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Afghans blame brits more than americans { May 9 2007 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10098219 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10098219 World U.S. Bombs Reportedly Kill 21 Afghan Civilians All Things Considered, May 9, 2007 · According to Afghan authorities, airstrikes called in by U.S. Special Forces have killed at least 21 civilians in a village in southern Afghanistan. Helmand provincial Gov. Assadullah Wafa said that Taliban fighters sought shelter in villagers' homes during fighting in the Sangin district Tuesday evening. He said the subsequent airstrikes killed 21 civilians, including women and children. Maj. William Mitchell, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, said that troops killed a significant number of enemy fighters, but that he had no report of civilian casualties. The news comes on the heels of a U.S. apology for an earlier incident in which 19 Afghan civilians were killed. Robert Siegel talks with Jean Mackenzie of the Institute of War and Peace Reporting about the recent incident, and how it affects ongoing U.S. efforts in Afghanistan. ------------------------------------ EXCERPT: 2:30 Robert Siegel: Do people there tend to blame only the U.S. for these deaths or do they also blame the Taliban for being there and fighting against the U.S. Jean Mackenzie: The people here blame the foreign forces, it is much easier and much more cultural acceptable to blame the foreign soldiers than to blame people that come from their own community. And in this case they are blaming NATO and the British rather than the Americans because that is the foreign force that they know. 3:49 What we are seeing is that this is not a problem that lends itself to a military solution because the more NATO or the American forces bomb and the more Taliban and civilians they kill, the more support they drum up for the insurgency among the general population. So its a catch-22 situation, where the better they do militarily, the worse they are doing in the battles for the hearts and minds.

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