Karzai slams Nato civilian killings
September 2, 2010
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned an air strike by Nato-led forces which he said killed 10 election campaign workers, although US officials maintained it was aimed at an Islamist leader. Nato said its airstrike on a car in northern Takhar province’s normally quiet Rustaq district killed or wounded as many as 12 insurgents on Thursday, including a Taliban commander and a local head of an allied insurgent group, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, responsible for attacks in Kabul and elsewhere. However Karzai said the airstrike had killed 10 campaigners working for a candidate in Afghanistan’s September 18 parliamentary elections. “The rationale for the airstrike still needs to be…
