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Vol. 5 Num 925 Fri. January 05, 2007  
   
World


'Nato killed too many Afghan civilians'


Nato said Wednesday that it killed too many Afghan civilians during fighting last year against resurgent Taliban militants, but that the Western alliance was working to change that in 2007.

The acknowledgment came one day after President Hamid Karzai's latest plea for foreign forces to use maximum caution following the deaths of two civilians, reportedly involving Nato troops.

"The single thing that we have done wrong and we are striving extremely hard to improve on (in 2007) is killing innocent civilians," Brig Richard E Nugee, the chief spokesman for Nato's International Security Assistance Force, told a news conference.