Angry protests after occupation troops kill young family in Kabul

Kabul, September 1, 2008: Hundreds of citizens in Afghan capital Kabul rushed into streets and burnt tires on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway on Monday September 1 protesting against the death of a Kabuli family caused by the raid of US-led Coalition forces earlier that day.
Occupation soldiers had stormed a residential house in Kabul and killed a husband, his wife and two of their children. Quqnoos.com published graphic pictures of the outcome of this latest atrocity.

Quqnoos.com reported:
"Residents in the Hotkhil area of the capital took to the streets and blockaded the Kabul-Jalalabad Highway on Monday morning after foreign troops carried out the alleged midnight raid.
"Pictures taken by Quqnoos.com show the bloody body of the husband and the dead bodies of the two children. "Eye-witnesses said foreign soldiers began the raid by throwing grenades into the house before firing shots into the rooms.
"The wife died from her wounds in hospital at about 11.30am.
"Residents said the dead husband’s two brothers and his father were arrested during the alleged raid."
The Quqnoos.com report added NATO and coalition forces were unavailable for comment.
"Protestors demanded the government punish the foreign troops who carried out the alleged killings and vowed to continue their demonstrations until the arrested men were released from custody."
According to a Reuters report, residents said US-led troops carried out a pre-dawn raid on several homes in the neighbourhood.
"It was past one o'clock when the troops came and surrounded our houses," said Sulaiman, a resident.
"They threw hand grenades on one house and killed three family members," he said. Noorullah's wife was wounded, he said.
"Are these two children al Qaeda?" an angry resident asked as the bodies were taken for burial. "We don't expect anything from the government because we don't have a government," Sulaiman said.
Just ten days earlier, a coalition bombing raid in the western province of Herat killed as many as 90 civilians, including 60 children, sparking violent district-wide protests against foreign troops.

• New reports claim hundreds killed by occupation forces in Helmand & Paktika provinces
• Documentation by Dr Marc W. Herold on the August 22 Herat massacre
• CBS 60 Minutes report on Herat massacre

The Afghan government's investigating team had confirmed on August 31 that 90 non-combatants were killed in the August 22 US air raids in the west Herat province.
The Afghan parliament has condemned the coalition for the Herat killings.
New developments (September 2, 2008): Even as hundreds of Kabul residents angrily protested the killing of a young family in pre-dawn raids in a Kabul suburb, there were more reports of civilian killings from an airstrike by the US-led occupation forces in Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan, and from an artillery barrage in Paktika province. More here.
Source: Quqnoos.com, RAWA News, Reuters