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U.S. Missile Kills Four in Afghan Demining Office
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By Sayed Salahuddin

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan rescue workers dug through the rubble of the U.N.-funded demining office in Kabul on Tuesday in the grim task of recovering the remains of four men killed when a U.S. missile scored a direct hit as they slept.

``We were asleep and it was early morning when the building was hit. Four of my colleagues have been killed and I have a head wound,'' said Mujaoor, a security guard at the Afghan Technical Consultancy.

Local residents said they believed a cruise missile had plowed into the offices of the Afghan Technical Consultancy (ATC), which runs demining operations in one of the world's most heavily mined countries.

``You see that has collapsed in the bombardment?'' ATC official Dr. Shah Wali, who was visibly upset, told Reuters.

``This is a civilian area and they have killed four of the guards of this building.''

The four -- in their 20s and 30s -- were killed during U.S. raids on Monday night.

ATC officials dug through the rubble to recover the last two bodies still buried in the concrete building on a main road to the east of the city. It had taken them three hours to complete the grisly job of digging out the remains of the other two men.

``We are linked to a demining agency and our goal and objective is to clear and free Afghanistan (news - web sites) from the menace of mines,'' Wali said.

``They have missed their target,'' he said of the U.S. raid.

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Sorry home boy, I think they hit their fucking target right on.