United States air strikes in Afghanistan have killed 812 civilians, largely because military leaders rely on false information from local warlords, a study says.
The Pentagon's strategy of bombing targets instead of riskier ground operations has made it harder to discover when intelligence is wrong, says the report by American group Global Exchange, whose field workers in Afghanistan compiled a list of those killed.
The extreme force used in attacks also means that, even when military targets are located nearby, civilians are sometimes killed.
American military commanders disputed the figures, insisting they often verified their targets with several sources of information to ensure civilians were not hit.
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