NATO offers apology for killing Afghan civilians
Friday, 23 April 2010
From Fazle Rashid
NEW YORK, April 22: The NATO yesterday offered a public apology for shooting down four unarmed civilians in Afghanistan on Monday last. The incidents of Afghan civilians being killed by NATO or American forces have infuriated the people severely undermining West's war plan.
The killings have upset the war plans as West is preparing for a massive offensive in summer.
NATO by stating that it was rushing to deploy training teams across the country is admitting that troops deployed are not sufficiently trained to cope with the situation. The people hate the international forces, a tribal leader was quoted as saying. NATO and American convoys are considered by Afghans to be as dangerous a threat as the Talebans checkpoints and roadside bombs raising questions whether the damage can be reversed to any real degree, the New York Times in a report said today.
President Karzai, in the meanwhile, has indefinitely postponed the "peace jigra" with Talebans. The meeting was supposed to begin on May 2. A new date will only be announced after Karzai's visit to Washington which is billed for May. Iran's supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni denounced President Obama's new nuclear strategy describing it as a threat to Iranian people. Iran's military has announced that it would conduct a massive exercise in the Persian Gulf where the United States and Israel have both increased their military presence in recent month, the NYT said.
NEW YORK, April 22: The NATO yesterday offered a public apology for shooting down four unarmed civilians in Afghanistan on Monday last. The incidents of Afghan civilians being killed by NATO or American forces have infuriated the people severely undermining West's war plan.
The killings have upset the war plans as West is preparing for a massive offensive in summer.
NATO by stating that it was rushing to deploy training teams across the country is admitting that troops deployed are not sufficiently trained to cope with the situation. The people hate the international forces, a tribal leader was quoted as saying. NATO and American convoys are considered by Afghans to be as dangerous a threat as the Talebans checkpoints and roadside bombs raising questions whether the damage can be reversed to any real degree, the New York Times in a report said today.
President Karzai, in the meanwhile, has indefinitely postponed the "peace jigra" with Talebans. The meeting was supposed to begin on May 2. A new date will only be announced after Karzai's visit to Washington which is billed for May. Iran's supreme religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khameni denounced President Obama's new nuclear strategy describing it as a threat to Iranian people. Iran's military has announced that it would conduct a massive exercise in the Persian Gulf where the United States and Israel have both increased their military presence in recent month, the NYT said.