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U.S. Soldiers Execute Afghan Children and the Media Doesn't Care
Submitted by Little Alex on Fri, 2010-01-15 03:00
American-led troops dragged Afghan children from their beds and shot them during a night raid on December 27 last year, leaving ten people dead. Afghan government investigators said that eight of the dead were schoolchildren, and that some of them had been handcuffed before being killed. Kabul-based Times correspondent Jerome Starkey reported the shocking accusations about the joint U.S.-Afghan operation. Other media sources, not so much.
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