“The Afghan government and NATO deeply regret the incident, and our message to the insurgents is not to use civilians as a human shield,” said the Afghani Defense Ministry spokesman, Gen. Zaher Azimi.
The tribal leaders ofMusa Qala, a town in southern Afghanistan, recently rescinded their hospitality of the Taliban, and so combined NATO and Afghan forces were able to come root out the extremists. Two children were killed and five civilians injured during the battle.
I can only imagine the difficulty of waging battle in such a setting, where tribal leaders (as often elders) of a particular village decide whether or not the harbor extremists. The Marine Corps was going to take over the Afghan mission, but Gen. Robert Gates put the nix on that.
NATO - and the US with it - still have their work cut out for them.
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