Woman, Children Die in U.S. Attack on Taliban

[Scairp]

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led troops killed three Taliban militants in a firefight in which two children and a woman also died in southeast Afghanistan, the U.S. military said.

Another child died in a separate gunbattle east of the Afghan capital, Kabul.

Among the dead militants was a Taliban commander named Raz Mohammad, who was implicated in many of the attacks against coalition forces in southeastern Paktika province, according to a U.S. military statement issued late on Wednesday.

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=ne-us-12-l3&flok=FF-RTO-rontz&idq=/ff/story/0002%2F20050324%2F0217996833.htm&sc=rontz

[Ruffhowse]

1. America kills kids real good and dead.

[Scairp]

2. Too bad for this woman and kids

No congressional intervention for them I guess.

[NVMojo]

3. they are not white.

[izzie]

4. That is just the child/women arm of those groups

They really have to be watched. You are never sure what a women and child will do against a company of Rangers.

[booksenkatz]

5. Just another day in our "culture of life!" :( nt

[maddezmom]

6. kick to combine

[chlamor]

7. Seven Killed in Afghanistan Fighting

Seven Killed in Afghanistan Fighting


Thursday March 24, 2005 12:01 PM

By STEPHEN GRAHAM

Associated Press Writer

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S.-led forces trying to capture a suspected Taliban militant got into a firefight that left seven people dead, including two children and a woman, the military said Thursday.

The suspected militant, Raz Mohammed, and two other insurgents were also killed in the firefight Tuesday in southeastern Paktika province near the Pakistani border, the military said.

``Coalition troops were fired on by Raz Mohammed and other Taliban forces when they attempted to capture Mohammed,'' the military said in a statement. ``During the ensuing firefight, Mohammed and two other enemy insurgents were killed. An Afghan woman and two children also died.''

An Afghan helping coalition troops also was killed, the military said. It was unclear if the man was a member of the Afghan security forces or an informer.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4888706,00.html

[daleo]

10. Nice use of passive language.

"During the ensuing firefight, Mohammed and two other enemy insurgents were killed. An Afghan woman and two children also died."

Perhaps they just coincidentally died of food poisoning at the very same time.

[Sub Atomic]

8. But didn't Boosh say

that the Taliban had been eliminated or some such crap?

[Whoa_Nelly]

9. Freedom & Democracy On The March!

And the woman and children are now free at last!
/<sarcasm>

:mad:

[leesa]

11. But are they white? If not, who cares?

[jdots]

12. Some arm chair general says " war is hell "

None of the bushies care,they have work to do for god.

[jdj]

13. um, I thought we dun kilt the tallyban.

right before we done freed iraq?

[Voltaire99]

14. Your tax dollars, hard at work!

What a return, too, eh? It's like having a personal savings account that pays off in dead foreign families!