The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. August 7, 2009 Witnesses: Five Afghan Farmers Die in US Attack ----------------------------------------------- Meanwhile, the US is being accused of killing five Afghan civilians in an air strike earlier this week. The US said the victims were militants loading weapons onto a vehicle. But Afghan witnesses said the dead were farmers loading produce. .