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A US drone missed its targetan ISIS hideoutand killed at least 30 farmers and laborers sitting around a bonfire in eastern Afghanistan this week. Another 40 people were injured, Reuters reports.
The workers were collecting pine nuts in a mountainous region in the eastern part of the country. "The workers had lit a bonfire and were sitting together when a drone targeted them," a tribal elder said. US and Afghan officials confirmed the Wednesday night strike but would give no information on the casualties. Residents of the area protested the US attack as bodies were carried out Thursday morning.
On Thursday, a suicide bombing by the Taliban killed at least 20 people in the south of Afghanistan, per the Guardian. Fighting across the country has killed hundreds of civilians since the US-Taliban peace talks were called off earlier this month. In the first half of the year, the UN says, almost 4,000 civilians were killed or wounded in Afghanistan.
https://www.newser.com/story/280667/at-least-30-die-when-us-drone-misses-isis-hits-farmworkers.html
malaise
(268,997 posts)This hasn't even made network news - just brown people!!!
Ah well - blame Iran or whoever is the flavor of the day
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and it was no more.
Am I crazy or did that happen?
malaise
(268,997 posts)He is the crazy person here.
walkingman
(7,615 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,118 posts)My half sister said after 11/16, "it's just 4 years." After that every day has brought to light more horror. Now we can't even talk about him.
Amerika is complete.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)(Copied pic from another recent OP, it seemed to fit.)
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)pwb
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