From: Barry Stoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 3:15 PM Subject: Afghans: 'US killed wrong people' HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- AP. 27 January 2002. Afghans: US Forces Killed Wrong People. KANDAHAR -- Distraught villagers trekked to Kandahar on Sunday to complain to Afghan authorities that Army Special Forces killed innocent people in a raid last week. The delegation from the remote town of Khas Uruzgan pleaded its case to provincial officials as Prime Minister Hamid Karzai traveled Sunday to Washington, where he is expected to discuss military operations. The villagers said they set out on the 100-mile journey just hours after Wednesday night's attack, in which Pentagon officials said about 15 people were killed, 27 captured and a large number of weapons destroyed during a raid on a Taliban arms depot. Villagers, however, claimed U.S. forces bombed their town hall and clinic, and killed and arrested men loyal to Afghanistan's U.S.-backed interim leader, Hamid Karzai. "I'm here to talk to these people working for the American Army," said Zainullah, a town council member who like many Afghans uses only one name. "The people they have (captured), they are working for Hamid Karzai. If they arrest them, they should arrest me." "They were not Taliban. Not one was Taliban," said Zainullah, the town councilor. "It's impossible." Yusuf Pashtun, an aide to Kandahar Gov. Gul Agha, also said the town's government building and clinic were attacked. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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] __________________________________________________
