Nato air strike kills 27 civilians in Afghanistan

By Ben Farmer in Kabul Published: 6:38PM GMT twenty-two February 2010

Afghans walks at the back of US Marines during an operation in Marjah, Helmand range Photo: REUTERS

The botched conflict on Sunday was the third in error set upon in a week and in jeopardy to serve aria family in between the Nato powers and President Hamid Karzai"s administration.

General Stanley McChrystal, the comparison bloc commander in chief in Afghanistan, privately apologised to the boss hours after the deaths, but the Afghan cupboard on Monday cursed the conflict as "unjustifiable".

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Nato had in error the procession in Uruzgan range as carrying militants towards a base.

Early reports referred to a jet had strike the procession travelling to the southern city of Kandahar, but Nato investigators were after perplexing to establish if it was a helicopter gunship or unmanned drone.

Mr Karzai has formerly tearfully laid open Nato for murdering civilians and the issue has annoyed low rancour between Afghans.

On Saturday he brandished a sketch of an eight-year-old lady as he non-stop parliament, observant she was the usually one left to redeem the bodies of twelve kin killed when dual Nato rockets strike her home during Operation Moshtarak in Helmand province.

He said: "We need to reach the point where there are no municipal casualties. Our bid and the critique will go on until we reach that goal." After the ultimate attack, Gen McChrystal pronounced the bloc was "extremely saddened by the comfortless loss of trusting lives".

"I have done it transparent to the forces that we are here to strengthen the Afghan people, and inadvertently murdering or injuring civilians undermines their certitude and certainty in the mission," he added.

Last Thursday, a Nato bombing raid in the northern range of Kunduz killed 7 Afghan policemen, according to sanatorium and supervision officials.

International forces have regularly tightened their manners of rendezvous to try and quell municipal casualties and the despotic discipline have been partly blamed for delayed swell in the locale of Marjah during Operation Moshtarak.

Civilians in the town, where United States Marines go on to face pockets of dynamic resistance, told the Dailythat the incident was "like hell".

Families were as well fearful of crossfire and Taliban butt traps to try outside, whilst the insurgents had started executing purported collaborators.

Haji Ali Shah, an elder from the town, pronounced 3 townsfolk had been executed five days ago for carrying kin portion as military commanders and 3 others had been dragged from a car and executed as they attempted to rush to the provincial collateral Lashkar Gah.

He said: "Marjah is altered similar to a disaster. It is similar to hell. There is no security. All the young kids are at home. From one side we be concerned about landmines and the alternative foraging infantry sharpened to fall short the houses." Haji Gul Mohammad, 52, a farmer, added: "Most family groups have left but a little of them are still surrounded at home. They cannot go out. All the stock will die since they cannot give them water."