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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

whose problem?

Civilian deaths are not a NATO problem. Civilian casualties are primarily being caused in airstrikes in support of the counterterrorism mission that the United States is running completely separate from the NATO-run counterinsurgency conflict.

- Marc Garlasco, a military analyst at New York-based Human Rights Watch, who has compiled a report on civilian deaths from airstrikes to be published next month. Although U.S. troops participate in the NATO-led force in Afghanistan under a U.N. mandate, the bulk of U.S. forces fall under Operation Enduring Freedom, a U.S.-only force governed by an exchange of diplomatic notes signed with the Afghan government in May 2003. (Source: The Washington Post)

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