Angry demonstrations erupted in eastern Afghanistan on Friday as villagers accused Western troops of killing up to 11 civilians in an overnight raid. NATO said that eight people were killed, but that all were insurgents.
The scenario was a familiar one: Coalition and Afghan forces sweep down on a compound in the dead of night in search of Taliban operatives. A firefight breaks out, and the identities of the dead are then furiously contested.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's International Security Assistance Force said that the eight men killed in the confrontation in the Surkhrod district of Nangarhar province included a Taliban subcommander, and that a weapons cache was recovered at the scene.
By: Brant
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Why are the locals protesting, NATO is supposed to be protecting them?
Why are Americans involved, why can't the Afghans do it themselves?
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