Dozens slaughtered by US forces in Afghanistan-Pakistan air attacks - Occupation-Preoccupation (notes)

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Dozens slaughtered by US forces in Afghanistan-Pakistan air attacks
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/feb2011/afpa-f23.shtml
General David Petraeus, the commander of the US forces in Afghanistan, expressed the colonial-style hostility of the occupation force’s senior command toward the Afghan population, reportedly accusing local residents of burning their children to fake evidence of civilian casualties.

Petraeus’s comments on coalition attack reportedly offend Karzai government
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/21/AR2011022103256.html
Gen. David H. Petraeus suggested Sunday at the presidential palace that Afghans caught up in a coalition attack in northeastern Afghanistan might have burned their own children to exaggerate claims of civilian casualties, according to two participants at the meeting.