Rockets miss targets: 12 Afghan citizens dead.

[Bluebear]

MARJAH, Afghanistan – Twelve Afghans died Sunday when two rockets fired at insurgents missed their target and struck a house during the second day of NATO's most ambitious effort yet to break the militants' grip on the country's dangerous south.

In the town of Marjah, the focal point of the operation, Marines and Afghan troops battled through sniper fire and an afternoon sandstorm Sunday that cut down their visibility to a few feet.

They tried to advance through the town, clearing houses one-by-one of explosives. But gunfire forced them numerous times to take cover in drab mudbrick compounds that they hadn't yet cleared of booby-traps. To the north, U.S. Army troops fought skirmishes with Taliban fighters, calling in a Cobra attack helicopter against the insurgents.

NATO said two rockets from a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System were aimed at insurgents firing on Afghan and NATO forces, but struck 1,000 feet (300 meters) off their intended target. The rockets struck a house, killing 12 civilians, NATO said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100214/ap_on_re_as/as_afghanistan

[Mari333]

1. hey Obama its your goddamned war now

knr

[Duckhunter935]

2. Don't you people even look

to see if this has an open thread or 10 or 20???????????????????????????????????

[Bluebear]

4. Sorry, don't have search function anymore. And did you use enough "???????????"

[Mari333]

5. lol @ ????

it should be posted over and over and over imo, until it sinks in to peoples heads.

[Bluebear]

7. yeah, I think the inconvenience of a dupe post pails vs having a shell come into your living room!

:hug: Mari

[Duckhunter935]

9. Could just check the latest thread button at the top of the page

Maybe one or two too many ??????

[Bluebear]

10. Yeah, OK , thank you for the tip!

:silly:

[The Northerner]

3. Yep, this has been posted many times

[Bluebear]

6. Here's one more. Maybe we can post it 12 times, one for each victim.

[Mari333]

8. [phone]