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US Warplanes Wipe Out Afghan Wedding, Kill 10

STAFF | Reuters | May 17, 2002

"U.S. planes pounded the village of Bul Khil of Sabari district in Khost province for several hours overnight after crew flying U.S. helicopters in the area mistook traditional firing at a wedding for an attack."

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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.