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March 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Over 1,000 Afghans took to the streets in the town of Qalat in Zabul province on Thursday to protest the mass killing of Afghan civilians by the invading American trooper.
Chanting anti-US slogans and carrying white flags, the protesters demanded that the perpetrator, a 38-year-old US army sergeant, be brought to justice.
The protest came amid reports that US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is due to hold talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul in efforts to ease the intensifying tensions between the two countries.
Last Sunday, a US soldier opened fire on Afghan civilians inside their homes in the district of Panjwaii in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 16 civilians and injuring several others.
Local witnesses, however, put the number of the victims at 18, insisting that nearly a dozen bodies of the Afghan victims were burnt after they were shot dead.
Kandahar tribal leaders called on the Afghan government and the international community to carry out an investigation into the crime and put the perpetrators of the heinous act on trial in an Afghan court. The suspected American soldier, however, was flown out Afghanistan early Thursday, according to US press reports quoting American military authorities.
On Tuesday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also called for the punishment of those involved in the recent massacre of Afghan civilians.
US President Barack Obama pledged a thorough investigation into the killings.
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan have been a major source of tension between Kabul and Washington.
The US-led invasion of Afghanistan was launched in 2001. The offensive removed the Taliban from power, but insecurity continues to grow across the country, despite the presence there of tens of thousands of US-led forces.
MN/MB/MA
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