of the investigation team and the deputy speaker of Afghanistan's Upper House, said: "We found that 47 civilians, mostly women and children, were killed in the airstrikes and another nine were wounded."

The claims of civilian casualties were initially strongly rebutted by the US military. A US military statement released last Sunday claimed: "intelligence revealed a large group of militants operating in Deh Bala district. Coalition forces identified the militants in a mountainous region and used precision air strikes to kill them."

This morning, a military spokesman said that a separate US investigation into the incident was ongoing.

A US military spokesman, Lieutenant-Colonel Rumi Nielson-Green, told The Times: "We don't have a position on this. There is an ongoing investigation, which has not concluded yet. Any loss of civilian life is tragic and we go to great lengths to avoid civilian deaths. Certainly, I can say that no civilians were targeted."

Local officials in Deh Bala produced graphic testimony of what they said was a bomb strike on a party of around 70 or 80 civilians accompanying a wedding party on foot.

The Governor of Deh Bala, Haji Amishah Gul, told The Times: "The attack happened at 6.30am. Just two of the dead are men, the rest are women and children. The bride is among the dead."

Injured civilians later arrived at the main hospital in Jalalabad, repeating claims that a wedding party had been hit near the village of Ka Chona.

One of the injured, who identified himself as Kerate, said that a group of around 70 people, mostly women, were escorting the bride to meet her groom, as local tradition dictates. He said: "We were bombed. I couldn't figure out what had happened and I went unconscious. When I woke up, I saw lots of people killed and injured."

Full story, source: The Times

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July 11, 2008

Afghan government says 47 civilians killed when US bombed wedding party

The Governor of Deh Bala, Haji Amishah Gul, told The Times: "The attack happened at 6.30am. Just two of the dead are men, the rest are women and children. The bride is among the dead."

Full story, source: The Times

Wedding Party at 6:30AM??? I guess the ceremony was at 3AM ?

Is that a usual wedding time in Afghanistan?

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Wedding Party at 6:30AM??? I guess the ceremony was at 3AM ?

Is that a usual wedding time in Afghanistan?

Did you even read the article?, I didn't think so. She was walking from her village to her grooms village so I would imagine an early start would be appropriate. They hadn't had the cerimony yet :rolleyes:

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Did you even read the article?, I didn't think so. She was walking from her village to her grooms village so I would imagine an early start would be appropriate. They hadn't had the cerimony yet :rolleyes:

Did you even read the title of this forum? US airstrike kills 23 at Wedding party. :rolleyes:

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Why do these idiots keep bombing wedding parties...some General disgruntled with his divorce settlement or something?

actually, that IS a valid point. Why is it ALWAYS wedding parties? I smell a rat.

Remember the 'baby milk factory" the US supposedly bombed in Iraq years ago? I do. It had a wonderfully misspelled sign in front of it. It said "Babi Milk Factory", and was reportedly the actual sign in front of the "factory". It was a FRAUD. It was a sign the Iraqi's put up, AFTER the bombing.

The point is, it's always a "wedding party" that gets bombed. I don't believe them. I think it's a lie to try to make the US look bad.

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What is it with wedding parties and US Missiles?? Isn't this like the 100th time a wedding party has been bombed?? You would think that they would come up with something different by now..like 'US bombs Tupperware party' or 'US bombs Afghani Bar Mitzvah'... :huh: well...maybe not that, but you get my point..

/hmmm...

//sounds suspiciously early for a wedding..

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What is it with wedding parties and US Missiles?? Isn't this like the 100th time a wedding party has been bombed?? You would think that they would come up with something different by now..like 'tupperware party' or 'Bar Mitzva'... :huh: well maybe not that, but you get my point..

/hmmm...

//sounds suspiciously early for a wedding..

I guess just throwing confetti was out of the question.

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I guess just throwing confetti was out of the question.

Badumb-ching! (rimshot). :lol:

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Have the dead been checked to see if their injuries resemble that of an Airstrike, can we rule out that the Taliban havent been upto no good,

because i'd like to think the US had eyes on before they dropped any bombs, an example is the British even though flying high tech planes still use binoculars to check the target just before they drop the bombs just to make sure,

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Not party as in let's all get together and dance and drink. Party as in group of people.

Didn't you guys ever go to a restaurant where they said, "Party of four" or whatever number was in your group?

A wedding party is the group of people involved with the wedding, not just the celebration time after the ceremony.

(shakes head)

Perhaps the military screwed up. Perhaps these 'evil miltants' get married too?

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Not party as in let's all get together and dance and drink. Party as in group of people.

Didn't you guys ever go to a restaurant where they said, "Party of four" or whatever number was in your group?

A wedding party is the group of people involved with the wedding, not just the celebration time after the ceremony.

(shakes head)

Perhaps the military screwed up. Perhaps these 'evil miltants' get married too?

I just am astounded at how many GROUPS of people headed to a wedding or involved in one get bombed. It seems like it's a new one every month. Maybe they round up the murdering brethren, carry around their AK-47's and rocket launchers and all head out to the local Mosque to get married. Who the heck knows.

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Not party as in let's all get together and dance and drink. Party as in group of people.

Didn't you guys ever go to a restaurant where they said, "Party of four" or whatever number was in your group?

A wedding party is the group of people involved with the wedding, not just the celebration time after the ceremony.

(shakes head)

Perhaps the military screwed up. Perhaps these 'evil miltants' get married too?

Married? I think they go out and buy a fresh batch of wives from time to time.

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Married? I think they go out and buy a fresh batch of wives from time to time.

Fresh? You mean they spoil after a while? Crap! I better check mines expiration date!

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carry around their AK-47's and rocket launchers and all head out to the local Mosque to get married. Who the heck knows.

Those are *Ceremonial* rocket launchers. We should be able to tell the difference... (joke)

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