'How Could They Do This to Us?' Ask Afghan Farmers After Reporting Reveals Officials Knew Civilians Were in Area of Lethal US Drone Strike
Afghan officials knew for over a week that civilians were in the area bombed by a U.S. drone strike on Wednesday, raising more questions about the attack that killed 30 farmers and wounded 40 more.
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“My son and his friends were killed by the Americans,” village chief Malak Khaiyali Khan told Reuters. “How could they do this to us?”
On Thursday, Common Dreams reported on the strike, which was decribed as a “total massacre” by journalist Emran Feroz.
According to Reuters, village elders from the Wazir Tangi area of Nangarhar province on September 7 sent a letter to the region’s governor alerting him to the fact they planned to have as many as 200 laborers picking pine nuts.
Twelve days later, a drone strike hit a camp of workers.
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