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BBC NEWS | US condemned for Afghan blunders
(BBC News, 21 July 2002)
The report says the civilian death toll could keep rising . . . Hundreds of Afghan civilians have been killed because of poor intelligence and the US military's reliance on overwhelming force, a survey has said. . . . The report lists more than 800 civilians killed in US air strikes, but says that figure is likely to rise as information comes in from more remote areas. . . . It accuses the Pentagon of relying on inaccurate or misleading information provided by Afghan warlords, and of preferring air strikes to ground operations that might put US forces at risk. . . . The survey said that even when genuine military targets were identified, civilian lives were still lost because of a disproportionate use of lethal force. . . . Professor Marc Herold of the University of New Hampshire said his research of news agencies, major newspapers and first hand accounts had yielded a death toll of almost 4,000 people. . . . Even in January, he described the estimated as "very, very conservative".

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