This is not the first time the U.S. has killed civilians in Afghanistan and sympathies for the 'foreign occupier' are running thin. Protesters took to the streets, calling on President Karzai to oust foreign forces from their land, lest they take matters into their own hands.
The protests were triggered by an ISAF air raid, that killed ten Afghans, including schoolchildren, in Kunar Province, close to the Pakistani border.
This undermines the wisdom of sending an additional 30,000 troops into a country that is growing more and more hostile to U.S. presence on its soil.
Video is courtesy of al-Jazeera
In an unrelated incident, AFP reported that eight CIA agents were killed in a suicide attack at a US military base in eastern Afghanistan. According to their report, the attack appeared to have killed more US intelligence personnel than have died since the start of the US-led invasion in 2001. The Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged the deaths of four CIA officers in Afghanistan since then.
The war in Afghanistan has proved to be far deadlier for Americans than the Iraq war. In a USA Today report, Director of globalsecurity.org said: 'It looks like 2010 is going to be pretty nasty' in Afghanistan, It's going to be nasty simply because there will be more Americans to be shot. The Taliban are unabated.'
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