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During an air raid, NATO personnel killed seven women who were gathering firewood; an additional six people were injured. NATO has confirmed that the operation took place, but not the deaths of the civilians.

“Local officials said Sunday’s airstrike came just before dawn in Alingar district of Laghman province, east of Kabul. They said the women were just setting off to collect firewood,” reported German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. Due to unemployment, local women or children often gather wood in the hillsides at night in order to sell them at the market.

NATO spokesman Hagen Messer announced that in the course of the special operation, 45 rebels were killed: “We have become aware that possibly five to eight civilians were killed during the strike on a group of insurgents, but we cannot confirm it.”

According to the local press, during the womens’ funeral in Mihtarlam, the capital of Laghman province, dozens of people chanted anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans. According to the coalition, approximately 200 civilians in total have died as a result of foreign military presence.

This happened after the death of four International Security Assistance Force personnel died in Afghanistan on Sunday at the hands of Afghani police. The BBC reported that a number of others were injured. The incident, which took place in Zabul province, was the second of the day. Earlier, it was reported the Afghan police unexpectedly opened fire on the military, killing two NATO soldiers.

An additional attack took place Friday on NATO’s “Camp Bastion,” where England’s Prince Harry is currently serving. The insurgents attacked the outside perimeter of the base, resulting in the death of two marines and the loss of six military aircraft. The Taliban announced that the attack on the base was in revenge for the filming of an anti-Islamic film on American soil, the same film that recently provoked a wave of protests in the Middle East.

Ghulam Jilani Farahi, deputy police chief of Zabul province, said that four of the NATO personnel forces were killed by police at a checkpoint, which is located near the Pakistan border. The attacker was shot. Whether he acted with accomplices or alone is still unknown.

Since the start of 2012, 50 personnel have been killed in attacks of this kind, the majority of which have been Americans.

The Taliban actively recruits Afghani soldiers. Previously, they openly announced that the tactic of using Afghani security forces to attack NATO personnel is a priority for them.

At the beginning of September, the U.S. announced a two-month training suspension for Afghan police. Currently, according to official records, there are approximately 130,000 personnel from NATO member states in Afghanistan, while the number in the Afghan army is close to 350,000 people.

Economist Said Gafurov, from the Institute of Applied Oriental and African Studies, commented on the situation for Odnako:

“For a long time, and with absolute frankness, Americans have announced their view that all people can be divided into two groups, based on their rights — this is the principal point. Americans place in the first category those who are in the civil service. They consider these people to be above the judgment of any independent judiciary; such is their esteemed position. Although they use the decisions of the International Court of Justice in The Hague to justify their actions, they do not acknowledge this to their own people.

The number of recorded crimes by NATO personnel is disproportionate to the number of criminal activities that have been claimed, especially compared to how many are brought to court.

Now they have killed seven women — and not a single American will answer for that. Not the people who gave the orders, nor anyone else. We know, without a doubt, that a NATO airstrike killed a small girl with a precise weapon. It is clear that this was done to intimidate Gadhafi; his granddaughter was only 10 months old and she was to blame for nothing. And yet they killed her with a precision weapon when NATO was not in a state of war. For such an obvious crime, a person should undoubtedly be charged. They haven’t even started an investigation. In other words, they truly believe that the citizens of Afghanistan and Libya should not be protected by the law. This is their official position. They are human; others are subhuman.

There is nothing that you can do, except make sure that they pay in the lives of their own personnel. From this point of view, the Taliban’s position is more reasonable than it seems. In other words, this is not at all the revenge of angry people, but only a stand. If the Americans officially announce that they have more rights because they have weapons, then this is the only way to stop them. This method will work until the Americans call the violence justice. Violence in this case is the justice of the Taliban.

Violence is justice for those whom the Americans consider it right to kill with impunity.

Of course, the Americans have some kind of internal statutes that do not encourage unlawful conduct. The good American “loves Afghanis and animals.” Yet in practice, the reality is that he can kill a person and go unpunished — he can kill seven people and go unpunished.

This is how we need to understand what is taking place. Not from the point of view of violence, not from the point of view of “an eye for an eye,” but from the position of understanding justice. The Americans’ “indiscriminate violence” has a very strong educational effect. In this way, they themselves are guilty.”