Jason Motlagh on Frontline World's iWitness May 30th, 2009Jason Motlagh
has been reporting from Afghanistan for several months, first embedding
with U.S. troops and more recently looking at the other side of the
conflict -- the growing numbers of
civilian casualties. Over webcam
from Kabul, Motlagh tells iWitness what happened when a recent U.S.
airstrike hit a village in the province of Herat, killing scores of
civilians. Sharing dramatic
footage and images in the wake of the
bombings and interviewing victims and U.S. military, Motlagh reports
conflicting accounts of what took place. The story he pieces together
offers some measure of
why the U.S. and NATO are reassessing how they
fight the war in Afghanistan. Motlagh's ongoing coverage from Afghanistan is funded by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and is part of a joint reporting venture between the Center and FRONTLINE/World's iWitness program. See all related articles, images and video from Jason's reporting on civilian casualties in Afghanistan. See as featured on iWitness
A Canadian soldier and an Afghan man walk past a map of Afghanistan on a wall during a visit by soldiers to an elementary school at Bazaar e Panjwai in Kandahar ...
