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Civilian killings weaken Afghan war support for 40% of Americans

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14-03-2012 | 11:33

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Civilian killings weaken Afghan war support for 40% of Americans

Forty percent of Americans said a shooting spree this week by a U.S. soldier stationed in Afghanistan in which 16 Afghan villagers were killed weakened their support for the war, a new poll showed on Wednesday.

Sixty-one percent of Americans surveyed in the March 12-13 online poll by Reuters/Ipsos said the remaining U.S. troops should be brought home immediately, down slightly from the 66 percent who expressed that opinion in a similar poll from early March. Seventeen percent disagreed.

The Obama administration is seeking to contain the fallout from the shocking shooting on Sunday, in which a U.S. staff sergeant walked off his base in southern Afghanistan and shot the 16 civilians, mostly women and children, in a nearby village.

The poll included 1,061 Americans interviewed online, had a credibility interval of plus/minus 3.5 percentage points.

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