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In
memory of and sympathy for Commander-in-Chief Obama’s first Afghan
civilian victims only 2 days after his inauguration: Two men killed Woman injured Two children injured A man injured who died later
On January 21 and 22, 2009 Killed
in Sangin district, Helmand Province. NATO occupation forces killed a local man
who was “digging along a roadside” near Gereshk. In
another location in the Nawa district, NATO forces engaged in a firefight with the
resistance leading to a dead civilian man and three wounded (one man killed, 1
injured, a woman injured, one man injured and 2 children wounded). The injured
man died later. Reuters reported that two children were injured in Sangin
district, about 409 km (305 miles) southwest of Kabul, after NATO-led forces
fired on a Taliban compound. Munitions inside the compound exploded, causing
shrapnel injuries to the children who were nearby. Haji
Tor khan, a provincial council member told Pajhwok Afghan News three civilians were killed during a clash between NATO-led ISAF soldiers and Taliban
in Nawa district. The clashes have forced large numbers of
ordinary people to flee their houses, he said. A number of houses were also
destroyed during bombing by International Security Assistance Force soldiers,
another tribal elder Haji Tanha said. Only Pajhwok Afghan News, RAWA, Xinhua,
Reuters and Germany’s DPA found this worthy of reporting.
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