U.S. RAIDERS SHOOT 8 SCHOOL CHILDREN, SPARKING STREET PROTESTS

"The US military launched a raid in Kunar Province... in which President Hamid Karzai alleged that 10 civilians, some 8 of them schoolchildren, had been killed (some say dragged out of their beds and executed).... "They gathered eight school students from two compounds and put them in one room and shot them with small arms."... The charitable theory is that in a nighttime raid, US troops got disoriented and hit the wrong group of young men...
"The outraged Afghan public saw this raid as an atrocity, and... mounted street protests against the US in Jalalabad, an eastern Pashtun city, and Kabul. In Jalalabad, hundreds of university students blocked the main roads, and then marched in the streets, chanting "Death to Obama" and "Death to America," and burning Obama in effigy..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/world/asia/31afghan.html?_r=2

"... ten Afghans, eight of them schoolchildren, were killed... US-led troops dragged innocent children from their beds and shot them during a nighttime raid. Afghan government investigators said the eight students were aged from eleven to seventeen, all but one of them from the same family... NATO officials have insisted that they believe the people who were killed were part of a Taliban network making improvised explosive devices, homemade bombs, the roadside explosives..."
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/6/us_led_forces_accused_of_executing