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ANCHOR ANA COMPAIN-ROMERO

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In Afghanistan -- some two dozen killed during protests after NATO allegedly killed four civilians in a night raid.
Two of them -- said to be women.
And all of them -- according to the protesters -- innocent.

Fox News reports -- night raids are becoming increasingly controversial in the country.

“These night raids have been stepped up by General David Petraeus who, in the last year or so, has sent American troops and Afghan troops out to hunt and capture and kill insurgents around the country, but they have also ruffled the feathers of a lot of Afghans who see these as an invasion of privacy and are pushing the limits of what U.S. troops should or shouldn’t be doing here.”

The New York Times reports -- in a statement, NATO says they were targeting a man believed to be providing weapons to an organization linked to al Qaeda. And in addition says, the women weren’t innocent.

“The team was preparing to search a family compound when a woman wearing an ammunition rack and carrying an AK-47 pointed the rifle at the team and, after ignoring several commands to drop it, was killed, ... The second woman was killed shortly afterward when she rushed out of the compound and pointed a pistol at coalition forces.”

The BBC reports - it wasn’t just the West under fire for the contested killings.

“Few things anger Afghans more than the killing of their people by foreign soldiers, even if the Taliban is to blame for most deaths. The crowd went on a rampage -- later shots would be fired. … And their anger wasn’t just directed towards the United States and foreigners -- they also shouted ‘Death to Karzai.’”

And the Los Angeles Times says many Afghans worry night raids will continue to become more popular.

“They particularly fear that U.S. forces, flush with success over the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden in a Pakistani garrison city, will increasingly rely on the tactic of swooping down in darkness on residential compounds.”

The LA Times also reports -- Twelve protesters were killed by security forces, and another thirteen people died -- both civilian and police -- after a car armed with explosives was driven into a bus carrying police recruits.

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