Afghans describe relatives' deaths in recent U.S. drone strike
By David Zucchino
December 1, 2013, 8:00 a.m.
JALALABAD, Afghanistan — Miya Jan was filling potholes on the rutted trail that leads to his village in rugged eastern Afghanistan when he heard the whine of a drone aircraft overhead.
The sunburned 28-year-old farmer looked up and saw a gray, narrow-winged drone circling the village. A few minutes later, he said, it fired a missile that landed with a tremendous thud across a stony ridge line.
Jan ran to the explosion site and recognized the burning frame of his cousin's blue pickup truck. Inside, he said, he saw blackened shapes — people whose torsos had been sheared off. He recognized the smoking remains of his brother, his brother's wife and their 18-month-old son. Jan and other villagers say 14 people were killed in the attack; U.S. and Afghan officials place the toll at 11.
"There were pieces of my family all over the road," said Jan, recalling the deadly Sept. 7 late afternoon incident in an interview last week. "I picked up those pieces from the road and from the truck and wrapped them in a sheet to bury them.
"Do the American people want to spend their money this way, on drones that kill our women and children?" he asked.
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Shame on all those who are condoning this. Ten years ago Robert Fisk described a similar drone strike, the description was almost identical, the people, the children, blown to bits.
Back then airc, Democrats claimed to be horrified by these murders. But today?
This OP would have received tons of outraged comments at how evil Bush was.
Have we become immune to the slaughter, or is it something else?
I just want to try to record that SOME Democrats are as horrified today by these war crimes as they were back then.
