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U.S. gunship shoots children
Anger and confusion follow in Afghan village
By Aijaz Rahi
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HUTALA, Afghanistan —
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Afghan village Sunday, a day
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U.S. air strike kills
nine children
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a wanted Taliban commander
mistakenly killed nine children
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American officials offered
heir regrets Sunday and said
hey were “deeply saddened” by
Bhe deaths. The United Nations
Hailed for an investigation. And
he Afghan government urged
he U.S.-led coalition hunting
Taliban and al-Qaida fighters to
nake sure such an accident is
lever repeated.
In Hutala on Sunday, a line
)f fresh graves marked the
ragedy, and village men stood
juietly by a stream in a dusty
ield where the children had
;ourt fie< :|been playing. They seemed as
ewildered as they were angry.
“First they fire their rockets.
Then they say it was a mistake,”
rlaji Amir Mohammed told The
Associated Press, as dozens of
American soldiers sent to inves
tigate the incident offered con-
atSheriff" dolences or lay in the warming
' the W winter sun. “How can we for
give them?”
Villagers said the young vic
tims had been playing with mar
bles in a dusty field beside mud
homes in this impoverished val
ley, some 150 miles southwest
of Kabul, when the A-10 ground
attack aircraft homed in.
Military officials said
Sunday they had no idea chil
dren were in the area when they
decided to attack. U.S.
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Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad
said the suspect targeted and
killed was a former Taliban
commander named Mullah
Wazir, adding that he was
“deeply saddened” by the “trag
ic loss of innocent life.”
Khalilzad said the former
commander “had bragged of his
personal involvement in attacks
on innocent Afghan citizens,”
including aid groups and
Afghans working on the Kabul-
Kandahar road, a site of fre
quent violence.
Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty, a
spokesman for the coalition,
told the AP in Hutala that it had
appeared to the pilot of the air
craft that “just that person that
we wanted, that terrorist, was in
the field. So we fired on him.”
Troops discovered the chil
dren’s bodies after rushing to the
scene to verify that they had got
Wazir. U.S. officers flew in
NEWS IN BRIEF
Sunday to apologize to village
elders, Hilferty said.
But residents were adamant
that the military had acted on
bogus intelligence. Many said
the man killed was not Wazir,
and that the former district com
mander under the Taliban had
left the village some days before
the attack.
“There are no terrorists, no
Taliban or al-Qaida here,” said
Abdul Majid Farooqi. “Just poor
people.”
The 11,500 U.S.-led troops
hunting Taliban and al-Qaida rem
nants in south and east
Afghanistan often are supported
by air power, and there have been
a string of military mishaps.
The worst occurred in July
2002, when Afghan officials said
48 civilians at a wedding party
were killed and 117 wounded by a
U.S. Air Force AC-130 gunship in
Uruzgan province, which borders
Ghazni province.
On April 9, a U.S. warplane
mistakenly bombed a home in
the eastern town of Shkin,
killing 11 civilians. Another air
strike in Nuristan province in
eastern Afghanistan on Oct. 31
reportedly killed at least eight
civilians in a house.
“This incident, which fol
lows similar incidents, adds to a
sense of insecurity and fear in
the country,” Lakhdar Brahimi,
the U.N. Special Representative
to Afghanistan, said in Kabul.
The Afghan government said
it fully supported fighting terror
ism but urged the U.S.-led coali
tion to “be very careful not to
repeat such tragedies.”
College Board adds Chinese to
Advanced Placement program
NEW YORK (AP) — The College Board,
which offers talented high school students a
chance to earn college credits, announced it will
offer an Advanced Placement program in
Chinese language and culture.
The new program is a joint venture of the
College Board and the Chinese government,
which will contribute $685,000 to develop the
tests — about half the cost.
Muslim football tournament's
team names sparks protest
IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — It was planned as a way
to bring young athletes together for a weekend
of fun, but when participants in the Muslim
Football tournament started naming their teams
Intifada, Soldiers of Allah and Mujahideen,
Jewish leaders took offense.
Intifada means “uprising” in Arabic and is the
term applied to suicide bombings and other
attacks against Israelis in the Middle East.
Mujahideen means holy warrior.
DuPont-Columbia University
awards yield 13 winners
NEW YORK (AP) — Coverage of the war in Iraq
and government watchdog reports dominated this
year’s Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University
Awards, with the PBS series “Frontline” taking
three of the 13 Silver Batons given for excellence
in television and radio journalism.
The awards were established in 1942 by the
late Jessie Ball duPont in memory of her hus
band. The awards period covered July 1, 2002,
through June 30, 2003.
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