**A prominent Afghan MP says Nato troops stormed her home and shot dead one of her relatives in an overnight raid.**Safia Siddiqi, who was not home at the time, said the troops tied up several members of her family and opened fire on one of them.
Nato confirmed one person was killed in an operation against a “Taliban facilitator” in eastern Afghanistan.
The incident sparked angry protests from residents in Nangarhar province’s Surkh Rod district.
The deaths of Afghan civilians at the hands of foreign forces has caused public outrage, and been an increasing source of friction between Nato and the Afghan government.
Operation ‘review’
Safia Siddiqi said dozens of US soldiers arrived without warning at her village home just before midnight.
“My brothers thought they were thieves,” she told the AFP news agency. “One of my relatives took a shotgun and walked out of the room. The troops shot him dead.”
She said the soldiers broke windows and furniture and tied her brothers’ hands together.
“My brothers told them in English: ‘Do you know whose house is this? This is the house of Safia Siddiqi, a member of the Afghan parliament’,” she told AFP. “They said ‘we know’ and did not allow them to speak further.”
In a statement, Nato confirmed international and Afghan troops had entered a compound in Surkh Rod “after intelligence information indicated militant activity”.
“During the operation an individual with a weapon was observed adjacent to one of the buildings. The security force repeatedly attempted to get the individual to lower his weapon by using hand signals, and verbal commands through their Afghan interpreter,” the statement said.
“The individual ignored the repeated commands, raised his weapon and aimed at the combined force, and then was shot and killed.”
The statement concluded by saying that both Nato and Afghan forces would review the operation.
Dozens of people carried the body into the streets on Thursday, shouting anti-US and anti-government slogans.
Nato has admitted that its killing of civilians during operations has undermined support for its mission in Afghanistan, although it points out that far more people are killed in attacks by the Taliban and other militants.
The head of Nato and US forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, has introduced changes to Nato tactics aimed at cutting the risks to civilians. Measures have included reducing the number of air strikes and night raids.This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
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