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"All efforts of the Afghan government to avoid civilian casualties have not yielded any positive results and our innocent countrymen are still killed in anti-terrorism operations."
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Karzai was condemning the killing of 76 civilians, mostly children, by a US airstrike in western Afghanistan.

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