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Claims of Afghan civilian deaths spark protest (AP)

Posted on 12 August 2010. Tags: , , , , ,

In this combination of photos from various family and organizational sources, the ten civilian volunteers who were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug, 5, 2010, are shown. From top left, Glen D. Lapp, Tom Little, Dan Terry, Thomas Grams, Cheryl Beckett, Brian Carderelli, Karen Woo, Daniela Beyer, Mahram Ali, and Jawed. (AP Photo) NO SALESAP – A crowd of about 300 villagers yelled “death to the United States” and blocked a main road in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday as they swore that U.S. forces had killed three innocent villagers, officials said.


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Afghan commission: Civilian deaths up in 2010 (AP)

Posted on 08 August 2010. Tags: , , , ,

In this undated photo released by David L. Evans, two Land Rovers with International Assistance Mission personnel aboard, navigate down a road in an unnamed region of Afghanistan. Members of a medical team were shot and killed by militants as they were returning from providing eye treatment and other health care in remote villages in northern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the team said Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. Dirk Frans, director of the International Assistance Mission, said six Americans, one German, one Briton and two Afghans also were part of the medical team that made the three-week trip to Nuristan province. They drove to the province, left their vehicles and hiked for hours with pack horses over mountainous terrain to reach the Parun valley in the province's northwest. (AP Photo/Provided by David L. Evans) NO SALESAP – Civilian war deaths in the first seven months of 2010 rose by 6 percent over the same period last year, Afghanistan’s human rights commission said Sunday. The modest increase suggested that U.S. and NATO efforts to hold down civilian casualties were having some success.


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