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June 10th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Karzai said Washington failed to consult and coordinate with Afghan forces when calling in an airstrike in eastern Logar Province, which claimed the lives of 18 civilians, including women and children last Wednesday.
Afghan officials and residents said the nighttime attack targeted civilians celebrating a wedding in the Baraki Barak district of Logar Province. Five women and seven children were among the victims.
The Afghan leader said if such unilateral decisions happened in the future, Kabul would regard them as a breach of the security deal, presidential spokesman Aimal Faizi said on Saturday.
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On May 2, US President Barack Obama and Afghan President Karzai signed the deal that authorizes the presence of US troops for a period of 10 years after 2014, which was the original date agreed earlier for the departure of all foreign combat troops from Afghanistan.
On May 26, Afghanistan’s parliament approved the security pact.
The Afghan president has repeatedly condemned US-led airstrikes on Afghan civilians, urging US military officials to stop night raids on residential units in Afghan villages.
Following the raid on the civilians in Logar Province, Karzai described the attack as “unacceptable.”
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan have been a major source of tension between Kabul and Washington.
The Afghan government says the foreign forces put civilians in the crossfire but the alliance claims such operations are important in capturing and killing Taliban militants.
The US-led invasion of Afghanistan was launched in 2001. The offensives removed the Taliban from power, but insecurity continues to rise across the country, despite the presence there of about 130,000 US-led foreign troops.
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