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'Did Western troops come here to kill my children?' Afghan villagers' despair
Outraged southern Afghan villagers said today that a pre-dawn airstrike killed three children and a man in the latest case of civilian deaths at the hands of Western troops.
The U.S. military said it had killed four insurgents on motorcycles in that area and could not confirm any civilian fatalities.
Residents of Kowuk were seen bringing the bodies of three boys and a man to the guesthouse of the Kandahar governor from their village, 12 miles north of the provincial capital, Kandahar city.
The angry villagers shouted 'Death to America! Death to infidels!' as they displayed the corpses in the back of a pickup truck.
The issue of civilian casualties at the hands of foreign troops has caused deep resentment among Afghan people.
President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly called on foreign troops to halt airstrikes and raids in Afghan villages.