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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (5) Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared EU condemns identity theft involved in Dubai killing 9:39am EST Bad economies in states to worsen: governors 20 Feb 2010 Bad news for record lottery "winner" 16 Feb 2010 Haiti death toll could reach 300,000: Preval | Video 10:21am EST U.S. pinpoints code writer behind Google attack: report 10:28am EST Obama has insurers in sight as he sets health plan 8:51am EST Bad economies in states to worsen: governors 20 Feb 2010 EU condemns identity theft involved in Dubai killing 9:39am EST Haiti death toll could reach 300,000: Preval | Video 10:21am EST Cleveland deemed most miserable city in USA 18 Feb 2010 NATO Afghanistan airstrike kills 27 civilians Golnar Motevalli MARJAH, Afghanistan Mon Feb 22, 2010 7:35am EST Related News NATO airstrike kills 21 civilians: Afghan government 2:24am EST Q+A: NATO still faces resilient Taliban in Afghanistan assault Sun, Feb 21 2010 Afghan police deployed in wake of NATO offensive Sat, Feb 20 2010 Factbox: Security developments in Afghanistan, Feb 20 Sat, Feb 20 2010 NATO may need 30 days to secure Taliban stronghold Thu, Feb 18 2010 Afghan Journal U.S. tries for a more "humane war" Afghan men look at U.S. Marines during an operation in Marjah, Helmand province, February 21, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Goran Tomasevic MARJAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A NATO airstrike in Afghanistan mistakenly killed 27 civilians, the government said on Monday, hurting a campaign to win over the local population and defeat Taliban insurgents. World The Afghan cabinet condemned the killings as "unjustifiable" after an aircraft fired on civilians, mistaking them for insurgents, in the south near the border of Uruzgan and Dai Kondi provinces. Civilian casualties have caused friction between the government and foreign forces, who have launched two big offensives in the past eight months in a bid to turn the tide of a growing Taliban-led insurgency. Initially the Afghan cabinet reported 33 deaths, but later clarified that 27 had died. Sunday's toll was still the highest number of civilian deaths in months. The incident was not part of Operation Mushtarak, a major NATO-led campaign to clear Taliban militants out of neighboring Helmand province in the south. Nonetheless, it could still undermine government and NATO efforts to win over civilians under a plan to wrest control of Taliban bastions and hand them over to state authorities before the start of a gradual U.S. troop withdrawal in 2011. "Initial reports indicate that NATO fired Sunday on a convoy of three vehicles ... killing at least 27 civilians, including four women and one child, and injuring 12 others," the Afghan cabinet said in a statement. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement civilians had been killed as they approached a joint NATO-Afghan unit, but did not say how many. An investigation has begun, it said. "We are extremely saddened by the tragic loss of innocent lives," U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, said in the ISAF statement. "I have made it clear to our forces that we are here to protect the Afghan people and inadvertently killing or injuring civilians undermines their trust and confidence in our mission." McChrystal's counter-insurgency strategy emphasizes seizing population centers and avoiding combat in built-up areas whenever possible to avert civilian deaths. The number of civilians killed by NATO troops has declined since he took command in mid-2009. U.S. Marines say they have been extra careful not to put civilians at risk in their assault in Marjah in Helmand, Afghanistan's most violent province. This has at times prevented them from acting more decisively. At least 12 people were killed in a poorly targeted rocket strike the day after Operation Mushtarak started this month. A total of 21 civilians have died in the NATO offensive, ISAF said. While NATO forces appear to have made significant progress in the offensive -- a test of U.S. President Barack Obama's troop surge strategy -- their push to clear out the Taliban has at times backfired. "People still complain about how the house searches are being conducted. The joint forces should not view every person here with suspicion of being a Taliban or a relative of one," said Abdur Rahman Saber, head of a local council established before the Marjah offensive to monitor the plight of civilians. "When the government and its foreign allies want the people on their side, they should respect every resident here. People should not feel any sense of insecurity from Afghan or foreign troops." NATO and Afghan forces still are still under pressure to clear out remaining Taliban fighters, and prevent others from coming back to Marjah, a poppy cultivation center which Western countries say funds the insurgency, (Additional reporting by Sayed Sallahuddin and Hamid Shalizi Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Bryson Hull) World Comments See All Comments (5) | Post Comment Feb 22, 2010 8:41am EST Here’s the problem – When you’re fighting an enemy who wear’s women’s clothing and marches close to women and children who are forced to walk with them or be killed, civilian casualties are not avoidable. We’re fighting cowards, and deaths of their own people are the result. RightWinger Report As Abusive Feb 22, 2010 9:32am EST I agree 100% RightWinger. hobojuntionc Report As Abusive Feb 22, 2010 10:08am EST Why don’t we just leave those poor people alone? There are other more effective ways to help them than occupying them and installing a pro-oil company puppet government. frankinbun Report As Abusive Feb 22, 2010 10:16am EST No, here’s the problem — Nobody in America is ever allowed to criticize the American soldier in the press. It simply is not allowed. The American soldiers grow up as kids playing “first-person shooter” video games, where it’s fun to kill, pleasurable to make the kill. In the games and in the movies, it’s especially fun to shoot from above, from the safety of a helicopter. In this news story, we have possibly another case of American boys, from the safety of a helicopter, shooting up vehicles filled with Afghan humans. The American press and military, for years, have painted these Afghans as sub-human, just as German press painted the Polish as sub-human, and the German boys as heroes. It is not permissible in America to say that it is the Afghan teens, who are trying to defend their hometowns against the foreign American invaders, that are the real heroes. And that the American boys, seeking the thrill of the kill in their “first-person shooter” real life video games, are the villains. In America, we can criticize many things, but not the American soldier, the one who pulls the trigger from above. He is our saint. AdamSmith Report As Abusive Feb 22, 2010 10:22am EST Pro-military, pro-killing views like RightWinger are encouraged here. But serious anti-military comments apparently are not allowed. This is why this America is in such dire straits. There is no debate about the Ameican military machine. 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