KABUL — Afghan protesters marched through downtown Kabul on Sunday morning chanting anti-American slogans and denouncing NATO bombardments that have killed civilians.

Led by a police escort, the couple of hundred demonstrators carried banners calling the United States the ‘guardian and master of [the] ruling Mafia in Afghanistan’ as well as images of burned and bandaged children.

The protesters said they were angry not only about the civilian toll from ongoing NATO military operations in Helmand province but also a traffic accident Friday involving an SUV driven by DynCorp International contractors that killed four Afghans.

‘Many times NATO troops and these cars have killed our innocent people. They never care whether we are Afghans or animals,’ said Samia, 26, an activist from Kabul who took part in the demonstration.

Samia, who like many Afghans goes by only one name, said that she did not want the Taliban to return to power in Afghanistan but that NATO has only aggravated the situation over the past decade and fed a parasitic and dependent Afghan government.

‘We want NATO troops and American troops to leave Afghanistan. Even with their huge army, they couldn’t do anything in the past 10 years. And in the future, they won’t be able […]