Seven Days of Ignominy
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October 11th -
the farming village of 450 persons of Karam, west of Jalalabad
in Nangarhar province is repeatedly bombed, 45 of the 60 mud houses destroyed,
killing at least 160 civilians.
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Ms. Tur Bakai, who survived the attack, but all of whose children died
in the attack, said, her voice barely audible, "I was asleep.
I heard the prayers and suddenly it started. I didn't know what it was.
I was so scared…"
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October 18th -
the central market place, Sarai Shamali in the Madad district of Kandahar
is bombed, killing 47 civilians;
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October 21st -
a cluster bomb falls on the military hospital and mosque in Herat,
killing 100;
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October 23rd -
in the early a.m. hours, low-flying AC-130 gunships repeatedly strafe
the farming villages of Bori Chokar and Chowkar-Karez [Chakoor Kariz],
25 miles north of Kandahar, killing 93 civilians;
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November 10th -
the villages of Shah Aqa and a neighboring sidling, in the poppy-growing
Khakrez district, 70 kilometers northwest of Kandahar are bombed,
resulting in possibly over 300 civilian casualties
[though I have only recorded 125]
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November 18th -
carpet-bombing by B-52's of frontline village near Khanabad,
province of Kunduz, kills at least 150 civilians.
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77 Richard Lloyd Parry, "Witnesses Confirm That Dozens Were Killed in the Bombing," The Indpendent [October 13, 2001], and Nic Robertson and Marcus Tanner, "Bin Laden is not here, so why are we being bombed? War Against Terrorism: Koram," The Independent [October 15, 2001].
78 "Afghanistan's Female Bombing Victims," The Frontier Post [October 17, 2001].
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BBC News [October 19, 2001] and Reuters [October 20, 2001]
80 "UN Confirms Destruction of Afghan Hospital," The Guardian [October 23, 2001].
81 Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah [Quetta], "Afghan Survivors Recount Bombings: Civilian Deaths Turn Them Against U.S.," Chicago Tribune [October 27, 2001].
82 "Taliban Confirm Fall of 7 Provinces," The Frontier Post [November 13, 2001], the Herald Sun [Australia] [November 11, 2001] citing the Agence France Presse, and DAWN [November 11, 2001].
83 Justin Huggler, "Carpet Bombing 'Kills 150 Civilians' in Frontline Town," The Independent [November 19, 2001].
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