"Suddenly, there were large planes above us. Then they bombed the
house …They bombed and fired from 1 a.m. to 8 a.m. All of my relatives were
killed in this bombing -- my cousins, my uncles, nieces, nephews, two of my
daughters and my son"
Afghan taxi driver Hajj Gul Ahmed, August 2008

“ We left our houses and came to this camp to escape from the aerial bombings. My house was destroyed, and all our possessions were buried … now I have nothing to eat, nothing to feed my children with”
Afghan woman, Marghar camp, Kandahar province, November 2006

US/NATO bombing has killed hundreds – maybe thousands – of civilians since the start of 2006. Indeed, according to the UN mission in Afghanistan, more Afghan civilians died at the hands of US/NATO forces in the first six months of 2007 than were killed by the Taliban.

In one single incident in June 2007, 25 civilians - including nine women and three young children - were killed by a bombing raid called in by British forces, one of just hundreds of such air strikes.

In May 2007 the upper house of the Afghan Parliament passed a motion calling for a military cease-fire and a date to be set for the withdrawal of foreign troops.

Meanwhile, in a March 2007 poll, 53% of the British public said that all British troops should be withdrawn from Afghanistan ‘more or less immediately.’

We need to stop the bombing and bring the troops home.

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