Karzai blasts NATO, America
Kabul, 2007/06/23, IRIB
President Hamid Karzai angrily condemned Saturday indiscriminate and unprecise attacks by NATO- and American-led forces in Afghanistan that has killed 90 civilians in just over a week.
"Attacks causing civilian casualties, as I have said before, is not acceptable for us. It is no longer tolerated," Karzai told reporters at his palace.
A rocket fired by coalition forces in Afghanistan killed at least nine civilians in a nearby Pakistani tribal area when it hit their home, an official said Saturday.
The casualties occurred in North Waziristan tribal district's Mangreti village on the border with Afghanistan late Friday as Afghan and coalition forces conducted an operation against gunmen, they said.
Local residents said the dead included a child, a woman and seven men, all from the same family.
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