KABUL (27th February): Afghanistan's government said Sunday that its investigations have found NATO killed 65 civilians, many of them children, during recent operations in a remote northeastern militant stronghold.
The death toll from several days of operations in Kunar province comprised 21 boys, 19 girls, 10 women and 15 adult males, President Hamid Karzai's office said in a statement quoting an official delegation.
Karzai has now ordered his security chiefs to "discuss the issue" with international forces, his office said, without providing further details.
In response, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Lieutenant Colonel John Dorrian, said it was "deeply sorry... for any civilian casualties that have occurred as part of this operation."
But he disputed the death toll, saying ISAF's assessment only found five to seven civilians "may have been injured." Investigations were continuing, he added.
Our comment: Perhaps NATO should "discuss the issue" of 2,000+ foreign military killings and 10,000+ foreign military injuries in Afghanistan with President Hamid Karzai
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