The fifth, however, has a darker past. Mohammed Fazl was chief of staff of the Taliban army and is accused of commanding forces that massacred hundreds of civilians in the final years of Taliban rule before the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. He was arrested in November 2001 after surrendering to U.S.-allied warlords in northern Afghanistan.
Civilian casualties in the War in Afghanistan (2001–present)
The War in Afghanistan (2001–present) has resulted in between 18,000 and 20,000 Afghan civilians being killed.[1] The war, launched by the United States as "Operation Enduring Freedom" in 2001, began with an initial air campaign that almost immediately prompted concerns over the number of Afghan civilians being killed[2] as well as international protests. With civilian deaths from airstrikes rising again in recent years,[3] the number of Afghan civilians being killed by foreign military operations has led to mounting tension between the foreign countries and the government of Afghanistan. In May 2007, President Hamid Karzai summoned foreign military commanders to warn them of the consequences of further Afghan civilian deaths.[4] The civilian losses are a continuation of the extremely high civilian losses experienced during the Soviet Afghan war in the 1980s, and the three periods of civil war following it: 1989–1992, 1992–1996, and 1996–2001.
Doc Stier wrote:Thank you, Roger and Steve. I am happy to see that not everyone here is drinking the Whitehouse kool-aid!
So are you saying that no one was left behind in Laos? As a POW.
Or are you saying that it doesn't matter cause they are dead?
Doc Stier wrote:No need to get your panties in a wad. I have no particular political agenda or bias, being neither Democrat nor Republican, but simply grow weary of extremism on both sides, whether those who believe the President can do nothing right or those who believe he can do nothing wrong. Period.
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