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MARCH 17, 2010
NATO'S FIRE SALE - ONE DEAD AFGHAN CHILD, $2,000
On January 11, 2010, we sent out a media alert titled, 'Were Afghan children executed by US-led forces? And why aren't the media interested?'
The alert concerned credible reports that American-led troops had dragged Afghan children from their beds and shot them during a night raid in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan on December 27 last year. Ten people were killed, including eight schoolboys from one family. We noted that the alleged atrocity had been almost wholly ignored by the corporate media, including the BBC.
Two months after these disturbing allegations surfaced, The Times correspondent Jerome Starkey sought out two local men whose children and other relatives had been killed. ('Nato admits that deaths of 8 boys were a mistake', The Times, February 25, 2010; http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/ world/afghanistan/article7040166.ece). Starkey invited the men to Kabul where:
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