Occupying Force Quotes
This threat was shocking to coalition forces and NATO country citizens whose own soldiers were dying to keep the Taliban from taking over Afghanistan again. There were some errors made in calling in airstrikes in the Afghanistan War and collateral civilian casualties occurred. However it was often very difficult to determine if a target held civilians or insurgent Taliban. Very often Taliban sympathizers would invite Taliban into their homes to ambush coalition forces. However, Taliban would also force their way into a home and threaten to kill the family if they did not cooperate. Then they attacked from that home or several at the same time. From the point of view of the coalition forces being shot at, the view was the same. An airstrike would take out the house and no one would ever really know which of those scenarios (or others) actually produced the situation. Ironically, many more Afghanis were killed by the Afghani Taliban than by NATO forces in what was a brutal civil war. See {634912} for the American Ambassador’s reply to Karzai whose administration was totally corrupt and incompetent, making the coalition’s job almost impossible.
