Hamid Shalizi
Reuters
August 5, 2011
At least four Afghans including a policeman were killed when police fired on an angry crowd in Afghanistan’s volatile south on Friday, police said, after protesters claimed NATO forces had killed a number of civilians overnight.
Civilian casualties caused by NATO-led troops hunting Taliban fighters and other insurgents have long been a major source of friction between Kabul and its Western backers, occasionally spilling over into violence.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul said there had been an operation targeting insurgents overnight in the Qalad district of Zabul province, which neighbours violent Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban.
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