'Yeah, Right': Pentagon Report Claiming US Military Killed Just 12 Civilians Last Year Met With Skepticism

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'Yeah, Right': Pentagon Report Claiming US Military Killed Just 12 Civilians Last Year Met With Skepticism
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'Once again the confirmed civilian casualty count is below what communities on the ground are reporting,' lamented Airwars director Emily_4319 after the Pentagon claims U.S. forces killed just 12 noncombatants last year.

after a suicide bomber killed more than 100 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops on August 26 during the rushed American withdrawal from the countrythat U.S. and British troops opened fire on the panicking crowd, killing and wounding many civilians.

Although the U.S. military claimed all of the casualties at the airport that day were caused by the bombing, a doctor working at a local hospital said that"there were two kinds of injuries... people burnt from the blast with lots of holes in their bodies. But with the gunshots, you can see just one or two holes—in the mouth, in the head, in the eye, in the chest."

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