Air raid near Garani

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A victim in Farah hospital

The Garani airstrike refers to several air strikes carried out by the US Air Force on May 4, 2009 , in which between 86 and 145 people were killed.

The air strike

On May 4, 2009, the US Air Force carried out air strikes against the town of Garani in Farah Province in western Afghanistan. The target of the attacks were Taliban positions . A total of three F18 fighter jets and later a B1 bomber took part in the attack, which lasted several hours .

A more detailed explanation as to whether there were civilians in the target buildings had not been made. There are different statements about the number of victims. According to the Afghan government, 140 people, including women and children, were killed in the bombing . Other estimates range from 86 dead to 145 dead. An early estimate by the US military suggested 20–30 civilians dead and 60–65 insurgents killed. The Americans later admitted their own mistakes and said they did not recognize the civilians present.

Following the incident, President Hamid Karzai called on the US to stop further air strikes in Afghanistan. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologized for the incident. After Julian Assange announced the publication of the on-board video in June 2010, he claimed in 2013 that Daniel Domscheit-Berg had stolen the video from Wikileaks.

The relatives of the victims received compensation payments. The photo reporter Guy Smallman was the only Western journalist to visit the village in the Taliban-controlled area a few weeks later.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mark Tran: US military admits errors in air strikes that killed scores of Afghan civilians. The Guardian , June 3, 2009, accessed August 18, 2010 .
  2. ^ A b Dan De Luce: We failed to follow bombing rules: Pentagon. AFP, June 8, 2009, accessed August 18, 2010 .
  3. ↑ a b Ben Farmer: Wikileaks 'to release video of US strike on Afghan civilians'. The Daily Telegraph , April 11, 2010, accessed August 18, 2010 .
  4. ↑ James Denselow: Hail to the whistleblowers. The Guardian , June 23, 2010, accessed August 18, 2010 .
  5. ↑ New Wikileaks video expected. In: taz , June 17, 2010 ( New Wikileaks video expected )
  6. ↑ [1]
  7. ↑ Report by Holly Pickett from Herat Hospital
  8. ↑ The innocent are always caught up. In: Channel 4 , June 2009 ( online )