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PrintFebruary 24, 2010
Graph of the Day for February 24, 2010
"We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there." Barack Obama, August 2007.
"U.S. Special Operations Forces ordered an airstrike that killed at least 27 civilians... Afghanistan's Cabinet called the latest airstrike ‘unjustifiable'... Coalition commanders say they worry the civilian deaths will undermine the operation's ultimate goal..." The Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2010.
US Troops in Afghanistan
Afghan Civilian Fatalities
Source: Brookings Afghanistan Index.Hoven's Index for February 24, 2010
US troop fatalities in Afghanistan in 2008: 155
In 2009: 312
Number of Improvised Explosive Devices planted by insurgents in Afghanistan in 2008: 689
In 2009: 1,245
Number of munitions dropped by US forces in Afghanistan in June 2009: 437
In October 2009: 660
Source: Brookings Afghanistan Index.
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