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Afghan president: 70 civilians died in US attack
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-08-23 16:17

KABUL, Afghanistan - The US-led coalition said Saturday that it would investigate allegations that civilians died during a battle between its troops and militants in western Afghanistan.

Coalition officials said Thursday's strikes in Herat province killed 30 militants, including a Taliban leader. But Afghanistan's Ministry of Interior said that 76 civilians were killed in the clash.

President Hamid Karzai on Saturday condemned the operation, saying it hadn't been coordinated with local security officials in Azizabad village. He said "at least 70 innocent civilians, most of them women and children" were killed.

However, American officials say US and Afghan soldiers investigated the site of the bombing afterward and know the exact number of militants killed.

"Obviously there's allegations and a disconnect here. The sooner we can get that cleared up and get it official, the better off we'll all be," US coalition spokesman 1st Lt. Nathan Perry said. "We had people on the ground."

The Interior Ministry's claim also contradicted the Afghan Ministry of Defense's version of the battle. Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi said 25 militants and five civilians were killed in the attack.

Karzai said in a statement that the Afghan government would soon announce "necessary measures" to prevent civilian casualties in the future.

He has long demanded that US and NATO officials take care to not harm civilians during their military operations, an issue that undermines the Afghan government and causes great anger in Afghan villages.

The competing claims by the US coalition and the two Afghan ministries were impossible to verify because of the remote and dangerous location of the battle site.

Complicating the matter, Afghan officials are known to exaggerate civilian death claims for political payback, to qualify for more compensation money from the US or because of pressure from the Taliban.

US military spokeswoman Lt. Col. Rumi Nielson-Green said a thorough assessment was done after the battle and the coalition knows it killed 30 militants, including a high-ranking Taliban leader.

"We stand by our account and our reports and what we know, and I can't reconcile why (the Interior Ministry) would have a different figure," Nielson-Green said.

The operation was launched after an intelligence report that a Taliban commander, Mullah Siddiq, was inside a compound presiding over a meeting of militants, said Azimi, the Defense Ministry spokesman.

Siddiq was one of those killed during the raid, Azimi said.

More than 3,400 people -- mostly militants -- have been killed in insurgency-related violence this year, according to figures from Western and Afghan officials.

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