Rocket that killed (52) Afghan civilians fired by Nato: Karzai

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy.” - Gandhi

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/06-rocket-that-killed-afghan-civilians-fired-by-nato-karzai-rs-03

KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that Nato troops fired a rocket that killed “52 innocent civilians” in southern Afghanistan.

An investigation by the National Directorate of Security found that a house in Helmand province's Sangin district was hit on Friday “by a rocket launched by Nato/ISAF troops, leaving 52 civilians dead, including women and children,”a statement from Karzai's office said.

“The president condoled via phone with the mourning families and called on Nato troops to put into practice every possible measure to avoid harming civilians during military

[CanonRay]

1. 52 people in one house?

What's that all about?

[WinkyDink]

2. THAT is your first thought? Not the criminality of what we are doing? FYI: It's called BEING POOR.

[moksha]

3. Could be anything, funeral, wedding, family gathering.

[mike_c]

4. houses are often multifamily compounds, and can host dozens...

...during family events.

[Oregone]

5. They need predatory subprime loans

So they can all borrow their own huts. Thats precisely what I got out of the story

[tiny elvis]

10. they were hiding from a firefight

The incident happened in Helmand's Sangin district on Friday when civilians crammed into a mud-built house to flee fighting between NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops and Taliban insurgents, Siyamak Herawi told Reuters.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66P35Y20100726

as if they were corralled and nato blasted the biggest target

[Soylent Brice]

6. K&R

[gratuitous]

7. Well, I'm sure the real story will come out eventually

And only the most terroristic, ungrateful, should-be-dead-anyway bitter-enders will harbor a grudge against the NATO forces that are bringing Freedom, Democracy, Liberty, and Capitalism to their benighted little country. We're doing a very noble thing here! Why can't they see that?

[bigtree]

8. until Congress or the President relate these tragedies with their policy

. . . there will be zero accountability for these killings.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Congress and the prez will tell us that it was for their own good.

Bringing them "democracy", "peace", and McDonalds.