U.S. says Taliban put Afghan civilians in the line of fire

Everyone is quick to condemn the US when civilians are killed in Afghanistan/Iraq. But whenever the taliban stone women, throw acid in women's faces, blow up girl schools, have 13 year olds chop people's heads off there's silence.

In the latest example it is again the taliban's fault for the dead civilians. Houston Chronicle

KABUL, Afghanistan — As Afghan officials reported more civilian casualties from coalition airstrikes on Thursday, U.S. forces offered their first account of an incident earlier this week in which a missile fired from an American aircraft reportedly killed 40 civilians and wounded 28 at a wedding party.

The American account said "insurgents" prevented civilians from fleeing an area caught in a firefight on Monday between coalition and Afghan Army forces and militants who ambushed them in the southern province of Kandahar.

It was the first time the U.S. forces had sought to explain and acknowledge civilian fatalities in the Shah Wali Kott district of Kandahar province on Monday.