A timeline of US atrocities in Afghanistan

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'General McChrystal, commander of US forces in Afghanistan,  
acknowledges
that US forces have killed civilians who meant them no harm. During a
bi-weekly videoconference with US soldiers in Afghanistan, he was quite 
candid.
"We've shot an amazing number of people and killed a number and, to my
knowledge, none has proven to have been a real threat to the force," 
said
General McChrystal. "To my knowledge, in the nine-plus months I've been 
here,
not a single case where we have engaged in an escalation of force 
incident and
hurt someone has it turned out that the vehicle had a suicide bomb or 
weapons
in it and, in many cases, had families in it."

The list below describes, in part, the suffering 
and agony
that people in Afghanistan have endured since April, 2009. To focus on 
this
list doesn't excuse atrocities committed by Taliban fighters. It does 
indicate
our own responsibility to urgently educate others and ourselves about a 
deeply
disturbing pattern: US/NATO officials first distribute misleading 
information
about victims of an attack and later acknowledge that the victims were 
unarmed
civilians. '

http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1864/1/

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	'General McChrystal, commander of US forces in Afghanistan, acknowledges that US forces have killed civilians who meant them no harm. During a bi-weekly videoconference with US soldiers in Afghanistan, he was quite candid. "We've shot an amazing number of people and killed a number and, to my knowledge, none has proven to have been a real threat to the force," said General McChrystal. "To my knowledge, in the nine-plus months I've been here, not a single case where we have engaged in an escalation of force incident and hurt someone has it turned out that the vehicle had a suicide bomb or weapons in it and, in many cases, had families in it." The list below describes, in part, the suffering and agony that people in Afghanistan have endured since April, 2009. To focus on this list doesn't excuse atrocities committed by Taliban fighters. It does indicate our own responsibility to urgently educate others and ourselves about a deeply disturbing pattern: US/NATO officials first distribute misleading information about victims of an attack and later acknowledge that the victims were unarmed civilians. ' http://stopwar.org.uk/content/view/1864/1/