The Most Dangerous Place In the World: An Afghan 'Wedding Party'

Seems like a couple of times a months one of these Afghan "wedding parties" gets blown up. Naturally, the media is quick to report it as such only to later discover it was a group of terrorists that got whacked.

We'll see about this one.

A U.S. air strike killed a number of Afghan civilians, officials said on Wednesday, as President Hamid Karzai called on newly elected Barack Obama to make it his priority to stop the killing of innocents.

Scores of civilians have been killed in U.S. air strikes this year leading to seething resentment against the presence of foreign troops and a rift between Karzai and his Western backers.

Karzai referred to the incident in the Shah Wali Kot district in the southern Taliban heartland of Kandahar province.

"By bombing Afghanistan, the war against terrorism cannot be won," Karzai told a news conference. "As we speak today, we had again civilian casualties ... In Shah Wali Kot of Kandahar we had civilian casualties," he said.

Karzai did not give any more details but several villagers who had taken a group of wounded to the hospital in Kandahar city said more than 90 people had been killed and dozens more wounded in the air strike Monday, which they said hit a wedding party.

The U.S. military said it was checking reports.

Karzai wouldn't be alive if it weren't for American efforts. He may want to hold off on such comments until reports become more confirmed. It's not as if we're actually targeting civilians like the Taliban does.