NATO kills 9 children and says "Oops, my bad"
In NATO's third intelligence fuck-up in two weeks. Nine boys collecting firewood to heat their homes in the eastern Afghanistan mountains were killed by NATO helicopter gunners who mistook them for insurgents, according to a statement on Wednesday by NATO, which apologized for the mistake.
The apology
What the families had to see“We are deeply sorry for this tragedy and apologize to the members of the Afghan government, the people of Afghanistan and, most importantly, the surviving family members of those killed by our actions,” he said. “These deaths should have never happened.”End result: a sorry text message will serve adequate repercussion.“Finally we found the dead bodies. Some of the dead bodies were really badly chopped up by the rockets,” he said. “The head of a child was missing. Others were missing limbs.”
I know a few members on here will say "Maybe their daddies should stop being terrorizers" or that this was a proactive action to prevent the future generation of rock throwing terrorizers. In any case, don't know how much of a slap on the wrist will be handed out as punishment, but I know I would go postal if I came across the headless body of my child, as any human would.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/wo...n.html?_r=1&hp
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