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NATO Helicopter Kills Five Afghan Civilians, Including Two Children -- News from Antiwar.com

NATO Helicopter Kills Five Afghan Civilians, Including Two Children -- News from Antiwar.com: "Five Afghan civilians in the deseprately poor Kapisa Province were killed today by NATO troops while they were out hunting. NATO saw them, three men with bird-hunting rifles and two boys (aged 12 and 13), assumed they were insurgents, killing them.

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