US Military Admits it Killed 37 Civilians

Juan Cole 11/09/2008

The US military has admitted to having killed 37 civilians during an air raid on militants at Shah Wali Kot in Afghanistan last week.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on Barack Obama to reverse George W. Bush’s decision to depend heavily on air strikes in pursuing the struggle against the neo-Taliban.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page