In
memory of
Naeem, Baroki, Shereen and Lal Din (4 brothers), sons
of Haji Mohammad
6 family members abducted
Late
at night on May 26/27, 2009
“(the) US military on Wednesday claimed killing four
armed Taliban during a joint operation with Afghan national army soldiers in
central Logar province, but local residents and an MP said the dead were
civilians. A member of the Parliament and residents told Pajhwok Afghan News that the US forces backed by helicopters in the
last night operation killed four members of the same family and arrested eight
others. However, the coalition said four Taliban insurgents were killed in the
operation carried out in Qala Wazir area on the outskirts of provincial capital
Pul-i-Alam last midnight. The US forces first fired a rocket at the gate and
then entered the house and shot dead four brothers, the family said. The elder
brother of the deceased persons Qadeem said their brothers of ages between 18
and 28 were killed when they were asleep at the hujra of their house. He
identified the dead as Naeem, Baroki, Shereen and Lal Din. Qadeem said after killing
his brothers, the US forces took away his two more brothers and six cousins.
The victimized family had returned from Pakistan three years ago. A neighbor
Sher Zaman also said the killed people were innocent and locals. "The US
forces are killing locals without any justification," Zaman charged. Logar
police chief Gen Ghulam Mustafa Muhsini also confirmed the killing of four
persons in the US raid, but would say whether they were militants or civilians.
In Kabul, the US-led coalition in a statement said that those killed in the
last night operation were armed Taliban. The statement said the coalition
troops assisted by the Afghan national army soldiers conducted the operation to
arrest a militant leader belonging to Jalaluddin Haqqani group.”
Killed
in a night-time U.S ground assault