Monday, May 11, 2009

AFGHAN LAWMAKERS WANT RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGN FORCES

"Afghan lawmakers... demanded legal restrictions on foreign forces fighting in their country, to prevent further civilian deaths... they had given the government one week to come up with a way of regulating foreign fighters... The U.S. military has conceded that civilians were killed in its attack aimed at the Taliban... civilian toll from the strikes could be as high as 130, but the head of the lower house of parliament, Mohammad Younus Qanuni put it even higher, at 140... A deputy... said 95 of the victims were children under 18 years old. "When a foreign soldier acts contrary to the law of Afghanistan, he should be prosecuted according to Afghanistan's law."
http://www.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUSISL367759._CH_.2400

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