{"id":603,"date":"2010-07-29T16:12:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T16:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=603"},"modified":"2010-07-29T16:12:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T16:12:52","slug":"us-led-forces-hit-afghan-civilian-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/07\/29\/603\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;US-led forces hit Afghan civilian bus&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"afghan-killed-new\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/afghan-killed-new.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"169\" \/>The Taliban claim that US-led forces in Afghanistan created the explosion against a civilian bus to blame the group for the killing of innocent people of the country.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi made the remarks just hours after Wednesday&#8217;s blast, a Press TV correspondent reported.<br \/>A civilian bus was hit by a roadside bomb as it was travelling on a highway in the Delaram district of Nimruz province.<br \/>The incident claimed the lives of at least 25 civilians and injured more than 20 others.<br \/>The spokesman also said that the Taliban always use remote-controlled bombs to control the targets and they never plant roadside bombs.<br \/>He further explained that the US-led forces had two purposes by the bus explosion, first to distract the latest killing of civilians by the international forces and second to make a gap between the Taliban and the people of Afghanistan.<br \/>Ahmadi was referring to the recent US-led NATO air strike that killed at least 52 civilians including several women and children.<br \/>The government sources say that the attack happened on Friday when civilians crammed into a house to flee the exchange of fire between NATO troops and alleged militants.<br \/>Earlier this week, Afghan President Hamid Karzai also confirmed that NATO troops fired a rocket that killed &#8220;52 innocent civilians&#8221; in the city of Sangin in southern Helmand province.<br \/>Civilian casualties are on the rise despite a promise by the new commander of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, who vowed that protecting civilian lives would be his top priority.<br \/>US-led forces in Afghanistan regularly launch attacks on alleged militant hideouts, but the strikes usually result in civilian casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Press TV<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban claim that US-led forces in Afghanistan created the explosion against a civilian bus to blame the group for the killing of innocent people of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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