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Afghans question US mission after shootings
USA TODAY
By Tom A. Peter, Special for USA TODAY KABUL – ThroughoutAfghanistan, people are struggling with how to deal with allegations against an American soldier accused of leaving his base and killing 16 people Sunday. By Allauddin Khan, AP AnAfghan soldier ...
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USA TODAY
Afghan: US soldier shot my defenseless father
CBS News
Now, another wave of anti-foreigner hatred could threaten the entire future of the US-led coalition's mission in Afghanistan. The recent events have not only infuriated Afghanistan's people and leaders, but have also raised doubts among US political ...
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Mourning, anger sweep Afghanistan after massacre
msnbc.com
If you can rejoice that they are being killed, then you are no better. The Afghan people weren't responsible for 911, any more than the people of Iraq. The terrorists were responsible for the deaths of about 3300 innocents. They US is now responsible ...
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Killings Prompt Afghan Condemnation
Wall Street Journal
By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV WSJ's Julian Barnes takes a look at the future ofUS-Afghanistan relations following the alleged killing of 16 people by a USsoldier. AFP Photo. KABUL—US military investigators questioned the Army staff sergeant suspected of ...
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Shootings Fray Afghan Ties
Wall Street Journal
KABUL—A US soldier walked off his base in Afghanistan and opened fire on local villagers Sunday, Afghan and US officials said, killing 16 people in a shooting spree that further complicates American efforts to end its longest foreign war.
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Wall Street Journal
Afghans Bury Victims of American Soldier's Rampage as Restraint Is Urged
Bloomberg
Villagers in southern Afghanistan buried 16 men, women and children shot dead in their homes yesterday by a US soldier, as local authorities urged them not to attack the nearby Americanmilitary base in revenge. Farming families in Zangabad, ...
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Bloomberg
Afghans mourn shooting victims; Taliban calls for vengeance on US
Los Angeles Times
He tossed blankets atop the bodies of those he had killed and tried to burn them, villagers said. Afghan lawmakers demanded a public trial inside the country for the American soldier, who remained under interrogation by military investigators.
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US soldier held in deaths of 16 Afghans
CBS News
Little is known about the shooter, although CBS News has learned he was anUS Army sergeant in a Stryker Brigade based at Fort Lewis, in Washington state. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said 16 people were killed, including nine children and three women ...
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Afghan man recounts US soldier's shooting spree
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says a US service member haskilled more than a dozen people in a shooting including nine children and three women. Karzai called the attack Sunday "an assassination" and demanded an explanation from the United States.
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
Washington base back in spotlight
CNN
John Allen, the top US commander in Afghanistan, on the US soldier accusing of killing 16 Afghan civilians. (CNN) -- For the second time in five months, aUS soldier from a Washington military base is accused of committing atrocities against civilians ...
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Clinton: US Afghan strategy remains "steadfast"
CBS News
"This terrible incident does not change our steadfast dedication to protecting the Afghan people and to doing everything we can to build a strong and stableAfghanistan," Clinton told reporters at the United Nations in New York. US:Killing of Afghans ...
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Rick Santorum Says America Should Apologize for AfghanistanShooting
ABC News (blog)
Rick Santorum said today that if a US soldier shot and killed 16 civilians, as US officials have suggested, then the Afghan peopledeserve an apology. After an energy conference here, Santorum told reporters that the incident needs to be investigated ...
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ABC News (blog)
American Opens Fire on Afghans, 16 Dead
TIME
11, 2012 Allauddin Khan / AP (BALANDI, Afghanistan) — President Hamid Karzai said a US service member killed 16 people — nine of them children and three women — in a shooting spree Sunday that he condemned as "an assassination.
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Afghans, angry over killings, urge US exit; uncertainty over transition talks |
Reuters
After leaving the Belambai base, the soldier began shooting people in two nearby villages, the source said. Five Afghans were wounded in addition to those killed. The motive for the shooting was not immediately clear. The soldier was part of the 2-3 ...
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Afghan witness recounts US soldier's alleged shooting rampage
Fox News
The soldier, now in US custody, is accused of killing 16 Afghancivilians in their homes in the middle of the night between Saturday and Sunday and then burning some of their corpses. AfghanPresident Hamid Karzai said nine of those killed were ...
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Fox News
Afghanistan: Casualties of a Pre-Dawn Killing Spree
Daily Beast
Last month's accidental burning of Qurans set off days of deadly rioting that killed at least 30 Afghans; during the upheaval, six USsoldiers were shot to death by their Afghan allies in uniform.People were already upset by the posting of a video ...
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Daily Beast
Shootings further dent Americans' support for war
The Associated Press
The killings were the latest in a series of deadly incidents that caused outrage for both Americans and Afghans. The killing ofAmericans by their Afghan hosts and of Afghans by theAmericans who are supposed to help them have forced an acute...
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The Associated Press
Afghan recounts US soldier shooting his father
Boston.com
The soldier, now in US custody, is accused of killing 16 Afghancivilians in their homes overnight between Saturday and Sunday and then burning some of their corpses. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said nine of those killed were children and three were ...
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Boston.com
Time to End Counter-Insurgency In Afghanistan
Huffington Post
This means that not only is he losing the trust of his own people, but theAfghan people are increasingly seeing Americans as the enemy, not friends. There were violent protests in the aftermath of the Koran burnings, in which 30people died, ...
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Attack Widely Condemned by Afghans as US Investigates
New York Times
At least 5 people were injured. While some Afghans had speculated that helicopter-borne troops were involved, a seniorAmerican diplomat told a meeting of diplomats from allied countries on Monday morning that the gunman had acted alone, walking first ...
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New York Times
US Soldier Allegedly Shoots, Kills 16 Afghan Citizens
WKRC TV Cincinnati
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said says "This is an assassination, an intentional killing of innocent civilians and cannot be forgiven." He said he has repeatedly demanded the US stop killing Afghan civilians. Five people were wounded in the pre-dawn ...
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Afghan Villagers Bury Victims From U.S. Soldier's Rampage
San Francisco Chronicle
(Updates with call for Afghan trial in 12th paragraph.) March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Villagers in southern Afghanistan buried 16 men, women and children shot dead in their homes yesterday by a US soldier, as local authorities urged them not to attack the ...
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U.S. soldier held in deaths of 16 Afghans
WTSP 10 News
"This is an assassination, an intentional killing of innocent civilians and cannot be forgiven," Karzai said in a statement. He said he has repeatedly demanded the US stop killing Afghan civilians. Five people were wounded in the pre-dawn attack, ...
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WTSP 10 News
Roundup: US sergeant allegedly kills Afghan civilians
CNN (blog)
A US Army Sergeant allegedly killed at least sixteen Afghan civilians (NYT) deliberately in the Panjwai district of southern Kandahar Province on Sunday, prompting threats of retaliation by the Taliban. US forces reportedly took the perpetrator into ...
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Taliban Vows Revenge for Killing of 16 Afghan Civilians
Voice of America (blog)
The killings were the latest in a series of actions by international troops that have provoked outrage in Afghanistan. Last month, nearly 40 people werekilled in deadly protests against the burning of Qurans at a US airbase.
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World News - Taliban vow revenge for Afghans killed by US soldier
By NBC News, msnbc.com staff and news services
“The fear,” one U.S. official told the Times, “ is that all these incidents, taken together, play into the Taliban's account of how we treat the Afghan religion andpeople.” Election impact? The shootings may complicate things for Obama ahead of ...
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Civilians in Afghanistan killed by U.S. soldier: A.M. News Links ...
By Staten Island Advance
U.S. Army sergeant from the base opened fire Sunday on Afghan villagers inAfghanistan as they slept, killing 16 people - mostly women and children - in an attack that reignited fury at the U.S. presence following a wave of deadly protests ...
Staten Island Real-Time News
Taliban vow revenge for Afghans killed by US soldier
By The Associated Press
Taliban vow revenge for Afghans killed by US soldier ... While there is no excuse for the tragedy that has occured, the Taliban and Al Quida have committed the same sort of atrocities against US/Coalition Forces and Afghan people. Where are ...
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U.S. soldier accused of Afghan killing spree « Information Tumbler
By admin
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — An American soldier went on a house-to-house shooting spree in two villages in southern Afghanistan early Sunday, Afghanofficials said, killing 16 people in what Afghanistan's president called an “unforgivable” ...
Information Tumbler
Afghan president: US soldier kills 16 civilians - News - Go-Jamaica
The killing spree deepened a crisis between U.S. forces and their Afghan hosts over Americans burning Muslim holy books on a base in Afghanistan. The burnings sparked weeks of violent protests and attacks that left some 30people dead.
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Afghan civilian deaths spark calls for U.S. exit | Reuters | News | San ...
By Reuters
Afghan civilian deaths spark calls for U.S. exit. By: Reuters | 03/12/12 9:42 AM. REUTERS/ Parwiz. U.S. soldiers keep watch as Taliban militants, part of a group of a hundred Afghan Talibans, hand over their weapons as they take part in the ...
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Afghan civilian killings spark public fury
By mwcnews@gmail.com (Agencies)
For his part, Karzai condemned the killings as "unforgivable" and demanded an explanation from the US government. "When Afghan people are killeddeliberately by US forces this action is murder and terror and an unforgivable action," he ...
MWC News
Sixteen Afghan civilians killed in rogue US attack - Stabroek News ...
By Stabroek staff
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul said anti-U.S. reprisals were possible following the killings, just as the Koran burning incident a few weeks earlier had touched off widespread anti-Western protests in which at least 30 people died. Neighbours and ...
Stabroek News
Taliban Vow Revenge For Afghans Killed By American | NBC 4i
The Taliban vowed revenge Monday for an "inhumane attack" in which anAmerican soldier allegedly shot to death 16 civilians in southern Afghanistanand torched their bodies - an assault that has fueled anger still simmering afterU.S. ... "It is not possible for only one American soldier to come out of his base,kill a number of people far away, burn the bodies, go to another house and killcivilians there, then walk at least 2 kilometers and enter another house, killcivilians and burn them ...
NBC4i.com - News - Top Stories
LOL!!!! Obama says murder of 16 Afghan civilians does not ...
By crescentandcross
U.S. officials worked quickly to calm tensions after an American service member in Kandahar province opened fire on Afghan civilians Sunday, killing at least sixteen. President Obama said he was “deeply saddened” by news of the attack, in a released statement. He said the shooting was “tragic and shocking, and does not represent the exceptional character of our military and the respect that the United States has for the people of Afghanistan.” The White House said Obama also ...
The Ugly Truth
U.S. soldier kills 16 Afghans, deepening crisis - Navy News | News ...
He said he has repeatedly demanded the U.S. stop killing Afghan civilians. President ... to the grieving families of those killed and to the people ofAfghanistan.
www.navytimes.com/.../ap-american-opens-fire-on-afgahns-1...
U.S. soldier accused of Afghan killing spree - CNN.com
A U.S. service member opened fire on Afghan civilians in Kandahar Sunday, NATO said, killing or wounding 16 people, according to the provincial government.
www.cnn.com/2012/03/11/world/asia/...us.../index.html
U.S. Sergeant Kills 16 Afghan Civilians, 9 of Them Children ...
U.S. Sergeant Is Said to Kill 16 Civilians in Afghanistan ... the respect that the United States has for the people of Afghanistan,” Mr. Obama said in a statement.
www.nytimes.com/.../afghanistan-civilians-killed-american-sol...
American soldier fires on Afghan civilians, killing 16 people
An elderly Afghan man sits next to the covered body of a person who was allegedly killed by a U.S. service member;in a minibus in Panjwai;Kandahar province ...
www.globalnews.ca/american+soldier...on.../story.html
Afghanistan shootings further complicate U.S. mission – USATODAY ...
Afghans are struggling with how to deal with allegations against an Americansoldier accused of leaving his base and killing 16 people.
www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-03-12/.../1
2 Americans killed in Afghanistan in latest protests over the burning ...
KABUL, Afghanistan —Two American soldiers were killed today in a shooting by an .... These cave-men kill our people by the thousands and we do nothing.
www.nj.com/news/.../2_americans_killed_in_afghanis.html
BBC News - US soldier kills Afghan civilians in Kandahar
A US soldier in Afghanistan has shot dead at least 16 civilians and wounded... a series of protests and attacks that killed at least 30 people and six UStroops.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17330205
2 more US troops killed by Afghan partners - World news - South ...
Two U.S. troops were gunned down by two Afghan soldiers and an ... The demonstrations, which left more than 30 people dead, also were a venue for...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../more-us-troops-killed-afghan-partner...
US soldier's killing spree puts Afghanistan on a knife-edge | World ...
A US soldier has shot dead 16 Afghan civilians, nine of them children, in a ...About 1000 people gathered to protest outside the Zangabad military base, ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../us-soldier-killing-afghanistan-children...
US Soldiers Massacre 16 Afghan Civilians in Killing Spree -- News ...
One Afghan father whose children were killed in the incident accused the ....that people without even the protection of being a US citizen overseas get even ...
news.antiwar.com/.../us-soldiers-massacre-16-afghan-civilians-...
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