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Us bombing kills 11 afghan civilians Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.itv.com/news/1807088.html http://www.itv.com/news/1807088.html US bombing kills 11 in Afghanistan 8.17AM BST, 9 Apr 2003 The United States military said 11 Afghan civilians have been killed by US-led coalition bombing in eastern Afghanistan. "Eleven Afghan civilians were killed and one was wounded early this morning when a bomb dropped by coalition aircraft landed in a house on the outskirts of Shkin near the Pakistan border," said Douglas Lefforge, US military spokesman at Bagram air base north of Kabul. "The tragic incident occurred when enemy forces attacked an Afghan military post checkpoint that was providing security near the Shkin firebase just before midnight last night," he said. "Coalition forces never intentionally target civilian locations," he added. There are 11,500 US and coalition troops in Afghanistan searching for the remnants of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network and its allies from the ousted Taleban regime.

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