WRAP US-led coalition airstrike on house kills 9, anger after alleged US attack on civilians

(6 Mar 2007) Jabar, Kapisa Province 1. Villagers gathering around rubble of house allegedly destroyed by US airstrike 2. Ruins of house 3. Various of women (relatives) looking for their belongings 4. Dead sheep 5. Crater allegedly left by US bomb 6. Various villagers returning to village after burying the victims 6. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Hamdullah Khan, cleric "We can say there were four women, two small boys, two small girls and a man among the dead that we buried." 7. Various destroyed house 8. Woman searching for belongings 9. Man cleaning mattresses 10. SOUNDBITE: (Dari) Gulam Nabi, relative of victims "After the bombing we went to see what happened the fort was completely destroyed and the bodies were under the rubble, we saw the plane coming back, we escaped from the area and we saw the plane bombed again and destroyed four more houses." 11. Wide of woman collecting her belongings 12. Child walking through rubble 13. Wide graveyard where the victims were buried Nangarhar Province 14. Wide of Afghan police convoy arriving at the scene of Sunday's violence 15. Various of bullet-ridden vehicle, allegedly fired on by US forces 16. Police investigating the vehicle 17. Damaged steering wheel 18. Various of damaged vehicle 19. SOUNDBITE: (Pashto) Malik Shakan, village elder "They (US soldiers) killed whoever came in their way. We ask our government to investigate this incident, if they don't do it then they will not be able to control the local people." 20. Wide shot of market 21. Wide shot exterior of Jalalabad hospital 22. Hospital workers with a wounded child (allegedly as a result of US forces fire) 23. Wounded people in hospital 24. SOUNDBITE: (Pashto) Faridullah, wounded (allegedly as a result of US forces fire) "I was sitting in a minibus when firing started, a bullet hit me and passed through my body and hit a women who died right away and I don't know how many more were wounded and killed." 25. Various shots of wreckage of the alleged suicide bomber's vehicle STORYLINE Controversy over the deaths of civilians in Iraq reached new heights on Monday, after Afghan officials and relatives claimed a further nine people have died in a coalition airstrike. The airstrike destroyed a mud-brick home, killing nine people from four generations of an Afghan family, following a clash between Western troops and militants, according to survivors. It was the second report in two days of civilian deaths at the hands of Western forces. On Sunday, US Marines fired on cars and pedestrians as they fled a suicide attack, killing ten Afghans. On Monday, President Hamid Karzai condemned the killings. The Afghan leader has repeatedly pleaded for Western troops to show more restraint amid concern that civilian deaths destabilise domestic support for the foreign military involvement that he needs to prop up his government against the growing threat of the resurgent Taliban. Monday's airstrike followed an attack late on Sunday on a US airbase in Kapisa Province, about 50 miles northeast of Kabul. The US military said two men with automatic rifles were later seen heading into a compound of five homes after the rocket attack. A US military spokesman said the men had knowingly endangered civilians by retreating into a populated area, after conducting their attack on coalition forces. In a statement the US military said coalition forces "dropped two 2,000-pound bombs" on the compound after a rocket was fired at the base and armed militants were seen moving into the compound. The violence sparked angry anti-US demonstrations by hundreds of Afghan men. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...