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Foreigners killed in Afghanistan!
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by BelaynehKassaWubie | August 6, 2010 at 11:27 pm
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Eight foreigners and two Afghans have been killed in Afghanistan, as BBC reported today. Many of the victims are American. Is it not Americans losing many lives in Afghanistan?
Read BBC Report Below Foreign medical workers among 10 killed in Afghanistan
The dead are believed to be six Americans, one Briton and a German who worked for a charity providing eye care and medical help.
Their four vehicles were discovered in Badakhshan province on Thursday.
The local police chief says robbery may have been the motive for the attack.
A spokesman for the charity, the International Assistance Mission, said he was still awaiting formal identification of the victims, but that their families had been informed.
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The US embassy in Kabul said it had reason to believe that several Americans were among the dead, but could not confirm any details.
"[We] are actively working with local authorities and others to learn more about the identities and nationalities of these individuals," spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said.
The UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office told the BBC it, too, was aware of the reports that bodies had been found in northern Afghanistan and was "urgently looking into this".
Badakhshan, a mainly ethnic Tajik region bordering Tajikistan, is one of the few Afghan provinces not to have been controlled by the Taliban before the US-led invasion of 2001
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at 03:22 on August 7th, 2010
Drone attacks,killing civilians won't go unretaliated.Aghans hate presence of Americans and Europeans,armed forces or civilians on their soil.Charity organizations are espionage networks.Occupation of some one's land carries a price in terms of human lives.Begin charity at home,leave Afghanistans to Afghans.
at 04:02 on August 7th, 2010
I really dont understand America why run to force measure before exhausting peaceful means and solutions be it on terrorism or other problems.
Now Afghans are making war as part of their cultures and values. How can then America or other anti terrorist forces make the Afghanistan terrorists under control unless destroy the society? Again and again I propose peaceful means for problems. Why not start listening what Ahmedinejad says through a roundtable discussion with Obama?
at 04:30 on August 7th, 2010
If you want to understand America read history of empires,definition of a rogue state and how crony capitalism destroys every thing we cherish and love.
at 07:22 on August 7th, 2010
Good point, after all Afghanistan was complete paradise before the USA invaded, right?
I think we should withdraw all our people from Afghanistan so that Kidwai's heroes can get back to throwing acid into schoolgirls faces. : )
at 13:33 on August 7th, 2010
Such are the circumstances that are lost on my friend Kidwai. TKK makes some excellent points though glosses over the facts on the ground. However, maybe that isn't our concern as outsiders. I am all for Darwinian determinism.
at 02:28 on August 8th, 2010
@faithless templar.Kidwai's heroes are neither Talibans nor US imperialists,both are villains,with difference in degrees not in kind.And you must be aware of the fact that puppet Karzai wants to strike a deal with heroes of Ronald Regan(Talibans who were called Mujahideens),US imperialists want an honourable exit and are on a search for moderate Talibans who could take over the administration after withdrawl of US led Nato forces.
Afgahnistan wasn't hell before US sponsored multinational Talibans were despatched to fight Russians.Read history,not gutter US and Western newspapers, to form opinions and cultivate convictions.
at 10:44 on August 7th, 2010
Bravo t k kidwai! USA at supermacy complacency will face huge danger! Of course, the danger of the natural infancy, growth, maturity and death. Now USA is in maturity. Unless USA considers all things to renew itself to younger, its death will be nearer. It should come out from a soveriegn country!
at 19:53 on August 7th, 2010
You assume that because I do not share your viewpoint that I must be unfamiliar with history?
So the best course of action would have been to let Russia invade without any opposition?
at 20:13 on August 7th, 2010
No,the best course of action is invasion by US imperialists to overthrow elected governments,unfriendly regimes,supporting most brutal and corrupt dictators.And bloody talks of democracy and freedom.Iraq is one more Iran in the womb of US empire.You are familiar with history,with the one distorted by embedded historians.
at 20:45 on August 7th, 2010
I see. Then I assume you have access to your own personal history that differs from the accepted one?
LOL! elected governments? would you have liked to have lived under that elected government?
at 21:21 on August 7th, 2010
Wasn't Allende an elected president?Patrice Lumumba was what?Who overthrew Soukarno and brought in mass murderer Suharto?Just few examples,which won't find any mention in history books you read.
In 1959 in the Indian state of Kerala an elected communist government was dismissed by the central government.Huge demonstration took place against the Kerala government,prompting its dismissal with grounds justified.Now sometime in 1978,Daniel Patrick Moynihan disclosed in one his book that the Congress party,which was ruling party at the centre,received funds from CIA to organise paid demonstrations.Ellis Burner.who was US ambassador to India in 1959 corroborated it to his biographer.Indira gandhi was accused of accepting funds.But she didn't sue Moynihan.Why?You read some history to find out.
And accepted history is not what I accept or you accept.History is history,and is what friedrich Von Schillen said"World history is world's court of judgement".