Lower Babur
Lower Babur is a village in the
In the Autumn of 2010, the
Flynn later explained that the villages were empty of people and full of IEDs,[4] a claim repeated by The New York Times.[5] Villagers near Lower Babur disputed this account during interviews with IPS, explaining that they had evacuated their homes prior to the American offensive, but returned regularly to tend to their properties.[3][6]
Few media sources describe the destruction of Lower Babur specifically.
See also
- Operation Dragon Strike
- Tarok Kolache
- Khosrow Sofla
- Arghandab District
- Kandahar Province
References
- ^ a b Ackerman, Spencer: ‘Why I Flattened Three Afghan Villages’. Wired Magazine, 1 February 2011.
- ^ Hastings, Deborah, "Operation Dragon Strike: Battle for Kandahar Begins Archived 2012-10-04 at the Wayback Machine, AOL News, 27 September 2010.
- ^ a b Noori, Shah and Gareth Porter, "Kabul: Afghan villagers dispute U.S. Rationale for bombing Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine." The Madison Times, 2 March 2011.
- ^ Flynn, David, "I Acted After a Great Deal of Deliberative Planning." Thomas Rick's Foreign Policy Blog, 24 January 2011.
- ^ a b Norland, Rod and Taimoor Shah: NATO is Razing Booby-Trapped Afghan Homes. The New York Times, 16 November 2010.
- ^ Porter, Gareth: Kandahar gains come with "brutal" tactics. Asia Times, 21 December 2010.
- ^ a b Strong, Bob, U.S. troops await Taliban in south Afghan valley, Reuters, 12 April 2011.
- ^ Martin, Sean, Kandahar PRT engineers perform site assessment at lower Babur Village rebuild, Defense Video and Imagery Distribution System, 17 August 2011.