This is another installment of my new series tracking the victory narrative in RC-East.
Agence French-Presse:
“When coalition forces forcibly gained entry to the barricaded room, three Afghan women and one boy were wounded,” it said, adding that the civilians later died from their injuries in a coalition medical facility.
The operation was launched against two “militant leaders,” one of whom was involved in improvised bomb attacks on international troops while the other was facilitating “foreign fighter operations,” the coalition said.
4 women and children for two “militant leaders.” That’s not too far under par.
Houston Chronicle:
Airstrikes targeting two militant leaders in eastern Afghanistan killed 31 people early today, including several civilians, officials said.
Most of the 31 killed were militants, said Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary. But Khalid Farooqi, a lawmaker from Paktika, said at least nine civilians died.
That’s too bad—I thought Bomber McNeill had rotated out of the country. How many of those dead civilians will be given names and hometowns as our fallen troops are? If you said zero, you’re right.
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Joshua Foust is a Fellow at the American Security Project and the author of Afghanistan Journal: Selections from Registan.net. His research focuses primarily on Central and South Asia. Joshua is a correspondent for The Atlantic and a columnist for PBS Need to Know. Joshua appears regularly on the BBC World News, Aljazeera, and international public radio. Joshua is also a regular contributor to Foreign Policy’s AfPak Channel, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Reuters, and the Christian Science Monitor. Follow him on twitter: @joshuafoust
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