Brutal U.S. Attack On Unarmed Afghans Captured by Photos

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080806A.shtml

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1217554.ece

Brutal US Attack on Unarmed Afghans Captured by Photos
By Tom Coghlan
The Independent UK

Tuesday 08 August 2006

Claims that US troops shot dead up to six unarmed Afghan civilians two months ago in Kabul have been given added credibility with a series of photographs offering visual evidence of military misconduct.

The pictures were taken by an Afghan passer-by on 29 May in Khair Kane, a district of north Kabul. The 20 photographs appear to show a group of unarmed Afghan civilians being killed by gunfire from an American Humvee.

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The Kabul pictures were taken as American vehicles fled the scene of an accident in which several Afghans were killed and injured after a US Army truck lost control and hit a number of civilian vehicles. Shot from a hillside above where the original accident took place, they show a crowd of Afghans throwing stones at the American vehicles.

A sequence of pictures show US vehicles leaving at high speed as the crowd stones them. In one sequence, a clearly unarmed Afghan man is seen with an American Humvee in the background, then as part of a group of men throwing stones towards the Americans. Two frames later his lifeless body is on the ground, having apparently been shot in the chest.

Another picture shows the body of an 18-year-old mechanic named Maiwan. His family said he was also hit by bullets fired from a US Humvee towards the crowd. His brother Jawad, 19, said Maiwan died from wounds to his knee and chest. "We are not the sort of people to do anything against US forces," said Jawad. "Maiwan was quiet and friendly. My father loved him too much, more than the rest of us."

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[malaise]

1. And they wonder about the anger

across the ME and surrounding regions. WTF is wrong with these goons.

[mom cat]

2. Nothing that we do will ever heal the wounds we have inflicted or

win any hearts or minds. I am just glad that the pictures were taken. At least people will have proof.

[Hissyspit]

3. .