NATO airstrike kills more than 90 in Afghanistan
мнда...где-то там говорится..."не воруй". Не слабо, за один удар сразу 90 "бандитов" уложить, хотя по репорту похоже, что целились на цистерны.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapc...ike/index.html
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A NATO airstrike on a pair of hijacked fuel trucks early Friday in northern Afghanistan killed at least 90 people -- a mix of Taliban militants and civilians, NATO and provincial officials said.
A victim of an ISAF airstrike on a hijacked oil tanker is carried into the Kunduz hospital on Friday.
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Capt. Elizabeth Mathias of NATO's International Security Assistance Force, also known as ISAF, said the military believed there were no civilians near the trucks at the time of the attack.
However, she said that what was later learned, "... we know, there were civilians there."
Local Afghan officials were quoted as saying in some news reports that nearly half the people killed in the airstrike were civilians who rushed the fuel trucks. Mathias declined to confirm those numbers.
Investigators are trying to determine who was at the site and whether a mistake was made, Mathias said. She said a local NATO team is already in Kunduz province conducting an investigation with Afghan forces and another team from the central office is on its way.Watch more about the airstrikes »
"Because of the prevalence of reports of civilian casualties, we don't want to be seen as ignoring the situation," Mathias said. "We don't want to wait. If something happened, we want to apologize."
Brigadier General Eric Tremblay released a statement that said, "ISAF will do whatever is necessary to help the community, including medical assistance and evacuation as requested. ISAF regrets any unnecessary loss of human life, and is deeply concerned for the suffering that this action may have caused to our Afghan friends."See images of the strike aftermath »
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he was "deeply saddened" by the deaths. His office issued a statement saying he had ordered envoys to the area to investigate the incident and report back to him as soon as possible.
The delegates are from the Ministry of Interior Affairs, National Directorate of Security, and the Provincial Administrative Department, according to the statement.
A spokesman for the provincial governor, Mahboobullah Sayeedi, said more than 90 people were killed.
The fuel trucks were hijacked late Thursday in Kunduz province and were spotted several hours later on the banks of the Kunduz River, ISAF said.
The hijacked vehicles became stuck in the Chardara area of the Ali Abaad district while trying to cross the river, according to Sayeedi. Militants had commandeered the trucks, which were carrying fuel for NATO forces, he said. People tried to empty fuel from the tankers when they couldn't go any farther.
With the trucks stuck on the riverbank, a military attack was called in.
"After an assessment, it was determined that there were only insurgents in the area" and "the local ISAF commander ordered an airstrike, which destroyed the fuel trucks," Sidenstricker said
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