From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Afghanistan: US bombs more civilians [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- Reuters. 30 December 2001. U.S. Bombing Reportedly Kills 15 in East Afghanistan. ISLAMABAD -- U.S. bombing over the past two days killed at least 15 people in eastern Afghanistan where an apparently mistaken bombing killed 65 people earlier this month, an Afghan news service said Sunday. The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) quoted travelers arriving at the Pakistani border town of Miranshah as saying the bombing Friday night and Saturday morning hit Sheikhan village, west of the Paktia province capital Gardez. Most of the 15 people killed were women and children, AIP said, quoting witnesses. Three houses were totally destroyed. The latest bombing report came after calls by Afghanistan's new interim government that the United States stop its nearly three-month bombing campaign aimed at flushing out Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden and fighters of his al Qaeda network. Defense Minister General Mohammad Fahim has said the U.S. should end the bombing soon, as Osama bin Laden had probably left Afghanistan and al Qaeda was a spent force. President Bush, however, promised in a weekly radio address from his ranch in Texas that there would be no let-up in the war against terrorism. Some 65 people were killed earlier this month when U.S. jets bombed a convoy of guests going from Paktia to the inauguration of the interim government in Kabul. Most hideouts of the formerly ruling Taliban movement and bin Laden have been bombed to bits, but the air raids, which began on October 7, have continued. U.S. bombs have been blamed for killing hundreds [read: probably thousands] of civilians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
