INNOCENT CIVILIAN CASUALTIES UP

"American and NATO troops firing from passing convoys and military checkpoints have killed 30 Afghans and wounded 80 others since last summer, but in no instance did the victims prove to be a danger to troops, according to military officials in Kabul. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the senior American and NATO military commander in Afghanistan, is trying to cut civilian deaths, saying, “We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat."

"... There are stories after stories about how these people are turned into insurgents... Every time there is an escalation of force we are finding that innocents are being killed.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/world/asia/27afghan.html?ref=world