You can kind of see the biases here. Reuters appears to have gone in a conservative, pro-US direction, or at least this particular correspondent has. Because the source below was putting it at more than NINETY. If you don't spend all your time on something like this, it would probably be pretty difficult to put it all together. I liked the balanced reporting of the other article; they went into an explanation of why there are discrepancies in the numbers recorded (the US doesn't always acknowledge as many casualties as other groups, like the UN do), and talks about what is really going on in the country.
KABUL (Reuters) - At least 30 civilians, and possibly more than 50, were killed in a battle that included U.S. air strikes in Western Afghanistan, an official said on Tuesday.
Nazir Khetmat, head of the provincial council in Farah province, told Reuters that villagers had brought the bodies of 30 dead civilians to the governor's office in the provincial capital to prove that such a large number had been killed in the battle and air strikes, which began on Monday.
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