August 22 episode when Afghan and US led coalition forces killed sores of Afghan civilians including 60 children – whose fault was that?
Balaji Reddy
Aug. 31, 2008

A report, released by the office of President Hamid Karzai, did not specify who fired the shots.

"When the ANA (Afghan army) and coalition troops got close to the village, firing started after the ANA unit stopped, and the coalition forces conducted the operation in the village," the report said.

However, the report also said that, according to the people in Azizabad, security institutions and "the eyewitnesses of the delegation," all of the victims of the operation were civilian.

In a strange twist of the turn in events, an Afghan army commander told a government investigative commission that U.S. and Afghan troops were fired on first from the Afghan village where the commission says scores of civilians were killed, a report released Sunday said.

Sources from Kabul say the US led coalition forces tried to get that statement by hook or crook from the Afghan army commander.

The chief of staff for the Herat corps of the Afghan army told the head of the government's investigative commission that shots were fired from the village of Azizabad at U.S. and Afghan troops in the early morning hours of Aug. 22.

the report also said that, according to the people in Azizabad, security institutions and "the eyewitnesses of the delegation," all of the victims of the operation were civilian.

"Among the victims, there is not any foreign or internal Taliban," the report said.

The commission found that 90 people were killed in the Azizabad operation: 15 men, 15 women and 60 children. That finding was backed by a preliminary U.N. report. The commission said eight houses were destroyed and seven damaged.

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