At least 25 Afghan civilians killed in US bomb attack

The civilian deaths added to the mounting toll of innocent Afghans killed by US-led forces in the course of an offensive against resurgent Taliban guerillas, concentrated in the south of the country but including other areas as well. Friday’s air strike was launched in response to an attack on police posts in the Grishk district, which the US attributed to the Taliban.

On June 18, seven children were killed when a US warplane bombed a religious compound containing a mosque and a school in the Zarghun Shah district of the border province of Paktika, in eastern Afghanistan. Also this week, an Afghan official in Uruzgan province, Mullah Ahmidullah Khan, told the Associated Press that fighting in the Chora District had killed approximately 60 civilians, 70 “suspected Taliban militants” and 16 Afghan police.

In two separate incidents in April and May, nearly 100 civilians were killed by US-led forces.

At the time of the June 18 bombing, Al Jazeera reported that more than 120 civilians had been killed by foreign forces in Afghanistan in recent months. The wanton destruction of life by the US-led occupation forces has sparked mass demonstrations against the US and NATO as well as Washington’s puppet government, headed by President Hamid Karzai.

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