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Afghanistan warns NATO-led forces against attacks on homes
Afghan president Hamid Karzai warned NATO-led forces in Afghanistan that launching attacks on Afghan homes searching for insurgents was not allowed.
“NATO must learn that air strikes on Afghan homes are not allowed and that Afghan people have no tolerance for that anymore," Karzai told journalists in Kabul.
Karzai’s comments followed NATO air strikes on two homes on Sunday which left at least nine people dead, most of them children in southern Helmand.
Karzai warned that the foreign military in Afghanistan risks becoming “occupying force” if aerial bombings which cause civilian casualties continue.
“If after the Afghan government said the aerial bombing of Afghan houses is banned and if it continues, then their presence will change from a war against terrorism to an occupying force,” Agence-France Presse reports Karzai saiying. “And in that case, Afghan history is witness to how the Afghans deal with occupying forces.”
